Rivian (RIVN) earnings This fall 2022

Rivian electrical pickup vehicles sit in a parking zone at a Rivian service middle on Might 09, 2022 in South San Francisco, California. 

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Electrical automobile startup Rivian Automotive reported combined fourth-quarter earnings and a lackluster manufacturing outlook after the bell Tuesday.

Shares of Rivian had been down by roughly 8% throughout afterhours buying and selling. The inventory closed Tuesday at $19.30 a share, up 4.6% for the session.

Here is how Rivian carried out within the interval, in contrast with analysts’ estimates as compiled by Refinitiv:

Adjusted loss per share: $1.73 vs $1.94 estimatedRevenue: $663 million vs. $742.4 million estimated

The corporate reported an adjusted loss earlier than revenue, taxes, depreciation and amortization of almost $5.2 billion in 2022, narrower than steering of a $5.4 billion loss in November.

For 2023, Rivian forecast automobile manufacturing of fifty,000 automobiles. That will be roughly double final 12 months’s quantity however beneath expectations of roughly 60,000, as estimated by a number of Wall Road analysts.

“Provide chain continues to be the principle limiting issue of our manufacturing; through the quarter we encountered a number of days of misplaced manufacturing attributable to provider shortages. We count on provide chain challenges to persist into 2023 however with higher predictability relative to what was skilled in 2022,” the corporate stated in its letter to shareholders.

Rivian stated it expects to realize a optimistic gross revenue in 2024. Rivian’s web loss for the fourth quarter was $1.7 billion, a narrower loss than the $2.5 billion it reported a 12 months earlier.

The outcomes comply with tough instances for the electrical automobile startup which have included slower-than-expected manufacturing, surprising pricing stress and plans to put off 6% of its workforce in a bid to preserve money.

Rivian is specializing in ramping up manufacturing of its R1 truck and SUV in addition to an electrical supply van it builds for Amazon, its largest particular person shareholder.

As of the tip of final 12 months, the corporate had about $12.1 billion in money remaining, down from $13.8 billion on the finish of the third quarter and $15.5 billion as of June 30. Capital expenditures for the fourth quarter had been $294 million, as in comparison with $455 million for a similar interval final 12 months.

Rivian stated whereas inflation has been a think about its provide chain, it’ll proceed to take steps to ramp up manufacturing and scale back materials prices by slimming down its engineering and automobile design, together with business cost-down efforts.

The corporate’s forthcoming R2 mannequin, for instance, will use a simplified meeting and sourcing course of to realize “a meaningfully decrease price construction,” CEO RJ Scaringe stated on an analyst name following the report. He added that the automaker is “in a really totally different place with our provide chain right now” relative to a 12 months in the past, which is able to assist the corporate execute on extra “aggressive price and pricing” measures.

“It will not essentially be a linear path over the course of the subsequent a number of quarters however we’ll begin to see these impacts as early as Q1 as we begin to scale back the fabric prices in our automobiles and the know-how introductions,” stated CFO Claire McDonough.

—CNBC’s Phil LeBeau contributed to this report.