Leonardo S p A : Results at 30 September2020 (Comunicato stampa)

Results at 30 September 2020

Leonardo: positive and effective management in response to the pandemic

• Solid first nine months results, Orders at € 8.5 billion and Revenues at € 9 billion in line with 2019, supported globally by Aircrafts, Helicopters, Electronics Europe and Leonardo DRS, businesses which had a positive EBITA performance
• Strong financial position
• Progress towards 2020 Guidance and strong confidence in business fundamentals

Successfully and effectively reacting to short term challenges with very good results in the current macro environment

• Strong commercial results
• Steady quarter by quarter recovery operationally
• EBITA supported by Aircrafts, Helicopters, Electronics Europe and Leonardo DRS performance
• Solid financial position with no need for refinancing nor extraordinary financial transactions

Solid performance with some impact on FOCF due to COVID-19

• Order intake of € 8.5 billion, flat YoY
• Stable Revenues at € 9 billion
• EBITA at € 497 million, as expected, materially improving quarter by quarter thanks to cost control actions put in place, -28% YoY due to COVID-19 and JV's performance
• FOCF € -2.6 billion, due to both the usual seasonality and negative effects of COVID-19 leading to a significant expected increase in working capital, with a consequent cash absorption due to the shift of cash-ins towards the end of the year due to the postponement of the milestones of activity and delivery of civil machines

Progress towards FY 2020 Guidance

• Orders supported by domestic and international commercial campaigns being finalised
• Revenues supported by solid order backlog and steady progress on programmes
• EBITA supported by productivity recovery and military/governmental and Customer Support & Training across the Group
• Actions aimed at costs control and helping offsetting risks on JV's performance and challenges of Civil business
• Fully focused towards FOCF target achievement
• Detailed actions plan aimed at achieving FOCF target
  Concentration of activities and timing of cash-ins in the last 2 months of the year potentially affected by slowdowns related to further COVID-19 restrictions

Strong confidence in our core business fundamentals and well positioned for the medium- long term

• Significant backlog of € 35 billion
• Military, civil and Customer Support and Training business mix is real strength
• Defence and Security market is growing
• Strong relationships with domestic markets
• Investments in innovation aimed at enhancing skills and product portfolio for the expansion of business opportunities

Leonardo, a global high-technology company, is among the top ten world players in Aerospace, Defence and Security and Italy's main industrial company. Organized into five business divisions, Leonardo has a significant industrial presence in Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland and the USA, where it also operates through subsidiaries such as Leonardo DRS (defense electronics), and joint ventures and partnerships: ATR, MBDA, Telespazio, Thales Alenia Space and Avio. Leonardo competes in the most important international markets by leveraging its areas of technological and product leadership (Helicopters, Aircraft, Aerostructures, Electronics, Cyber Security and Space). Listed on the Milan Stock Exchange (LDO), in 2019 Leonardo recorded consolidated revenues of €13.8 billion and invested €1.5 billion in Research and Development. The Group has been part of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) since 2010 and became Industry leader of Aerospace & Defence sector of DJSI in 2019.

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• Anchored in key international programmes
• Leadership position in key market segments: very high quality products in strong demand and growing Customer Support and Training activities

Rome, 5 November 2020 - Leonardo's Board of Directors, convened today under the Chairmanship of Luciano Carta, examined and unanimously approved the results at 30 September 2020.

Alessandro Profumo, Leonardo CEO, stated "The first nine months results show that we have been promptly responding to 2020 short term challenges, reacting effectively to changing market dynamics. We have taken actions to become more resilient and agile: we have cut costs, prioritised our investment activity without delays on the programmes, reoriented orders from export to domestic receiving strong support from domestic customers, reconfigured production lines to address COVID- 19 restrictions, we have quickly and effectively implemented the so-called smart working, continuing our operations and right-sizing areas of our business in line with demand. We have a solid financial position, strengthened even more by the signing of additional credit facilities in May and the refinancing of 2021 bond: therefore, we have no need to raise capital nor further refinancing debt. We are achieving a steady quarter by quarter recovery operationally. We have strong confidence in our core business strengths and fundamentals in a growing market and we are well positioned for sustainable development in the medium-long term, also providing support to Italy. Our confidence is underpinned by our business mix, our solid order backlog, our core customer relationships, our leadership position in key market segments with high quality products and services, our key role in major international programmes and our innovative drive aimed at identifying new business opportunities".

The results recorded in the first nine months of 2020 confirm the Group's resilience already highlighted in the half-year financial report. This is in a context without precedent, with a commercial performance that confirms the same levels as in the last year benefitting from orders in the government/military sphere from national clients against certain postponements of the export campaigns and the drop in the civil sector demand.

Revenue volumes are essentially in line with those of the first nine months of 2019, supported by a solid Backlog and the growth of the EFA Kuwait programme and of Leonardo DRS, which have been able to offset the slowdowns caused by the pandemic.

The industrial performance, despite being affected by the impact of COVID-19, confirm the efficacy of initiatives implemented to guarantee the steady full recovery of business operations. The profitability is affected also by a lower contribution from the JVs and a mix of activities characterised by programmes under development or in which the Group operates as a prime contractor, with profitability below the average but which are essential to the current and future positioning of the Group's products and technologies.

The cash flows were affected by the shift of cash-ins towards the end of the year due to the postponement of the milestones of activity and delivery of machines as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which entailed an increase in working capital with a consequent cash absorption.

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Key Performance Indicators

	Group			9M 2019		9M 2020			Chg.		Chg. %				FY 2019
	(Euro million)
New orders	8,579	8,510		(69)	(0.8%)		14,105
Order backlog	35,672	34,980		(692)	(1.9%)		36,513
Revenues	9,134	9,025		(109)	(1.2%)		13,784
EBITDA(*)	1,064	866		(198)	(18.6%)		1,817
EBITA (**)	686	497		(189)	(27.6%)		1,251
ROS	7.5%	5.5%			(2.0) p.p.				9.1%
EBIT (***)	648	395		(253)	(39.0%)		1,153
EBIT Margin	7.1%	4.4%			(2.7) p.p.				8.4%
Net result before	367	135		(232)	(63.2%)		722
extraordinary transactions
Net result	465	137		(328)	(70.5%)		822
Group Net Debt	4,301	5,884(****)		1,583	36.8%		2,847
FOCF	(1,217)	(2,596)		(1,379)	(113.3%)		241
ROI	11.4%	7.0%			(4.4) p.p.				16.7%
ROE	10.3%	3.5%			(6.8) p.p.				14.7%
Workforce (no.)	49,234	49,973		739	1.5%		49,530

1. EBITDA this is EBITA before amortisation, depreciation (net of those relating to goodwill or classified among "non-recurring costs") and adjustments impairment.

1. EBITA is obtained by eliminating from EBIT the following items: any impairment in goodwill; amortisation and impairment, if any, of the portion of the purchase price allocated to intangible assets as part of business combinations, restructuring costs that are a part of defined and significant plans; other exceptional costs or income, i.e. connected to particularly significant events that are not related to the ordinary performance of the business.

1. EBIT is obtained by adding to earnings before financial income and expense and taxes and taxes the Group's share of profit in the results of its strategic Joint Ventures (GIE-ATR, MBDA, Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio).

(****) Include acquisition of Kopter Group AG in April with an impact of € 198 mln on the Net Financial Position, increase in new leases for € 153 mln, payment of a dividend of € 81 mln in May and acquisition of an additional amount of Avio shares in June for € 14 mln.

From an operational point of view the initiatives implemented to recover adequate productivity levels and the review of the cost base led to a gradual improvement in results over the months. This is particularly evident from the comparative analysis of the quarterly results compared to the prior year.

In particular, the performance of the third quarter showed, with revenues at similar levels year on year, a recovery in profitability, with an EBITA benefitting from higher industrial productivity and cost containment. This EBITA was also higher than that recorded in the same period of 2019, despite a lower contribution from the JVs.

	First quarter			Second quarter		Third quarter
	2019	2020		Change		2019	2020	Change		2019	2020	Change
New				35.9%				(26.0%)				(1.2%)
orders	2,518	3,421			3,627	2,683		2,434	2,406
Revenue	2,725	2,591		(4.9%)		3,237	3,287	1.5%		3,172	3,147	(0.8%)
EBITA	163	41		(74.8%)		324	251	(22.5%)		199	205	3.0%
ROS	6.0%	1.6%		(4.4) p.p.		10.0%	7.6%	(2.4) p.p.		6.3%	6.5%	0.2 p.p.

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The primary changes that marked the Group's performance compared to the previous year are described below.

Commercial Performance

• New Orders, amounted to EUR 8,510 million, remained substantially in line with the first nine months of 2019. Specifically, the significant increase in the Helicopters (41%) was offset by a decline recorded in the Defence Electronics & Security and Aeronautics, which had benefitted from major new orders during the comparative period
• Backlog, amounted to EUR 34,980 million, ensures a coverage in terms of equivalent production equal to about 2.5 years

Business Performance

• Revenues, amounted to EUR 9,025 million, remained in line with the first nine months of 2019, showing a decline in the Helicopters, mainly due to fewer civil deliveries attributable to the abovementioned effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was offset by expected higher volumes on the EFA Kuwait programme of Aircraft and at Leonardo DRS
• EBITA, amounted to EUR 497 million, (with a ROS of 5.5%) showed a decrease of € 189 mln compared to the comparative period, which was mainly due to the abovementioned effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and characterized by a strong recovery quarter by quarter
• EBIT, amounted to EUR 395 million; compared to the first nine months of 2019 (€ 648 mln), a reduction of € 253 mln (-39%), mainly due to a decrease in EBITA, the recognition of costs incurred to comply with the Government's guidelines on COVID-19, including those for the protection of workers' health and to support the Governmental bodies in managing the emergency, as well as to some external costs incurred because of the inability to stop the performance of certain specific services
• Net Result before extraordinary transactions, amounted to EUR 135 million, was affected by a deterioration of EBITA, as well as by the higher impact of financial costs
• Net Result amounted to € 137 mln included the effects of the space business of Vitrociset, classified among Discontinued Operations. The comparative figure benefitted from the effects of the transaction with Hitachi related to the guarantees given upon the sale of the transportation business of Ansaldobreda S.p.A.
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The increase in the workforce compared to 2019 reflected the consolidation of Kopter Group AG, the inclusion of workers under staff leasing contracts as well as the increase in resources supporting the growth in production volumes of certain areas, in particular at Leonardo DRS.

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Financial performance

• Free Operating Cash Flow (FOCF), negative EUR 2,596 million (against a negative value of €
  1,217 mln in the first nine months of 2019). While confirming the usual interim performance characterised by significant outflows in the first part of the year, this trend was affected mainly by the shift in the fourth quarter of the invoicing and collection milestones and machine deliveries as

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