Pak Suzuki Motor Company Limited, which is the largest player in Pakistan’s automobile industry, has announced its financial results for the third quarter of CY 2020.
The company reported a loss of Rs. 136.38 million during the quarter, showing a recovery of 88.30% as compared with the same period last year. The car manufacturing firm booked a loss of Rs. 1.16 billion in the same quarter in 2019, according to a notice sent to the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Tuesday due to declining sales volume.
However, multiple price hikes cushioned the impact.
This takes the nine-month losses to Rs. 2.59 billion as compared to a loss of Rs. 2.68 billion last year, a decrease of 3.40% year on year.
However, it is pertinent to mention that Pak Suzuki Motors has declared its 8th consecutive quarter in loss.
The company posted a 12% decline in revenues for the quarter which stood at Rs. 22.60 billion as compared with Rs. 25.63 billion in the same period last year. The drop in revenues was due to a 24.50% year on year drop in vehicle sales due to lower Alto sales and the absence of Mehran. The company sold 17,485 units as compared to 23,147 units in the same period last year. This is due to stiff completion from Kia (Picanto), United Bravo & Prince Pearl.
| Models | Q3 2020 (Jul-Sep) | Q3 2019 (July-Sep) | Difference |
| Swift | 630 | 524 | 20.23% |
| Cultus | 3,263 | 3,598 | -9.31% |
| Wagon R | 2,460 | 2,168 | 13.47% |
| Mehran | – | 1,249 | – |
| Bolan | 1,758 | 1,106 | 59% |
| Alto | 7,651 | 12,943 | -41% |
| Ravi | 1,723 | 1,559 | -10.52% |
| Total | 17,485 | 23,147 | -24.50% |
The cost of sales of the company came down by 17.13% to Rs. 21.43 billion as compared to Rs. 25.86 billion. The gross profits of the company were reported at Rs. 1.16 billion compared to a gross loss of Rs. 232 million recorded in 2019.
There was a drop in the cost of sales despite a 5.6% year on year PKR devaluation. The buildup of lower-cost inventory in preceding quarters resulted in the drop.
The company’s gross margins rose by 6.1ppts YoY from – 0.9% in Q3 CY19 to 5.2% in Q3 CY20. The elevated margins could be due to the company completely passing on the impact to the consumers.
The administrative and selling expenses cumulatively stood at Rs. 444 million, 3.70% lower as a result of better control of administrative costs during the quarter. Moreover, other income saw a healthy 2.5x rise to Rs. 125 million for the quarter as compared to Rs. 49.77 million.
Aggressive deleveraging was with the finance cost of the company as it dropped by 19.58% to Rs. 457.99 million as compared to Rs. 383.84 million.
The loss per share of the company came down to Rs. 1.66 from Rs. 14.11. PMSC’s share at the bourse closed at Rs 206.89, down by Rs. 1.32 or 0.63%, with a turnover of 530,800 shares on Tuesday.
It bears mentioning that, as per the monthly report shared by Pakistan Automotive Manufacturer’s Association (PAMA), PSMC has been recording poor sales figures on a Year-on-Year (YoY) basis for the past 2 consecutive months and in September, one of their hottest selling cars i.e. the Cultus recorded a massive sales decline of 29% on a Month on Month (MoM) basis and 44% on a Year on Year (YoY) basis.
And in another recent, rather unfortunate development, Pak Suzuki Motor Company (PSMC) discontinued the Ciaz sedan in Pakistan because it failed miserably to capture the Pakistani market for a number of reasons.
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Apart from that, there is the bland product lineup that hasn’t seen any significant betterment in years, yet it still continues to go through multiple price hikes every year. All of the aforementioned elements are slowly contributing to a decline in PSMC’s ‘once’ bulletproof popularity.
With additional input by Waleed Shah
They can show 1000% loss in Pakistan but the fact is they are using imported parts and the profits to buy/import those parts have already been sent to other countries. They are just trying to justify high prices on their cars.
Its time for SUZUKI to post realistic prices …….. as they have been living in imaginary world of stupendous prices Hikes……
SUZUKI GS150SE MERI BIKE 164K KI RETAIL HAI MARKET PRICE 207K HAI
AUR KITNA KAMANA CHAHTA HAI YE SUZUKI/….
inshaAllah they will go bankrupt , this was going to happen before but govt kept buying green taxis from them which made them stay afloat
Pak Suzuki company sell vehicles on very high price as compared to other imported vehicles including import taxes.
They have to change their selling plan and should provide vehicles on lower prices. Then they can go for high profit.
Pak Suzuki should increase 1 million on all cars to counter the loss.
Allah barkat daye Loss Mai
Prices har mahinay do mahinay mai bar raha hai suzuki, quality takkay ki nhn, phir bhi nuksan ho raha hai, behter ho ga band karey business apna, moka miley or companies ko ta k koi fahida ho logo ko bhi
I am quite sure that Suzuki is posting losses to save on taxes etc, something sinister is going on, it is not possible to be in loss after selling literal crap for sky high prices. An independent third party audit will definitely reveal hanky panky