Novelis Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Results

Results negatively affected primarily by higher market pricing for scrap aluminum inputs

ATLANTA, Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- 

Q3 Fiscal Year 2025 Highlights

• Net income attributable to our common shareholder of $110 million, down 9% YoY; Net income attributable to our common shareholder excluding special items was $119 million, down 32% YoY
• Adjusted EBITDA of $367 million, down 19% YoY
• Rolled product shipments of 904 kilotonnes, down 1% YoY
• Adjusted EBITDA per tonne shipped of $406, down 19% YoY

Novelis Inc., a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider and the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today reported results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2025.

"We continue to see strong demand across our markets as customers increasingly ask for lower-carbon, higher-recycled-content aluminum solutions as a way to reduce their carbon footprint," said Steve Fisher, president and CEO, Novelis Inc. "With a leading industry average of 63% recycled content in our products in our last fiscal year, Novelis has been a pioneer in using recycled inputs to drive down carbon emissions. As others have begun to follow suit, competition for scrap aluminum has intensified and is creating significant pressure on scrap pricing, which is impacting our financial results. We believe we are well-positioned to face these challenges and have operational and cost efficiency initiatives underway to offset some of the pressures. At the same time, we are also developing new technologies that will allow us to expand the types of scrap inputs we can purchase for use in our system."

Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Highlights

Net sales for the third quarter of fiscal year 2025 increased 4% versus the prior year period to $4.1 billion, mainly driven by higher average aluminum prices as total rolled product shipments of 904 kilotonnes are largely comparable to the prior year period. Continued strong demand for beverage packaging sheet was offset by lower automotive and specialty shipments.

Net income attributable to our common shareholder decreased 9% versus the prior year to $110 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2025. Net income attributable to our common shareholder, excluding special items, was down 32% year-over-year to $119 million and Adjusted EBITDA decreased 19% to $367 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2025. The decreases in net income attributable to our common shareholder, excluding special items, and Adjusted EBITDA are primarily driven by higher aluminum scrap prices and unfavorable product mix. Adjusted EBITDA per tonne was down 19% year-over-year to $406. 

Net cash flow provided by operating activities was $263 million in the first nine months of fiscal year 2025 compared to $420 million in the prior fiscal year period, primarily due to lower net income and unfavorable changes in working capital. Adjusted free cash flow was an outflow of $915 million in the first nine months of fiscal year 2025, higher than the prior year period outflow of $517 million due to higher capital expenditures and lower cash flow from operating activities. Total capital expenditures were $1.2 billion for the first nine months of fiscal year 2025, a 22% increase versus the prior year period, primarily attributed to strategic investments in new rolling and recycling capacity under construction, most notably in the U.S. for Bay Minette. The company had a net leverage ratio (Adjusted Net Debt / trailing twelve months (TTM) Adjusted EBITDA) of 2.9x at December 31, 2024.

"Novelis is leading the industry in first-mover investments to capture growing market opportunities," said Devinder Ahuja, executive vice president and CFO, Novelis Inc. "We intend to fund those investments largely through internally generated cash flow while maintaining balance sheet discipline to ensure we stay in a net leverage ratio of approximately 3.5x during this strategic investment cycle."

The company had a total liquidity position of $1.6 billion, consisting of $791 million in cash and cash equivalents and $790 million in availability under committed credit facilities, as of December 31, 2024. In January, 2025, the company issued $750 million in senior unsecured notes due January 2030, with the proceeds primarily used to repay outstanding borrowings under our ABL revolver.

Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Earnings Conference Call

Novelis will discuss its third quarter fiscal year 2025 results via a live webcast and conference call for investors at 7:00 a.m. EST/5:30 p.m. IST on Monday, February 10, 2025. The webcast link, presentation materials and access information can also be found at novelis.com/investors. To view slides and listen to the live webcast, visit: https://event.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=jkklO5W7. To participate by telephone, participants are requested to register at: https://services.incommconferencing.com/DiamondPassRegistration/register?confirmationNumber=13750593&linkSecurityString=1daa6802b2 

About Novelis

Novelis Inc. is driven by its purpose of shaping a sustainable world together. We are a global leader in the production of innovative aluminum products and solutions and the world's largest recycler of aluminum. Our ambition is to be the leading provider of low-carbon, sustainable aluminum solutions and to achieve a fully circular economy by partnering with our suppliers, as well as our customers in the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialties industries throughout North America, Europe, Asia and South America. Novelis had net sales of $16.2 billion in fiscal year 2024. Novelis is a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries Limited, an industry leader in aluminum and copper, and the metals flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, a multinational conglomerate based in Mumbai. For more information, visit novelis.com.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This news release and the presentation slides for the earnings call contain non-GAAP financial measures as defined by SEC rules. We believe these measures are helpful to investors in measuring our financial performance and liquidity and comparing our performance to our peers. However, our non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. These non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for GAAP financial measures. To the extent we discuss any non-GAAP financial measures on the earnings call, a reconciliation of each measure to the most directly comparable GAAP measure will be available in the presentation slides, which can be found at novelis.com/investors. In addition, the Form 8-K includes a more detailed description of each of these non-GAAP financial measures, together with a discussion of the usefulness and purpose of such measures.

Attached to this news release are tables showing the condensed consolidated statements of operations, condensed consolidated balance sheets, condensed consolidated statements of cash flows, reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA per Tonne, Adjusted Free Cash Flow, Adjusted Net Leverage Ratio, Net Income attributable to our common shareholder excluding Special Items, and segment information.

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements made in this news release which describe Novelis' intentions, expectations, beliefs or predictions may be forward-looking within the meaning of securities laws. Forward-looking statements include statements preceded by, followed by, or including the words "believes," "expects," "anticipates," "plans," "estimates," "projects," "forecasts," or similar expressions. Examples of forward-looking statements in this news release are statements about: our belief that competition for scrap aluminum has intensified, creating significant pressure on scrap pricing and our financial results; our belief that Novelis is well positioned to face the current competition environment and cost efficiency initiatives may offset some of the pressures; and our anticipation of the benefit of acceleration of developing new scrap recycling technology. Novelis cautions that, by their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty and Novelis' actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. We do not intend, and we disclaim any obligation, to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Factors that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ from the results expressed or implied by forward-looking statements include, among other things: disruptions or changes in the business or financial condition of our significant customers or the loss of their business or reduction in their requirements; price and other forms of competition from other aluminum rolled products producers and potential new market entrants; competition in our end-markets, and the willingness of our customer to accept substitutes for our products, including steel, plastics, composite materials and glass; our failure to realize the anticipated benefits of strategic investments; increases in the cost of volatility in the availability of primary aluminum, scrap aluminum, sheet ingot, or other raw materials used in the production of our products; risks related to the energy-intensive nature of our operations, including increases to energy costs or disruptions to our energy supplies; downturns in the automotive and ground transportation industries or changes in consumer demand; union disputes and other employee relations issues; the impact of labor disputes and strikes on our customers; loss of our key management and other personnel, or an inability to attract and retain such management and other personnel; unplanned disruptions at our operating facilities, including as a result of flooding or other adverse weather phenomena; economic uncertainty, capital markets disruption and supply chain interruptions, including as a result of geopolitical instability due to the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, attacks on shipping vessels in the Red Sea, and the ongoing conflicts in the Gaza Strip and the surrounding regions; risks relating to certain joint ventures, subsidiaries and assets that we do not entirely control; cybersecurity attacks against, disruptions, failures or security breaches and other disruptions to our information technology networks and systems; risks related to rising inflation and prolonged periods of elevated interest rates; timing differences between the prices we pay under purchase contracts and metal prices we charge our customers; a deterioration of our financial condition, a downgrade of our ratings by a credit rating agency or other factors which could limit our ability to enter into, or increase our costs of, financing and hedging transactions; risks related to variable rate indebtedness, including interest rate risk; adverse changes in currency exchange rates; our inability to transact in derivative instruments, or our inability to adequately hedge our exposure to price fluctuations under derivative instruments, or a failure of counterparties to our derivative instruments to honor their agreements; an adverse decline in the liability discount rate, lower-than-expected investment return on pension assets; impairments to our goodwill, other intangible assets and other long-lived assets; tax expense, tax liabilities or tax compliance costs; operating and financial restrictions imposed on us by the covenants in our credit facilities and the indentures governing our Senior Notes; our inability to protect our intellectual property, the confidentiality of our know-how, trade secrets, technology, and other proprietary information; risks related to our global operations, including the impact of complex and stringent laws and government regulations; global climate change or the legal, regulatory or market responses to such change; and conflicts of interest and disputes arising between Hindalco, our parent company, and the Company that could be resolve in a manner unfavorable to the Company. The above list of factors is not exhaustive. Other important factors are discussed under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024 and as the same may be updated from time to time in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, or in other reports which we from time to time file with the SEC.

SOURCE Novelis Inc.