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RACE · NYSE · Automobile Manufacturer
Ferrari N.V. is one of the world’s most iconic luxury automotive companies, focused on designing, engineering, manufacturing, and selling high-performance sports cars.
Current price
$387.35
▼ −$4.25 (1.09%) today
ET&A View
Last reviewed 15 September 2026
ET&A likes the company but would prefer investors to build exposure gradually.
Ferrari remains one of the highest-quality businesses in global luxury, combining extraordinary brand scarcity, pricing power and customer loyalty with economics that increasingly resemble a luxury-goods company rather than a…
Business Health
Is the business financially healthy?
Yes — healthy
Revenue, earnings, margins, cash generation and the balance sheet stand out.
Overall
Revenue
€7.4bn · ↑ +7% last year
Earnings
€1.6bn · ↑ +5% last year
Margins
Keeps 31% of sales as operating profit
Cash generation
€1.4bn spare cash a year · 19% of sales
Balance sheet
Debt ≈ 0.7 years of earnings
Dividend
1.1% yield · Pays out 39% of earnings · covered 2.6×
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Ferrari remains one of the highest-quality businesses in global luxury, combining extraordinary brand scarcity, pricing power and customer loyalty with economics that increasingly resemble a luxury-goods company rather…
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Reported annual results, newest first · Market data. “Growth” is the change in sales on the year before.
| Year | Revenue | Growth | Operating margin | Net income | EPS | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | €7.1bn | +7.0% | 29.3% | €1.6bn | €8.96 | €1.4bn |
| FY2024 | €6.7bn | +11.8% | 28.2% | €1.5bn | €8.46 | €938m |
| FY2023 | €6.0bn | +17.2% | 27.0% | €1.3bn | €6.90 | €848m |
| FY2022 | €5.1bn | — | 24.0% | €933m | €5.09 | €599m |
Long-term growth investors
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Ferrari N.V. is one of the world’s most iconic luxury automotive companies, focused on designing, engineering, manufacturing, and selling high-performance sports cars. The company is best known for its Ferrari-branded supercars, racing heritage, Formula 1 presence, limited-edition models, and strong association with Italian design, engineering, exclusivity, and performance.
Ferrari’s strength comes from its brand power, pricing discipline, controlled production, loyal customer base, and ability to combine luxury positioning with advanced automotive technology. While its core business remains high-performance cars, the company also benefits from racing, personalisation, lifestyle products, experiences, and long-term demand for scarce luxury assets. As Ferrari invests in hybrid and electric technologies while preserving exclusivity, it remains one of the most distinctive companies in the global luxury and automotive sectors.
Automobile Manufacturer · Italy
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As of 14 October 2026
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| FCF Yield | Members |
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ET&A Score: ET&A's overall assessment of business quality, valuation, growth and risk, out of 10. It weighs business quality, financial strength, growth, valuation, risk, future prospects.
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Highly profitable · Sound · Neutral
Context — not part of the score
Valuation and share-price swings describe the shares, not the company, so they are judged in the ET&A Score and View instead.
Based on the factors that could be measured (45% of the model).
Each area is scored from 0 to 10 on ET&A’s methodology scales — the same ones our research uses — then given a word: Excellent from 8.5, Strong from 7, Good from 5.5, Average from 4.5, Below Average from 3, Weak below 3. The overall answer is the average of the areas we could rate (at least three); the dividend isn’t part of it.
| Area | Based on | Score | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue |
Rated on 3-year average revenue growth, on ET&A's growth scale. | 7.4 / 10 | Strong |
| Earnings |
Rated on 3-year average earnings growth, on ET&A's growth scale. | 8.9 / 10 | Excellent |
| Margins |
The average of operating and net margin, each scored on ET&A's margin scales. A negative margin scores 1 (Weak). | 8.7 / 10 | Excellent |
| Cash generation |
Free cash flow as a share of sales, on ET&A's cash-generation scale. | 9.3 / 10 | Excellent |
| Balance sheet |
Net debt ÷ EBITDA — roughly how many years of operating earnings would repay the debt — on ET&A's leverage scale. | 7.8 / 10 | Strong |
| Dividend |
Dividend yield on ET&A's income scale. Not part of the overall health rating. | 3.2 / 10 | Below Average |
| Overall | Average of the 5 rated areas | 8.4 / 10 | Strong |
Where each band starts on the scales above. They are fixed and identical for every company we cover; they come straight from ET&A’s methodology, so a company is judged the same way here as in our research.
| Measure | Excellent | Strong | Good | Average | Below Average | Weak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GrowthStructural Growth (Fundamental Conviction) | 18%+ | 10%+ | 5.0%+ | 1.7%+ | −2.5%+ | below −2.5% |
| Operating marginCompetitive Position (Fundamental Conviction) | 29%+ | 20%+ | 13%+ | 7.5%+ | 0%+ | below 0% (loss) |
| Net marginEarnings Durability (Fundamental Conviction) | 23%+ | 15%+ | 9.8%+ | 6.0%+ | 0%+ | below 0% (loss) |
| Free-cash-flow marginCapital Allocation (Fundamental Conviction) | 15%+ | 8.5%+ | 3.8%+ | 1.3%+ | −2.5%+ | below −2.5% |
| Net debt ÷ EBITDAStructural Risk (Fundamental Conviction) | net cash | ≤ 1.5× | ≤ 2.8× | ≤ 3.6× | ≤ 5.0× | above 5.0× |
| Return on equity (banks & insurers)Bank and insurer quality | 16%+ | 12%+ | 9.0%+ | 6.7%+ | 2.7%+ | below 2.7% |
| Equity ÷ assetsBank capital | 7.5%+ | 6.0%+ | 4.7%+ | 4.0%+ | any | — |
| Dividend yieldIncome factor (ET&A Quant Score) | 5.8%+ | 4.0%+ | 2.5%+ | 1.8%+ | 1.0%+ | below 1.0% |
Band floors: Excellent 8.5 · Strong 7 · Good 5.5 · Average 4.5 · Below Average 3 (scores out of 10). Utilities and property companies’ structural debt is scored 6.5, as in ET&A’s risk model.
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