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Ferrari N.V.

RACE NYSE
Consumer Cyclical · Auto Manufacturers
Maranello, MO 41053, Italy ferrari.com Updated Aug 11, 12:27pm
Price
$410.27
Market Cap
$71.5B
Employees
5,743
Beta
0.60
Avg Volume
503,839
Last Dividend
$4.25
CEO
Mr. Benedetto Vigna

Ferrari N.V. is a luxury automotive company focused on the design, engineering, production, and sale of high-performance sports cars. Its current portfolio includes sports cars, special series models, limited-edition hypercars, one-off vehicles, and track-oriented cars, supported by a range of spare parts, engines, and after-sales services. The company also extends its brand through apparel, accessories, licensing, and selected lifestyle activities, creating a broad premium ecosystem around the Ferrari name. Ferrari N.V. serves customers and dealers across major international markets through an exclusive global distribution network, with manufacturing and engineering centered in Maranello, Italy. Founded in 1947 and headquartered in Maranello, Ferrari N.V. remains a prominent name in the global luxury performance car market, combining automotive craftsmanship, customization, and brand prestige across consumer and specialty segments.

Runs with full report Generated: Aug 11, 2026 2:28pm
Price Overview
Price at report time
$410.20
as of Aug 11, 2:32pm (12d ago)
Change · Aug 11
+3.43 (+0.84%)
Day Range
$407.79 – $412.24
52-Week Range
$312.51 – $504.49
50-Day MA
$372.90
200-Day MA
$363.96
Volume
9,549.00
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Share Structure
Outstanding 175,916,530.00
Float 135,837,467.00
Free Float 77.2%
Normal free float — 77.2% of shares trade freely, ~22.8% held by insiders/institutions
Healthy float typical of established companies. Good liquidity for entering and exiting positions without major price impact.
Price History (1 Year)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 2:45pm (12d ago)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
The directional story — useful even when net income is negative.
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:27pm (12d ago)
Why there are no quarterly figures for Ferrari N.V.

Ferrari N.V. is a foreign private issuer — it reports to the U.S. SEC once a year (on Form 20-F or 40-F) rather than filing the quarterly statements (10-Q) that U.S.-domiciled companies must submit. Our financial statements are read directly from SEC filings, so for this company only annual figures exist at the source.

This is a property of how the company files, not missing or broken data — its filing history shows 9 annual reports, the latest filed 2026-02-19, and no quarterly filings . The company may still publish quarterly results on its own investor-relations site.

Revenue
The top line — total sales before any costs or taxes are subtracted. A measure of how much business the company is doing.
Net Income
The bottom line — profit left after subtracting all expenses, interest, and taxes from revenue. Reflects accounting profitability, but includes non-cash items like depreciation, so it isn't the same as cash earned.
Operating Cash Flow
The real cash generated by the day-to-day business — selling products, paying suppliers, collecting from customers. Calculated from net income by adding back non-cash items and adjusting for timing (unpaid bills, unsold inventory). When OCF consistently lags net income, the reported profit may not be converting to real money.
Period Revenue Net Income Net Margin YoY/QoQ
Key Metrics
TD Twelve Data statement HEX SEC filing
Industry comparison last run: Aug 11, 2026 2:26pm
P/E Ratio (Price per dollar of earnings)
HEX
Stock Price / EPS (Diluted)
39.67
Stock Price: $410.27
EPS (Diluted): 10.34
P/B Ratio (Price vs net asset value)
HEX
Stock Price / Book Value Per Share
16.19
Stock Price: $410.27
Total Equity: $4.52B
Shares: 178,321,000
EV/EBITDA (Total value vs operating profit)
HEX
Enterprise Value / EBITDA
21.82
Market Cap: $71.50B
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.69B
EBITDA: $3.20B
Enterprise Value (Takeover price (cap + debt - cash))
HEX
Market Cap + Total Debt - Cash
$69.8B
Market Cap: $71.50B
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.69B
Gross Margin (Revenue left after direct costs)
HEX
Gross Profit / Revenue
51.7%
Gross Profit: $4.26B
Revenue: $8.25B
Operating Margin (Revenue left after all operations)
HEX
Operating Income / Revenue
29.5%
Operating Income: $2.44B
Revenue: $8.25B
Net Margin (Revenue left as actual profit)
HEX
Net Income / Revenue
22.3%
Net Income: $1.84B
Revenue: $8.25B
ROE (Profit from shareholder equity)
HEX
Net Income / Total Equity
40.8%
Net Income: $1.84B
Total Equity: $4.52B
ROIC (Profit from all invested capital)
HEX
NOPAT / Invested Capital
66.8%
Operating Income: $2.44B
Tax Rate: 22.5%
Equity: $4.52B
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.69B
Zero debt — invested capital = equity minus cash (very efficient)
Current Ratio (Can it pay short-term bills)
HEX
Current Assets / Current Liabilities
Current Assets: $5.57B
Current Liabilities: N/A
Missing from API: Current Liabilities
Debt/Equity (Leverage — debt vs equity)
HEX
Total Debt / Total Equity
0.00
Short-Term Debt: $0.00
Long-Term Debt: $0.00
Total Debt: $0.00
Total Equity: $4.52B
Zero debt — this company carries no debt obligations. Strongest possible score.
Rev/Share (Top-line per share)
HEX
Revenue / Shares Outstanding
$46.25
Revenue: $8.25B
Shares: 178,321,000
Book Value/Share (Net assets per share)
HEX
(Total Assets - Total Liabilities) / Shares
$25.34
Total Equity: $4.52B
Shares: 178,321,000
FCF/Share (Real cash generated per share)
HEX
(Operating Cash Flow + CapEx) / Shares
$12.07
Operating CF: $2.71B
CapEx: -$560.05M
Shares: 178,321,000
CapEx is negative (outflow) — added to OCF to get FCF
Div Yield (Annual income from holding)
TD
Last Annual Dividend / Stock Price
1.0%
Last Dividend: $4.25
Stock Price: $410.27
Payout Ratio (Earnings paid out as dividends)
HEX
Dividends Paid / Net Income
33.3%
Dividends Paid: -$614.24M
Net Income: $1.84B
Industry Benchmarks
Last run: Aug 11, 2026 2:26pm
Compares RACE against LLM-researched typical ranges for its industry. One research call per industry, cached indefinitely — every stock in the same industry reuses the same baseline.
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:27pm (12d ago)
Metric 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Revenue $4.9B $5.9B $6.9B $7.7B $8.2B
Cost of Revenue $2.4B $3.1B $3.5B $3.8B $4.0B
Gross Profit $2.5B $2.8B $3.4B $3.9B $4.3B
Operating Expenses $1.3B $1.4B $1.6B $1.7B $1.8B
Operating Income $1.2B $1.4B $1.9B $2.2B $2.4B
Net Income $958.9M $1.1B $1.4B $1.8B $1.8B
EBITDA $1.8B $2.0B $2.6B $2.9B $3.2B
EPS $5.19 $5.90 $7.98 $9.78 $10.35
EPS (Diluted) $5.19 $5.88 $7.96 $9.76 $10.34
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:27pm (12d ago)
Metric 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Cash & Equivalents $1.6B $1.6B $1.3B $2.0B $1.7B
Total Current Assets $3.9B $4.6B $4.6B $5.8B $5.6B
Total Assets $7.9B $9.0B $9.3B $11.0B $11.1B
Current Liabilities
Long-Term Debt
Total Liabilities $5.4B $6.0B $5.7B $6.9B $6.6B
Total Equity $2.6B $3.0B $3.5B $4.1B $4.5B
Retained Earnings
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:27pm (12d ago)
Metric 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Operating Cash Flow $1.5B $1.6B $2.0B $2.2B $2.7B
Capital Expenditure -$406.7M -$401.4M -$440.6M -$556.7M -$560.0M
Free Cash Flow $1.1B $1.2B $1.5B $1.7B $2.2B
Acquisitions (net)
Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) -$216.2M $109.4M -$363.9M $809.2M -$401.3M
Dividends Paid -$185.0M -$288.0M -$379.3M -$507.8M -$614.2M
Stock Buybacks
Net Change in Cash -$21.1M $51.7M -$308.1M $715.9M -$316.8M
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:27pm (12d ago)
Metric 2022 2023 2024 2025
Revenue Growth +19.3% +17.2% +11.8% +7.0%
Gross Profit Growth +11.7% +21.6% +12.5% +10.3%
Operating Income Growth +14.1% +31.8% +16.7% +11.8%
Net Income Growth +12.3% +34.3% +21.6% +4.9%
EBITDA Growth +15.8% +28.5% +12.1% +8.5%
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:27pm (12d ago)
Date Dividend Declaration Record Payment
2026-04-20 $4.25
2025-04-22 $3.44
2024-04-22 $2.60
2023-04-24 $1.99
2022-04-19 $1.48
2021-04-19 $1.04
2020-04-20 $1.23
2019-04-23 $1.16
2018-04-23 $0.88
2017-04-24 $0.68
2016-05-23 $0.52
0Company Classification 1Industry Landscape 2Company Momentum 3Forward Projection 4aDCF Valuation 4bEarnings Power Value 4cAnchored PE 4dReverse DCF 4eRevenue-Based DCF 4fAnchored P/S 4gScenario Analysis 4hDividend Discount Model 4iBook Value Analysis 4jInsider Activity 4fCash Flow Quality 4gDebt Maturity Risk 4hMacro Environment 4iSector Intelligence 4jRevenue Confidence 4kSensitivity Analysis 4lSector Demand Cycle 5AI Investigation 5bThesis Evaluation 6Valuation Synthesis
computed not applicable not yet run 11 computed · 6 not applicable · 7 not yet run
Narrative Economics
The story the market is telling about this stock — the intangible X-factor (founder mythology, cult dynamics, TAM-of-imagination) that moves price beyond what cash flows alone explain. After Shiller, Narrative Economics.
No narrative profile yet for RACE — it's generated by the pipeline (market-narrative step).
AI Lens 4th lens · how AI reaches this business · 5-yr
2026-08-11
The creme is there an opportunity here? Neutral
Low AI exposure is the answer here — Ferrari is one of the few names where cheap intelligence mostly just trims cost and enlarges the buyer pool.
Exposure of 26 with position 61 says the AI lens should not be the reason you own or avoid this: the scarce asset is physical, capped and provenance-based, and no agent can route around an allocation list. The real AI-linked risk is competitive drift — cheap engineering intelligence hands EV and Chinese entrants performance parity, pushing 100% of the premium onto brand — so watch personalization revenue per car and order-book length, not AI announcements; those two series will show scarcity erosion long before margins do.
61
AI Position
Mildly favorable - low exposure is the finding
Cheap intelligence barely touches a business whose scarce assets are a capped physical output, a heritage brand and a controlled allocation list, while it quietly cuts development cost and enlarges the pool of newly rich buyers.
Exposure 26 Confidence 74 50 = neutral
Primary Tailwind

Simulation-heavy engineering (aero, powertrain, materials, F1 telemetry) lets Ferrari cut physical prototyping and shorten model cycles, while an AI-driven wealth boom widens the ultra-high-net-worth buyer pool against a deliberately capped ~10k unit output — surplus demand converts into price and personalization mix, not volume.

Primary Pressure

AI collapses the cost of world-class performance engineering, so lap times, horsepower and dynamics stop being scarce; Ferrari's premium must be carried almost entirely by brand narrative and allocation scarcity rather than measurable engineering superiority.

Critical Hinge

Whether scarcity/brand premium keeps outrunning the commoditization of performance — observable in personalization and special-series revenue per unit and in order-book length, not in unit volumes.

Hard to Reproduce

75 years of racing provenance, a two-year allocation queue with dealer-managed client selection, Maranello craft manufacturing, and a secondary market that rewards ownership history — none of it is code.

Forensic fingerprint same 11 factors for every stock · 0 unfavorable · 50 neutral · 100 favorable
Underlying Need Persistence do people still need this at all? 84
The need is status, emotion and scarce ownership — untouched by cheap cognition.
Buyers are not hiring Ferrari for transport or information processing; they are hiring it for a positional, physically scarce object. Machine intelligence does not substitute for that demand and arguably amplifies it by devaluing reproducible goods.
Order book length by region · Waiting list conversion rates · UHNW population growth trends
relevance 58 · confidence 82
Solution Persistence will they still solve it this way? 73
The car-as-object solution persists; the ICE-mystique version of it is the vulnerable part.
Electrification and eventual autonomy change what the object is, but Ferrari's value rests on driving experience and provenance, which it can port across powertrains at some brand cost. AI accelerates the technical transition without creating a substitute product.
Elettrica order and reception data · Mix of manual/visceral models · Younger buyer cohort share
relevance 62 · confidence 66
Intelligence Commoditization does cheap AI power them or copy them? 57
Cheap AI powers Ferrari's own engineering but also arms rivals with equal performance.
Digital twins and simulation cut Ferrari's development iterations, yet the same tools let EV startups reach hypercar specs quickly — performance becomes abundant while brand stays scarce.
R&D spend per new model · Prototype/wind-tunnel hour reduction · Chinese hypercar spec parity claims
relevance 48 · confidence 68
Responsibility Transfer are they paid to take the blame? 47
Ferrari is not paid to absorb someone else's liability.
Beyond ordinary homologation and product liability, no customer is outsourcing a compliance burden to Ferrari, so the responsibility-shield mechanism barely applies.
Recall and warranty cost trend · Autonomy-related liability regimes
relevance 14 · confidence 60
Scarcity Migration do their assets get rarer or more common? 79
As digital output becomes abundant, deliberately capped physical scarcity gets relatively rarer.
Ferrari's assets — fixed annual output, allocation control, racing provenance, Maranello craft — are exactly the category AI cannot inflate, so their relative scarcity value rises as reproducible goods deflate.
Volume discipline vs demand · Secondary market price indices · Special-series allocation demand
relevance 82 · confidence 74
Customer DIY Preference will customers just build it themselves? 89
No customer internalizes this function.
There is no plausible build-it-yourself path for a Ferrari; the DIY channel that threatens software vendors is structurally closed here.
Restomod/replica market size · Track-day alternative spend
relevance 22 · confidence 88
AI Intermediation Position do AI agents go through them or around them? 63
Ferrari picks its customers; agents cannot route around an allocation list.
Demand exceeds supply and dealers curate buyers, so AI shopping agents have no leverage over price or access. Only the merchandising and licensing channel sees any agentic disintermediation risk.
Direct-to-client channel share · Lifestyle/e-commerce mix · Dealer allocation policy changes
relevance 30 · confidence 66
Data Leverage does their data make AI better? 47
Rich F1 and client data is operationally useful but not a compounding moat.
Telemetry improves engineering and client-relationship targeting internally, yet Ferrari sells no data product and the dataset does not make its offering harder to compete with.
Connected-car data monetization · Client CRM-driven personalization lift
relevance 26 · confidence 58
AI Margin Conversion do the AI savings become profit? 63
Savings likely stick, because price is set by scarcity rather than cost.
With gross margin at 51.7% and operating margin at 29.5% and still rising, any AI-driven reduction in engineering and SG&A cost falls through rather than being competed away — buyers are price-insensitive and supply is capped.
Operating margin path above 30% · R&D as % of revenue · SG&A per unit delivered
relevance 52 · confidence 66
Revenue Unit Durability does the thing they charge for survive? 81
The monetized unit is a physical car plus personalization — no seats, no hours to compress.
Nothing about Ferrari's revenue unit resembles the seat- or task-based units AI deflates; personalization attach is rising and is priced on desire, not labor input.
Personalization revenue per car · Special series and one-off cadence · Sponsorship and licensing trend
relevance 66 · confidence 76
Entrant Compression how easily can newcomers copy them? 68
AI makes hypercar engineering cheap; it does not make heritage cheap.
New EV entrants can now match or beat performance specs with far less capital, but they cannot manufacture 75 years of racing provenance, a curated waiting list or resilient residual values within five years.
New luxury-performance entrant funding · Residual value spread vs rivals · Brand desirability surveys by age
relevance 62 · confidence 64

AI Lens thesis

Ferrari's customer is not buying information processing; they are buying a scarce, physically constrained status object with an emotional and collectible payload, so the substitution channel AI normally uses simply is not open. AI reaches the P&L through three narrow doors: R&D productivity (digital twins and simulation replacing prototype iterations, against a company already expanding operating margin from 25% to 29.5%), commercial/CRM and configurator tooling that raises personalization attach — the highest-margin revenue line — and an indirect demand effect as AI-era wealth creation deepens the pool of qualified buyers chasing a fixed supply. The genuine AI-linked risk is competitive rather than operational: cheap engineering intelligence lets EV and Chinese hypercar entrants reach performance parity fast, pushing Ferrari's entire justification onto brand, which is durable but more fragile to generational taste shifts than a technical lead. Net: modest positive, tight distribution.

Thesis breaker Order book shortening below roughly one year, visible discounting or softening in the secondary market, or personalization revenue per car flattening — any of these says the scarcity premium, not AI, is the real variable and it is cracking.
What the market may be underestimating

Upside Simulation-led development can raise the cadence of special series and one-offs — the highest gross-margin products — without adding volume, letting revenue per unit rise while the 10k cap and the mystique stay intact.

Downside If AI-normalized autonomous transport erodes driving-as-hobby among younger cohorts, the collectible and residual-value logic that underwrites today's pricing weakens slowly and invisibly, long before order books show it.

Outcome range spread 29

44Bear case
61Central case
73Bull case
Three headline numbers, deliberately never blended: Position (which way), Exposure (how much it matters at all), Confidence (how sure). The fingerprint asks every stock the same 11 questions so companies a sector label would lump together get told apart. Not an input to GEM/Coal or the Q/V/S lenses.
Claude Reading
Independent analyst synthesis · claude-opus-4-7 · generated 2026-08-11 14:44:23
Verdict Overvalued but not egregiously — fair value $330-360 vs $410; luxury-multiple thesis is real but priced for perfection, wait for a growth-scare drawdown before initiating.

Ferrari's raw numbers are objectively pristine: 5-year revenue CAGR of 13.7% ($4.93B → $8.25B), operating income nearly doubling ($1.24B → $2.44B), operating margins expanding from 25.1% to 29.5%, net margins now 22.4%, and ROIC of 67%. FCF was $2.15B in 2025, with capex modest at $560M. Balance sheet shows $1.69B cash, $4.52B equity, and the FMP tag says zero debt (implausible for an auto OEM with financing operations — likely a data artifact; Ferrari carries roughly €2-3B of gross debt against its financial services book). The trajectory is unambiguously that of a luxury compounder, not an auto cyclical. But recent YoY has decelerated hard: revenue +7%, earnings +4.9% — well below the 5-year averages and nowhere near what a 40x P/E requires.

On my independent read, the synthesis DCF at $221 fair value feels too punitive and the thesis engine's "market implies 28% FCF CAGR" framing is a straw man. At $410 with $2.15B FCF, that's a 3.0% FCF yield on a business compounding FCF at 18% historically with a fortress brand — you don't need 28% growth to justify this, you need ~10-12% FCF growth for a decade plus a terminal luxury multiple (Hermès trades at 50x earnings on lower ROIC). A more honest reverse-DCF: 10% FCF CAGR for 10 years, 3% terminal, 8% discount → roughly $340-360 fair value. So the stock is expensive, but $250 is probably too bearish; the models are anchoring on auto-comps when the market is (correctly, in my view) applying a luxury-comp multiple.

Where I diverge from the synthesis: the market-forces module flags "existential EV transition risk" — I think this is backwards for Ferrari specifically. Ferrari's buyers are collectors, not commuters; the ICE/hybrid mystique is a feature, and Ferrari's stated EV rollout is deliberately slow and low-volume. That's not a threat, it's the moat. The thesis evaluation's top bear ("volume cap makes 28% FCF growth arithmetically implausible") is correct arithmetically but attacks a number the market isn't actually underwriting — Ferrari has grown revenue 13.7% CAGR without meaningfully raising volume, via mix and price. The real bear case is more mundane: at 40x earnings and 22x EV/EBITDA, you're paying a full luxury multiple with zero margin of safety, and the recent 7% revenue growth suggests the pricing/mix flywheel is normalizing toward mid-single-digits. That's the actual risk — not EVs, not China, but multiple compression from 40x to 28x on a modest growth slowdown, which alone is a 30% drawdown.

A contrarian would also note: net margin expansion has plateaued (22.4% vs 22.8% in 2024 — flat), and the incremental margin on the last $540M of revenue was only about 26% (op income up $260M on $540M revenue). That's decent but not the accelerating operating leverage the multiple demands. Insider activity isn't shown, and the "insufficient_data" quarterly trend flag is a real gap — I can't verify whether Q3/Q4 2025 showed re-acceleration or further deceleration, which is the swing variable. I partially agree with the synthesis (overvalued) but dissent on magnitude: fair value is closer to $330-360, not $250. The narrative layer's "$250 fundamentals + $160 story premium" split overweights the DCF and underweights that Ferrari's fundamentals genuinely warrant a luxury multiple, not an auto multiple. Buying here requires believing pricing power holds through a wealth-cycle downturn — plausible but not a bargain. I'd want $320 or lower to start a position, and would trim above $450. Current price is a hold-if-you-own-it, don't-chase-if-you-don't.

GPT Reading
Independent reading · gpt-5.4 · generated 2026-08-11 14:44:40
Verdict Overvalued at $410 — extraordinary business, but fair value is closer to $300 unless Ferrari can re-accelerate to durable double-digit growth with 30% operating margins intact.

Ferrari is one of the cleanest businesses in global consumer cyclicals, but the stock is asking investors to pay a luxury-goods multiple for what is still, economically, a low-volume manufacturer. The operating performance is undeniably elite: revenue rose from $4.93B in 2021 to $8.25B in 2025, a 13.7% annualized climb over four years, while operating income nearly doubled from $1.24B to $2.44B and net income from $959M to $1.84B. Margins have not just held, they have expanded: gross margin moved from 51.3% to 51.7%, operating margin from 25.2% to 29.5%, and net margin from 19.4% to 22.4%. Free cash flow of $2.15B on $8.25B of revenue is a 26% FCF margin, which is extraordinary for anything connected to autos. This is a phenomenal company.

The problem is that the equity already capitalizes Ferrari as if these exceptional economics can persist with very little friction and with enough growth to justify a $71.5B market cap. At $410, the stock trades at 39.7x earnings, 8.9x sales, and 21.8x EV/EBITDA. Against 2025 free cash flow, the equity is at roughly 33x FCF. Those are not “great business” multiples; those are “great business plus years of near-perfect execution” multiples. Yet recent growth is already settling into a more normal range: 2025 revenue growth was 7.0% and earnings growth was just 4.9%, well below the multi-year CAGR figures. If I take the latest year at face value, the market is paying almost 9x revenue for a company growing high single digits with a self-imposed volume ceiling. Ferrari can keep lifting mix, personalization, and pricing, but arithmetic eventually matters when units are deliberately constrained.

What stands out most is the tension between Ferrari’s quality and its scalability. The balance sheet is pristine, with $1.69B cash and effectively no debt in the data, equity of $4.52B, and cash conversion that is genuinely best-in-class: operating cash flow of $2.71B comfortably exceeds net income of $1.84B. ROE of 40.8% and ROIC of 66.8% are spectacular, but they also partly reflect an asset-light luxury positioning and a relatively small equity base, not a business that can reinvest unlimited capital at those returns. This matters because the current valuation only works if Ferrari can continue compounding earnings at something like low-to-mid teens for a long time without margin slippage from electrification, product mix shifts, or regional demand softness. Maybe it can, but the latest year’s 7% revenue growth and sub-5% earnings growth say the stock is already trading on the next leg of optimism, not on present operating momentum.

The strongest pushback is obvious and serious: Ferrari has earned the right to be valued differently from other automakers because it is not managed like one. Scarcity is the product, not a constraint accidentally imposed by capacity. A business that can sell identity, customization, and exclusivity can keep taking price above inflation even without major unit growth, and the historical numbers support that claim. From 2021 to 2025, revenue increased 67% while gross profit increased 68%, operating income 97%, and free cash flow appears to have scaled even faster. If investors are really buying a luxury franchise with unmatched brand equity, then 39x earnings is expensive but not absurd in the same way it would be for BMW or Mercedes. The zero-debt posture and 33% payout ratio also mean Ferrari has considerable resilience and optionality. I weigh this argument less heavily because today’s multiple leaves little room for the inevitable periods when luxury demand, China exposure, product cadence, or the EV transition produce merely “good” instead of “pristine” results.

What would change my mind is straightforward: if Ferrari can show that 2025’s deceleration was temporary and re-accelerate to sustained double-digit revenue growth while keeping operating margin around 30% and FCF margin above 24%, the current premium becomes easier to defend. Specifically, I’d want to see annual revenue move from $8.25B to above $9.2B within a year or two, net income compounding back into the low-teens range, and free cash flow pushing materially beyond $2.5B without balance-sheet deterioration. Conversely, if revenue growth remains around 6-8% and earnings growth stays mid-single-digit while the stock holds near 40x earnings, then the valuation is simply too rich for a mature franchise, however elite.

Grok Reading
Independent reading · grok-4.5 · generated 2026-08-11 14:45:07
Verdict Overvalued at $410 vs ~$250–280 fundamental range; exceptional 52% GM / 22% NM franchise already fully priced for scarcity permanence

Ferrari’s numbers describe a rare industrial compounder that has executed nearly flawlessly: revenue climbed from $4.93B in 2021 to $8.25B in 2025, net income from $959M to $1.84B, and free cash flow reached $2.15B on only $560M of capex, with zero reported net debt and $1.69B cash. Gross margin at 51.7%, operating margin 29.5%, net margin 22.4%, ROIC 66.8% and ROE 40.8% are luxury-goods economics bolted onto a volume-capped auto chassis. The operating story is pricing power and personalization, not unit growth; the scarcity model is working. What stands out equally, however, is deceleration against a still-premium multiple: recent revenue growth slowed to 7% and earnings to 4.9%, while the stock sits at 39.7× earnings, 8.9× sales and 21.8× EV/EBITDA on a $71.5B capitalization. FCF yield is roughly 3.0%. At a mid-single-digit to high-single-digit growth trajectory, that multiple embeds a permanence of scarcity premium and margin expansion that the arithmetic of ~10,000 cars a year cannot easily deliver. The quantitative models’ ~$250 fair-value anchor is directionally right; the gap to $410 is narrative, not cash-flow support.

The strongest counter-argument is that Ferrari is no longer being priced as an automaker at all. Believers correctly note that post-2020 wealth creation, waiting lists, and personalization mix have produced pricing power that looks more like Hermès than like Porsche, and that FCF CAGR of 18% over the last stretch proves the model still has torque. A smart opponent would also cite the fortress balance sheet, the 33% payout that still leaves ample reinvestment, and the fact that luxury multiples routinely detach from DCF for multi-year stretches when brand mystique is intact. Those points are real. I weigh them as already in the price: a 40× multiple on a mature earner with a self-imposed volume ceiling and an unresolved EV brand-transition risk is not a margin of safety; it is a claim that the cult narrative will compound faster than the 9–10% unit economics historically support. Cyclical luxury demand and China fragility remain under-discounted after fifteen years of easy wealth effects.

What would flip the verdict is concrete evidence that personalization and brand extension can sustain mid-teens FCF growth without volume inflation—specifically, next two years of revenue growth re-accelerating above 12% with gross margin holding or expanding through the first meaningful EV mix, or a clear path to FCF above $3B while the multiple compresses no further than the mid-20s. Absent that, the stock is priced for perfection the franchise is structurally capped from delivering.

Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Each AI above independently stated a direction (undervalued, fairly valued, or overvalued) and how strongly it believes it (conviction, 0–5). We combine those into a Bull-Bear Index on a 0–10 scale: 5 is neutral, 10 is maximum bullish (undervalued at full conviction), 0 is maximum bearish. We compute the score ourselves with the same arithmetic for every seat — the models never grade their own bullishness — so the three are directly comparable. Δ shows how far each seat sits from the panel average of 1.3; a large Δ marks the dissenting voice, usually the one worth reading.
Claude claude-opus-4-7 2.0
overvalued · conviction 3/5 · Δ +0.7 vs panel · self: 4.0
GPT gpt-5.4 1.0
overvalued · conviction 4/5 · Δ -0.3 vs panel · self: 3.0
Grok grok-4.5 1.0
overvalued · conviction 4/5 · Δ -0.3 vs panel · self: 3.0
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
Separate reads — Company Quality (is it a great business?), Valuation (is it mispriced?), and General Sentiment (how macro + narrative are pushing it), plus AI Impact (how the AI wave reshapes it), kept deliberately apart · 2026-08-11 14:55:24
Delvantic - Cairn AI
Quality - wait for a dip 8/10
Ferrari is a fortress business trading at a fortress-plus price - I love the company, I pass on the stock at $410.
The cruxThe 30-40% gap between $410 price and the $250-285 deserved-value zone is the entire trade; nothing about the business is in dispute, only what I pay for it.
Forensic checks Derived mechanically from RACE's filed financials — not from the AI lenses
Liquidity & RunwaySelf-Funding
DilutionShare Count Shrinking
Earnings QualityHigh Earnings Quality
The four lensesswitch a tab for its full read — score + evidence
Company Quality
+87
Fortress
edge √Σ 155 · risk √Σ 20 · conf 9/10

Revenue has grown from $4.93B (2021) to $8.25B (2025), a ~14% CAGR, while gross margin expanded from 51.3% to 51.7% and operating margin from 25.2% to 29.5% — operating leverage is real and durable, consistent with a scarcity-managed luxury brand. Net income nearly doubled from $959M to $1.84B, and FCF doubled from $1.07B to $2.15B, with OCF/NI at 1.43x and accruals at -6.1% of assets — earnings are cash-backed, not accrual-inflated. Altman Z of 8.57 places the balance sheet firmly in the safe zone.

Strengths 4
m88
Margin expansion at scale
Operating margin climbed from 25.2% to 29.5% while revenue grew 67% over four years — pricing power without volume dependence, the hallmark of a genuine luxury moat.
m82
Elite cash conversion
FCF of $2.15B on $1.84B net income (117%), OCF/NI 1.43x, accruals -6.1% of assets — reported earnings are underpinned by cash, not working-capital games.
m70
Per-share value concentration
Diluted share count fell from 184.7M to 178.3M (-0.9% CAGR) — management is a net buyer, protecting per-share economics rather than issuing to plug gaps.
m68
Fortress balance sheet
Net cash of $1.69B, Altman Z 8.57, self-funding via $2.15B annual FCF — no reliance on external capital, wide survival margin.
Concerns 1
m20
Consumer cyclical exposure
Ultra-luxury autos are discretionary; a severe global wealth shock could pressure the order book, though waitlists and scarcity policy have historically absorbed cycles.
This is what a top-decile business looks like on paper: pricing power translating into 430bps of operating margin expansion over four years, FCF outrunning net income, a shrinking share count, and net cash on the balance sheet. The mechanical checks find nothing to argue with — accruals are negative (conservative), OCF/NI comfortably above 1, Altman Z deep in safe territory. The only honest reservation is macro: it sells $300k+ cars, and I have no visibility here into order-book depth or the capex arc through electrification. On the evidence in front of me, this sits comfortably in the 87+ tier.
Verify before trusting this (5)
  • Order book length and deposit balances in the 10-K/20-F to confirm demand visibility
  • Capex trajectory around the EV transition and effect on future FCF
  • Geographic and customer concentration (China, US) in segment disclosures
  • Any related-party or F1/licensing revenue dynamics
  • Buyback authorization size and pace vs SBC issuance detail
Valuation / Mispricing
-76
Rich
edge √Σ 25 · risk √Σ 125 · conf 7/10
price $410.75 vs deserved ~$250-285, roughly 30-40% overvalued - no margin of safety, negative expected return from multiple compression. attractive below $260.00

At $410.75 the market caps Ferrari at ~$71B against a composite FV of $221 and a signal-adjusted FV of $250 - implying the stock trades 60-85% above deserved value on the synthesis, with -39% headline downside. The DCF ($235) and anchored-PE ($285) bracket a deserved range in the $230-285 zone even after crediting the luxury-goods multiple; EPV floor of $129 confirms there is essentially no valuation support from current earnings power alone. The $410 price only pencils if you assume Ferrari sustains Hermes-like multiples in perpetuity while growing volumes, ASPs, and margins from already-elite levels - a stack of heroic assumptions.

Cheap signals 1
m25
Fortress quality deserves premium
87 quality score, net cash, negative accruals, OCF>NI, shrinking share count - this legitimately deserves a top-decile multiple, so DCF and even anchored-PE likely understate deserved value modestly.
Rich / priced-in 4
m78
Price 40% above signal-adjusted FV
Composite FV $221 and signal-adjusted $250 vs $410.75 price implies -39% downside on the synthesis. Even the most generous method (anchored-PE $285) leaves the stock ~30% rich.
m70
Priced for luxury-goods perfection
At 2.7x DCF the market is valuing Ferrari like Hermes, requiring sustained double-digit ASP growth, margin expansion beyond 27% op margin, and no cyclical demand hiccup - a heroic stack.
m55
No EPV support
EPV floor of $129 is 68% below price - current earnings power alone provides zero downside cushion; you are paying entirely for future growth and multiple persistence.
m40
Cyclical/EV overhang not in price
China luxury fragility and EV brand-cachet risk are real tail risks that a 40x+ multiple does not discount at all.
I love the business and I have no interest in the stock here. $410 is paying a luxury-goods multiple on top of an already-premium auto multiple - two premiums stacked. Fair value sits in the $230-285 zone even being generous to the brand. I would want it below $260 to get interested and would back up the truck closer to $200. Fortress businesses at fortress-plus prices produce mediocre forward returns; this is a wait-for-your-pitch situation.
Verify before trusting this (5)
  • Order book length and 2025-26 delivery guidance - the core scarcity thesis
  • Personalization/ASP mix trend in latest quarter
  • China region revenue trajectory
  • Capex and FCF conversion through the EV transition (Elettrica launch)
  • Any hint of production cap loosening that would break the scarcity narrative
General Sentiment
+50
Tailwind
tail √Σ 99 · head √Σ 44 · conf 6/10

The pressure on RACE right now is net positive but narrative-dependent. The market is in a mild risk-on regime (score +47, VIX 15.5, S&P near highs), which is a supportive backdrop for a name whose entire premium is a sentiment construct. Ferrari trades as a Hermes-style scarce-luxury cult, and that archetype is exactly what runs well when the tape is calm and buyers are comfortable paying up for 'irreplaceable' compounders. Beta of 0.6 means macro shocks land softly here, so the higher-rates / stretched-PE macro headwind is muted relative to higher-beta cyclicals. Narrative intensity is strong with high cult coefficient, durability only moderate - the story is intact but not bulletproof. Analyst/news flow is quiet and neutral-to-mildly-positive (value-screen comps, an 'overlooked auto upside' piece); nothing is challenging the luxury framing, and no downgrade cycle or narrative crack is visible in the 72h flow. Momentum is strong-positive with low realized vol, which itself feeds the cult bid - low drawdowns reinforce the 'own it forever' framing. Net: a moderate tailwind. The real risk is not today's tape but that the premium is 64% above fundamentals-anchored fair value, so any crack in the luxury narrative (China luxury data, EV-transition doubt, a soft delivery print) would flip this lens quickly. Right now, none of those cracks are showing.

Tailwinds 5
m62
Cult-luxury narrative intact and strong
Archetype is cult-favorite with strong intensity and high cult coefficient - this is the exact story that supports a 2.7x DCF multiple, and nothing in the news flow is challenging it right now.
m45
Risk-on tape suits story stocks
Regime score +47, VIX 15.5, indices near highs - calm/risk-on conditions are when scarce-luxury cult names hold and extend premiums rather than de-rate.
m40
Low beta mutes macro headwind
Beta 0.6 plus a luxury-goods framing (not auto-cyclical framing) means 4.65% 10y and market PE 26 press on RACE far less than on typical high-multiple names.
m35
Quiet, mildly constructive news flow
72h flow is a benign value comp and an 'overlooked upside' auto piece - no downgrades, no narrative attacks, no negative catalysts hitting the tape.
m32
Low-vol grind reinforces the cult
Strong-positive momentum with low realized volatility is self-reinforcing for cult holders - it validates the 'hold forever luxury asset' framing and suppresses selling pressure.
Headwinds 2
m38
Narrative durability only moderate
The story is running well above fundamentals (premium ~64%) with only moderate durability - a China luxury wobble or EV-transition headline could crack sentiment fast, and there is no valuation cushion to absorb it.
m22
Stretched-market macro backdrop
10y at 4.65% and market PE 26 is a mild, ambient headwind for any premium-multiple name - low beta softens but does not erase it.
Net tailwind, but a soft one. The tape is calm, the cult narrative is uncracked, and low beta shields RACE from the ambient rates/PE headwind - all of which supports the premium here. My honest read: this is sentiment-driven levitation, not fundamentals-driven strength, and the same forces that push it up gently now will unwind hard if the luxury story ever wobbles. Today, though, nothing in the flow is challenging it, so I lean tailwind with medium conviction.
Verify before trusting this (4)
  • China UHNW luxury demand prints (Hermes, LVMH, Richemont) as a read-through on the scarcity thesis
  • Any analyst downgrade or target cut that reframes RACE as 'auto' rather than 'luxury'
  • EV transition commentary from management or press - a durability test for the cachet story
  • VIX break above 20 or S&P rolling - would remove the calm-tape support
The market-wide tape + this name's exposure to it (beta / sector / narrative durability). Context on the non-fundamental pressure — not a call on the business or the price. processId: detail-general-sentiment
AI Impact
+42
Mildly favorable - low exposure is the finding
opp √Σ 86 · thr √Σ 0 · conf 7/10

Ferrari's customer is not buying information processing; they are buying a scarce, physically constrained status object with an emotional and collectible payload, so the substitution channel AI normally uses simply is not open. AI reaches the P&L through three narrow doors: R&D productivity (digital twins and simulation replacing prototype iterations, against a company already expanding operating margin from 25% to 29.5%), commercial/CRM and configurator tooling that raises personalization attach — the highest-margin revenue line — and an indirect demand effect as AI-era wealth creation deepens the pool of qualified buyers chasing a fixed supply. The genuine AI-linked risk is competitive rather than operational: cheap engineering intelligence lets EV and Chinese hypercar entrants reach performance parity fast, pushing Ferrari's entire justification onto brand, which is durable but more fragile to generational taste shifts than a technical lead. Net: modest positive, tight distribution.

AI opportunities 8
m39
Underlying Need Persistence
The need is status, emotion and scarce ownership — untouched by cheap cognition.
m29
Solution Persistence
The car-as-object solution persists; the ICE-mystique version of it is the vulnerable part.
m48
Scarcity Migration
As digital output becomes abundant, deliberately capped physical scarcity gets relatively rarer.
m17
Customer DIY Preference
No customer internalizes this function.
m8
AI Intermediation Position
Ferrari picks its customers; agents cannot route around an allocation list.
m14
AI Margin Conversion
Savings likely stick, because price is set by scarcity rather than cost.
m41
Revenue Unit Durability
The monetized unit is a physical car plus personalization — no seats, no hours to compress.
m22
Entrant Compression
AI makes hypercar engineering cheap; it does not make heritage cheap.
AI threats 0

None surfaced.

Low AI exposure is the answer here — Ferrari is one of the few names where cheap intelligence mostly just trims cost and enlarges the buyer pool. Exposure of 26 with position 61 says the AI lens should not be the reason you own or avoid this: the scarce asset is physical, capped and provenance-based, and no agent can route around an allocation list. The real AI-linked risk is competitive drift — cheap engineering intelligence hands EV and Chinese entrants performance parity, pushing 100% of the premium onto brand — so watch personalization revenue per car and order-book length, not AI announcements; those two series will show scarcity erosion long before margins do.
Verify before trusting this (8)
  • Volume discipline vs demand
  • Secondary market price indices
  • Special-series allocation demand
  • Personalization revenue per car
  • Special series and one-off cadence
  • Sponsorship and licensing trend
  • Elettrica order and reception data
  • Mix of manual/visceral models
The structural effect of the AI wave on this specific business over the next ~5 years — demand, cost leverage, moat, barriers to entry, position in the AI stack. The reality beneath the AI story, not the story's market pressure (General Sentiment owns that) — and not a call on the business today or the price.
Growth Outlook
not run

This lens hasn't been run for this ticker yet.

The forward growth verdict — is the business itself likely to grow (next 2 quarters / year 1 / years 2–3), judged against its category and against printed expectations. The full horizon ladder + creme renders on the Growth Outlook card above. Not a call on the price (Valuation owns that) or the tape (Sentiment owns that).
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Lenses kept deliberately separate — Company Quality (price-agnostic), Valuation (price-conditional), General Sentiment (non-fundamental macro/narrative pressure), AI Impact (structural ~5yr AI exposure), and Growth Outlook (the forward growth verdict). The scores are not blended. Filing-level items (convertibles, lock-ups, customer concentration) are v2 — see each lens's "verify."
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