January 2023 Vidcast // Mobileye, from NYSE to NASDAQ
A company that keeps its eyes on the road
Mobileye, a company founded in 1999 by Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Amnon Shashua, has become a provider of automotive safety technologies based on adding “intelligence” to inexpensive cameras for commercialization.
Following the announcement by the company, now controlled by Intel, in January 2023 of the remarkable successes of the past year, Professor Jacquet was inspired to paint a financial picture.
He explores the importance of research and development as a crucial investment in corporate evolution.
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Hello and welcome to this vidcast which is
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devoted to a prominent actor of a very important
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industry Mobility autonomous vehicle
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the name of the company's mobile. I
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and a title of the vidkasis from nice
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to NASDAQ. Why because I'm
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going to observe this company at two
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very important moments of IT industry
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and financial an economic life when the
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company is first listed on a New York Stock Exchange in
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2014. And when the company is back on
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the market NASDAQ in 2022.
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Mobile I was created in 1999 at
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the top of the internet bubble by
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a professor of the Hebrew University
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of Jerusalem professor. Amnon shashwah.
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He invented and developed a vision system a
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system is a combination of toastings. In fact,
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you have a camera and you have an algorithm.
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The camera is capturing the data
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on the algorithm is interpreting the
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data.
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The company is going to be incorporated in a Netherlands, even
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though R&D and business operations are
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located in Israel.
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The company's operating in an industry, which is named Adas which
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stands for Advance driving assistance
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systems against about Mobility.
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It's about the autonomous vehicle.
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A system means that you have a device which
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is combined with a software.
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The device is a camera is a leader Etc
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something which is capturing data a
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leader stands for a laser which calculates a
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distance of an object.
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static and dynamic
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once you got the data, it's absolutely fundamental. That's
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a software allows real-time analysis
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and interpretation of
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the data as quickly as possible to be
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able to take decisions in the car. It's about
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pattern recognitions about movements. You
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have to take decisions very quickly Based on data.
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There are plenty of actors in this business and they
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are very strong and credible actors common factories
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OEM South Korea Hyundai suppliers
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in Japan Denso linked
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to Toyota. I've seen Seiki Bosch
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on Continental in Germany value in France
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otolive in Sweden, but there are also
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some actors which are not directly linked with
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the car industry Panasonic, which is a Japanese
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conglomerate and producing air conditioning
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system and refrigerators and mobile. I
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the objective is the full
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autonomy.
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Five levels of autonomy have been
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defined as a six one, which is no autonomy at
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all. Of course, but five main levels the Holy
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Grail is there is absolutely no driver in
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the cars. This is level 5
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you just have people who are driven from one place to the other
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and the car is driving without drivers. There
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are plenty of debate all we will
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never be able to achieve this level or it will
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be tomorrow whatsoever. Forget about these debates. What is
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the reality today? The reality today is level
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three. So you are the driver you have
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to be in the car, but you can let go this cheering
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well.
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Still you have to be able to stay in control
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and take the control of the car. Is there something
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a little bit strange which is happening in front of you.
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You know what? This is perfect for traffic jams. The speed
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is quite slow. You don't change move from
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one lane to the other. The risk of collision is
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relatively limited and this is
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about level three, which is extremely useful.
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There are plenty of applications of others to
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autonomous mobility and many of them are already
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in your car speed control parking assistance
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the warning maybe
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you're not looking at the road and you are changing
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Lane and you have a warning system which tells
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you hey, are you sure it works emergency braking
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if something is happening, which was not expected a
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warning again for potential Collision.
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No, mobile eyes producing products and services.
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The products but IQ which is a single sensor
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camera which fits which each and
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every level of the autonomy. It's about
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other services.
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But there are other services for example if there
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is a mobile Eye camera
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in your car the camera is going
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to take some information about the road on which
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you're driving.
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And then the company's accumulating plenty of
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data in order to produce Maps.
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In 2021, they say we have information about 7.5
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billion kilometers of roads and
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highways and so on so forth on the planet.
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A third one, which is quite interesting. It's a model responsibility
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sensitive model.
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This is about setting unemploymenting rules of prudent
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driving.
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And this is very important because when the car
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is taking a decision because there's an
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unexpected event, which is happening in front of
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you.
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What will be the prioritization in the decision-making process,
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you know, if a decision is taken
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it might be at the expense of the driver or
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the people who are in the car. It might
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be at the expense of the people who are outside the
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car. How do you make the prioritization? This is
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very important. It's about responsibility sensitive model
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truly a fundamental issue.
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Some other products about true redundancy. It's Integrated Systems
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with all the cameras leaders Radars and
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so on so forth, etc, etc. So the company is very
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much a pure player in this industry and he's doing quite well.
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If you look at the evolution of the financing of the company and it's
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financing credibility.
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We got plenty of data from the traditional
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database crunch base Mobile ice
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created in 1999 at the
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very beginning. You need a little bit of money, which is a traditional family
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falls on Friends. Well the first
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step which is a little bit serious is in 2006.
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Now you start moving from software development
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to a little bit of manufacturing and so
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on. It's about 15 million dollars local financing.
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The year after the Monet spent 2007 100
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million dollars and it will
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come from Goldman's ax who's a premonite valuation of 500 million
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premoney means evaluation of
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the company before you inject cash postmoney's 500
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plus 10600. So golden
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Sachs has invested 100 out of 600 which
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is about 17% of the shares of the
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company, which is quite significant.
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The Monet spent and in 20-13, there's an
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additional need now of 400 million
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Goldman Sachs is going to contribute together with another
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Investment Bank Morgan Stanley and through
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one of its numerous agencies the
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Chinese state, but now the Primal evaluation is 1.5 billion
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compared with the postmoney
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of 600 million a few years before.
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2013-2014 now
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the IPO on the New York Stock Exchange premon evaluation
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4.4 billion three times as
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much.
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And the amount of cash which is going to be collected is 890
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million.
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The lead the leaders investment bankers who are going
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to lead the operations are obviously the investment Banks
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which are shareholders called and Zach and Morgan
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Stanley.
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If you look at the financial ID of mobile, I
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in 2013. This is the last full year
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before the IPO in 2014 revenues at
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the company is not a dream. It's selling good
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services and products about 80 81
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million dollars and the gross
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is fantastic. The company's doubling its revenues
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each and every year 100% per year from 20 to
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40 from 40 to 80.
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The company's profitable the operating income the
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income from operation. The ebit is 15 million,
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of course, it was zero in 2012, but
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now we have reached Beyond Break Even situation
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and we are making a profit.
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They'd be done which is a cash operating profit.
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It starts from eBay. Then you add the
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Precision amortization and you add again another non-cash
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item, which is stock based compensation
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stock options and so on so forth
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it be done adjusted is 30 million
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dollars now with the ebida you
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pay the capex capex less than three million. So you
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understand that the company's generating a free cash flow,
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which is absolutely huge Beyond Simple accounting
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profitability because the company's generating
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a profit which past ten times industrial investment. This
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is why the company is Cash Rich 224 million
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dollars of cash. We know that in the balance sheet.
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The metrics for the valuation are quite stratospheric 52
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years of revenues and 140
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years of Abida. Okay, that's
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quite high. But the gross potential
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of the company's huge and a company is not generating
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losses. The company is generating accounting profits and
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is generating plenty of positive free cash flow.
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It justifies more as a multiples.
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Now the company's going to be listed for its
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first listing during three years last full year
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2016 revenues not plus
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100% per year plus 50% period
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Which is less but still quite High revenues in
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three years are going to be multiplied by 4.5 which is
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now 3508 million dollars
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it be down skyrocketing not multiplied
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by 4.5 multiplied by 6.3 now
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190 million when Capital
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expenditures are about 11 million. So
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the free cash flow is great and the company is piling
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up cash. No that 600 and 30
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million dollars Intel is going to buy the mobile. I
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shares for 63 Point 54 dollars.
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We are in 2017 when the
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company was listed in 2014 the stock
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price. The issue price was $25. So
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good job for shareholders.
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What about the metrics of the multiples not 50 but
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41 years of revenues not 140, but
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still 78 years of a bit
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down. Now a few comments about R&D. We
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are in a high-tech firm in the
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high-tech from you invest a lot in
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research and development. What are the metrics in 2013 when
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the company is listed you remember
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revenues 81 million dollars, what about research and
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development expenses 22 million. So it's
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a bit more than one quarter of their revenues 27%
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in 2016 revenues
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are skyrocketing multiplied
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by 4.5 but are in these multiplied by
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three. What does it mean for the company? It
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means that it's not investing anymore 27% of its
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revenues. It is investing more in R&D, but
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less as a percentage to revenues 18%
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there are two possible interpretations of this
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reduction in the ratio. The first
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one is okay. We invest a lot in research
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and development but as sales and revenues are very
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much growing as a percentage to
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revenue. It's less. It does not mean that we don't invest
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we invest a lot but we generate even
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more sales. This is named economies of scale.
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There's another potential interpretation, which is under investment.
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When you are listed companies a financial analyst
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they are looking at your a bit dub.
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If you keep on investing a lot in research on development, but
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less as a percentage to revenue you're a bit that is
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going to be up as a percentage to revenue. This is mechanical stuff.
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And so it's a very big question is which interpretation is
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valid. I don't know.
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but what I know is how Intel is
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going to transform mobile I
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You remember in 2016 when the company is
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delisted revenue 358 R&D 65
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million in 2021 the
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last full year before the company is back to
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the market. NASDAQ revenues are almost 1.4
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billion.
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That's a dramatic increase compared to the revenues a
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five years before but now R&D is
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not 18% of Revenue. It's 39%
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of our news 540 4
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million dollars. It has nothing to
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be compared with 65 million.
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Thank you very much.
Hello and welcome to this vidcast which is devoted to a prominent actor of a very important industry Mobility autonomous vehicle the name of the company's mobile.
I and a title of the vidkasis from nice to NASDAQ.
Why because I'm going to observe this company at two very important moments of IT industry and financial an economic life when the company is first listed on a New York Stock Exchange in 2014.
And when the company is back on the market NASDAQ in 2022.
Mobile I was created in 1999 at the top of the internet bubble by a professor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor.
Amnon shashwah.
He invented and developed a vision system a system is a combination of toastings.
In fact, you have a camera and you have an algorithm.
The camera is capturing the data on the algorithm is interpreting the data.
The company is going to be incorporated in a Netherlands, even though R&D and business operations are located in Israel.
The company's operating in an industry, which is named Adas which stands for Advance driving assistance systems against about Mobility.
It's about the autonomous vehicle.
A system means that you have a device which is combined with a software.
The device is a camera is a leader Etc something which is capturing data a leader stands for a laser which calculates a distance of an object.
static and dynamic once you got the data, it's absolutely fundamental.
That's a software allows real-time analysis and interpretation of the data as quickly as possible to be able to take decisions in the car.
It's about pattern recognitions about movements.
You have to take decisions very quickly Based on data.
There are plenty of actors in this business and they are very strong and credible actors common factories OEM South Korea Hyundai suppliers in Japan Denso linked to Toyota.
I've seen Seiki Bosch on Continental in Germany value in France otolive in Sweden, but there are also some actors which are not directly linked with the car industry Panasonic, which is a Japanese conglomerate and producing air conditioning system and refrigerators and mobile.
I the objective is the full autonomy.
Five levels of autonomy have been defined as a six one, which is no autonomy at all.
Of course, but five main levels the Holy Grail is there is absolutely no driver in the cars.
This is level 5 you just have people who are driven from one place to the other and the car is driving without drivers.
There are plenty of debate all we will never be able to achieve this level or it will be tomorrow whatsoever.
Forget about these debates.
What is the reality today? The reality today is level three.
So you are the driver you have to be in the car, but you can let go this cheering well.
Still you have to be able to stay in control and take the control of the car.
Is there something a little bit strange which is happening in front of you.
You know what? This is perfect for traffic jams.
The speed is quite slow.
You don't change move from one lane to the other.
The risk of collision is relatively limited and this is about level three, which is extremely useful.
There are plenty of applications of others to autonomous mobility and many of them are already in your car speed control parking assistance the warning maybe you're not looking at the road and you are changing Lane and you have a warning system which tells you hey, are you sure it works emergency braking if something is happening, which was not expected a warning again for potential Collision.
No, mobile eyes producing products and services.
The products but IQ which is a single sensor camera which fits which each and every level of the autonomy.
It's about other services.
But there are other services for example if there is a mobile Eye camera in your car the camera is going to take some information about the road on which you're driving.
And then the company's accumulating plenty of data in order to produce Maps.
In 2021, they say we have information about 7.5 billion kilometers of roads and highways and so on so forth on the planet.
A third one, which is quite interesting.
It's a model responsibility sensitive model.
This is about setting unemploymenting rules of prudent driving.
And this is very important because when the car is taking a decision because there's an unexpected event, which is happening in front of you.
What will be the prioritization in the decision-making process, you know, if a decision is taken it might be at the expense of the driver or the people who are in the car.
It might be at the expense of the people who are outside the car.
How do you make the prioritization? This is very important.
It's about responsibility sensitive model truly a fundamental issue.
Some other products about true redundancy.
It's Integrated Systems with all the cameras leaders Radars and so on so forth, etc, etc.
So the company is very much a pure player in this industry and he's doing quite well.
If you look at the evolution of the financing of the company and it's financing credibility.
We got plenty of data from the traditional database crunch base Mobile ice created in 1999 at the very beginning.
You need a little bit of money, which is a traditional family falls on Friends.
Well the first step which is a little bit serious is in 2006.
Now you start moving from software development to a little bit of manufacturing and so on.
It's about 15 million dollars local financing.
The year after the Monet spent 2007 100 million dollars and it will come from Goldman's ax who's a premonite valuation of 500 million premoney means evaluation of the company before you inject cash postmoney's 500 plus 10600.
So golden Sachs has invested 100 out of 600 which is about 17% of the shares of the company, which is quite significant.
The Monet spent and in 20-13, there's an additional need now of 400 million Goldman Sachs is going to contribute together with another Investment Bank Morgan Stanley and through one of its numerous agencies the Chinese state, but now the Primal evaluation is 1.5 billion compared with the postmoney of 600 million a few years before.
2013-2014 now the IPO on the New York Stock Exchange premon evaluation 4.4 billion three times as much.
And the amount of cash which is going to be collected is 890 million.
The lead the leaders investment bankers who are going to lead the operations are obviously the investment Banks which are shareholders called and Zach and Morgan Stanley.
If you look at the financial ID of mobile, I in 2013.
This is the last full year before the IPO in 2014 revenues at the company is not a dream.
It's selling good services and products about 80 81 million dollars and the gross is fantastic.
The company's doubling its revenues each and every year 100% per year from 20 to 40 from 40 to 80.
The company's profitable the operating income the income from operation.
The ebit is 15 million, of course, it was zero in 2012, but now we have reached Beyond Break Even situation and we are making a profit.
They'd be done which is a cash operating profit.
It starts from eBay.
Then you add the Precision amortization and you add again another non-cash item, which is stock based compensation stock options and so on so forth it be done adjusted is 30 million dollars now with the ebida you pay the capex capex less than three million.
So you understand that the company's generating a free cash flow, which is absolutely huge Beyond Simple accounting profitability because the company's generating a profit which past ten times industrial investment.
This is why the company is Cash Rich 224 million dollars of cash.
We know that in the balance sheet.
The metrics for the valuation are quite stratospheric 52 years of revenues and 140 years of Abida.
Okay, that's quite high.
But the gross potential of the company's huge and a company is not generating losses.
The company is generating accounting profits and is generating plenty of positive free cash flow.
It justifies more as a multiples.
Now the company's going to be listed for its first listing during three years last full year 2016 revenues not plus 100% per year plus 50% period Which is less but still quite High revenues in three years are going to be multiplied by 4.5 which is now 3508 million dollars it be down skyrocketing not multiplied by 4.5 multiplied by 6.3 now 190 million when Capital expenditures are about 11 million.
So the free cash flow is great and the company is piling up cash.
No that 600 and 30 million dollars Intel is going to buy the mobile.
I shares for 63 Point 54 dollars.
We are in 2017 when the company was listed in 2014 the stock price.
The issue price was $25.
So good job for shareholders.
What about the metrics of the multiples not 50 but 41 years of revenues not 140, but still 78 years of a bit down.
Now a few comments about R&D.
We are in a high-tech firm in the high-tech from you invest a lot in research and development.
What are the metrics in 2013 when the company is listed you remember revenues 81 million dollars, what about research and development expenses 22 million.
So it's a bit more than one quarter of their revenues 27% in 2016 revenues are skyrocketing multiplied by 4.5 but are in these multiplied by three.
What does it mean for the company? It means that it's not investing anymore 27% of its revenues.
It is investing more in R&D, but less as a percentage to revenues 18% there are two possible interpretations of this reduction in the ratio.
The first one is okay.
We invest a lot in research and development but as sales and revenues are very much growing as a percentage to revenue.
It's less.
It does not mean that we don't invest we invest a lot but we generate even more sales.
This is named economies of scale.
There's another potential interpretation, which is under investment.
When you are listed companies a financial analyst they are looking at your a bit dub.
If you keep on investing a lot in research on development, but less as a percentage to revenue you're a bit that is going to be up as a percentage to revenue.
This is mechanical stuff.
And so it's a very big question is which interpretation is valid.
I don't know.
but what I know is how Intel is going to transform mobile I You remember in 2016 when the company is delisted revenue 358 R&D 65 million in 2021 the last full year before the company is back to the market.
NASDAQ revenues are almost 1.4 billion.
That's a dramatic increase compared to the revenues a five years before but now R&D is not 18% of Revenue.
It's 39% of our news 540 4 million dollars.
It has nothing to be compared with 65 million.
The consequence is what when you increase the R&D to sales figure from 18 to 39 you increase an expense by 21 percent then you reduce it be done.
And the Ebates which was positive is now a little bit negative minus 57 they beat that which was absolutely stratospheric is just a little bit positive plus 57 the fact that it's the same figure is a pure coincidence.
But then you understand that the company's investing more but is generating less as a profit.
We have the figures for the first nine months of 2022 you remember in 2021 revenues 1.4 billion R&D 39% of revenues.
What about the first three quarters of 2022 revenues 1.3 billion? So about the same as 2020 1:39 months you're on your represents an increase of 27% which is no more 100% no more 50% but it's still quite growing.
And now R&D is not the 544 for 12 months.
It's 565 for nine months and it's no more 39% of revenues.
It's 43% of revenues.
It's for the last three quarters.
If you take the last quarter Q3 2022, it's even 51% of revenues.
So you understand that the company is not investing anymore 1/5 of its revenues.
It's investing one half of its revenues.
It's dramatically changing.
But what is the consequence a bit is a little bit negative he beta is a little bit positive and that's it.
We are back to a kind of break even why because we are intensifying investments which are costs expenses in a p&l.
And what about the free cash flow? You remember when I was telling you that they beat that was paying ten times the capacity.
No, they'd be that does not pay any more the capex.
It'd be done minus capex, which is a simplified version of the free cash flow is minus 11 million.
Okay, it's close to zero and it's not really an issue.
But you understand that the company's metrics.
I've completely changed why.
Because the market is growing the market is a huge potential.
There are some expectations and four cars about the market which are more less credible.
I would say today the market is about 20 billion dollar market some people considers that in 2030.
It's going to be between 50 billion and 100 billion huge potential and even 20 35 20 40, maybe 300 400 billion dollars.
So you understand that you have to invest to grasp your opportunity of his youth potential but the competition is extremely credible and you have to cope with that.
This competition is creating an economic obligation.
We are competing on technology and these are Big names with Deep Pockets.
So it's companies have demonstrated their constant technological commitment and the ability to have an adopt a long term perspective a company like boss is not listed stock market.
It's owned by a foundation.
They don't publish figures.
And they do what they want with the money of the company.
Including investing for the long run and the technological leadership.
In this context mobile I a few days ago early January 2023 made an announcement and they said because we've been very successful commercially and technologically we've been able to reach some design wins.
And only the one we achieved in 2022 are going to generate 17 billion dollars of revenues from 2023 to 2030 in eight years.
It's represents more than two billion dollars per year.
You remember in 2021 revenues where 1.4 and we already have in the books to billion period during the next eight years.
That's a great return on R&D investment and the market like that.
If you look at the evolution of mobile, I and its correlation with NASDAQ.
The company is back to the market at the end of October from and of October to beginning of December's as a perfect correlation between mobile I and NASDAQ and then as a consequence of the results of the first nine months mobile I is going to go up and as dark is not going to go up so much.
There will be a decrease in the stock price in the early days of January 2023 because some people are taking their benefits as if it's a consequence of the announcement.
I was just telling you is the stock price is a beginner who's a company who's on surprise value is now 28 billion dollars.
So very significant company R&D went up from 20% to 50% of revenues.
And why do you have to do so because you want to become but you want to remain a technological leader in an extremely promising industry.
But the consequence is in a short run is that you have to reinvest 100% of your profit in keeping remaining a technological leader.
You have to invest in your leadership.
What is a consequence on the free cash flow yesterday, you were generating plenty of positive free cash flow.
Now you generate nothing you generate nothing in the short run.
Why because you're creating the long term the one slide which I always present in my films in my lectures conferences.
And in my teaching activity is the reprint of the letter to shareholders 1997 Amazon some statements are absolutely phenomato.
It's all about the long term.
Why do we do we don't spend we invest we take continuously investment decisions.
Why because we want to reach and we want to remain long-term Market leaders.
That's absolutely phenomenal even though the short-term profit.
Negatively affected by that we have to invest and invest and invest for long-term Market leadership considerations forget about the short-term profitability and forget about the short-term Wall Street reaction.
In fact, if you look at mobile, I an Amazon yesterday, but mobile I the reaction of worst.
It is quite positive Wall Street knows that R&D is an investment.
Each and every investment has to generate a return on investment and you have to invest a lot why because competition is very powerful and is very active and is very credible and today the markets.
I love your idea of investing in order to be a technological leader.
But the consequence is a free cash flow is now today.
Is it supposed to be near tomorrow? Well, there's a moment where the free cash flow will have to turn positive so that you can return cash to your shareholders who whatever BuyBacks or dividends and so on so forth.
Today the markets are quite patient because they know that you're building something how long are capital markets going to stay patient.
This is something which is absolutely no and very interesting to observe.
Thank you very much.