Ford Motor Q1 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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Operator

Good day, everyone. My name is Leila, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome you to the Ford Motor Company First Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question and answer session.

Operator

If you would like to ask a question during this time, please click on the raise hand icon, which can be found on the black bar at the bottom of the webinar window. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Lynn Antipas Tyson, Chief Investor Relations Officer.

Lynn Antipas Tyson
Chief Investor Relations Officer at Ford

Thank you, Leila. Welcome to Ford Motor Company's first quarter twenty twenty five earnings call. With me today are Jim Farley, President and CEO Sherry House, CFO and Kumar Galhotra, Chief Operating Officer. Joining us for Q and A will be John Lawler, Vice Chair Andrew Frick, President Ford Blue and Model E and Interim Head of Ford Pro Kathy O'Callaghan, CEO of Ford Credit and Steve Crowley, Chief Policy Officer and General Counsel. Today's discussion includes some non GAAP references.

Lynn Antipas Tyson
Chief Investor Relations Officer at Ford

These are reconciled to the most comparable U. GAAP measures in the appendix of our earnings deck. You can find the deck along with the rest of our earnings materials and other important content at shareholder.ford.com. Our discussion also includes forward looking statements about our expectations. Actual results may differ from those stated.

Lynn Antipas Tyson
Chief Investor Relations Officer at Ford

The most significant factors that could cause actual results to differ are included on page 20. Unless otherwise noted, all comparisons are year over year. Company EBIT, EPS and free cash flow are on an adjusted basis. Lastly, I want to call out two near term IR engagements. May 28, John Lallo will participate in a fireside chat in New York with Daniel Rosca at the Bernstein Annual Strategic Decisions Conference.

Lynn Antipas Tyson
Chief Investor Relations Officer at Ford

Sherry House will also attend. June 4, Sherry House will participate in a fireside chat in New York with Joe Spak at the UBS Auto and Auto Tech Conference. Now I'll turn the call over to Jim.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

Thanks, Lynn, and thanks to all of you for joining. I gonna give you an update on the state of the business and on tariffs. Kumar is gonna take you through our cost and quality progress as well as some of our mitigation or tariffs. And then Sherry is gonna take you through the financial performance and guidance, and hopefully, we'll have plenty of time for q and a. Our underlying business continues to gain traction and perform well.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

We beat our original expectation for the quarter. And before tariff related impacts, we are on track and within our original full year guidance range of $7,000,000,000 to $8,500,000,000 in EBIT. We had our best first quarter U. S. Pickup sales in over twenty years, and we delivered sequential share growth in our home market.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

Additionally, we saw smooth execution of several major product launches in the quarter around the globe, and we continue to deliver progress against our cost and quality targets. On tariffs, Ford supports the administration's goal to strengthen The US economy by growing American manufacturing, and we also support a level playing field globally for domestic and foreign OEMs. We also appreciate the ongoing cooperation we've had with the administration. As America's largest auto manufacturer, our engagement with Washington is helping US Policymakers better understand how their proposed policy changes would impact our industry and, of course, our communities. Last year, we assembled over 300,000 more vehicles in The US than our closest competitor.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

That includes a % of all our full size trucks. While some OEMs have open capacity in The US that will partially match our footprint advantage, they have to absorb higher costs, invest capital, and that will take time. It's not as simple as just assembling more vehicles in The US. OEMs must also balance customer affordability, which means the ability to import part parts tear free. Based on what we know now, our expectations of how certain details will resolve around tariffs, we've estimated the gross impact of tariffs for full year total company EBIT of $2,500,000,000 and a net impact of 1,500,000,000.0.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

It's still too early to fully understand our competitors' responses to these tariffs. It's also early to gauge the related market dynamics, including the potential industry wide supply chain disruptions and the impact of Ford's domestic manufacturing advantages. And as a result, we've decided to suspend our guidance. It's clear, however, that in this new environment in which automakers with the largest US footprint will have a big advantage, and boy, is that true for Ford. It puts us in the pole position, plus we have the largest value unlock even beyond that because of our improving cost and quality opportunities.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

Kumar?

Kumar Galhotra
Chief Operating Officer at Ford

Thank you, Jim. Before I walk everyone through how we are managing the business during this evolving policy landscape, I wanna quickly highlight the progress we're making on cost and quality. Our industrial platform continues to deliver progress against our targets, and we remain on track to deliver $1,000,000,000 in net cost reductions this year, excluding the impact of changes in tariff policy. We're also closing our competitive cost gap and efficiently leveraging our US footprint as a competitive advantage. We're improving our production stability, and we're working to strengthen our supply base.

Kumar Galhotra
Chief Operating Officer at Ford

We are achieving all this by shifting our focus to the key process inputs, which in turn deliver the desired outputs. And those desired outputs, of course, are lower cost and better quality. Let me give you a few examples of what I mean by inputs in these processes. For example, we are doing thorough readiness assessments of every workstation in our assembly plants ahead of every launch. We are building a continuous pipeline of cost and quality improvement ideas.

Kumar Galhotra
Chief Operating Officer at Ford

So not only are we executing this quarter, we have a very clear pipeline for the next quarter and the quarter after that. We're doing regressed implant audits to prevent defects from reaching our customers. We have created a comprehensive system of leading metrics that provide us early warnings if any of these outputs are at risk. So here are the results. We're on track to deliver year over year warranty savings.

Kumar Galhotra
Chief Operating Officer at Ford

The warranty spikes during launch are now at industry leading levels. We are on track to deliver greater than 10% improvement in repairs per thousand, both for zero months in service and three months in service for 25 vehicles. Ford and Lincoln were the most improved brands in J. D. Power's twenty twenty five US vehicle dependability study.

Kumar Galhotra
Chief Operating Officer at Ford

During our launches in the first quarter, we lost zero vehicles versus our launch acceleration curves, and we deployed 9,500,000 OTAs in the first quarter to address customer concerns. We're not just improving cost and quality, the team is also in the trenches taking actions to minimize the impact of tariffs on our business. In fact, their actions lowered the potential first quarter financial impact by nearly 35%. Here are some of the key actions we took. Vehicles shipped to Canada from Mexico via The US are now transported on bonded carriers, so they aren't subject to US tariffs.

Kumar Galhotra
Chief Operating Officer at Ford

We've done the same for parts that merely pass through The United States. We are assessing where there are near term resourcing actions to increase US content in our vehicles. We have stopped exporting vehicles to China, but we do continue to leverage China as a vehicle export hub to regions like ASEAN, Australia, South America, and others where trade relations remain favorable. Looking ahead, even though nearly 80% of our parts that we use in The US are USMCA compliant, we are looking for opportunities where it makes sense to develop local supply chains. Relative to adding manufacturing capacity in The US, for Ford, this is a continuation, not a course correction.

Kumar Galhotra
Chief Operating Officer at Ford

Since 2020, we have invested $50,000,000,000 in manufacturing capacity, and we have a lot of investments in flight, including manufacturing and battery capacity in Tennessee, battery capacity in Kentucky and Michigan, and manufacturing capacity in Ohio. Thanks. Sherry, over to you.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Thank you, Kumar, and thank you to the team members supporting our first quarter product launches as well as those helping us mitigate the financial impact of tariffs. We are transforming Ford into a higher growth, higher margin, more capital efficient, and more durable business. This was evident in our first quarter results. We delivered 1,000,000,000 in EBIT, exceeding our expectation of roughly breakeven for the quarter, driven by the team's continued progress on cost and strong net pricing in North America. When excluding the nearly 200,000,000 impact of tariffs, this was our third consecutive quarter of year over year cost improvement.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

You'll recall that during the first quarter, we had planned downtime at several plants, most notably Kentucky truck plant to support product launches in the rebalancing of US Dealer inventory. As expected, this resulted in lower wholesales, which were down 7%, in revenue of 41,000,000,000, which was down 5%. The product launches were successful. And in March, we launched new versions of the Expedition and Navigator in North America and an all electric version of Puma in Europe. We also began production of the new Ranger plug in hybrid EV, which goes on sale in Europe and Australia during the second quarter.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Now on to a few highlights from the segments. Ford Pro continues to be a real competitive advantage, and Ford Pro showed its resilience by delivering a solid quarter despite the planned downtime at Kentucky truck plant and a normalization in industry pricing in more commoditized areas, like delivery vans and daily rental. Demand for key products, like super duty chassis cabs and transit wagons, remains strong. In Europe, Pro grew its commercial brand leadership on the strength of transit custom and Ranger. And in North America, Pro is far and away the segment leader with over 40% share of The US class one to seven truck and van market.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Pro continues to serve its customers in the way that they wanna be served. In addition to adding new service elite base, mobile vans are driving growth in customer paid mobile repair orders, which are now 7% of all customer paid repair orders. On the software side, pros paid subscriptions, which deliver better than 50% gross margin, rose to 675,000, up 20% from a year ago. With outsized growth in higher value services like fleet telematics driving 40% growth in average revenue per unit. Ford Model e remains focused on improving gross margin and exercising capital discipline as our battery investments scale, and we deliver next generation products that will generate profitable future growth.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Model e continues to scale, and it more than doubled its first quarter wholesale volumes, driven by the recent launches of Explore, Capri, and Puma Jenny in Europe. Model e's US retail sales grew 15% in the quarter, enabled in part by the success of The US Ford Power Promise campaign, which provides customers a home charger in standard installation. The campaign is currently seeing an attach rate of 34%. Given the campaign's success, it is now being offered in Canada and in Europe. Ford Blue earned a modest profit, reflecting the expected volume decline in adverse exchange due to strengthening of The US Dollar that impacted key markets like Canada and Australia, offset partially by higher net pricing in North America.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Blue continues to benefit from disciplined revenue management across the portfolio along with cost reduction work that Kumar highlighted. Blue's international operations were once again collectively profitable. Iconic nameplates such as F Series and Bronco continue to lead their respective segments, and Bronco sales grew 35%. Blue continues to see growing customer demand for its hybrids. In fact, our hybrid mix of global sales increased 250 basis points.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Additionally, based on early sales data, the newly launched Expedition and Navigator have average transaction prices that are 1823% higher than the outgoing model respectively, and they are turning on dealer lots in less than nine days. Ford Credit delivered another solid quarter with EBT up significantly, reflecting its high quality book of business, higher financing margin, and higher net receivables. Also in the quarter, Ford Credit paid a 200,000,000 distribution to the automotive company. First quarter auction values increased 3% year over year and 4% sequentially, reflecting low used car availability. Ford Credit also continues to grow its active commercial lines of credit, making it a strategic asset for our Ford Pro customers.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Now on to cash flow and balance sheet. Free cash flow was a use of 1,500,000,000.0, more than explained by unfavorable timing differences, net spending, and changes in working capital. Our balance sheet is strong with over 27,000,000,000 in cash and over 45,000,000,000 in liquidity as of March 31. And in April, we renewed our $18,000,000,000 corporate credit facilities for another year. As we have said repeatedly, strong liquidity provides us with the flexibility to manage in this very dynamic environment, the capacity to make consistent shareholder distributions, and the optionality to invest in higher return growth opportunities that truly unlock value.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

To that end, consistent with our commitment to return 40 to 50% of trailing free cash flow to shareholders, last week, we declared a regular second quarter dividend of 15¢ per share, payable on June 2 to shareholders of record on May 12. So let's turn to our 2025 outlook. I am pleased with the progress the team has made on cost and quality. You saw green shoots of this in the first quarter, and we are on track to deliver 1,000,000,000 in net cost improvement, excluding tariffs this year. Excluding the impact of tariffs, we are within our previous EBIT guidance range of 7,000,000,000 to 8 and a half billion dollars.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Based on what the company knows now and our expectation of how certain details and changes will be resolved related to tariffs, we estimate a gross adverse EBIT impact of 2,500,000,000.0 and a net adverse EBIT impact of about 1,500,000,000.0 for full year 2025. Given material tariff related near term risks and the potential range of outcomes, we are suspending guidance for full year 2025. These near term risks include, among other things, industry wide supply chain disruption impacting production, future or increased tariffs in The US, changes in the implementation of tariffs, including tariff offsets, retaliatory tariffs and other restrictions by other governments and the potential related market acts, and finally, policy uncertainties associated with tax and emissions policy. We will provide an update on guidance during the q two earnings call. Before we go to q and a, let me wrap with this.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Our underlying performance, excluding tariffs, is in line with our original targets. Our US footprint is a competitive advantage as the industry navigates the impact of tariffs, and our strong balance sheet provides flexibility to continue to invest in profitable growth while managing industry dynamics. Thank you. Back to you, operator.

Operator

We will now move to our question and answer session. If you have joined via the webinar, please use the raise hand icon, which can be found at the bottom of your webinar application. If you have joined by phone, please dial 9 on your keypad to raise your hand. When you are called on, please unmute your line and ask your question. Your first question comes from the line of Emmanuel Rosner with Wolfe Research.

Operator

Please unmute and ask your question.

Emmanuel Rosner
Managing Director - Senior Autos & Auto Technology Analyst at Wolfe Research LLC

Great. Thank you so much. I appreciate the color on tariff. I was hoping you can give us maybe a little bit more, and in particular, on the gross tariff headwinds. What goes into this 2 and a half million dollars?

Emmanuel Rosner
Managing Director - Senior Autos & Auto Technology Analyst at Wolfe Research LLC

Could you give us maybe buckets in terms of what it you know, how much is from complete vehicle, from parts, you know, anything else that's in there, And whether the 3.75% offsets that was announced by the Wisecast last week, is that having the gross headwinds? Is that considered as well in the gross headwinds? And then similar question for on the net, what are the offsets?

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Yeah. Sure. So the 2 and a half billion in gross cost is based on what we know now and our expectations of how certain details and changes will be resolved relative to tariffs. For us, we're estimating that it's roughly half parts and half imported vehicles. We have assumed that we would get credit for The US content in our vehicles that are gonna be going over the border.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

So that is already assumed in this 2,500,000,000.0. On the parts side, this is also inclusive of steel and aluminum. Now for steel and aluminum, that isn't just tariffs because, in fact, 85% of our steel is already purchased domestically in The US, and all of our sheet aluminum is purchased in The US. However, we do believe that there are pricing impacts that we will encounter. We have over 50% locked and hedged, but there are impacts, and that is included in our parts number.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Additionally, there are tariffs on some parts that we import to China. So we have certain powertrains that go into China today. So this is what is comprising the two and a half billion. And I think you had a question regarding the offsets. And the offsets, the three and three quarter percent is included in what we have come to with our 2,500,000,000.0 gross number.

Kumar Galhotra
Chief Operating Officer at Ford

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Sherry House
CFO at Ford

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Emmanuel Rosner
Managing Director - Senior Autos & Auto Technology Analyst at Wolfe Research LLC

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Emmanuel Rosner
Managing Director - Senior Autos & Auto Technology Analyst at Wolfe Research LLC

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Sherry House
CFO at Ford

And our net adverse EBIT impact is estimated at about 1,500,000,000 for the full year 2025, and that includes about $1,000,000,000 of offsetting recovery actions.

Emmanuel Rosner
Managing Director - Senior Autos & Auto Technology Analyst at Wolfe Research LLC

I was hoping you could give us a little more color on some of these offset actions. Is it price? Is it costs? What what's essentially assumed in this offset?

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

So the largest element of the offset is market equation optimization, and I'll let you know what I mean by that. But we do have some cost mitigation examples in there as well, such as, as we said in our prepared remarks, vehicles shipped to Canada from Mexico via The US are now transported on bonded carriers, so they aren't subject to US tariffs. And we're doing similar actions on parts as well. Now in the market equation optimization, to come up with the 1,000,000,000, we ran a range of market factor scenarios, segment by segment, channel by channel, vehicle by vehicle, inclusive of the competitive landscape. We varied inputs such as pricing, such as volume, such as SAR, and we've considered that there's certain segments, for instance, where we have a % of production in The US, like our full size pickup trucks, where competitors are much less than that.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

So we've taken all of these competitive dynamics as well as these inputs into consideration and have ran a number of permutations. When we triangulate on that, it comes up with this 1,000,000,000 inclusive of some of the cost items that I mentioned.

Emmanuel Rosner
Managing Director - Senior Autos & Auto Technology Analyst at Wolfe Research LLC

Great. And then if I can have a follow-up on the on guidance. So you indicated that Ford is would have been on track, excluding tariff, for the initial EBIT guidance. Now obviously, q one was a stronger than expected performance, you know, to the tune of about a billion dollars versus your previous expectations. Are there any negative offsets elsewhere that would have left you where your initial guidance is, or are you just saying that you would have landed within the range?

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

Yeah. It's a very solid start, Manuel, our warranty, our negotiated parts purchase prices, as well as the build material simplification, and and frankly, very strong pricing for our new vehicles. But we have so much more in front of us with the year going on. It's, you know, we're not gonna give you any specifics within the range, but the team is off to a really great start. Obviously, our focus is on that execution for a fourth quarter in a row of year over year cost improvements, and the results will speak for themselves.

Emmanuel Rosner
Managing Director - Senior Autos & Auto Technology Analyst at Wolfe Research LLC

Great. Thank you. Your

Operator

next question will come from the line of Dan Levy with Barclays. Please unmute and ask your question.

Dan Levy
Senior Equity Research Analyst at Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank

Hi, good evening. Thank you for taking the questions. I wanted to start first with question on volume and inventory. If you could maybe give us a sense of how you expect volume to play out in the coming months, in volumes, your own volumes given the different dynamics. And previously, you gave us some guidance on inventory that you were gonna get through your destocking by the middle of the year.

Dan Levy
Senior Equity Research Analyst at Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank

Are you looking at your inventory any differently now that it's considerably more valuable than what it was before given the tariff dynamics?

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

Yeah. Thank you, Dan. We've seen obviously a very strong industry performance through April, and the first half is running over 17,500,000.0 SAAR right now. So we are running a lot of scenarios on price and volume impacts. In our assumptions, we do expect industry pricing related to tariffs, at about 1% to 1.5% in the second half with full year pricing flat.

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

With that, we now expect the industry SAAR to run about 5,000,000 units lower than our original plan during the second half of the year, around 15,500,000 units. And the important thing around that is timing. If net pricing change changes come from reduced incentive spend, it could happen more immediately. In other scenarios, it come from top line pricing, which would be a little later this summer when inventory hits dealerships. And we're likely to see that probably happen around the June time period.

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

We're measured in our approach to pricing for tariffs and really inherent in your question. We believe our footprint advantage offers us added flexibility to the changing market dynamic. Our current inventory levels allow us to be more opportunistic in the market. And if we find an opportunity to go for share, we will if it's profitable. We left April with a 56, day supply in dealer stock and a 66 gross supply.

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

And we're we're looking, as Sherry mentioned earlier, we are looking at this vehicle line by vehicle line, segment by segment, taking into account not only tariffs, but also stock levels, macroeconomic environment, and and competitive pricing.

Dan Levy
Senior Equity Research Analyst at Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank

K. Great. Thank you. As a follow-up, Jim, I'd like to ask about your efforts in software defined vehicles. And specifically, was a media report out there that, FNV for your network architecture is getting scrapped.

Dan Levy
Senior Equity Research Analyst at Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank

So if you could just address what the the if if that confirm if that's correct. If the four plans are to develop your own or to partner with someone, and how should we think about the resource allocation toward this, what the saves could be given? I believe a lot of this was hitting in Model e.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

Well, thank you for your question. Our strategy hasn't changed. It's a very significant save for capital efficiency. We simply merged our two forward zone electric architectures into one. This is very important for the company because our software is going faster than we expected, and the advanced electric architectures allow us to deliver software to the vehicles and customers in a more efficient way.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

And we we were very ambitious with our advanced electric architectures applying to ICE vehicles, not just advanced electric architectures for EVs. So we brought that all together in f and b three. It's a great move for the company. Our zone electric architecture is now gonna be delivered on our CE one of Skunkworks product. And I think this is a major learning for the for the company that we could do it at a lower price point than f m v four as well.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

This save also has a big impact on the cost of our future products, So all of our products will be more affordable now. In fact, we're targeting our next generation products to be cheaper than our current outgoing products, and a big factor of that is f m v three versus f m v four. And this will actually enhance our integrated services software revenue and profitability, this move.

Dan Levy
Senior Equity Research Analyst at Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank

Great. Thank you.

Operator

Your next question will come from the line of Adam Jonas with Morgan Stanley. Please unmute and ask your question.

Adam Jonas
Adam Jonas
Head of Global Auto & Shared Mobility Research at Morgan Stanley

Hey, everybody. So Jim or Sherry, whoever wants to take this, in your estimation of the 1,500,000,000.0 net tariff headwind you referred to potential supply chain disruption, you didn't quantify it, but you you referred to potential as a part of the reason why you also withdrew the guidance. Are I I'm just asking very bluntly. Are you seeing any signs of distress or interruption in the supply chain following the volatility and the implementation of the import tariffs to date? Just curious that, like, as even even after the end of the quarter, is it still all clear, or are you seeing some some disruption?

Adam Jonas
Adam Jonas
Head of Global Auto & Shared Mobility Research at Morgan Stanley

I have a follow-up.

Kumar Galhotra
Chief Operating Officer at Ford

Yeah. Adam, this is Kumar. Let me take that from a supply chain perspective. There's been so much volatility in the tariff policy, so that could cause disruption. I'll just give you a quick example.

Kumar Galhotra
Chief Operating Officer at Ford

The rare earth materials from China, for example. How they are imported, not just for us, but for the entire industry, excuse me, has become rather complicated over the last few weeks, and it could potentially it it would take only a few parts to potentially cause some disruption into our production. There are other other supply other uncertainty and associated tax and emission policy that could cause some disruption and, of course, the competitive response. So let's say we get disrupted and one of our competitors doesn't get disruptors disrupted or vice versa, that could obviously have an impact on on volume and pricing.

Adam Jonas
Adam Jonas
Head of Global Auto & Shared Mobility Research at Morgan Stanley

Thanks, Kumar. And just, as a follow-up, in previous calls, when Ford has talked about its AI strategy, it included an emphasis on automation robotics. I'm curious how your thinking on automation has evolved given the pressures to onshore more manufacturing. And, specifically, has your team explored humanoid robotics with your tech partners as many of your more tech forward automotive competition both in The US and in China are doing? Thanks.

Kumar Galhotra
Chief Operating Officer at Ford

So, Adam Kumar again. Humanoid, let me answer that part of the question first. Not directly. Obviously, we're not working on on that directly. But in our manufacturing system, we are working with several partners to on some very specific, projects, that can do AI and save us substantial amounts of cost.

Kumar Galhotra
Chief Operating Officer at Ford

So we're deploying AI in our PD system. For example, a lot of the time, we take surrogate parts and then design, manually design a lot of those parts with AI. We're we are automating the design process to take a bunch of weeks out of the PD system. I I'll share an example with you. We have a Boston Dynamics dog in our supply, in our Spain Valencia plant.

Kumar Galhotra
Chief Operating Officer at Ford

That's where the the the experiment started, it has it literally has sensors on it that can see, hear, feel the vibration, smell any leaks of oil, etcetera. It just literally walks around the plant all day long and has changed how we do our preventive maintenance because it can see and hear and and look for air states well before a human being could. So we have processes like that going through quality, through manufacturing, and through PD using AI that are overall improving our our efficiency in all those areas.

Adam Jonas
Adam Jonas
Head of Global Auto & Shared Mobility Research at Morgan Stanley

Thanks, Kumar. Maybe Lynn will let you, use the dog and see if see if it gets along with with her dogs. But I'm not sure we can talk about that offline. Thanks. Your

Operator

next question will come from the line of Joseph Spak with UBS.

Joseph Spak
Joseph Spak
Managing Director at UBS Group

Sherri, you did mention that it looks like you'll be able to give guidance again with second quarter earnings. But you also started off by saying there's a lot of near term uncertainty as it relates to tariffs, the economy, SAAR pricing, etcetera. So what really are you looking for here over the coming months to give you confidence to be able to, you know, put the guidance and outlook back in? Like, what what do you expect to know that you don't know today?

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Well, first off, I just wanna clarify my comments relative to q two. We'll provide an update at that point with the best information that we have at that time. I just wanted to set the expectation that we would be back talking at that point in time. There's there's, you know, a number of things that we are working through. Really, it's the policy issues that that we had alluded to, the clarification of how some of these are landing, as well as some uncertainty associated with tax and emission policy, how the customer is going to react.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

This is gonna be very key for us. As we move into the second half of the year, we see how do they react to this potential increase in pricing that may result from these tariffs costs that the that the competitors and and us are are encountering. And then just, you know, really just that whole competitive dynamic and how the competition reacts as well. These are the key items.

Joseph Spak
Joseph Spak
Managing Director at UBS Group

Okay. Thank you. Sorry for misinterpreting that. And then, Jim, look, I know I know as we've sort of already gone over in this call, there's there's some outstanding issues on on on tariff and trade, but we are it does seem like we're beyond the the nadir, if you will, on on uncertainty. But there are other regulations and policies that it seems are gonna be tackled like emissions.

Joseph Spak
Joseph Spak
Managing Director at UBS Group

Yes. So I'm wondering how you're viewing that as as it as it relates to some of your powertrain investment. Like, what does it mean for, you know, the the next gen project and modeling more broadly? Like, you've you've clearly taken a lot of costs out of E and done a lot of work on the next gen, but, ultimately, you need volume. So how how are you viewing that as part of the strategy?

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

Yeah. We we see the next, iteration. And as you said, terror tariffs haven't played out. You know, we we have to see the retaliatory part of of tariffs. Good good examples.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

Canada, I think we we got to a good output right now with Canada. We'll we'll see how that how that works out. But, you know, to your point about, you know, PTC is very important to us. The production tax credit and IRA, very critical decision for their reconciliation and upcoming tax legislation in The United States. I think we're very close to it.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

I think we've been incredibly we put a lot of effort into raising awareness of how critical this is for the states in the Midwest where all this manufacturing investment that Sherry mentioned is going in. Obviously, the IRA consumer credits tax for EV purchases will be very substantial upcoming policy effort, but that will also be balanced with the 27 and beyond c o two requirements for the EPA as well as the California waiver. And and I think those will be offsetting. We we don't know how it's gonna look right now, but that would be a second area I would say would be very meaningful in addition to tariffs. And I think I think there's quite a bit policy around the globe on emissions that will play out for a company like Ford that is global.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

But I would say we're encouraged by the level of engagement with Ford, with all lawmakers, and and the administration. They want for a company like Ford that bet on America to win in in this next era of the automotive industry that increasingly looks like a regional business. And I think we feel that as long as we do our jobs to engage the key decision makers in in all the policy areas around the world, that Ford will, you know, emerge as as one of the companies that is in, you know, in in really great shape relative to its competition and for the customers. I think our you know, the PTC, though, I would just say, is an outsized impact for us and for the industry.

Operator

Our next question will come from the line of John Murphy with Bank of America. Please go ahead.

John Murphy
John Murphy
Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Good evening, everybody. Jim, my question here, there's a lot of focus on the cost and direct impact of tariffs, but not necessarily enough or at least in my opinion, enough focus on the indirect, you know, impact and the potential for you to take market share, you know, the potential for demand. You know, construction goes up dramatically in The US. You see reshoring for a lot of products, particularly the f one fifty and the Super Duties, as well as the rise in used vehicle pricing, which is very helpful to FMCC. So maybe you can just take a few minutes and kinda talk about, you know, those those potentials because they're not they don't sound like they're calculating sort of the the the net impact because you guys are doing sort of just the the scientific math, not necessarily into second and third derivative, you know, potential impacts here.

John Murphy
John Murphy
Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

This could be pretty huge for you.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

Yeah. The governor on that, whether it goes, you know, slow or fast, is always gonna be the competitors, as Sherry said. And and as she said, we've looked literally in every segment who our cross shop competitor is, the nameplate, where are they built, what kind of tariff exposure they have, what kind of pricing they've had in the past, what are differences on pricing. And we also looked at the timing of when they would make pricing decisions and when that inventory would be in

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

the

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

dealerships given their supply chain. Because all all all the importers have different supply chains. And we feel very comfortable that we've made a very reasonable call embedded in that 1,500,000,000.0 net. But there is no doubt that Ford, given our manufacturing footprint, has the opportunity that few companies have. We don't wanna get ahead of ourselves, but we have the freshest lineup we've ever had in North America.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

The f one fifty is new. Super Duty is brand new. We have all new full size SUVs. Many of our competitors import into those segments. You know, we have a new Explorer.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

I mean, a lot of our utilities are new as well, and they're very well positioned competitively. And also, our inventory is in good shape. And that's why we didn't wait, John. As soon as this happened, we went to our new promotion campaign for employee pricing. It is it has really shrunk our stock in our dealerships, as Andrew said, and we are gaining share.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

The share gain in April was even higher than March. So we continue to see a wind at our back. People really like the employee message employee pricing message, and you can expect Ford to be very aggressive in the market. It gives us optionality on those upside scenarios. But at this point, for financial planning, we thought we'd just, you know, go do our homework, be very reasoned in our approach, and no doubt about it, we're investing in marketing with that mentality of an opportunity.

John Murphy
John Murphy
Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

And then just a quick second question on on pricing. I I think you guys were saying, you know, net price for the industry up one to one and a half percent in the second half of the year, and that might dent demand down to 15.5%. That seems like a pretty high price elasticity of demand, particularly given all the pent up demand that's out there. So I'm just curious if I heard that correctly and how you guys are coming up with that number because that sounds pretty punitive as well.

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

Thanks, John. It's Andrew. Just to follow-up to the previous statement that I made on it. We really are looking at the run rates, not only so with the assumption of the one into one and a half and full year pricing flat, we also see some element of payback scenario from what we've seen in the first half of the the year as well as we've run up. So that was also factored into what we think the run rate will be against the the $15.05.

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

And that we you know, that's just based on our modeling that we've done, as Jim said, kinda segment by segment, but also in terms of how each seg each one of those segments, performs against the elasticity of the pricing that we assumed.

John Murphy
John Murphy
Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

And that pure light, not with medium and heavy. Is that correct?

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

I'm sorry. Can you repeat that?

John Murphy
John Murphy
Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Is that that's a pure light vehicle SAR estimate, not not including medium and heavy. Is that correct?

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

Yes. That's correct.

John Murphy
John Murphy
Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Okay. Thank you very much.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

We, John, we see customers, you know, doing what they can to afford a new vehicle. I mean, Kathy's seen eighty four month financing increases the share of our offer on the financing side. Natural level, we're, you know, well within the bounds of of the industry, but, you know, customers are doing what they need to to adjust for their payments.

John Murphy
John Murphy
Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

That's helpful. Thank you, guys.

Operator

Your next question will come from Mark Delaney with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

Mark Delaney
Mark Delaney
Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Yes. Good afternoon. Thanks very much for taking my questions. I'm hoping to better understand the linearity of the $1,500,000,000 net tariff headwind over the balance of this year And what percent mitigation you think you might be exiting the year? Because I assume as you have more time to implement some of these offsets, the level of headwinds may moderate as the year goes on.

Mark Delaney
Mark Delaney
Analyst at Goldman Sachs

I guess as you think longer term, if there are not policy changes, do you think Ford can fully mitigate the tariff costs that it's seen with supply chain cost and or price changes?

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Yeah. Thank you for your question. I would say there isn't really any linearity to speak to with respect to the tariff costs and our offsets. The offsets, we're gonna continue to manage as we go. We're gonna be looking at the market factors scenarios that I mentioned, looking at SAR pricing volume, and we'll be adjusting on a real time basis for for that as we go.

Mark Delaney
Mark Delaney
Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Understood. Thanks, Sherry. I also wanted to ask on pro. You you called out the continued solid growth you're having in subscribers. Maybe you could double click where you're seeing the most strength in subscribers.

Mark Delaney
Mark Delaney
Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Is it more coming from big fleets or small and medium sized businesses or both? And maybe on pro, can you also give us an update on where you stand with your goal to have 20% of pro EBIT coming from software and services next year? Thanks.

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

Yeah. Thanks. It's Andrew. We continue to see our software and services business grow. We are tracking towards an increase in the software and services as a percent of EBIT by end of the year.

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

We're adding a lot of physical services, that will help drive that. We've seen, you know, we have the largest commercial network and continue to invest in that growth. So we've been adding capacity both in our dealer network, but also in our mobile service network. We now have 66 operating Ford Pro Elite centers around the country. We have the largest mobile service units, the fleet at 4,600 units, and that business continues to grow.

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

And we're seeing higher service and parts attach rate with customers that are procuring our Ford Pro Intelligence solutions. In addition, on the software services to the first part of your questions, the paid subscriptions, grew by 20% year over year to 625, thousand, total users. Telematics was up 80%, and a key drive that was a key driver to the 40% ARPU growth that Sherry talked about, and we're really seeing it across the customer base. Small, medium businesses are now utilizing at a higher rate, and some of the larger fleets that are, that hit that are more sophisticated in this, have increased their utilization as well. So, really, it's across our entire Ford Pro, ecosystem and customer growth.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

On the vehicle side, your question was, the margin pressure. We're seeing it from a few of our import competitors on the heavy duty side for vans and pickup, but they're made overseas. So we'll we'll see how that all shakes out in the second half of the year, whether they can really continue to be that aggressive in the market with with such substantial tariff bills. And, of course, rental. And their their their replacement cycle's changing a little bit in rental.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

We're not very big in rental. What we do sell in rental is pretty prop profitable units like f one fifty. So that's that's a smaller effect for us than others, but, you know, those are the two subsegments that that we're seeing little pricing pressure. Personally, I have my doubts about how persistent the van and pickup will be given that most of the competition is coming from imported from Mexico products, which, obviously, their reality just changed.

Mark Delaney
Mark Delaney
Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question will come from Ryan Brinkman with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Ryan Brinkman
Ryan Brinkman
Equity Research Analyst at JP Morgan

Hi. Thanks for taking my question. There was a reference to a Ford Credit earlier in relation to tariffs, but I'd be interested to hear more about how Kathy and the team, might be thinking about how the various, potential impacts of tariffs, you know, on that side of the business land, including on origination volume of SAAR declines on higher prices like you've insinuated, but also on the positive side with regard to least residual or collateral values, maybe even default rate if consumers have more equity in their vehicles. How do you think these or other factors might play out? And are you looking at any scenarios where the net of them could prove positive for the credit side of the business, providing some offset to the headwind on the automotive side?

Cathy O’Callaghan
President & CEO - Ford Motor Credit Company at Ford

Yeah. Thanks for the question. And we've seen elevated auction prices already, and that's reflecting, obviously, used across the industry, relatively low used vehicle stock. We're thinking that with the higher new vehicle prices as a result of tariffs, we think that the auction values I could lend support to auction values in the near term, but the that might be some muted somewhat by a slowdown in the economy in the second half. So we do see a plus and we see a minus potentially on overall auction values.

Cathy O’Callaghan
President & CEO - Ford Motor Credit Company at Ford

In terms of consumer health, I mean, to date, as Jim mentioned, we've seen an increase in applications for longer term financing. Obviously, the lower SAR could put some contraction in terms of overall contract, But we see it right now a relatively balanced picture, but we have to wait to see what happens in the second half of the year vis a vis the economic strength of the economy.

Ryan Brinkman
Ryan Brinkman
Equity Research Analyst at JP Morgan

Very helpful. Thanks. Then just lastly, you know, is there an update you can provide on your business in Europe, including what traction some of the Model e launches there might be having relative to maybe rising competition from Chinese automakers or falling competition from Tesla? And and what progress, you know, you might be seeing on the restructuring program that you announced last fall? I realize you no longer report profit by geography other than in China, but, you know, where would you say you are in terms of the path to getting to where you need to be or where you would like to be in terms of, you know, profitability, in that part of the world?

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

We'll start with the the reaction to the the vehicle lines that you had talked about. We launched some of our electric vehicles this past year. We just recently launched the Puma electric vehicle, which is off to a really good start. Our run rate of our commercial business as a whole in Europe is really strong. In fact, through the first quarter, we've increased our share by over two and a half points.

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

So as the leading commercial brand, we continue to perform very well there. We have a lot of flexibility in the market with ICE, hybrid, plug in hybrid, and electric across our lineup, which allows us to really react to the market that's going on over there. In terms of the overall business itself, it's running at a better rate. We've seen an increase. We've had some headwinds in some of the industry, although we've offset with share, and we've had some, just general exchange issues in the market over there.

Ryan Brinkman
Ryan Brinkman
Equity Research Analyst at JP Morgan

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question will come from James Picariello with BNP Paribas. Star six will allow you to unmute, James. James, your line is open. You'll just need to unmute. Star six on your keypad will allow you to do so.

James Picariello
Director & Sr. Automotive Analyst at BNP Paribas

Can you hear me now?

Operator

We can. Please go ahead.

James Picariello
Director & Sr. Automotive Analyst at BNP Paribas

Okay. Sorry about that. Hi, everybody. So relative to your internal planning, what were the key factors that surprised you the most in the first quarter, you know, relative to the company's expectation for breakeven EBIT?

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Sure. I would say that it was cost. You know, we had planned that the cost was gonna be significantly different than it was. We got a good surprise on warranty that ended up being positive versus our plan. And in fact, warranty was positive on a quarter over quarter basis as well.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

So that was a big part of it. We obviously had the offset of the $2,200,000,000 in tariffs, and then our material costs also did better, including commodities.

James Picariello
Director & Sr. Automotive Analyst at BNP Paribas

It was warranty up was warranty a positive guy year over year or or quarter over quarter? Both, sir.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Quarter over quarter, it was better, and it also was better versus our plan for the quarter. So when we guided breakeven, we had anticipated it to be worse than it was.

James Picariello
Director & Sr. Automotive Analyst at BNP Paribas

Got it. And then just on Model e performance in particular, on a on a loss per vehicle basis, I think this was Model e's best quarter on record. You know, we could see last year's 300,000,000 in dealer stock adjustments didn't repeat, but I assume a lot of this relative momentum attributed to the EVs you're selling in Europe. Can you just speak to that and just how you're thinking about the near term since the full year guide is pulled? Has Model E turned the corner here?

James Picariello
Director & Sr. Automotive Analyst at BNP Paribas

And and how is Ford handling Mach E production in Mexico with respect to tariffs? Thanks.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

So Model e did have a a great quarter. It was about 40% better on a quarter over quarter basis and also a year over year basis. Now that was driven by some positive pricing. Part of that had to do with our q one of twenty twenty four when we had taken some significant pricing actions across our entire dealer inventory. So in some ways, there was a a positive beat based on that.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

But we also saw some improvements in material cost with some pull aheads in material cost improvements that we were anticipating a bit later in the year. So as I said in my prepared remarks, we do think that this is going to be the best quarter of the year for for Model e.

James Picariello
Director & Sr. Automotive Analyst at BNP Paribas

Thank you. And just thoughts on on the maquis. You know, just what's the planning for maquis production in Mexico? Is there any change at all to the plan, or is it business as usual?

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

It's business as usual. We do not plan on making any adjustments, to lowering the production. The vehicle's in doing very well right now. We actually have a very low day supply of the vehicle itself. It's essential to our overall compliance delivering compliance here.

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

So it's doing well, and it's actually we've actually, moved some of the products to Europe, at a higher because of the higher run rate they're seeing as well. So it's doing very well. No change planned.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

It's interesting for me

James Picariello
Director & Sr. Automotive Analyst at BNP Paribas

Appreciate it. Thanks.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

That we're in the fourth year of Mach E and the sales continue to be so strong. That has not happened in the ice business. We usually, by now, have aging. Now the price has come down way way down, but, I mean, relative to others, Mackey has held up very well as product. We've invested both on the cost and the product appeal side.

James Picariello
Director & Sr. Automotive Analyst at BNP Paribas

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question will come from Colin Langan with Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.

Colin Langan
Colin Langan
Automotive & Mobility Analyst at Wells Fargo

Oh, great. Thanks for taking my questions. Just want to clarify the the 2,500,000,000.0 that the tariff impact, the the MSRP rebate that helps the parts, is that netted in the 2,500,000,000.0, or is that in the 1,000,000,000 offset? Because the billion offset sort of sounded like more market factors that you were thinking about.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

It's in the 2,500,000,000.0.

Colin Langan
Colin Langan
Automotive & Mobility Analyst at Wells Fargo

Okay. And how should we think about that if in two years, is that enough time to to get whatever sort of risk is in there addressed? Or or in two years, there's gonna be a little bit of hit that we should be thinking about as a as a risk of assuming tariffs stay where they are today. No.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

It's a pretty dynamic situation. I think this is all really new for for all of us. And, you know, I I think we we've been very clear with the government about about, you know, the flexibility we need. We've been very encouraged by by them because they these are huge numbers. Two and a half or one and a half is still a big number even though it may be lower than others.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

I I think their approach is gonna be they're gonna they're gonna watch this very carefully and adjust accordingly. I don't think any of us would would say we know exactly enough now that we can transition to a 10% or what whatever the number's gonna be. But I think they they obviously, the government wants us to to shift more parts to The US, so that that's one thing. And, yeah, I from my perspective, we also has you have we have US USMCA coming up. So we have to go through that whole process, and I think we should just all expect to be a little bit patient during this time to see how these policies kinda work out together.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

US m USMCA could be a substantial negotiation and a very important tool for the government and industry to work to transition to more US sourced parts. And and that could change and have a iterative effect with the tariffs. So at this point, I would say too early to tell to answer your question about whether it's enough time or not.

Colin Langan
Colin Langan
Automotive & Mobility Analyst at Wells Fargo

And just lastly, is there any any thoughts on the cash impact of the tariffs? I mean, should we think of the 1.5 as all cash? Are there any other factors we should be thinking about, like working capital or CapEx needs that might result in maybe cash being better or worse than the than the EBIT impact?

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

Yeah. At this point, we're we're estimating that they will be approximately equal for cash. We're assuming that they would happen and settle within the quarter. So in a case where there's a cash that's paid out and there's an offset, we're we're assuming it would happen in the quarter. There is a CapEx impact.

Sherry House
CFO at Ford

We do have some product, some equipment that we've already ordered that's gonna be coming in from overseas. And we do think that we will have an impact on our CapEx as a result.

Colin Langan
Colin Langan
Automotive & Mobility Analyst at Wells Fargo

Got it. Alright. Thanks for taking my questions.

Operator

Your final question will come from the line of Itay Michaeli with TD Cowen. Please go ahead.

Itay Michaeli
Equity Analyst at TD Cowen

Great. Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. Just two quick ones for me, I thank you for all the detail today. If you were to see industry pricing move higher beyond what you've embedded in the one and a half billion net tariff, I'm I'm just curious whether you would generally prioritize gaining some market share due to your strong US position or whether you would look to participate in in some of that price increases?

Itay Michaeli
Equity Analyst at TD Cowen

And just second quick question, maybe for Jim. How should we be thinking about Ford's plans for for level three autonomy? Any changes we we should think about just given the changes in the electrical architecture rollout? Thank you.

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

Tay, maybe I'll it's Andrew. I'll take the first part. We're really looking at this through the lens that you just described, whether it be an opportunity to take additional pricing if that happens or being opportunist opportunistic to increase our market share. That's where as we look at the vehicle segments, the vehicle lines, we're gonna look vehicle by vehicle across our channels, across our customer segments to make sure that if we're opportunistic, it actually makes sense for us from a profit perspective. And also, and if it doesn't, then we would look to potentially take additional pricing in the market.

Andrew Frick
President - Ford Blue and Model e, Interim Head - Ford Pro at Ford

So we have to react to what we see in the market, and those are part of the scenario planning that that we've described.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

At the end of the quarter, we we already launched BlueCouce one point four and one point five. It's doing better than we thought, to be frank. Hands free is up 15% in terms of miles driven. So customers are are really getting used to used to using BlueCruise. I think we're above 370,000,000 miles now.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

I think that's far above almost all of our major competitors. We are on track in level three, and we're evaluating level four, other companies level four. I won't go into any more detail than that, but I think we're we're on track on our ADAS. I would describe our BlueGoose product as very competitive, very compelling, not a lot of disengagements now, do lane change regularly. The the use of it is really escalating, and we're now embedding it in our vehicle specifications for different series, so it's becoming more popular.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

And for the renewals, we've come up with a really effective way to reward our dealers for selling renewals as well. So that's good shape. I I would just say just the business operations behind selling ADAS is getting healthier, and the use of the system is on track. And I would say level three is also on track. Obviously, it's gonna be a cost and timing.

James Farley
President & CEO at Ford

I don't think we're gonna be the first for high speed highway, but I think we'll be a best the best. And that will be a totally different internally sourced product versus the BlueCooze effort, which was very dependent on suppliers. The level three team is quite different than the BlueCooze, and we wanna use that as a moment to really differentiate the brand.

Itay Michaeli
Equity Analyst at TD Cowen

Terrific. Appreciate all that detail. Thanks so much. Thank you.

Operator

This concludes the Ford Motor Company first quarter twenty twenty five earnings conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.

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Key Takeaways

  • Ford delivered an adjusted Q1 EBIT of $1 billion, exceeding its breakeven expectation and remains on track for the original full-year range of $7 billion–$8.5 billion in EBIT before tariff impacts.
  • Management estimates a $2.5 billion gross and $1.5 billion net adverse EBIT impact from new import tariffs in 2025 and has suspended full-year guidance amid policy and supply-chain uncertainties.
  • Ford is on track to achieve $1 billion in net cost reductions this year (ex-tariffs), delivered warranty savings, industry-leading launch quality with zero launch defects in Q1 and deployed 9.5 million OTA updates.
  • First-quarter U.S. pickup sales were the best in over 20 years, with sequential share gains and smooth execution of major global product launches fueling market momentum.
  • Free cash flow was a use of $1.5 billion due to timing and working capital; nonetheless, Ford ended Q1 with $27 billion in cash and $45 billion in liquidity and reaffirmed its commitment to return 40–50% of trailing FCF to shareholders.
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