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Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-06Eve Holding, Inc. Q1 2026 Earnings Call Summary
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Eve Holding, Inc. Q1 2026 Earnings Call Summary
The engineering prototype successfully completed 59 flights, validating 130 performance points and confirming that predictive models for flight behavior are reliable and precise. Management utilized a 'building block' approach to design and testing, breaking complex systems into smaller units to ensure maturity before full aircraft integration. Performance results for motor thrust and battery performance exceeded internal expectations, while noise and vibration levels aligned with initial projections. The company is leveraging its relationship with Embraer to implement a lean philosophy, targeting significant operational efficiencies across R&D, SG&A, and industrialization. Strategic engagement with helicopter operators at VERTICON aims to position eVTOLs as a short-term commercial opportunity for early adopters in urban air mobility. The preorder backlog of 2,700 aircraft provides a diverse customer base across missions like sightseeing, organ transportation, and last-mile logistics. Certification and entry into service are now targeted for 2028 to allow for 12 months of flight testing with conforming vehicles starting in 2027. Management expects to achieve $100 million to $150 million in incremental synergies with Embraer between 2026 and 2028, extending the cash runway without new funding. The transition flight phase will begin in Q2/Q3 2026, progressively increasing speeds until the aircraft reaches wing-borne flight above 85 knots. Production of conforming prototypes is scheduled to begin in early 2027, with a target cadence of delivering one prototype per month up to six units. The 2026 cash burn guidance remains at $225 million to $275 million, excluding the impact of newly identified potential synergies. Ground effect behavior during flight tests deviated slightly from models, though loads remained within expectations and helped refine engineering simulations. The company formally applied for a type certificate with EASA, expanding its regulatory engagement beyond Brazilian (ANAC) and U.S. (FAA) authorities. Binding agreements now include Pre-Delivery Payments (PDPs), with management anticipating collections of 30% to 40% of aircraft value prior to delivery. A new 5-year $150 million loan raised in January 2026 contributed to a record total liquidity position of $578 million. Synergies stem from a workshop involving 200 people across four areas: Eve'...
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-06EVE Q1 Earnings Call Highlights
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EVE Q1 Earnings Call Highlights
Flight-test progress and certification outlook: The engineering prototype has completed 59 flights (nearly 2.5 hours) and validated ~130 performance points including an autoland feature, and Eve is moving from hover testing to ground integration and transition flights with certification and entry into service now more likely in 2028. Strong commercial interest and Vector development: Eve reports a pre-order backlog of ~$13.5 billion for ~2,700 aircraft and has two binding orders totaling about $500 million, while its Vector air-traffic-management module has been delivered and tested with customers like Revo. Healthy liquidity and cost plans: Eve ended Q1 with a record cash balance of $441 million and total liquidity of $578 million, which management says should fund operations through 2028; Q1 cash consumption was $69 million and 2026 burn is guided to $225–$275 million, with planned Embraer synergies of $100–$150 million over three years. Interested in Eve Holding, Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. Amazon Bets Big on BETA: Why Analysts See 50% Upside EVE (NYSE:EVEX) executives on the company’s first-quarter 2026 earnings call highlighted progress in flight testing for its full-scale engineering prototype, ongoing certification work with regulators, and a strengthened liquidity position that management said should fund operations through 2028. CEO Johann Bordais said the quarter marked an important period following the “inaugural flight” of Eve’s engineering prototype last December. Since that first flight, Bordais said the prototype has completed 59 flights and logged “nearly two and a half hours in the air,” including multiple days with two flights, while completing all planned hover-phase objectives. → 3 Emerging Markets ETFs to Maximize Exposure to High-Potential Countries Flying Cars and Rising Bars: The 2026 eVTOL Breakout Begins Bordais emphasized that the test program is focused on both pace and depth of validation. He said Eve’s engineers have already validated 130 different performance points, with the aircraft reaching 215 feet above ground and moving forward at 30 knots. He added that the company has begun introducing more complex in-air maneuvers and fully tested an “autoland feature” controlled by the fly-by-wire system. According to Bordais, the flight campaign has produced “meaningful knowledge gain,” including confirmation that pred...
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-05Eve Holding, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2026 Results
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Eve Holding, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2026 Results
MELBOURNE, Fla., May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Eve Holding, Inc. ("Eve") (NYSE: EVEX and EVEXW / B3: EVEB31) reports its first quarter 2026 earnings results. Financial Highlights Eve Air Mobility is an aerospace company dedicated to developing an eVTOL (electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft and the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) ecosystem. This includes aircraft development, Services & Support solutions like Eve TechCareᆴ and Eve Vectorᆴ, an Urban Air Traffic Management system. Eve is pre-operational. We do not expect meaningful revenue, if any, during the aircraft development phase. Financial results during this period are expected to be driven mainly by program development costs. Eve reported a net loss of $68.8 million in 1Q26 versus $48.8 million in 1Q25. The higher net loss in 1Q26 was mainly due to increased Research & Development expenses. These costs and activities are necessary to advance our suite of UAM products and solutions, including the Master Service Agreement (MSA) with Embraer. R&D expenses were $59.1 million in 1Q26 compared to $44.7 million in 1Q25. This increase reflects the intensifying R&D activity, including eVTOL development, greater engagement with suppliers, and the allocation of Embraer engineering resources to our project. R&D also required additional program development activities and more testing infrastructure. The MSA primarily drives our R&D costs with Embraer, which performs several critical activities for Eve. Selling, General & Administrative (SG&A) decreased to $7.2 million in 1Q26 versus $7.9 million in 1Q25. This was mostly due to higher payroll-related costs associated with employee Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) recognized in the prior year. The decrease came despite an 11% appreciation of the Brazilian Real versus the US Dollar and a higher number of direct employees at Eve. Our staff now stands at approximately 200, compared to roughly 180 in 1Q25 Eve's total cash consumption in 1Q26 was $68.6 million, compared to $25.4 million in 1Q25. This reflects the greater intensity of our design and development activities. In 1Q26, cash consumption included an $11 million payment under the MSA with Embraer, that had been deferred from the previous quarter. Excluding this payment, adjusted cash consumption in 1Q26 was $57 million. Eve's Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Financial Investments totaled $441.1 million at the end of 1Q...
TranscriptFY2026 Q12026-05-05FY2026 Q1 earnings call transcript
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FY2026 Q1 earnings call transcript
Greetings, and welcome to the Eve Holding, Inc. 1st quarter 2026 earnings call. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Lucio Aldworth, Head of Investor Relations.
Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. This is Lucio Aldworth, Director of Investor Relations at Eve, I wanted to welcome everyone to our 1st quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Our CEO, Johann Bordais, and CFO, Eduardo Couto, are joining me on the call today. After their prepared remarks, we will open the call for questions. At that point, Luiz Valentini, our Chief Technology Officer, will also join in to address some more technical questions. We have a deck with a few slides and additional pictures that showcase our achievements in the quarter, including, of course, the more recent stages of the test flights of our full-scale prototype. The deck is available on our site at ir.eveairmobility.com, please feel free to download it and follow along.
In fact, we just published on our website today a video of one of the more recent flights that feature some more complex on-air maneuvers. You might want to check that out as well. Let me first mention that today's conference call includes statements about events or circumstances that have not yet occurred. These are primarily based on our current expectations and projections regarding future events and financial trends that will affect our business and future economic performance. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause financial results to differ substantially from those expressed or implied in this conference call. We undertake no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements because of new information, future events, or other factors.
For a more detailed list of these risks and uncertainties, please refer to our SEC filings, which are available on our website. I'll turn it over to our CEO, Johann Bordais. Johann?
Thank you, Lucio. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the first quarter 2026 conference call. This quarter was especially significant. As many of you know, we achieved the inaugural flight of our engineering prototype last December after thorough development and a series of rigs and ground tests. This major milestone validated not only our building block concept by extensively testing every part but also the integration of critical system such as fly-by-wire and fixed-pitch lifter rotors. The successful first flight launched an intensive flight test campaign. Our prototype completed 59 flights and logged nearly two and a half hours in the air with multiple days of 2 flights and the completion of all planned hover phase objectives. Moving to slide 3, more than quantity, our flight campaign has also excelled in quality. Every flight is planned to test and validate specific aircraft component or flight metrics.
In total, our engineers have already validated 130 different performance points. The prototype has reached 215 feet above the ground and now moving forward at 30 knots. As an example of the envelope expansion, our first flight in December was stationary with the aircraft climbing to 40 feet. Besides flying more frequently, longer, higher, and faster since the first flight, we have also introduced multiple on-air maneuvers to the protocols. We use a building block approach in both design and flight testing, which means we break complex systems into smaller parts, test each unit until it reaches the needed maturity, and then build in on these components. Each test validates specific points and allows progression to next level, more complex phases of the campaign. As such, the aircraft has tested and validated the autoland feature fully controlled by the fly-by-wire system.
We have also performed difficult maneuvers in all four axes with consistent behavior, allowing continuous envelope expansion. On slide four, the flight campaign has delivered meaningful knowledge gain to date. Most importantly, we confirmed that our predictive models are reliable and precise, enabling safe and confident campaign advancement. Ground effect behaved somewhat differently, loads remain within expectations. These common small deviations help us further refine and improve our engineering models. We have better than expected results for motor thrust and battery performance, with noise and vibration meeting our expectations. The key takeaway is that we remain on track for further envelope expansion and more complex flights. Speaking of which, slide five shows the next steps in the engineering prototype test campaign for this year. The flights up to now have been in hover mode up to 30 knots, all were completed successfully on schedule with approximately 60 flights.
During the remainder of the second quarter, we will upload refined flight computer software and perform final ground tests on the pusher and actuators. This will ensure that they are fully integrated with all the other aircraft system in preparation to initiate transitions flights. Besides software upgrades, we will also perform mandatory structural ground tests and layup activities that are required for the transition phase and that will last few weeks. This is critical opportunity that will help us validate methods, setups, instrumentation, and test techniques to continue advancing. In a nutshell, this structural and software upload phase is an investment in the maturity, safety, and predictability of the coming transition and certification path. The transition phase will also be gradual. We will start with a partial transition, progressively increasing speed. The lifters will be engaged and to provide the aircraft with the necessary vertical support.
At the end of this phase, we plan to accelerate the aircraft to a full transition speed above 85 knots. At this point, the entire lift of the aircraft will be provided by the wing, meaning that the aircraft will be wing-borne flight with lifters motors off. This is the aircraft ultimate mission. Take off vertically, transition to wing-borne flight, and then transition back to vertical flight for landing procedures. After transition testing, we will introduce controlled failures, such as motor shutdown, to observe system reaction and refine the safety procedures and the pilot's protocols. Meanwhile, we are concluding the critical design review with our suppliers for each component that will be featured in our coming conforming prototypes. This will allow us to release drawings and continue manufacturing components within the required specs to start testing our conforming vehicle in 2027.
We continue to mature our flight test campaign, advance our engineering prototype this year while gaining greater visibility into the certification plans for our conforming vehicles. This suggests that certification and entry to service are more likely in 2028, as we will need to fly our conforming vehicles for 12 months to complete all necessary certification tests. It is important to mention that this greater visibility gives us more confidence in the new schedule and lowers its risks. The new timeline is also important to incorporate knowledge gained from the engineering prototype to the conforming prototype and guaranteeing the maturity and performance level of our Eve-100 eVTOL, especially for range, noise, reliability, payload, and lower operating cost. We are now confident that we can deliver an aircraft that is very competitive and well-designed for Urban Air Mobility missions.
In parallel, on slide 6, we continue to engage with authorities worldwide to advance certification for our eVTOL. We recently performed a demonstration at the Gavião Peixoto Embraer facility in Brazil for several Brazilian authorities, including the president of Brazil. We also met with both Brazil ANAC and the U.S. FAA certification authorities at our Melbourne, Florida office to continue discussing our certification timeline. We also met with Japan JCAB and ANAC to strengthen cooperation between the 2 agencies. Lastly, we formally applied for our eVTOL type certificate with EASA. Moving on to slide 7, we attended VERTICON in Atlanta, the world's largest helicopter conference. Our goal was to raise awareness to our eVTOL amongst helicopter operators. We believe that these operators will be very early adopter and see an attractive short-term commercial opportunity with them.
Slide 8 shows our total pre-order backlog with approximately 2,700 aircraft valued at about $13.5 billion at list price. Out of the 27 customers, we also have LOIs with 14 different customers for our eVTOL aftermarket services and support, as well as 21 different potential customers for our air traffic management solution called Vector. Now, I will hand over to our CFO, Edu, for the 2026 first quarter financial review.
Thanks, Johann. Eve ended first quarter 2026 with a record cash position of $441 million and total liquidity of $578 million, including about $136 million in undrawn credit from the Brazilian Development Bank. This is our highest cash level since the IPO, driven by a new 5-year, $150 million loan raised in January. This added liquidity should support operations through 2028 without new funding. We're also working with Embraer to find new synergies to reduce our cash burn from 2026 to 2028. Our initial review indicates that we can achieve $100 million to $150 million in incremental synergies in the next 3 years, likely reducing cash usage and extending our cash runway. We already started to implement these actions.
Our 2026 expected cash burn remains at $225 million-$275 million, excluding the new potential synergies under implementation. Moving to slide 10, just to highlight some of our numbers. Eve invested $59 million in R&D during the first quarter 2026, mainly for eVTOL development. SG&A expenses totaled $7 million for the quarter. Including R&D and SG&A, Eve's net loss for first quarter 2026 was $69 million. As mentioned previously, we ended the quarter with $441 million in cash and $578 million in total liquidity. Cash consumption in the first quarter was $69 million, but this figure includes approximately $11 million in service expected to have been paid in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Excluding this additional payment in the first quarter 2026, our cash consumption was $57 million and in line with the low end of our guidance. With that, we conclude our remarks, and I would like to open the call for questions. Operator, please proceed.
Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. The first question is from Savanthi Syth from Raymond James. Please go ahead.
Hey. Good morning, everyone. Maybe if you first Just on the synergies, could you provide a little bit of color on kind of what type of actions those are? Just to make sure that the $100 million to $150 million you're targeting over a three-year period, is that coming off of a base of, like, roughly $250 million per year over the next few years? Is that how we should think about it?
Yeah. Hi, Savi. Good morning. Yeah, you're correct. We did a big workshop in Brazil a couple of weeks ago. There was more than 200 people involved on that, you know, from Eve and Embraer side. We basically explore, I would say, 4 main areas. We explore, you know, the Eve structure, right? We have a lot of costs at Eve. We also explore all the service that Embraer provides to us. A third pocket was suppliers, right? All activities we do with third-party suppliers. The fourth one was industrialization. After doing this big workshop, we were able to initially identify these $100 million-$150 million that we expected to capture between 2026 to 2028.
That would be a reduction, right, on the expected cash burn that we were planning for the next three years. You're right. We believe these actions will help us to reduce the forecasted cash flow to the years ahead, cash burn to the years ahead.
That's helpful. Thank you. Maybe, if Luiz Valentini is there, just on the means of compliance. I know last kinda earnings call you talked about working on 2 fronts. Just wondering if there's any kinda update on that. Just related to that, you noted that some suppliers have kinda already initiated performance certification rehearsal tests. Just wondering if you could elaborate a little bit more on that.
Sure. Good morning, Savi. This is Luiz Valentini. We continue to work with ANAC and also with the FAA on the discussion on the means of compliance. I think we've had good progress recently. We've had all of the means of compliance proposed to ANAC. They are inside the certification plans we call. Basically, we've been discussing them one by one, and we have all of them proposed. We believe that we are at around 90% of the means of compliance agreed, which puts us, we believe, in a good position, like you said, to start working on detail, the design of the test campaigns in order to show compliance with requirements.
We also were able to find good agreement on the noise certification requirement, which is not part of the certification basis, but is an important part of the certification and operation of the vehicle. We believe that is still on par with the development of the vehicle itself. With respect to other authorities, we've also been engaging with the FAA, as we communicated previously, but most of the alignment work on the means of compliance is done directly with ANAC being the primary certification authority.
Thank you.
The next question is from Andres Sheppard from Cantor Fitzgerald. Please go ahead.
Hey, guys. Good morning. Thanks for taking our question, and congrats on the quarter. Wanted to touch on the flight campaign for a minute. Just to be sure I have it right, we're targeting first full transition flight in Q3. I guess just remind us what are the milestones leading up to it? You know, how confident are we in that milestone in Q3? Thank you.
Hey, Andres. Good morning. This is Luiz Valentini. We've been flying quite a bit as we've shown all of the flights in the hover flight phase. We've been pretty excited not only with the pace of the campaign, but also with the results that are coming out that makes us confident in moving forward with the tests, right? The next few weeks will be focused on testing some of the integration of the systems in the ground. We've been planning shifting from a period of many flights to now a period of flight, of tests on the ground, and that, again, will focus on making sure that the flight control surfaces work well with the flight control laws connected with the pusher.
All of, you know, the lifters, of course, all of that connected. We also will have more tests in the ground that focused on the structure on the airframe of the vehicle to make sure that the vehicle is ready for the larger envelope of flight that we will start, you know, from the Q2 to Q3. Of course, there is a lot to be learned as we move on to this new transition flight phase. Like I said, we're confident and we're excited on the way that the vehicle has been showing itself with respect, you know, as it compared to our expectations. There's a lot to be found out still on this expansion and as we move forward.
We are planning this preparation phase very carefully to increase the chances of doing the transition. Again, that's very important, not only for the transition itself, but on the way that it brings knowledge for us to increase the maturity of the Eve-100 design as we progress to building the certification prototypes and moving to the certification flight test campaign.
Got it. Wonderful. Thank you. I really appreciate all that context. Very helpful. Maybe just one quick follow-up. Just on the backlog, can you remind us kind of the strategy for this year? Is the plan to continue to increase the backlog, or are we happy with the number and that will be, you know, more about converting those LOIs? Just kinda curious how you're thinking about it for this year. Thank you.
Thanks, Andre. Johann Bordais speaking. When it comes to the backlog, we still have the strongest pre-order book with 2,700 aircraft at this stage. We understand the number of LOI and the spread of our customers and the customer profile is what we need. It really, it's a variety of first mile, last mile operation. It's also sightseeing. It's also organ transportation, different type of mission, which I think it's the right balance in different parts of the world, where it's Australia, it's Japan, it's Brazil, obviously, you know, and the U.S. So, we're very comfortable with our portfolio right now. We demonstrated that we have the right solution because we very preoccupied based on our strong experience with Embraer, you know, how is, you know, the operation will be.
That's something that we work hard also to make sure that we have the ecosystem ready. This is what's driven this big order book, let's say, right? The strategy for, you know, since last year or this year is to engage the customers so they can go for firm contracts. They can also engage with their local authority together with Eve, also the stakeholders and prepare the internet service, right? Certification is really the starting line. The game will be on when they're gonna be operating. We'll be delivering, certifying and delivering those aircraft. Then they'll be able to operate with the lowest operating costs, with the highest utilization. This is how we're gonna be starting the urban air mobility.
First will be Revo, and then AirX, as we announced this year, you know, at the Singapore Airshow in Japan. We're working with other customers in Brazil, but also the United States.
Wonderful. Thanks, Johann. Thanks, everyone. Congrats again. We'll pass it on.
Thank you. Appreciate it.
The next question is from Sheila Kahyaoglu from Jefferies. Please go ahead.
Hi, everyone. This is Kira on for Sheila. Thank you for taking my question, and I appreciate the added color on the flight test progress. You mentioned greater engagement with suppliers with a pickup in R&D. Could you maybe walk us through how conversations with suppliers have developed since flight tests began and how work is progressing on the supplier side at this point in the campaign?
Hi, Sheila. This is Luiz Valentini. What we've been doing with the suppliers is making sure that we have the parts and their systems in the most optimized way for the vehicle to meet its product requirements, right? The flight test campaign helps us to gather data on the vehicle behavior in flight, on the behavior of the systems, for example. One example, how the temperature of the battery behaves during flights, right? With that, we can go back to the supplier and use this information to make sure that what they are developing will lead the E-100 to meet its product goals.
The way that the interaction is going now is to make sure that, again, their products will lead us to reach our targets, and the flight test data helps us to bring more clarity and more confidence on the data that we are exchanging with them. Based on this, we are moving forward to finalizing their design of the systems, and again, making sure that it all integrates in a way that will satisfy the Eve-100 goals. Once we are done with that, then we can go ahead and release the drawings for the manufacturing and then manufacture the production prototypes. That's how the, let's say, the connection is with the flight test campaign and what we expect to do once we're past this phase.
Thank you. That's helpful.
The next question is from Andre Madrid from BTIG. Please go ahead.
Yeah. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for taking my question. I wanted to ask a bit more about the binding orders. At the end of the year, could you maybe just point to what dollar figure would be binding orders have to be for you to call it really a successful year? How many of what's in backlog right now would you have to convert to binding to?
Thanks, Andre. Yeah, the binding orders, we have two right now. The first one is Revo with 50 aircraft, up to 50 aircraft firm. We also have AirX, right? Same type of operation for both customers. As you can also see, you know, like, it's a $500 million under a binding agreement right now. You know, there are some PDPs actually associated to it. There are some milestone, you know, associated to also the product development. This is how we've been, you know, setting up the whole deal. Now, we need to move the right time.
As you understand, you know, since it's gonna be a high utilization aircraft and based also on the safety level, the standard and of commercial aviation. This is what we are doing, strong from our experience. You know, there are some commitment that they expect from the from the vehicle. As we move the testing campaign and the conforming prototype, also certification, then we'll define a bit better with the customers, how it's gonna work and how the operation will be.
Got it. If I could follow up on that, you mentioned the PDPs. I know you guys don't usually guide this, but is there any more colors you could point to as to the cadence of that flowing in?
It's Edu here. In terms of down payments, right? As we sign the binding agreements, we already receive an initial down payment. We expect that those down payments will continue 18, 12, 6 months prior to the delivery. In total, we're anticipating we can receive up to 30% or 40% of the total value of the vehicle before the delivery and then receive the balance at the delivery. Very similar to what the industry practice is used to at between the commercial aviation or executive aviation.
Got it. Very helpful. Thank you, gentlemen. I'll leave it there.
Thank you.
The next question is from Austin Moeller from Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead.
Hi, good morning, Johann, Edu, and Lucio. Just my first question on Vector. Is that being actively evaluated by ANAC for approval? Can that be integrated immediately into Brazil's National Airspace System once your aircraft are delivered to customers for the first time?
Yeah. Thank you, Austin, for your question. Yeah, Vector is definitely part of the ecosystem that, you know, and the solution that we're providing for our customers. Obviously, it comes with module, just like, you know, for the air traffic management, and we can start today the urban air mobility operation, using the current air traffic management system in place. The idea is as we're gonna be scaling up, we will need to have a really robust solution eventually. When we say we, it's not necessarily Eve, it's we're talking about the aerospace industry. It's gonna be, you know, we're talking about thousand, hundreds and thousands of vehicle, whether it's drone, whether low altitude, you know, space, airspace. That's something, it's a journey.
It goes along with the scale of the UAM. The first module is really focused on how to manage your vertiport, right? Or helipad still, because our strategy is to start today. As a matter of fact, we delivered the first module to Revo, and they already tested it at the Grand Prix of São Paulo end of last year, and it was successful. Then we're gonna go at a fleet level. Then, you know, we go for a certifiable software together with ANAC and DECEA, as a matter of fact, who takes care of the flying of the air traffic management in Brazil, right?
Our experience on Vector, we have a strong DNA and a strong right to play as, you know, I'd like to remind everyone that, you know, the software company that actually developed the air traffic management that is used in Brazil to control the whole airspace in Brazil is actually coming from Atech. It's a fully owned company from Embraer, and we're developing Vector together with them.
Okay. If we think about the production schedule for the certification prototypes, I understand there will be one finished by the end of the year, but how should we think about the cadence of how many will be produced between now and 2028?
I think as you say, we'll start assembling the prototype, and then we'll finish up, you know, probably the first semester next year. Then we're looking at, you know, the first flight, which I think it's very important milestone for conforming prototype certification. It's the first flight with the pilot on board. We're looking at, you know, mid-next year for the early second semester for the first flight.
Of that prototype. Then, we will be producing and delivering, more or less once every, you know, once a month afterwards, up to six prototypes.
Awesome. Congratulations on all the progress.
Thank you, Austin.
The next question is from Marcelo Motta from JP Morgan. Please go ahead.
Hey. Hi, everyone. Just two follow-ups here. The first one, we look at the release in the fourth quarter. You were talking about, like, a $21 million deferral payment to Embraer, and this quarter this was converting to $11 million. Just wondering if this $10 million difference, you know, is for next quarter or if, you know, there was some readjustment on the amount. The second question is regarding the test campaign. You mentioned to try to get to 300 testing flights this year. Just wondering if this is still the level or, you know, what are you expecting in terms of maybe number of testing or hours in the air, you know, whatever you can share with us. Thank you.
Hi, Motta. How are you? Edu here. In terms of the accounts payable, you're correct, right? We closed last year with $21 million that were supposed to be paid in fourth quarter. We paid $11 million. Actually, we paid the whole $21 million, but then on the invoices of the first quarter, there was $10 million that slipped to the right, so we pretty much recover more than half of what was, you know, a carryover from last year. Your math is correct.
Hey, Motta, this is Luiz Valentini. With respect to the number of flights, yes, we are still considering the 300 flights as a reference for the test campaign of the engineering prototype. Of course, this is flexible as we may, you know, decide to test more things. Maybe we have modifications on the vehicle, for example. We want to test, for example, different propellers or different lifters, things like that. The vehicle allows us to do that, there is a lot of flexibility on the campaign. The 300 flights we are considering, that is the number of flights that allows us to bring the knowledge that we need for the development of the Eve-100 and also to progress with the expansion of the envelope, as we have mentioned.
We believe that with that campaign, we can demonstrate the vehicle and its characteristics, and also we can bring the knowledge to the development of the Eve-100, in time, as we've been mentioning, for the manufacturing of the production prototypes, right? Keep in mind that this number is a reference and we may change it as we progress with the test campaign and decide to test more things if we'd like to.
Perfect. Super clear. Thank you very much.
The next question is from Amit Dayal from H.C. Wainwright & Co. Please go ahead.
Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Just going back to the Embraer synergies, Can you clarify whether this includes technology or personnel? Like, where are these synergies coming from? If you could just maybe clarify that.
Yeah. No, that's a good question, Amit. You know, it's a broad range, right? We're looking a bunch of different things. You know, we're looking how we can use existing assets better, existing facilities, how we can allocate the work between the different teams in a more efficient way. You know, there are different. Also getting to more details of the flight test campaign, the CapEx and OpEx associated with all of that. You know, it was a very big work. As I mentioned, there was more than 200 people involved. It came with hundreds of actions, and we are starting to implement that. That's the beauty, right, of being part of a big group as Embraer.
When you start to look things in more details and we bring everybody together, you are able to identify gains and synergies that, you know, you're not seeing before. That's pretty much what we're doing. We mapped these 100 to 150 to incorporate, to capture, right, in 3 years. You know, we are now moving forward with the plan.
Just to follow up on that, Edu. Will this impact more on the SG&A side or more on the R&D side, do you think, the cost synergies?
It's both. There are synergies in terms of being more efficient in the way that we, you know, are gonna be assembling the vehicles, in the way that we're doing the development, being more efficient on the general expenses, more efficient with third-party consultants, right? Third-party service. There's a lot of things. I would say it includes both pockets, R&D and SG&A, right? General expenses. As I mentioned, also industrialization, right? How we can be more efficient, not only assembling the conforming prototypes that are coming, but also on the production going forward. There are different areas, pockets, and it includes both.
Okay. Some CapEx is what it looks like.
Amit, are you there?
That's correct.
yes.
Amit?
Yes, Amit.
Oh, okay. Sorry about this. Yeah, no, it's, you know I like the question, and it's something You know, it's important to understand that, you know, within Embraer, and Eve is born as such.
Is about the lean philosophy. This is something that's dear to Embraer. This is in a program that was implemented back in 2007. I think it really has to do with it's in the blood of all of the Embraer employees, but also the Eveers, is, we're looking for, you know, being lean and looking every efficiency, you know, that we can bring. We do it through a whole philosophy, which is called the Kaizen. Then, you know, we go through. That's something we do all the time.
You know, I spent 25 years in Embraer, and then we've done it over the last 20 years, and it's just amazing how, you know, you keep improving and you keep, you know, working on your efficiency at all time. This is one of the benefit that also Eve is getting from, being, you know, part of the group of Embraer.
Yeah. It looks definitely like, you know, a little bit of a competitive edge you guys have versus some of the other players. Just one last one from me. On the cost of the aircraft side, right, roughly it's translating around $5 million per aircraft right now with the numbers you shared. Have any inflationary, you know, factors been built into this, you know, given sort of these trends all over the world where prices have been rising? I'm just wondering, curious about like, how this may sort of end up in the next few years in terms of, you know, pricing per aircraft.
Yeah. I can start here, Johann, but feel free.
Yeah, yeah. Go ahead
Valentini to chime in. The list price is $5 million, right? We, as we are progressing on the development of our vehicle, we're gaining not only confidence on the specs of the vehicle, in terms of range, noise, payload, and everything, but we are also getting more visibility on the COGS of the vehicle. We believe our vehicle, given the simplicity, and the design, the lift plus cruise design, and the focus on the urban missions, we believe our vehicle is gonna be extremely competitive in terms of COGS. We have been working also with our suppliers of the critical components to make sure that our COGS stay within the range that will allow us to sell the vehicle at the $5 million list price and be highly profitable.
You know, things are going this direction. We are the whole time challenging, not only internally ourselves, but our suppliers, to make sure we have a lower cost vehicle and how we can leverage, right, the supply chain of Embraer and the supply chain that our big suppliers also have to have a competitive vehicle.
Nice. Thank you. Yeah, this is something how we build our program. We have the major systems, you know, covered by the suppliers. This is also what we worked on very big in Eve. I mean, those contracts are lifetime contracts. We don't look only just to develop the prototype or the production, but also make sure that the operation is covered to guarantee to our customers that they have a competitive aircraft. We do have also on those long-term and lifetime, the life cycle aircraft contract, sorry, the inflation also formulas that allows us to control all this and including the aftermarket. This is something that we have a good visibility.
We brought, you know, from Embraer also, experience, and then we're comfortable with what we have in our $5 million vehicle.
Understood, guys. Thank you for all the color. Appreciate it. That's all I have.
Thank you.
There are no further questions at this time. I would like to turn the floor back over to Lucio Aldworth for closing comments.
Right. Thank you, Sashi, and everyone who joined the call today. As you can see, we have accomplished several important milestones this past quarter. There is much more to come. Our upcoming achievements will be more visible to the investment community from now on. It's going to be very exciting next few months for Eve as a whole. We're going to keep you updated on our progress over the next few quarters. We do look forward to meeting you in the upcoming events we're going to attend. If you have any questions, as always, please feel free to reach out. Thank you. Have a good day.
This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.
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This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Liquidity: $541 million at the end of 2025, with $390 million in cash and $150 million in undrawn credit facilities. Total Liquidity (Post-Syndicated Loan): $641 million. Cash Consumption (2025): $175 million, with a $21 million working capital gain in the last quarter. Cash Consumption Guidance (2025): Close to the low end of $200 million to $250 million. Research and Development Investment (Q4 2025): $59 million. Research and Development Investment (Full Year 2025): $195 million. SG&A Expenses (Q4 2025): $8 million. SG&A Expenses (Full Year 2025): $31 million. Net Loss (Q4 2025): $64 million. Net Loss (Full Year 2025): $224 million. Cash Consumption Guidance (2026): Expected between $225 million and $275 million. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 3 Warning Signs with EVEX. Is EVEX fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Release Date: March 17, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) successfully conducted the first flight of its engineering prototype, marking a major milestone in its development process. The company has accumulated over an hour of flight time with 28 flights, demonstrating progress in its flight test campaign. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) has a strong financial position with $641 million in liquidity, including cash and credit facilities. The company secured a firm order from Japan AirX for two aircraft, with options for an additional 48, highlighting market interest and potential. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) has a substantial preorder backlog of approximately 2,700 aircraft, valued at around $13.5 billion, indicating strong demand for its products. The company anticipates increased cash consumption in 2026, estimated between $225 million and $275 million, due to intensified development activities. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) reported a net loss of $224 million for the full year 2025, reflecting the costs associated with its program development. There are significant challenges ahead in finalizing product characteristics and managing the certification process, which could impact timelines. The company experienced a slight contraction in its preorder backlog, attributed to changes in customer strategies and market conditions. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) faces uncertainties related to regu...
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Eve Holding Inc (EVEX) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Highlights: Record Liquidity and Strategic ...
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Liquidity: $541 million at the end of 2025, with $390 million in cash and $150 million in undrawn credit facilities. Total Liquidity (Post-Syndicated Loan): $641 million, the highest cash level ever for Eve. Cash Consumption (2025): $175 million, with a $21 million working capital gain in the last quarter. Cash Consumption Guidance (2025): Close to the low end of $200 million to $250 million. Research and Development Investment (Q4 2025): $59 million. Research and Development Investment (Full Year 2025): $195 million. SG&A Expenses (Q4 2025): $8 million. SG&A Expenses (Full Year 2025): $31 million. Net Loss (Q4 2025): $64 million. Net Loss (Full Year 2025): $224 million. Cash Consumption Guidance (2026): Expected between $225 million and $275 million. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 3 Warning Signs with EVEX. Is EVEX fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Release Date: March 13, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) successfully conducted the first flight of its engineering prototype, marking a significant milestone in its development process. The company has accumulated over an hour of flight time across 28 flights, demonstrating progress in its flight campaign. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) has a strong financial position with $641 million in liquidity, including cash and credit facilities. The company secured a firm order from Japan AirX for two aircraft, with options for an additional 48, highlighting market interest and potential. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) has a substantial preorder backlog of approximately 2,700 aircraft, valued at $13.5 billion, indicating strong demand for its products. The company's operations consumed $175 million in 2025, with expectations for increased cash consumption in 2026 due to intensified development activities. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) reported a net loss of $224 million for the full year 2025, reflecting the costs associated with its program development. There are significant challenges ahead in finalizing product characteristics and managing the certification process, which could impact timelines. The company experienced a slight contraction in its preorder backlog, attributed to changes in customer strategies and market conditions. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX...
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MELBOURNE, Fla., March 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Eve Holding, Inc. ("Eve") (NYSE: EVEX and EVEXW / B3: EVEB31) reports its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025 earnings results. Year in review Eve Air Mobility accomplished several milestones in 2025 – a defining year, as we continue to work to shape the global Urban Air Mobility ecosystem. With the selection of a new pusher motor supplier and the completion of several ground tests, Eve completed the maiden flight of its engineering prototype in December, commencing what has now become a full-fledged and intense flight campaign. Our prototype has flown a total of 28 times to date, accumulating more than 1 hour of flight time, with telemetry readings that are better than expected. Also, the campaign has been progressing as planned, with initial hover and on-air maneuvers being performed. In total, we expect to fly around 300 times with this prototype in 2026; at the current pace, we are well on our way to hitting this milestone. Simplicity is the DNA of our electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft with a Lift+Cruise configuration, eight dedicated propellers for vertical take-off and landing – that do not change position during flight, and fixed wings for cruise flight. Our design also features a dual-electric-motor pusher for horizontal propulsion redundancy, with performance and safety in mind. We believe fewer, simpler parts will help reduce maintenance and operating costs, improve dispatchability for operators, and provide a clearer path to certification. We continue to be highly engaged with aviation authorities to advance in the certification processes of our aircraft. In Brazil, the National Civil Aviation Agency will soon define the Means of Compliance – a detailed set of rigorous tests that our aircraft must successfully perform to receive Type Certification. We expect to initiate our certification campaign shortly thereafter. And, while our six conforming prototypes should be ready to initiate the flight portion of the certification campaign in 2027, we accomplished a tremendous amount with ground tests on rigs, simulations, wind-tunnel tests, and our Iron Bird – a deconstructed eVTOL that replicates the actual aircraft and can be used to accumulate certification credits. Eve's strengths have resulted in the largest and most diversified backlog, totaling 2.7k LOIs (Letters of Intent). We...
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FY2025 Q4 earnings call transcript
Good day, and welcome to the Eve Holding, Inc. Q4 2025 earnings conference call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on a touch-tone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star, then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Lucio Aldworth, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. This is Lucio Aldworth, the Director of Investor Relations at Eve, and I wanted to welcome everyone to our Q4 and full year 2025 earnings conference call. Our CEO, Johann Bordais, and CFO, Eduardo Couto, are joining me on the call today. After their prepared remarks, we will open the call for questions, at which point Luiz Valentini, our Chief Technology Officer, will also join us to address more technical questions.
We have a deck with a few slides and additional pictures and videos that showcase our achievements in the quarter, including, of course, the initial stages of the test flights and of our full-scale prototype. The deck is available on our website at ir.eveairmobility.com, so please feel free to download it and follow along.
Let me first mention that today's conference call includes statements about events or circumstances that have not yet occurred. These are primarily based on our current expectations and projections regarding future events and financial trends that will affect our business and future economic performance.
These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause financial results to differ substantially from those expressed or implied in this conference call. We will take no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements because of new information, future events, or other factors. For a more detailed list of these risks and uncertainties, please refer to our SEC filings, which are available on our website. With that, I will now hand over the presentation to our CEO, Johann.
Thank you, Lucio. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Q4 2025 conference call. This was a very special quarter for us. As many of you must have seen, we concluded the first flight of our engineering prototype last December after we completed an extensive series of ground tests on all of its systems.
Although the first flight was short and lasted about a minute, we are evolving quickly into other phases of the flight campaign. We are going to show more data further in the presentation. We have performed a total of 28 flights and accumulated more than an hour of flight time. The prototype has recently completed a two week scheduled load calibration test in preparation for continued expansion of the flight envelope that is part of the upcoming phases in the campaign and is ready to resume flight testing.
In parallel, we continue highly engaged with ANAC on the final terms of the certification plans and also suppliers from whom we are already receiving some of the components of the first conforming prototype. Going into a bit more details, as you can see on the picture slide three, we successfully conducted our first flight on 19 December.
This was obviously a major milestone for us. It confirmed that not only the proof of concept of the configuration, but also the integration of key systems, including the fifth generation fly-by-wire and the fixed pitch lifter rotors. During the flight, we exercised the control laws, verified the integration of the eight lifters, and assessed the energy management, the aircraft dynamic response, and the noise footprint.
The prototype behaved as predicted by our models, and we will, with this data point, expand the envelope and progress toward transition to wing borne flight. The next phases will be conducted in a disciplined manner, ramping up to around 300 flights throughout 2026 and building the knowledge required for type certification.
This brings us to the next slide, number four. As you can see, we quickly engage into a consistent and intense flight campaign. So far, we have flown our aircraft 28 times with a total of one hour and six minutes of accumulated flight time. As mentioned previously, the high quality of the flights with important test points being validated in each and every flight allow us to continue progressing and expanding the envelope of the flights. We are now performing longer flights at higher altitudes.
We are now performing in-air maneuvers with side-to-side movements, some horizontal displacement and rotation on its own axis. Some of the videos available on our website will show you know, these maneuvers. Lastly, weather permitting, and please keep in mind that this is the rainy season in Brazil, our aircraft is being put to the test twice a day. To date, there were seven different days in which we could fly twice. At the current pace, we should be in position to make around 300 flights as planned for the year.
Slide number five details a bit better what the flight campaign will look like for the prototype this year. In total, we are planning four distinct phases, each building up on knowledge and experience gained in the previous one. The first stage is hover and some maneuvers this is a critical phase to validate characteristics of vertical flight, which was the first for us. In this phase, the prototype performed vertical takeoff and landing. The flights gradually evolved to longer times and also higher altitude, but remained at a fixed position with some maneuvers with the use of the lifter propulsion system only.
This phase is now completed, and we're moving to transition flights where we will start to fly the aircraft originally. Initially at the speed below 30 knots and using our pusher motor and perform initial synchronization lifters. Because during this phase, the lifters will be powered at all time, we sometimes refer to the partial transition, and we expect to conclude it until the end of the first semester.
The third phase is what we call the cruise flight, in which after a takeoff of the aircraft, we'll move beyond the transition speed. At this point, the air moving through the wing will produce all the lift required to maintain the aircraft airborne. For the landing procedure, we will gradually slow the aircraft below the transition speed. The lifter will be engaged automatically to maintain vertical control, and the pilot in the remote pilot station, the RPS truck, will maneuver the aircraft vertically to its landing site.
In a nutshell, this is the same set of maneuvers from the takeoff to cruise, but in a reverse order, all of which controlled by our fifth-generation fly-by-wire. As in previous phase, speed, altitude, and distances will be all increased gradually, and we're planning completing this phase early in the second semester. Last but not least, we will introduce the failure into the system, such as unplanned motor shutdown, to test how the system reacts to validate and refine the safety procedures and the protocol of the pilot.
Now the slide number six shows the level of engagement with our suppliers. We regularly meet them and visit their sites, and there has been noticeable uptick in activity recently. We have some of the components for the first of our series of certification-compliant aircraft. The tooling for the pylon and some composite materials of other system are already being manufactured, as for the doors, propellers, and the wing tooling.
Importantly, we can see the mechanism that is designed to fold the propeller in its full form. This is notable achievement because we introduced the 4-blade system to reduce vibration and sound emission more recently, and the folding mechanism is necessary to reduce drag and improve aerodynamic profile as much as possible.
We are also working with our suppliers to conclude the critical design review, what we call also CDR, to freeze the specification of each component and release the drawing from them to start manufacturing each part. This, as the name suggests, is a critical phase of the design process and will kickstart the production process for the remaining component of our certification-compliant vehicles.
Slide number seven gives more details about the latest firm orders we signed early February with AirX. This is our second binding contract and includes two firm aircraft and the option for another 48 aircraft. This is a very important market for us with strong potential.
As a reminder, we believe that Japan can absorb as many as 390 eVTOLs to transport 3 million passengers per year. There are multiple use case from the airport shuttle, ecotourism, or point-to-point commute in its many large cities. AirX already operates in 10 of them, so it is a strategic partner for Eve. Slide eight shows our total pre-order backlog that stands around 2,700 aircraft for a total value close to $13.5 billion based on the list price 2025. This includes non-binding letters of intent from 27 different customers, as well as Revo's and AirX firm orders.
Out of the 27 customers, we also secured contract with different customers, 14 total, for our Eve TechCare suite of the aftermarket product and services, which could bring up to $1.6 billion in revenue to Eve over the first few years of operations. As you can see, we also have 21 different customers for our air traffic management solution called Vector, and I believe this reflects the market-leading value proposition we bring to our customers. Now, I would like to invite our CFO, Eduardo, to review the financial results and some of the 2026 coming milestones.
Thanks, Johann. Eve ended last year with a very comfortable financial position. Our liquidity reached $541 million at the end of 2025, with $390 million in cash and another $150 in undrawn credit facilities with the Brazilian Development Bank, BNDES. These are important to help preserve our cash position. Also, when adding a new loan secured early this year with a syndicate of banks, total liquidity is even higher. Now at $641 million, this is the highest cash level ever for Eve.
The syndicated loan brought $150 million. Our liquidity grew by $100 million because we refinanced $50 million of an existing loan to extend our amortization schedule, better matching our cash flow needs as we approach certification and entry into service. Last year, as you can see on slide nine, our operations consume $175 million. I wanted to note that we had a $21 million working capital gain last quarter, as some of our engineering payments to Embraer slipped into the Q1 of this year.
If these invoices had been paid in 2025, our cash consumption would have been $196 million in 2025. Given that, our cash consumption in 2025 was very close to the low end of our guidance of $200 to 250 million, and it continues to reflect our robust yet simple structure, cost discipline, and the main synergies we enjoy by being part of the Embraer Group. Now moving to slide 10. Eve is a pre-operational company, and our financials reflect mostly the costs associated with our program development. That said, I would like to highlight some of our numbers.
Eve invested $59 million during the Q4 2025 in research and development activities and $195 million in the full year. The majority was directed towards the development of our eVTOL. We also deployed $8 million in SG&A during the quarter and $31 million in the full year. Including R&D and SG&A, Eve reported a net loss of $64 million in the Q4 2025 and $224 million for the full year.
Finally, we ended Q4 with $393 million in cash and $541 million in total liquidity, as already discussed. We expect cash consumption to intensify this year because of increased development activities. We are now in a full-fledged and intense flight campaign with our engineering prototype. We're increasing engagement with suppliers as we progress towards the assembly of our 6 certification-conforming prototypes.
All of these efforts will involve greater engagement with Embraer engineering, infrastructure and testing facilities, and supplier payments. In the end, we expect our operations to consume between $225 million and $275 million in 2026. We remain in a comfortable financial position, and our liquidity is enough to cover our capital needs well into 2028. With that, we conclude our remarks, and I would like to open the call for questions. Operator, please proceed.
We will now begin the question-and-answer session. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your touch tone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then two. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. The first question today comes from Savanthi Syth with Raymond James. Please go ahead.
Hey, good morning, everyone. Maybe first off, just wondering, Eduardo, if you could give a little bit more color on the cash consumption, just a breakout between how you think that R&D, SG&A, and CapEx generally gonna progress this year.
Yeah, sure. Good morning, Savi. The $225 to 275 million, it's mostly R&D, right? We're trying to keep SG&A at kind of the levels we had last year, right? Around $30 million. The remaining portion is mostly for the development service that we pay to Embraer and all the development activities that we have with suppliers, right? A lot of activity on the suppliers.
There's also, you know, a structure from Eve, but that is small. CapEx should be around $20 to 30 million specific about the plant. You know, by far the big chunk of the cash consumption this year is on the development, mostly Embraer and the several other suppliers we have.
That's very helpful appreciate it. I was also wondering, not sure on the means of compliance. I think originally the thought process was maybe that would be accepted in 2025. Just kind of curious what feedback you've received from ANAC on that front and if that has any kind of impact on the timing of the CDR review completion.
Hey, Savi. This is Luiz Valentini good morning. We have some work currently going on the means of compliance, mostly on two fronts one is noise for which there is some specific regulation that is still being discussed both with ANAC and the FAA, but also with some means of compliance that are related to the certification of the product in many aspects, in the sense that there was not too long ago a new AC published by the FAA, and we are adapting or modifying some of the means of compliance that we had previously agreed with ANAC.
To be more in line with this regulation that was issued by the FAA this helps us. Although it's some rework now, it helps us in the future when we have the ANAC TC and going to the validation process with the FAA, it'll be more streamlined with the requirements being more similar. It's work that we had not expected to be doing now, but again, it's something that accelerates in the future the process of validating TC it doesn't have much impact on the CDR, because it doesn't change the product it's just mostly the way of showing compliance with the requirements.
Makes sense. Thanks, Luiz Valentini. Jenny?
The next question comes from Andres Sheppard with Cantor Fitzgerald. Please go ahead.
Hey, everyone. Good morning. Congratulations on all the great progress, and thanks for taking our questions. I wanted to maybe just touch on the six ANAC conforming aircraft that you're building. Wondering if you could maybe give us an update there. How are you thinking about timing for those, you know, different phases, different steps? I guess if I could just combine that, are those the ones ultimately to deliver to Revo as part of that first delivery? Thank you.
Yeah. Hey, Andres. Thanks for the call. Thanks for the question. The prototypes will not be delivered. These will be only for testing. The point that we are in them right now is that we have some of the long lead time items already being manufactured you saw there, one of the slides shows some of the parts already being started in production and also some of the tooling for, you know, some of the composite parts already being made.
That's part of the, let's say, the initial production. When we have more parts like these, we can start assembling components and then go to the final assembly of the prototypes. These will be used only for certification campaign, as I mentioned development and certification, right? Not for delivering to customers.
Got it. Okay. That's very helpful. Johann, I'm wondering if we can maybe get an update on the service and support and maintenance segment. Any sense of when you might target to kind of begin ramping that up and maybe emphasize that a bit more? Just curious on kind of what the strategy there is. Thank you.
Thanks, Andre. Since the very beginning of Eve solution, it's not only the product, but it's also the customer support and services we know how important it is to make sure that we have a clear value chain to start with, especially with Revo. As you can imagine, we're focusing on this entry into service. All the others, we recently announced last week at Verticon, a partnership with Skyports Infrastructure and also Alt Air in Australia.
As you can see, this is part of the whole ecosystem building. Customers want to make sure that the OEM is involved. They want to make sure that they'll have the availability and the right operating cost. We have this duty to be engaged, and it's exactly what we're doing with each of our customers. It's almost city per city, right? I mean, it's really operation and per operation. This is what we're really focusing on, and this is why you see more and more announcement related to this ecosystem readiness.
Excellent. Thanks again for taking our questions, and, congrats on all the progress. We'll pass it on.
Thanks, Andre.
The next question comes from Ellen Page with Jefferies. Please go ahead.
Good morning. Thanks for the question. You announced the AirX order, firm order for two aircraft in February. Congrats on that second customer in the firm order book. How did you think about? the pace of further firm orders as you kind of progress through flight certification? Also, can you just level set us on your current expectations for certification and entry into service?
Thanks, Ellen. This is Johann. Since the very beginning, we've announced this, we've made LOIs. We understood that at the time it was very important to sign LOIs, not so much about the number of aircraft, obviously it comes with it because it reflects, you know, the need of each operator in their own respective region.
But also, you know, showing that we had the right solution. That's the trust that the customers are putting by sending an LOI to say, "Look, you know, you come up with the aircraft, you certify it, you have the right customer support, the right suite of solution, Vector for ATM, right, different modules, then I'm in. I believe in this, you know, urban air mobility, fully electrical, and I'm in." This is what we've built over the years, the last five years.
I think this is now, you know, we're at the crossroad right now where we need to convert because we're two years away, you know, from the first delivery. Obviously, we're starting to do what we call the S&OP, right, which is, you know, really see, you know, what are the sales, you know, where the slots of the production, you know, will come in the first ramp up of production. This is natural, and this is exactly what happened with Revo but it's not so much, because of, you know, getting the aircraft ready for production it's also because the customer- -needs to really get the authorities, the partners for the ecosystem to be ready, right? It takes time to get the power line, for example, to the vertiport, transform a helipad to a vertiport, get the right authorities or authorization for firefighters, for example, procedures for the vertiport and ramp operation.
This is also, you know, needed for the operators, and then they can come back to the local authority and say, "Look, you know, I've signed a contract. We need to get ready also. You also need to get ready as much as the OEM, otherwise we'll be delivering a vehicle that we wanna make sure that it has the right operation support." This is natural we selected Revo. Revo, it elected us to start the operation in S ̄o Paulo. I always say, you know, Brazil and S ̄o Paulo is the place where UAM will be showing, you know, what is a true OEM operation, especially when you have a customer like Revo that already is doing urban air mobility with helicopters, right?
AirX, it's another consequence of a market where you can see that authorities, government, private initiatives understand that and they see the future and the urban air mobility, and they believe in it. now they know that it's time to also convert.
This conversion rate is natural. We have 2,700 vehicle signed under LOI. It can go up and down i've said it, you know, in previous calls that we're not looking for more LOI unless it really makes sense for Eve in strategic region or specific customers or a mission fit. Also, you know, really the focus is to start having this conversion happening together with the aftermarket and ecosystem preparation i think this is the key because we wanna really make sure it becomes a routine right.
Great. Thank you.
The next question comes from Marcelo Motta with JP Morgan. Please go ahead.
Hi, everyone. Two quick questions the first, if you can provide some additional color regarding this deferral of payments to Embraer, you know, why that happened. You know, we haven't seen that before on the earnings, so just wondering if something that could happen, you know, in the coming quarters. The second is also a little bit more color on the backlog i mean, if we are correct, there was a very small contraction in the number of orders and in the value.
Just wondering, you know, what was the driver for one of the clients, you know, to take its LOI out you know, if it was related to, I don't know, timing of evolution of, you know, any milestone that you need to reach or if it was maybe a financial issue with the client. I mean, whatever you can tell us, that would be appreciated. Thank you very much.
Thanks, Motta. Let me take first the payments to Embraer. The way we pay to Embraer is they invoice us every quarter, right? Once the quarter ends, they take around 15 days to, you know, get all the expenses, then they send us an invoice, and we have 45 days to pay.
That means we end up paying Embraer now, for instance, for the Q4 of last year, we end up paying at the end of the following quarter, which is the 45 days plus the 15 days that they take to send us the invoices. In the Q4, right, which was actually the invoice of the Q3, it took us a little bit longer, and we ended up paying at the beginning of January so there's nothing special. It was, as I said, sometimes it sleeps a little bit. We have to do some, we have to check all the expenses, everything. It was unusual. We do not expect to see other invoices sleeping.
In the Q4, there was this $20 million, and as I said, we already paid in the beginning of January. That's Marcelo for a second question. This is, like I said, I mean, you know, we started to sign LOIs, you know, almost when we started the company, you know, four to five years ago. It's really natural that you see the LOI, especially when it's LOI, you know, the companies actually move sometimes they change their strategy sometimes, some of them go bankrupt or start up, you know they see an opportunity in UAM.
Then they, you know, they go bankrupt or sometimes it also happen, you know, the reduction of the backlog or the pre-order backlog. It's with Blade, since Joby did purchase, you know, with Blade and then they obviously have another strategy when it comes to the OEM or eVTOL. Like i said, it's natural it goes up and down when it comes to LOI but now we're focusing really on the order conversion and moving forward to start, you know, looking at the first slots also and getting the customers ready their, you know, get their ecosystem ready. Quite natural.
No, super clear. Thank you very much.
Great. Thank you, Marcelo. I'm sorry. I think Ellen Page asked a question that we did not answer, which was about the certification deadline, right? Luiz Valentini can give us a little more insight.
Sure. Just complementing Johann's answer earlier to Ellen about the timeline. We see on the presentation today that we have significant progress in the project, right? That goes both on the work with the suppliers, on the definition of the product, and advancing what we see are characteristics that will be on the final vehicle.
At the same time, on the certification, I mean, the development flight test campaign that we've been doing with the engineering prototype. These are aspects that we see that the project is moving very strongly and we're excited about that. At the same time, we still have significant challenges moving ahead i mentioned earlier how we are working with the authorities on setting the means of compliance, and we feel that's going well.
There's another stage that come afterwards, which is actually showing compliance with those requirements for certification. That involves not only work and analysis, but also testing, ground testing, flight testing. That's, you know, a big campaign, a big project, a big part of the project that will come next.
There are significant challenges that are still ahead of us, in finalizing the product characteristics, moving the product to the certification phase, and managing to show compliance with our requirements to finalize, you know, the type certificate issuance. In summary, we see that there are strong, steps that we were able to take and progress that we are excited about in the last quarter. Still, a lot of challenges that are ahead, on the road to certification on the timeline that we had, you know, that we're still publishing.
The next question comes from Samir Doshi with H.C. Wainwright. Please go ahead.
Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. The first is about the suppliers. Have all the critical components been finalized and suppliers for them finalized? If not, then is there a timeline before which you have to freeze all the suppliers?
All of the suppliers for the critical parts and critical components and systems are already engaged. They are working with us. These, I can mention for example, the electrical system, the propulsion. You know, lifters and pushers, flight controls computer that we're working with Embraer. All of the suppliers for these systems have been engaged already for quite a while in the project, and that's really important for us in the sense that they need to work at an integrated fashion, right?
The communication, for example, between the motors and the vehicle goes through the flight controls computer, you know, also handles communication with the battery so all of these need to work together, and that's why it's important that all of the suppliers have already been on the project and have been working together on these. No significant components to be sourced at this time.
Understood. Then the second is just a sort of clarification or more insight. Of these 300 times that you are targeting to fly this year, is there a magic to that number in the sense that would you be able to complete, based on your tests and results, these flights and or rather all your objectives in less number of flights? Can this be accelerated, or do you foresee some things that you have to test multiple times and require more flights? I just wanted to see how this timeline could be pushed forward or back.
Yeah. Well, thanks, Samir. It's the 300 flights we usually mention that as a reference to help everyone understand the volume of testing that will be done with this vehicle, right? It's just a way for us to help everybody gauge, you know, the level and the intensity of the flights that will be performed.
Really, the way that it feeds into our development is much more gradual than that, right? Johann mentioned we're doing the hover tests now. Already with these hover tests, we are bringing useful information for the design of the certification vehicle, right? This will be, you know, the case for all of the steps that we take moving forward with the flight test campaign. It's something that happens gradually.
Of course, as we move forward, we may find that there are some characteristics of the vehicle that require us to do some more extensive testing. This is something that happens with all of the development of aircraft.
As you fly, you find that there are some characteristics that sometimes need more tuning, or you find that there are some opportunities there to extract more performance, for example so you do more testing. It's normal to adjust the number of flights and exactly which types of flights you perform as you go along. The 300, again, is just a reference, you know, of the size of the flight test campaign, but we don't hold ourselves so much on that. It's more important to perform the scope and feed into the project as we move along this flight test campaign.
Understood. Thanks for that color, and good luck for 2026. Thanks.
Thank you.
The next question comes from Austin Moeller with Canaccord. Please go ahead.
Hi. Good morning, Johann and Eduardo. My first question here is ANAC planning any equivalent to the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program, or are you planning to participate in something similar in other countries?
Yeah. Great question. Thank you. I know, you know, the elPP has been a program with high visibility i mean, we definitely support the U.S. government efforts to accelerate the future of air transportation, right, through the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program. This is one of them. You know, we're a global company, and we've been, you know, working in different countries and this is not unusual to have government going through this type of program.
As a matter of fact, whether it's Japan, it's Australia or it's the Middle East or, you know, even in Brazil, we do have the similar program. We're very supportive of this type of program. We do have our own flight test activity, just like Valentini just described, right? Progressing as part of the ANAC certification progress, also with the FAA validation, right? They do have meetings between FAA and EASA and ANAC, right?
I'm thinking of EASA because eventually, you know, we will apply there. That's why. Yeah, we've been working also with different states in the United States, you know, to have a similar type of what we call CONOPS or, you know, pilot program, that will allow to demonstrate, you know, what is a UAM operation, right? Something that we do in Brazil, in the U.S., but in many other countries.
Okay. Can you talk a little bit about the production capacity for aircraft to roll off the line that you have in your existing facilities versus what you plan to scale into as we get closer to certification? Production capacity.
Oh, hang on. We were on mute here. Can you repeat that? The question. Sorry, we were-
Yes. I was just wondering if you could talk about the production capacity for eVTOLs that you have at your existing facility versus what you plan to scale into as you get closer to certification?
Yeah, nice. Thank you. Since the very beginning, we, you know, Eve has a modular approach when it comes to industrialization. We do have a brownfield operation. We elected the Taubaté site, which is currently a site of Embraer, which actually technically is not anymore because we're paying the rent, so it's our site. We started to, you know, some pre-infrastructure refurbishment.
Then we are actually planning to go for a first module which is gonna go, sorry, it's modular, like I said, with 120 vehicle per year. We can go up to 480 vehicle per year, right? Which beyond that number, then we will have to go and to another facility, right? More than likely not on the same site, somewhere else, even abroad, where the market will be, you know, with a center of gravity, right, for de-risk purposes.
Great. That's really interesting. Thank you.
Thank you.
The next question comes from Andre Madrid with BTIG. Please go ahead.
Good morning, everyone. Thanks for taking my question. Looking ahead, I mean, as you guys move through the test flight campaign, what do you expect the pace of conversion of LOIs to firm orders to be, or do you have any expectations at all?
Ever since we signed up the contract and converted with Revo and more recently at the Singapore Airshow with AirX, we've seen the interest of customers, you know, increasing, right? From either the one that already have the LOI under contract or some new customers, right? Where we're actually engaging in negotiation, not even to go through a LOI, but directly to a firm order i think it's to find the right balance between being able to show them, you know, how the program is progressing, right?
And also, you know, is it the right moment for them to engage and to get a vehicle, and when is that gonna be, right? To get the slots, so for 2028, and then this ramp up. As I just mentioned about production, we can accelerate, we can go a little slower. We have this full flexibility. It's a ratio that we have, you know, that we're looking at what needs to be done it's what we call internally the SIOP, right? It's the sales, inventory, and operations process.
Where we have the sales team together with production and procurement, and finance, obviously, and looking at how this ramp up is gonna look like. We're not disclosing any more information on it right now, but we do expect that, you know, with the up to 300 flights, as Luiz Valentini mentioned, as a target, right?
We're progressing also the getting the conforming prototype, the six conforming prototype, which one of them, by the way, will be a demonstrator, which I think also it's a great tool to have, you know, to demonstrate to customers and it brings usually also a lot of conversion at the time.
Got it. If I could follow up, I know you've been helpful in outlining the you know, your expected cash burn through the year for 2026, but I mean, could you maybe just you know, peel back a little bit more and explain the exact cadence quarter to quarter?
Yeah. We're expecting in terms of cash burn, Andre, we're expecting $225 to 275 million, right? It's an increase versus the $200 million we burned last year. The increase goes mostly to more development activities, right? Not only with Embraer, but also with several suppliers. Generally, it's not evenly spread over the quarters, maybe a little bit less in the first half. As we continue to progress on the conforming vehicles, right? It may be more heavy on the second half, but you know, it will be spread maybe a little bit more second half than first half.
Got it. That's very helpful. Thank you.
This concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Lucio Aldworth for any closing remarks.
Thank you, Betsy, and everyone who joined the call today. As you can see, we accomplished several milestones this past quarter. We're fully engaged, and there's much more to come. As you just saw, our upcoming achievements will be more clearly visible to the investment community, so the next few months will be very exciting for us.
We're gonna continue to update you on all of our progress through the next few quarters. It's gonna be very exciting, and we look forward to meeting you in the upcoming events we're going to attend. As always, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to our team. Thank you and have a great day.
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This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Pre-Order Backlog: Approximately 2,800 aircraft valued at close to $14 billion. Funding Raise: $230 million through a registered direct offering in August. Cash Position: Ended the quarter with $412 million in cash. Total Liquidity: $534 million, including an awarded grant and undrawn BNDS credit lines. Net Loss: $47 million in the third quarter of 2025. Program Development Investment: $45 million during the third quarter of 2025. SG&A Expenses: Approximately $7 million in the third quarter. Cash Consumption: $60 million in the third quarter; $143 million in the first nine months of 2025. Cash Consumption Guidance: On track to hit the low end of $200 to $250 million for the full year 2025. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 3 Warning Signs with EVEX. Is EVEX fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Release Date: November 04, 2025 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) is in the final stages of testing its engineering prototype, with plans to start its flight campaign by the end of the year or early next year. The company has secured a new supplier, Embry Air, for the landing gear of its E-100 commercial aircraft, enhancing energy efficiency and operational capabilities. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) has a strong pre-order backlog of approximately 2,800 aircraft, valued at around $14 billion, indicating robust market interest. The company successfully raised $230 million through a registered direct offering, improving its cash position and extending its cash runway to about 2.5 years. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) is developing a strong network of partners in infrastructure and energy to support the urban air mobility ecosystem, including an agreement with the Kingdom of Bahrain to support EV toll adoption in the Middle East. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) reported a net loss of $47 million in the third quarter of 2025, reflecting the costs associated with program development. The company consumed around $60 million in cash during the third quarter, with total cash consumption expected to reach the low end of $200 to $250 million for the full year. There is uncertainty regarding the exact timing and scope of test flights in Bahrain, with potential revenue streams not yet clearly defined. Eve Holding Inc (NYSE:EVEX) is...
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MELBOURNE, FL, Nov. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Eve Holding, Inc. ("Eve") (NYSE: EVEX and EVEXW ; B3: EVEB31) reports its Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Results. Financial highlights Eve Air Mobility is an aerospace company dedicated to developing an eVTOL (electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft and the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) ecosystem, which includes eVTOL development, Services & Support Solutions – TechCare, and Vector, an Urban Air Traffic Management (Urban ATM) system. Eve is pre-revenue and is not expected to produce meaningful revenues, if any, during the aircraft development phase. Financial results should primarily reflect the costs associated with the program's development cycle. Eve reported a net loss of $46.9 million in 3Q25, compared to $35.8 million in 3Q24. The increase in net loss in 3Q25 was primarily driven by higher Research & Development (R&D) expenses, which are costs and activities necessary to advance the development of our suite of products and solutions for UAM, including the Master Service Agreement (MSA) with Embraer. R&D expenses were $44.9 million in 3Q25 vs. $32.4 million in 3Q24. R&D continues to demand increased engineering engagement with Embraer, as well as additional program development activities and testing infrastructure. The MSA primarily drives our R&D costs with Embraer, which performs several critical developmental activities for Eve. SG&A decreased to $7.0 million in 3Q25 vs. $8.4 million in 3Q24. Although the number of direct Eve employees increased to roughly 190, up from ~170 in 3Q24, total payroll expenses decreased yoy due to lower costs related to Restricted Stock Units for employees. The most significant contributor to the reduction in SG&A was the capitalization of the ERP system implementation, which is related to our industrialization project as we prepare our assembly site for production – this was previously expensed. Lastly, the variation in SG&A also reflects a roughly 2% year-over-year average appreciation of the Real against the USD. Lastly, Eve recognized a $6.4 million non-cash gain related to the fair value of derivatives – due to marking-to-market of Eve's private warrants - vs. a $4.0 million increase in 3Q24. Eve's total cash consumption in 3Q25 was $60.7 million, versus $34.0 million in 3Q24. In the first nine months of the year, cash consumption reached $143.0 million – in line with the l...
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FY2025 Q3 earnings call transcript
Good day, and welcome to the Eve Holding, Inc. Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Lucio Aldworth, Director of Investor Relations at Eve. Please go ahead.
Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. This is Lucio Aldworth, the Director of Investor Relations at Eve, and I wanted to welcome everyone to our third quarter 2025 earnings conference call. Our CEO, Johann Bordais; and CFO, Eduardo Couto, are joining me on the call today. And after their prepared remarks, we will open the call for questions, at which point, Luiz Valentini, our Chief Technology Officer, will also join us for more technical questions. We have a deck with a few slides and additional pictures that show our achievements in the quarter as well as the testing phase of our full-scale prototype. The deck is on our site at ir.eveairmobility.com. So please feel free to download it and follow along. Let me first mention that today's conference call includes statements about events or circumstances that have not yet occurred. These are largely based on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends affecting our business and our future financial performance. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause financial results to differ substantially from those expressed or implied in this conference call, and we undertake no obligations to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements because of new information, future events or other factors. For a more detailed list of these risks and uncertainties, please refer to our SEC filings available on our website. With that, I will now turn the presentation over to our CEO. Johann?
Thank you, Lucio. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the 2025 third quarter conference call. We had a strong third quarter marked by several key achievements, and we continue to advance the program's development at a steady pace. We are in the final stages of testing our engineering prototype before its flight campaign starts. We announced an additional supplier for our commercial aircraft, the E100, with a contract with Embraer for their landing gear. Additionally, the Iron Bird has begun to operate and is already contributing to the testing of the actual hardware that will equip our aircraft. Our schedule remained unchanged with an expected Type certification and entry into service in 2027. Starting with Slide 3. We have now received from Beta Technology Company, all of the electrical motors for our engineering prototype. They have been previously tested in specially designed equipment and installed in their respective nacelles. As mentioned previously, we had already performed integration test between the prototype and the remote pilot station that we also call the RPS, to make sure that there is a successful communication via the dedicated radio link. As a reminder, this prototype will be remotely controlled with a pilot sitting in the RPS, and this is the white [ track ] at the far end of the right picture. We are running the last set of tests to make sure that electrical power units were properly integrated with the inverters, battery and other systems and subsystems in the vehicle. Therefore, we're confident in starting soon our flight campaign with our first flight by the end of this year or early next year. Slide 4 is about the selection of our 22nd primary system supplier. Embraer will produce landing gear for our aircraft. Embraer comes with a strong landing gear manufacturing heritage for their commercial and executive jets as well as military aircraft. The landing gear was introduced as a result of a constant interaction between Eve and its customers, understanding how the aircraft will be operated. Now, the wheels on our eVTOL will be used for taxiing and repositioning the aircraft. This means greater energy efficiency when compared to the hovering. The landing gears also provide the capability of maneuvering the aircraft on the ground, eliminating the use of ground support equipment for the purpose, facilitating operation and reducing time on ground. The next Slide #5 shows what is now our functional Iron Bird cockpit. As a reminder, the Iron Bird is a deconstructed eVTOL in which we integrate all the different actual components on our eVTOL into a physical system to make sure that all systems work together properly. This is the interface through which the pilot will control the entire system. As you can see, the simulator has approximately 270 degrees view and is connected with all the different rigs of the vehicle system and components. For instance, the joystick is connected to actuators and motors in another adjacent room, and they react physically to all pilots command. All of these are connected to the avionics and the flight control computers with our fifth-generation fly-by-wire control laws. The motors are connected to the battery with its own thermal management system. As much as possible, all wires and cables replicate the composition, width and length of the actual harness that will be on our eVTOL. This assures a representative result of the simulation, allowing the Iron Bird to be used as a tool for vehicle development, flight test clearance of a new feature and product evolution as well as optimize the test campaign. Through this strategy, we maximize the number of prototypes, streamlining the flight test campaign and making the most efficient use of these assets. So, not only does the Iron Bird help us to better integrate and understand how all the systems work together and troubleshoot potential problem on the ground, but it also has an important role for the aftermarket benefit. The Iron Bird will help us improve the system and component maturity, and these are important inputs for successful entry into service and an efficient maintenance program. In total, we have logged more than 10,000 hours of test in these rigs. Another advantage is that the Iron Bird has also helped us to expedite and reduce the costs related to our certification campaign. Keep in mind that some tests can be performed on the ground 24/7, such as electrical systems, circuit breakers, et cetera, and the Iron Bird becomes a very valuable development and certification tool. Moving on to Slide #6. Together with our customers and authorities, we are also developing a strong network of partners in different areas, such as infrastructure and energy, to address one of the many challenges ahead of the Urban Air Mobility, which is to create a whole new ecosystem besides simply developing an aircraft. On the certification side, we participated in ICAO Assembly in Canada, along with ANAC, the Brazilian Air Force and other government officials, along with representative of several other certifying authorities throughout the world. This reinforces our confidence level that we have the right approach to certify our aircraft with ANAC as a primary certifying authority. Besides that, we are increasing our presence in the Middle East with an agreement to support the adoption and growth of eVTOLs in the region with the Kingdom of Bahrain. The agreement positions Bahrain as a regional hub for electrical aviation and will accelerate its regulatory, operational and infrastructure ecosystem for eVTOLs. The agreement also calls for Eve to possibly conduct test flight in the region in 2027. Slide 7 shows our total pre-order backlog that stands around 2,800 aircraft for a total value close to $14 billion based on the list price of 2025. This includes nonbinding letters of intent from 28 different customers as well as Revo’s firm order. Out of the 28 customers, we also have secured contracts with 14 different customers for Eve TechCare suite of aftermarket products and services, which could bring up to USD 1.6 billion in revenue to Eve over the first few years of operation. As you can see, we also have 21 different customers for our air traffic management solution, Vector, and I believe this reflects the market's leading value proposition we bring to our customers. Now I would like to invite our CFO, Edu, to review the financial results and the 2025 milestone checklist.
Thanks, Johann. Eve has successfully concluded a new funding raise of $230 million through a registered direct offering in August. This equity placement has not only improved our cash position to its highest level ever, but also extended our cash runway to about 2.5 years. We are very comfortable with our current liquidity and estimate it is sufficient to fund our operations and R&D expenses through 2027. The offering was anchored by 2 strategic and long-standing investors, the Brazilian Development Bank, BNDES, and our controller, Embraer, showing strong investor support and commitment to our project. Also, we had more than 30 U.S. and Brazilian institutional investors participating in this round. The strong institutional participation expanded our public floating and Embraer now has 72% of our total equity, down from 82%, and Eve's daily trading volume in the New York Stock Exchange is averaging $7 million per day. Now moving to Slide 10 (sic) [Slide 9]. Eve is a pre-operational company, and our financials reflect mostly the costs associated with our program development. That said, I would like to highlight some of our numbers. Eve invested $45 million during the third quarter '25 in our program development. We continue to accelerate our program development with more engineers from Eve and Embraer as well as higher engagement with suppliers. We also deployed about $7 million in SG&A during the third quarter, in line with previous quarters. Including R&D and SG&A, Eve reported a net loss of $47 million in the third quarter 2025. We also recognized a gain related to the fair value of our outstanding warrants, which is a noncash gain. Moving to cash flow. Our operations consumed around $60 million in the quarter, reflecting higher program activity and overall engagement with engineering and other R&D functions to progress our eVTOL development. With $143 million in cash consumed in the first 9 months of the year, we are on track to hit the low end of our guidance of total cash consumption between $200 million to $250 million for the full year of 2025, reflecting our cost discipline, simple business model and advantages of leveraging Embraer's capabilities. Finally, on liquidity, we ended the quarter with $412 million in cash, again, the highest ever cash level for Eve. Including an awarded grant and an undrawn BNDES credit lines, total liquidity is now at $534 million. These standby facilities continue to help Eve to preserve a solid cash position. Now going to Slide 10. We remain on track to deliver our milestones this year. As Johann detailed earlier, our first full-scale prototype is concluding final tests and installations to start to perform its initial flights in the upcoming months. In parallel, we continue talks with ANAC, Brazil's certification authority, to detail the certification plans. We expect it to be published by the end of the year to begin certification tests. We continue to engage with suppliers working on the initial parts of our conforming prototypes. And in parallel, we have started to receive the necessary equipment and tooling to produce the certification vehicles. Lastly, our cash consumption for the year is in good shape and in line to reach the low end of our guidance of $200 million to $250 million. With that, we conclude our remarks, and I would like to open the call for questions. Operator, please proceed.
[Operator Instructions] And the first question comes from Savi Syth with Raymond James.
Just -- congrats on the progress and financing deals. But I'm kind of curious about the Bahrain update yesterday. Just -- could you talk a little bit more about how that would work? It looks like 2027 you'll be doing work there. Is that flight testing using the engineering prototype or maybe the certification aircraft that you're building? And is that still part of that agreement?
Great, Savi. Thank you. Yes, we're thrilled about this announcement that we did with Bahrain, with the Ministry of Transportation & Telecommunication. It was also on Sunday, right? We're -- it was talked about at the Gateway Gulf Investment Forum. Very important. We've been in talks with the Middle East and the UAE for some time now. And I think this really proves that we're bringing the solution that they're looking for. This is a sandbox that will work to accelerate the readiness of the regulatory aspect, the operational, the infrastructure also, the ecosystem. We're going to be starting different fronts, like I mentioned, looking at the vertiports, looking at the operation. And when it comes to the testing, we're looking at the possibility of maybe starting some test flights, right, in 2027. It's not defined yet, but this is what we're definitely working on, maybe using a prototype, this is something that we're thinking about, but definitely for the operation in '28 in the region.
And does that come with any revenue stream? Or it's just kind of more of a demonstration?
Well, no, it will have revenue stream. But definitely on the demonstration, we haven't defined exactly the scope and how it's going to be, right, at this stage.
No, we expect to get orders, right, Savi, as we start to fly and go to the region, we expect for more orders. PDP is the traditional type of sale with other customers.
That makes sense. I appreciate that. And then just on the cash flow side, I just wanted to clarify -- again, congrats on getting that deal across last month or a couple of months ago. But is that -- this current spend still the thought process that this is kind of the level of spend for 2026 as well?
Yes, we're consuming around $60 million, right? We consumed that in the third quarter, $6 million. Probably fourth quarter should be around $6 million as well, and we may close the year around $200 million. For next year, if we keep that pace, which I think is, I would say reasonable, we may consume a little bit more, right, than $200 million, so something maybe around $250 million. We're still working on the details for 2026, and we still don't have a guidance. We may provide something by the fourth quarter results, but I think it's reasonable to expect to keep that pace.
And the next question comes from Andres Sheppard with Cantor Fitzgerald.
Congratulations on the quarter and all the great progress. I wanted to maybe follow up from Savi's first call just on the expansion to the Middle East. Hoping maybe you can give us a bit more detail there? So you're targeting commercial services in 2028 and then further expansion in 2029. But I'm curious, just given the region's maybe more leniency towards the certification process, is there an opportunity here perhaps to commercialize ahead of FAA certification? Is that something that's being explored? Or what's overall the strategy here in the region?
Thanks, Andres. That's a good question. Obviously, our primary authority is ANAC, and this will start for us with ANAC and then with the bilateral agreement that they have it will be FAA. Now ANAC has been also in contact and have agreements with all other authorities in the world. And it wouldn't be different, like we've done at the Embraer for many, many years where they would accept the ANAC certification. So it's actually independent of what will happen at the FAA, right? But I'll let also Valentini give you a little bit more insight.
Yes. Thank you, Johann, and good question, Andres. This is -- this doesn't change the path that we have of certifying first with ANAC and then validating with other authorities. As Johann mentioned, we work to expedite this process by aligning -- or promoting alignment of not only vehicle characteristics and understanding by all of the authorities, but also supporting ANAC and all that we can in their arrangements and agreements for their certification basis to be accepted by other authorities. So we support the process of having these authorities, accept the ANAC certification basis, and that is done in a way to shorten the time that we have their validation once we have the ANAC type certificate.
Got it. Okay. That's super helpful. Appreciate it. And maybe just as a quick follow-up. Just on your test flight program, just to make sure I have it right. So we are targeting first test flight, I think, before year-end and then to kind of ramp up the program all throughout next year, starting with hover flights and then heading towards a transition. Just can you break that down for us, just what does that flight path look like, just the timing again and just confirm what that looks like for this year and next year?
Sure. Yes. So we'll start reengineering prototype flights, as we had mentioned in the end of this year or at the beginning of next year. So that will start first with, let's say, simpler flights with hovering only, and then that will gradually expand what we call the flight test envelope. So increasing speeds, making maneuvers that cover, let's say, a more extended range of capabilities of the vehicle. And then from there, expand also to transition flight, which is what we call the phase of flight between hover and cruise flight, the fixed wing part of the flight, right? So that's made in a way for us to validate parameters of our analysis today. So we still have some calibration, some knowledge that we expect to gain from the hover flights themselves. So for example, we believe that we'll be able to gain more insight on the noise of the vehicle once we start flying the hover. So even the hover test phase has significant information for us. But then, evolving towards the transition is also important for us because even though it's a short phase of flight, it has a significant, let's say, a physical phenomenon happening. So it's important that we get that very well, not only for engineering and certification, but also for the comfort and for the user experience inside the vehicle, right? And then in the end, we'll also perform cruise flights or fixed wing airplane flights with this engineering prototype. But that's the, let's say, the working of the vehicle in which we have more confidence from the background that we bring for previous Embraer programs. So that's the progress that we are expecting to make all that to happen next year.
And the next question comes from Eegan McDermott with Jefferies.
Maybe on the supplier with Embraer signing on to provide the landing gear, could you remind us of what other suppliers or component agreements you still need to secure? And maybe at a higher level, what kind of advantages does your extensive supplier network provide compared to peers who have a more vertically integrated approach?
So, thank you for the question. So, this is really the last main system that we have introduced to the vehicle with respect to bringing new suppliers in. So we don't expect to have any other supplier for any major aspect of the vehicle coming in from now on the program. And then, we've been working with -- on the second part of your questions, with suppliers that we believe bring a differential to our program given their background on aviation product and their knowledge on certification of these products. So for example, the fact that we are working on the battery supply with BAE, we believe that puts us on a good path for certifying this system, which is one of the critical systems of the vehicle, right? So, as we mentioned previously, we believe that the list of suppliers that we assembled was a list that for our program optimize not only the maturity that they bring to our project and the background that they have on the vehicle, but then optimizes what we have in terms of integration of these systems on the vehicle from the previous experience of Embraer projects. Does that answer your question?
It does. Yes. And maybe one follow-up or slightly unrelated question. But in terms of the motor when it comes to performance test, could you provide an update of what you're monitoring there in terms of performance testing? And are you going to continue to dual source motors from Nidec and [ Beta ]? Or is there any intention to source both the lifter and pusher from one supplier? And what would be your priorities in making such a decision if so, whether it's cost performance, scale or else?
Yes. So as we mentioned last time, we -- the flight test of the engineering prototype is part of a process for us to optimize the vehicle characteristics, and that goes through choosing what are the right systems and components to compose the vehicle, right? So, we are still on that path that we mentioned on the last call, to understand the opportunities that we have for supply of the motors, both lifters and pusher. And then based on the choices that we have and the fit that we get from the tests, then choose the final configuration. We choose these components on a number of parameters, I'd say, most importantly, parameters related to performance, so such as weight and the controllability that they provide to the vehicle. But also cost, of course, is an important one and what we believe is the capability of these companies to provide a good product for the life of the vehicle, right? So for production, for support, for spare parts and all of that. So it's really a complete set of parameters that we analyze to -- that will eventually lead to the choice of the supplier for these components.
And the next question comes from Sameer Joshi with H.C. Wainwright.
I just had a couple of questions. First, on the cash burn expectations for this year. I think I heard that you were expecting to be closer to the lower end of that $200 million to $250 million. Is there a reason for that? Were there some programs that were slowed down? Or what was the -- or were you more efficient than you expected to be?
In terms of the cash for this year, you're right. We believe we're going to be closer to the low end of the guidance range of $200 million to $250 million, pretty much because we are trying to optimize our cash consumption the whole time, right? We control expenses. We make sure we're spending money the right way. We try to increase payment terms and have some working capital gains. We are always discussing with suppliers payment terms. There is a lot of work that is done by Embraer as well that we have on the service agreement. So there are different pockets, right, of cash consumption that we're always trying to optimize. We leverage a lot of existing infrastructure, existing capabilities, things that the Embraer Group already has, in order to have this more optimized cash burn, and we're going to continue to do this way, okay?
Okay. Got it. And then just a broader question. Of course, you have like a $14 billion sort of backlog of orders, including from the Eve TechCare and Vector offerings. How are you continuing to engage with these customers? Because the flights are -- the commercial flights are not until 2027. What kind of -- what level of interaction do you have with them? Do you have feedback from them on design -- interior design and stuff like that?
Yes. Thanks for this question, Johann speaking. This is the essence of how Eve is built on, is really based on workshop with our customers, that we have those workshops, whether it's on the HMI, like a human machine interface workshop that tells you how the pilots interact and what we need to have or whether it's all the [ conops ] that we've been doing since the very beginning, whether it's in Rio or Chicago or in London. This is really building together like what will be the Urban Air Mobility environment and type of operation and it shapes not only the vehicle, and this is why you can see over the last 5 years how the vehicle has evolved outside, but also inside. And with the cabin and those full flex cabin concept where you can -- in one day you can change -- within a couple of hours you can change your configuration, whether it's a full cargo or removing the first row, putting in the club configuration for the operation. So this is something that we've been doing since the very beginning, and that's what led us to have the 28 customers and the largest pre-order backlog because we bring not only the vehicle, but the whole solution, where there's the full suite strong from the Embraer heritage, where the 4,000 people that are around the world, the customers understand that we have the DNA and what it takes to support an operation, not only to certify and deliver the first airplane, but make sure that you guarantee a dispatch reliability rate or a [ schedule ] reliability rate, which is exactly what the customers want to make sure the asset is available and it has the most competitive operating cost. And this is the 2 pillars that we have. And the third one is eventually not at the beginning because we can start the operation with the existing infrastructure and airspace management system. But eventually, if we're going to be putting -- and we will be putting thousand, not only us, but the others putting thousands of those vehicles in the air, then we need to make sure that we have urban traffic management software adequate. And I think this is all this DNA that we're bringing, aviation DNA that really pushes the customer to elect Eve.
And the next question comes from Andre Madrid with BTIG.
When you think about scaling production moving forward, where might you anticipate the largest bottlenecks forming? Or I guess, maybe put more broadly, are there any risks that you see throughout your supply chain currently?
No, we believe the way we are going to be doing the manufacturing, right, the industrialization of the eVTOL, is going to be modular, right? We start with -- we're going to have basically 3 modules, right? The first one, 120 eVTOLs per year, 120, doing in the Brazilian factory. Then we can go from 120 to 240 just with an extra shift, right? The first one has 2 shifts. Together, the 240 will go to the third shift. Then we can double the 240 to 480 with some additional tooling and equipment. Nothing major for the 240, probably we're going to be investing around $100 million, for the 480, $150 million. So we have all of that method. The suppliers -- as Valentini mentioned, right, we have very good suppliers. They have production capabilities, a lot of production capabilities as well, and we keep them informed of our production plans. As we ramp up production, we believe suppliers will be ready also to ramp up their supply. So we're not envision any major challenge to get this 500 eVTOLs per year. Of course, to deploy all those eVTOLs in the markets and so on, we may need some local assembly. But in terms of the production of the eVTOL itself, we're confident on this initial 500 eVTOLs per year capability.
Got it. Got it. I'll return now.
Andre...
Yes, go ahead.
No, sorry, yes, I just want to [ compliment ] another aspect of the -- what we've done with our 22 primary suppliers is those contracts, it took us 1 year, but each of them, it's based on the strong experience of supply chain management the Embraer is bringing. And we know on the conventional aviation, I mean, it is a challenge that we got to cope with and that we've been really learning from. And all the contracts that were negotiated are lifetime agreement, right? Not only for the prototype, not only for the production, but also for the aftermarket. So given all this, we've taken the best breed of negotiation and learning from Embraer and then we've negotiated this contract where one example, I mean, it's not single source program, right? Those are conditions that we had with the suppliers, and it allows us also to derisk the ramp-up or the production, different flows that we can have. So -- and also another one that we've taken to the next level is also we are the face of the customer on the aftermarket. That's another angle just to make sure that we are in touch with our customers on a constant basis and guarantee what I told you from the suppliers and then it goes through us and then we support the customers on the dispatch availability or operating cost, right? So those are really advantages and a strong learning that we've had from the past that -- for someone from a company that's done it for 56 years.
And the next question comes from Austin Moeller with Canaccord.
So based on you said about Bahrain, is ANAC looking to form similar dual cert partnerships with -- for eVTOLs with other countries similar to the relationship that they have with the FAA once the means of compliance are published?
So Austin, the work we've done -- we're doing with Bahrain with respect to certification is very similar to how we're working with other authorities. So we've been trying to, as much as we can, work on the certification basis so that if we don't have a full harmonization, we have good alignment of the requirements. So that means from early on engaging with these authorities to understand their expectation in terms of the requirements for the vehicle and then developing the vehicle in a way that we will be able to show compliance with those requirements, right? So we start talking to these [indiscernible] following what we believe will be important markets for our eVTOL and then start building this alignment on the certification basis. That's something that Eve does. In parallel, as I mentioned earlier, we promote and we try to support as much as we can, a work that is done directly between authorities, so from ANAC to other authorities in the world, in bilateral agreements that they have within the authorities and also agreements that they have with respect to validation of type certificates, for example, right? So we support that. And we try to steer that, and we do that by giving information to the authorities -- is steer that to where we believe we should focus with respect to what markets are most important for our vehicles. So it's a very similar process to what we're doing with the Bahrain certification authority, is to connect with these authorities in the world, build early engagement and then also promote the connection between the authorities to, again, shorten the time that we have for validation once the TC from ANAC is issued.
Great. And can we talk about what stage we're at on assembly for each of the conforming prototypes right now? And how close any of them might be to finishing assembly?
Yes. So for now, we are -- we're still on the definition of much of the design of these prototypes. There are some more long lead parts that are already being manufactured by the suppliers. So those have -- already have drawings released and are also already in production by the suppliers. We will receive -- start to receive those parts next year and then assemble the prototypes next year. So, so far, we are not assembling. We are still working with the manufacturing of the more long lead items and also designing the ones that are, let's say, shorter to manufacture which then we expect to start manufacturing next year.
And this concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference to Lucio Aldworth for any closing comments.
So we accomplished several important milestones this past quarter. We're fully engaged and moving fast, and there's much more to come. So we're going to continue updating you on our progress through the next few quarters, which will be very exciting, and we look forward to meeting you in the upcoming events we're going to attend. As always, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to our team. Thanks, and have a good day.
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Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2025-08-06Eve Holding, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2025 Results
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Eve Holding, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2025 Results
MELBOURNE, Fla., Aug. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Eve Holding, Inc. ("Eve") (NYSE: EVEX and EVEXW) reports its Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Results. Financial highlights Eve Air Mobility is an aerospace company dedicated to the development of an eVTOL (electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft) and the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) ecosystem, which includes eVTOL development, services & support solutions – TechCare and Vector, as well as an Urban Air Traffic Management (Urban ATM) system. Eve is pre-revenue, so it is not expected to produce meaningful revenues, if any, during the aircraft development phase. Financial results should primarily be related to the costs associated with the program's development cycle. Eve reported a net loss of $64.7 million in 2Q25, compared to $36.4 million in 2Q24. The increase in net loss in 2Q25 was primarily driven by higher Research & Development (R&D) expenses, which are costs and activities necessary to advance the development of our suite of products and solutions for UAM, including the Master Service Agreement (MSA) with Embraer. R&D expenses were $45.7 million in 2Q25 vs. $36.3 million in 2Q24, when R&D efforts intensified with advancements in the development of our eVTOL, including the purchase of parts and components and the assembly of our first full-scale prototype. Moreover, R&D demanded increased engineering engagement with Embraer, additional program development activities, and testing infrastructure. The MSA primarily drives our R&D costs with Embraer, which performs several critical developmental activities for Eve. SG&A increased to $8.2 million in 2Q25 vs. $5.4 million in 2Q24. The number of direct employees at Eve increased to approximately 180, up from 170 in 2Q24. Additionally, higher payroll-related costs reflect the recognition of Restricted Stock Units to employees, and SG&A also reflects higher outsourced services in the quarter. Lastly, Eve continues to incur pre-operating expenses for our first production site in Taubaté, Brazil. The increase in SG&A was despite the c.6% YoY average depreciation of the Real vs. the USD. Lastly, Eve recognized a $9.5 million non-cash charge related to the fair value of derivatives – due to marking to market of Eve's private warrants, vs. a $2.1 million gain in 2Q24. Eve's total cash consumption in 2Q25 was just $56.9 million, versus $31.4 million in 2Q24. Eve's Cash, Ca...

