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Daimler AG Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
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Last Update: 7:19 AM ET November 02 2009


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Daimler AG third quarter revenues fell 21% to €19.3 billion and net profit fell 79.5% to €41 million or €0.04 a share.

 
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Jochen Gehrke - Analyst

Alright. Thank you.

Michael Muhlbaye

Okay. We take the next questions from Christian Breitsprecher

Christian Breitsprecher - Analyst

Yes, good afternoon it's Christian Breitsprecher. I have two questions. One on the financial results when you show a significant negative financial result and no real improvement there despite the fact that your liquidity position has improved again significantly. You have an industrial net liquidity position but a significant negative financial results. So, could you explain a little bit what's going on there? And secondly, on the cost savings, you said that your cost savings are also helping in 2010. Could you give us a number what we will have as an incremental positive effect from these cost savings measures in 2010?

Bodo Uebber

Christian, for the first question, of course, the interest income there are two effects, one is from the pension side because we have included in the EBIT the service cost and not the interest cost is roughly 70 million away from the EBIT to the net profit. The other one is the interest income which is then the remaining is 140 million this reflects right now the high liquidity position in this regard because of course you know that a debt has a higher interest rate than you can -- where you can invest on the invest side of course, the interest rates are very low and we are maybe too conservative but, of course, we don't give one bank all the money. So to say, so, we spread it of course over many banks and of course, we have it more short-term than long-term in this regard because of -- liquidity position. Therefore we have this effect in the -- let's say the outlook for 2010 will be that we will reduce gross liquidity and we -- let's say, in the second to third quarter we will achieve our -- end of the second quarter, beginning of the third quarter, we will achieve our target profile again.

Of course it is not very difficult to achieve in this way because we will be less on the bond side so to say and therefore the gross liquidity will get down at the end of the day but as long as we have this position, of course, we have a burden on the interest side.

The cost savings questions of 2010, of course, we have said that in the 4 billion basket and of course, it will be somewhat more we have targeted also for one time savings, no doubt, everything which counted we took. Therefore, the name of the game will be how do we substitute with ongoing efficiency measures these kind of one time effects. Of course that is what we are looking into for 2010.

Our overall target, of course, is that we can even further increase our measures compared to this year. How much it will be of course we will might tell you that in February of next year but we are currently in the discussion of these kind of targets for 2010 and give me your some time to give you more information on that but clearly we need to shoot at the end of the day for more efficiencies than we had this year.

Christian Breitsprecher - Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

Michael Muhlbaye

Next in line is Adam Jonas.

Adam Jonas - Morgan Stanley

Hi, thanks. It's Adam Jonas from Morgan Stanley. I have three quick questions for you. First on Russia, you mentioned that you saw early indicators of recovery. Love it if you could mention what some of those indicators are because we are not seeing them. Second, profit from, it was a question on profit that you might have on improved residual values of off lease vehicles or maybe you could answer that from the scope of the 449 million charges you took last year, related to residuals, how is that coming back in the profitability? For example, has Mercedes' third quarter profit reflected some of that that improvement in the off lease vehicle or has it been unaffected from that, has the profit been felt elsewhere?

And finally, because you open the door to the question yourself, the thing that you mentioned about dealerships and supplier pressure on the fourth quarter earnings, how much order of magnitude impacts should we expect it to be? And I must say, I'm a bit surprised to you to hear that because so far the information -- the results from dealers and suppliers has been pretty supportive so where is this coming from and what's the magnitude? Thanks.

Bodo Uebber

So, Adam, thank you for your questions. First maybe there was a misunderstanding. Maybe I said it wrongly but Russia has no signs of improvement right now so that's also what we can confirm.
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