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Autoliv, Inc. (ALV)

Q1 2020 Earnings Call· Fri, Apr 24, 2020

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Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for standing by and welcome to the Q1 2020 Autoliv Incorporated Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants will be on a listen-only mode. There will be a presentation followed by a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] I must advise you all that this conference is being recorded today Friday, April 24, 2020. And without any further delay, I would like to hand the conference over to our first speaker for today, Operations Head of Investor Relations, Mr. Anders Trapp. Please go ahead.

Anders Trapp

Analyst

Thank you, Geno. Welcome everyone to our first quarter 2020 financial results earnings presentation. Here in Stockholm, we have our President and CEO, Mikael Bratt; our new Chief Financial Officer, Fredrik Westin; and myself, Anders Trapp. During today’s earnings call, our CEO will provide a brief overview of our first quarter results as well as provide an update on our general business and short-term market conditions. Following Mikael, Fredrik will provide further details and commentary around the financials. At the end of our presentation, we will remain available to respond to your questions. And as usual, the slides are available through a link on the homepage of our corporate website. Turning to the next slide, we have the Safe Harbor statement, which is an integrated part of this presentation and includes the Q&A that follows. During this presentation, we will reference some non-U.S. GAAP measures. The reconciliation of historical U.S. GAAP to non-U.S. GAAP measures are disclosed in our quarterly press release and the 10-Q that will be filed with the SEC. Lastly, I should mention that this call is intended to conclude at 3:00 P.M. Central European Time, so please follow a limit of two questions per person. I will now turn it over to our CEO, Mikael Bratt.

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Thank you, Anders. Looking now into the Q1 2020 key events on the next slide. Before we start with the formal presentation, I would like acknowledge our employees for the continued actions and commitment to quality, delivery and safety during these exceptional times. During the quarter, global light vehicle production fell close to 25% as production in China and part of other markets in Asia came to stop in early February and that most vehicle manufacturing plants in Europe and North America closed down in mid-March. We have continued to outperform against global light vehicle production as our sales declined organically by 11 percentage points less than global light vehicle production declined. We outperformed light vehicle production significantly in all regions. Despite exceptional weak light vehicle production, we are able to report a strong first quarter. I am especially pleased with our sales outperformance and that our gross margin was slightly higher than a year ago and adjusted operating margin was only 30 basis points lower. Our cash flow was actually at somewhat higher than Q1 last year. The task force we set up to initially manage the situation in China have been expanded to global scale and have been able to act strongly with timely cost reduction actions to offset much of the headwinds from the weak light vehicle production in the quarter. We were able to safeguard our supply chain and make sure that no customer was detected by lack of Autoliv products. We have undertaken a number of actions to manage the evolving situation, including adjusting production and shorter workweek hours to meet lower demand. We have also reduced or suspended investment and spending that are not critical for daily operations, accelerated cost savings initiatives, furloughed personnel often in government-sponsored programs, and reduced compensation for executive officers…

Fredrik Westin

Analyst

Thank you, Mikael. This slide highlights our key figures for the first quarter. Our net sales were $1.8 billion, which is a 15% decline compared to the same quarter last year. Despite the lower sales and lower utilization of our assets from the decline in LVP, our gross margin improved by 50 basis points and was positively by the absence of costs related to the social unrest in Mexico, savings from indirect and direct workforce adjustments, lower raw material costs and also constant currency effects. While the gross margin improved, the lower sales led to a decline of $4 million to $8 million in gross profit. The adjusted operating income declined by around $30 million to $136 million mainly as a result of the lower sales. Reported earnings per share declined by $0.41 to $0.86. The main drivers behind the decrease were $0.53 from lower operating income and $0.05 from financial items partially offset by $0.16 favorable impact from lower tax. Our adjusted ROCE and ROE were both at 15%. Dividend paid in the quarter was $0.62. Looking now on the adjusted operating margin development of the next slide, our adjusted operating margin of 7.4% was 30 basis points lower than in the first quarter 2019. Q1 2019 was however negatively affected by temporary costs for the social unrest in Matamoros in Mexico. Excluding this cost, our adjusted operating margin would have been 8.7% a year ago. As illustrated by the chart, the adjusted operating margin was positively impacted by lower cost for raw materials of 30 basis points, lower cost for SG&A and RD&E of 50 basis points, and positive FX effects. These positive developments were more than offset by the effect of lower sales. The lower organic sales negatively affected the margins by around 317 basis points. However,…

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Thank you, Fredrik. I am proud on how Autoliv employees have been creative in finding ways that we can use Autoliv resources and competence in supporting society’s battle against the COVID-19 crisis. On the next slide, we show some examples of initiatives taken by Autoliv associates around the world. In Poland, we have worked with local hospitals to manufacture and deliver masks. In North America, we are using our laser cutting machines to cut materials for local sewing company that manufactures masks. In India, we have provided food to migrants that have become stranded and have no income to feed their families or themselves. Looking at the market situation on the next slide, you can see that our industry is in a downturn of historic proportions. March is typically one of the busiest months of the year for the car industry. This year, however, the automotive industry has seen its worst March for decades. As consumers were unable to visit car showrooms due to social distancing and government enforced closures as well as shutdown of parts of society, light vehicle sales declined roughly by 38% in the U.S. and by 55% in Europe in March. There is a great uncertainty in light vehicle sales and production due to the evolution of the pandemics. Government actions and policies changes as well as end consumer demand for new vehicles. Therefore, it’s currently not possible to estimate the light vehicle production run-rate. We will reach post the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless of what level of light vehicle production that will be the new normal, we will have to adapt. We are therefore working with different scenarios in preparing for the new normal, some of them significantly lower than the current IHS estimates. Keeping a high degree of flexibility and agility is therefore essential to…

Anders Trapp

Analyst

Thank you, Mikael. Turning the page, this concludes our formal comments for today’s earnings call and we would like to now open up the line for questions. So I turn it back to Geno.

Operator

Operator

Thank you, sir. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of James Picariello. Please go ahead. Your line is now open.

James Picariello

Analyst

Hi, guys. Yes, just on your – the quarter’s significant market outperformance within your guidance framework last quarter and I know obviously a lot has changed since then, but you talked about stronger growth over market position for the second half. Now, was that a factor of better mix in the quarter, favorable customer exposure or was there really just a delay in your ramp down, which maybe gets caught up in the second quarter?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

I would say that the outperformance in the first quarter was, to a large extent, contributed by favorable regional mix in the quarter, where we saw China light vehicle production falling with close to 50% and that we have lower content in that sense. And then you had high, let’s call it, value like content per vehicle in Europe and U.S. still at the high level for the most of the quarter. It was not until the last 2 weeks basically, where you saw the effects in Americas and Europe, so favorable regional mix in the quarter contributed to the outperformance.

James Picariello

Analyst

Got it. And have you – did you also benefit from any competitor issues, maybe competitors struggling more so than Autoliv in the quarter?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

I think, it was no, I mean in the quarter, it’s purely, I would say, the mathematics of the run-rate in the OEMs – on the OEM side here and there you have the effects which I have mentioned regionally.

James Picariello

Analyst

Okay, got it. And then just on Mexico, can you remind us what percentage of your North America sales mix is tied to your production operations in Mexico and then just given what’s going with the peso, will there be a sizable FX transactional benefit potentially this year. Just can you help us walk through how to think about that flow-through? Thank you.

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

No, I think when it comes to the Mexico, U.S. relationship that I would say, you should more see it as the total automotive industry that is very connected. So, I think for us of course we have a high portion of production in Mexico. I mean, that’s one of our biggest production countries. So of course that is important as that goes hand in hand with what’s happening in the U.S., but I think the question is much broader than Autoliv specific here it’s the whole automotive industry that needs to be in sync between Mexico and the U.S. to actually get into a ramp up that is sustainable.

James Picariello

Analyst

And just your thoughts on the FX transactional?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

No, it’s not. You shouldn’t count on anything that I would say it’s not, I mean, first of all, we have no guidance as you know for either the quarter or the year end. I think the FX is in that category here as well. I mean, we have no indications for the quarter here on that.

James Picariello

Analyst

Okay. Thanks, guys.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Rod Lache from Wolfe Research. Please go ahead. The line is now open, Rod.

Rod Lache

Analyst

Great, thank you. Just a few questions. First, you have historically demonstrated a lot of agility in terms of adjusting your cost structure, pretty, you have a very variable cost structure compared to most other auto suppliers. Can you just maybe give us a sense of how that could come into play here, for example, obviously not in Q2, but longer term if revenue stayed below historical levels, maybe it stayed at levels that you saw in the first quarter and you are given enough time, is there any way to characterize the magnitude of cost adjustment and margin that you would ultimately believe you could achieve?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

I think I mean what you are mentioning here about time is the critical here. I think we have stated for a long time. When it comes to our medium to long-term targets here that the critical question there is not that we need to get back to some kind of all-time high levels that we have seen in the past here, it’s stability that is critical. But that’s over time. And since we are not giving any guidance here, I don’t want to get into any time horizons when we talk about this, but we have a structure that provides good flexibility. And I would say here that I mean if you look at our total cost base, I mean, around half our sales is purchase components. Now, the 10% is connected more to direct labor and then not a 10% other flexible type of cost or flexibility. So it leaves around 30% as fixed costs roughly there, but as we all know long-term you can also work with that, but then that’s kind of the ballpark you should think about. And then when you have a situation like we have right now where it comes to definite stop in just a few couple of days, it looks very differently. And also when we are looking into the quarter here, it’s a very steep stop. So I would say normal calculation there is maybe not visible here, but over time that’s the ballpark figures you should think about.

Rod Lache

Analyst

Okay. And do you have any views on obviously every company in the world was putting in place new operational protocols for safety, social distancing, is that in your view have any long-term consequences for productivity or how we think about just operationally that the inefficiency that’s introduced there? And then lastly, can you comment just on what you are hearing about the trajectory of these restarts? So Europe seems like that’s underway, is it just a few plants, are your customers telling you anything about the level of production and how that is expected to ramp over the next weeks?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Yes, I think, all in all, I mean if you start with the last question that. I think when it comes to the visibility here it is of course very, very low under these circumstances. And as we have mentioned and you also have seen some OEMs are starting some of their plants. So, it’s more side-by-side I would say and model by model that they are starting and the levels are very low. And at this point in time and I think also when you look at the ramp up, it will go relatively slow, but what it all depends on is, of course, how the virus is developing here, if it’s stabilizing, if it’s declining or if it’s continuing to spread and increase. So, that’s the $1 million question on how that is developing, because that’s how we will be able to restart across the continent here. And that visibility is of course very low for everybody in the industry. So, I think we will have not – it will be required to have a lot of flexibility and that’s what we are focusing on here, because you could very well see it increasing and then coming down a little bit again and so on. So uncertainty is very, very high and very low visibility. And I think that’s also the feeling and the signals we get from our customers before. Looking at the consequences if I understand your question right on the new measures that we need to implement to keep our employees safety here under current circumstances, if that has a long-term negative impact on productivity and so on. And I would say I guess it’s too early to say that, but I don’t expect it, because the measures we are taking is under these current circumstances, I don’t see to a larger extent, continue beyond the virus situation. So it’s more connected once again to how the COVID-19 pandemic evolves here. Of course, there is some more cumbersome procedures there in terms of equipment and so on that you need, but I don’t see any problem for us to keep up with our productivity work and securing quality and deliveries according to customer expectations here so, it is something we are well equipped to manage.

Rod Lache

Analyst

Great. Thank you.

Anders Trapp

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Mattias Holmberg of DNB. Please ahead, Mattias.

Mattias Holmberg

Analyst

Thank you. You showed quite a decent decline year on year in CapEx spend and I am just trying to understand sort of assuming that there are no changes or delays to our customers loan scheduled activities is there still any room to further scale down the CapEx level from what you reported in Q1?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

That’s an ongoing work of course to see how we can optimize the timing of the things that needs to be invested so I think the usual scrubbing of the CapEx that has been ongoing and will continue to go on and that’s why it is so important here to stay very close to our customers to understand if there is any changes to their own schedule or so when it comes to launches of on how that food impact us in the way that we could delay some of the investments. But all the start of production commitments that we have with our customers of course can ever be jeopardized so that’s the bottom line in terms of what type of CapEx investments we need to stay on above them we continue to scrub the numbers here.

Mattias Holmberg

Analyst

Thank you. One more question from my side, talking about the regional mix again, which you explained here, how it impacted you positively in Q1. Given the dynamics of how the sector has been impacted throughout the year so far would it be reasonable to assume that you then would have a negative regional mix impact in the second quarter?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Yes I mean going into the second quarter, with what we also described around the volumes in Europe, North America and that China is ramping up so I would say it should be assumed that we should see the reverse in the second quarter here but is it by dynamics situation here, but based on that.

Mattias Holmberg

Analyst

Understood. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Sascha Gommel from Jefferies. Please go ahead. Your line is now open.

Sascha Gommel

Analyst

Hi, good afternoon. Thank you for taking my questions. The first one would be on working capital and how this is going to unwind in the second quarter because your absolute level of receivables was higher than payables, so is it fair to assume that from that side we should expect a little bit of an inflow and then similarly from inventory takes up a bit Q1 versus full year numbers. So do you also expect from the inventory side that you get some support?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Let me take that question. So if I start with the inventory side, the background is of course at the end of March, we were ramping up in China while ramping down in Europe and in the U.S. And this was done with very steep curves at the same time. So we need to make sure that we have the material on the one hand side to be prepared for the ramp up but also that we don’t and that would not jeopardize that but at the same time of course also do what we can do to take out the necessary with the unnecessary inventory it is a very difficult balancing act at the moment and with the uncertainty on the volumes it will remain so so it is very difficult to then predict where the inventory develop and would be in the second quarter I mean our plan is to of course to take out as much as we can but it is this balancing act that I described on the receivables side it will follow the sales development and we expect that to pick up during the second quarter so with that you should expect that also build up of receivables in the second quarter and then that will have a negative development on say cash from working capital but the key is to manage the over do part of that and make sure that we don’t run late on collecting but it is I think it would be it will follow the mathematics of the ramp up and that’s the very, very difficult part to explain or to forecast at the moment/

Sascha Gommel

Analyst

Understood. Very clear. And then my second question would be on the decremental margin you touched that multiple times already if you were willing to give a number of if we would exclude product that will make how much of your underlying operating leverages just to get a better understanding of how much of that is actual make and how much of it is actually volumes?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Yes I think I mean I was a little bit touching that in the previous questionnaire when I talked about the fixed and flexible costs and what we said here is that around 30% or fixed so with a short stock like we see right now it maybe worst most likely too much worst situation than normal rule of thumbs here of around 30% so I would say we would see but it depends on lot of things here as you said is fluid situation but with short stops like this it is very, very challenging.

Sascha Gommel

Analyst

Understood. Thank you very much and have a good weekend.

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Thank you

Operator

Operator

And the next question comes from the line of Chris McNally from Evercore. Please go ahead, Chris.

Chris McNally

Analyst

Thanks, gentlemen. I am just going to follow on the topic of decremental margins and you had a great raw material and benefit in the quarter looking at sort of the drag over the last year or two, could you put some parameters around either maybe the benefit going forward or when the peak benefit should be? Should it sort of be in Q2 and Q3 somewhat offsetting the pure volume decremental margin?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

I think as I said we cannot give any guidance and we are not giving any guidance here so I think its we cannot basically give you any time or eyes on this I think what we said in the beginning of the year was to the direction we saw at this time I think what is happening right now is impacting so many things in our industry but also other industries that it is all moving parts right now. So I think we would like to we need to refrain from giving any indications there, because it’s too with basic.

Chris McNally

Analyst

That’s there. And then maybe just more of a follow-on to Rod's question about a more longer term view to variable margins in previous downturns we have seen significant restructuring you took a good amount of restructuring last year as sort of we were already at production levels that were well below $100 to $110 million that we all thought a couple of years ago. Is there a level of production or sort of a trigger that would cause the next round of restructuring I am thinking more about permanent and positive to production capacity and white collar workforce?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

I mean of course we are working with the number of scenarios here and as we have indicated here I mean the rule and normal rule of thumb is what we have stated before on I think beyond that is all depending on how to develop and this coming through here and we are of course working with number of scenarios here we will need to do whatever we need to do to make sure that we come out in a strong way and I am convinced that we have the tools and also the measures available here for whatever we need to do so it will depends on the overall situation and will execute accordingly but I cannot give any more details in terms of time and size.

Chris McNally

Analyst

Absolutely. Thank you.

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from the line of Erik Golrang from SEB. Please go ahead, Erik.

Erik Golrang

Analyst

Thanks. I have one question that hasn’t been asked more or less. And I understand you don’t want to give a full year guidance here on sales even though there is more space, there are vehicle projections to relate to, but on the topic of outperformance and for the full year, is it fair to assume if the second quarter regional mix in terms of auto production continues for the second half of that your previous indication of around 6 percentage points of outperformance would be lower in spite of a good mix in Q1?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

I think I mean we know what kind of orders we have taken over the past couple of years. I think the long-term direction that we have indicated as a result of these orders is still of course the basis for looking forward, but what is happening right now with a very volatile movement in our industry regionally, but also I mean in terms of size, it of course changes the short-term measurement here. And as you heard the explanation for the first quarter, we believe that if what we have described now current situation is you could expect to reverse, but it all depends also of course on beyond that on how the markets coming back and how it synchronized back to some kind of normal relationships there. But of course, those things impacting, so therefore it’s very difficult to give you any – and that’s why we are refraining from the whole guidance altogether, because it’s so many moving parts, including this one.

Erik Golrang

Analyst

Okay, thank you.

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Victoria Greer from Morgan Stanley. Pleas go ahead.

Victoria Greer

Analyst

Good afternoon. Yes, just a few please. Firstly, understand how much the raw material situation is moving around, but could you give us an indication of how much of that contribution just in Q1? The second thing on the geographic mix, you have outlined the differences in terms of content per vehicle, that’s clear on the top line, but is there any difference in margin there? And then the last thing on the Matamoros impact, thanks for quantifying that in the bridge, should we think about any ongoing year-over-year impact or was that really just a Q1 ‘19 issue that doesn’t repeat for the rest of the year?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Yes. I think, I mean, first question, raw material impact in the first quarter as you see from the bridge there, we are talking about the 30 basis points positive contribution for raw materials, so starting the…

Victoria Greer

Analyst

Sorry and on the top line sorry that’s what I meant, what did you do on the top line?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

The raw material impact on the top line, I don’t – I can’t give you a number there. Unfortunately, I don’t have it.

Victoria Greer

Analyst

Okay.

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

On the ongo – if Matamoros was one-time from last year that we reverse in this year. If your question was do we have ongoing activity – for the rest of the year that would have the same effect, was that the question?

Victoria Greer

Analyst

Yes. Is there anything more to come out for the remaining quarters or it was just a Q1 ‘19 effect there has been this one-off impact on the margin, because it doesn’t repeat?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

No, almost nothing. So this was the big Q1. And then sorry the third question was?

Victoria Greer

Analyst

On the geographic mix and the difference in content per car in the different regions, you have been clear about that impact on the top line that will reverse in Q2, should we think about any different margins there or it’s just a content issue?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

No. I mean, what we are referred to here is the content issue and the top line effect here. And of course in terms of EBIT mix here, we don’t go into the details per product and region here.

Victoria Greer

Analyst

Alright, thank you.

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Agnieszka Vilela from Nordea. Please go ahead.

Agnieszka Vilela

Analyst

Thank you. I have couple of questions. Staring with kind of cost side of your business and what you can do there we know that the program you announced last year was supposed to bring about $60 million in yearly savings. How is that proceeding and do you already seeing it for expanding, restructuring because of what’s happening now? Thank you.

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

I think when it comes to the structural efficiency program we launched last year and some effects last year, but the full effect should be reached during this year. I would say we are on track on that and we are expecting to see the full delivery of that during this year. I think we have indicated in the past here that fully executed is not until we come into the second quarter here.

Agnieszka Vilela

Analyst

And do you plan anything above that, yes?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

I think going forward here, I mean, we are working through all types of cost reductions over let’s call it shot-term nature right now. Then I think the scenario planning we are working will give additional or long-term effect that is needed potentially, but it all comes down to what will be the new normal so to speak beyond the current short-term challenge where we are all dependent on the result of the COVID-19. So to get to the new normal, we need to leave COVID-19 behind us.

Agnieszka Vilela

Analyst

And if you could quantify any cost benefit that you see from the support from the governments and states in different regions? And also just tell us if you believe that it’s anyway different from what happened during the financial crisis?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

I think the government support and programs, it’s too early to give any effects, talk about any numbers there. So broad range of programs and we are also in different phases of these different programs. And I would say also some the much is similar to, so far similar to what we saw in the financial crisis. I think some counties here have added some initiatives that was not there so, it’s a little bit mixed picture, but in many places, especially in the bigger ones, we see similar kind of activities here. But I would say it’s too early to give a number on it.

Agnieszka Vilela

Analyst

And then the last question for me is really if you could elaborate why you felt the urge to drawdown on all of our revolver given the fact that you have quite limited maturities in both 2020 and 2021, so what was the reason really behind that?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

I think, you should see it as just very cautious and proactive activity here for what is a very challenging time. And we have alluded to here during the call here is and also in our report is that the uncertainty is very, very high. We are talking about restart here in Europe and the intention of restarting in North America in early May. But as we are dependent on this pandemic situation meaning we need get that beyond us in order to get back to where we all should be in the industry so to speak. We don’t know how it will develop, if it’s improving or if it’s stabilizing or if it’s diminishing. So, very, very uncertain, so we think that’s the prudent way to manage the company.

Agnieszka Vilela

Analyst

Okay, thank you.

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Hampus Engellau from Handelsbanken. Please go ahead, Hampus.

Hampus Engellau

Analyst

Thank you very much. Two questions from me. And I apologize if it’s already been asked, because I was a bit late on this call, but in the 11 percentage point, outperformance organic growth during the quarter, is it possible for you to maybe split how much is sales mix from China and how much is market share gains? I am referring back to this 6 percentage points that you referenced about outperformance for the year when you talked about to previously was that figure back end loaded? That’s my first question.

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

When we talked about it in the beginning of the year where we said we will have an outperformance of 6%, yes, it was back end loaded. So what we see here now in the first quarter is to a less extent regional mix effect, as we said here, where China with lower content per vehicle falling with 50%, while Europe and North America was holding up well. That was the consequences of that.

Hampus Engellau

Analyst

Fair enough. Yes and then on, I know that you don’t give me any guidance, but if I look at the IHS numbers with a 45% drop second quarter, minus 7% Q3, minus 8% Q4. From your talks to the OEMs and like indicated and even if it’s like really early stage planning for second half is that in the ballpark of what type of discussions you are having with required OEMs when it comes to that?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

I think what we are saying here about uncertainty is reflecting our discussion with the OEM, because I think no one have clearer view on how this will develop hence the situation here where we are dependent on the virus basically here and the uncertainty is high also among our customers on how we actually will payout. I think there is of course some plan, some expectations and hopes, but very few know of course.

Hampus Engellau

Analyst

Thank you very much.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Emmanuel Rosner from Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead, Emmanuel.

Emmanuel Rosner

Analyst

Hi, thanks for taking the question. One more clarification on the decremental, so when I look at your margin progression year-over-year, we sort of helpfully breakdown sort of like the volumes and other business impacts versus some of the offsetting cost savings, it looks like your decremental margins would have been a certain amount and then about a third of it is offset through cost savings. Any indication you can give us around the magnitude of potential cost savings as you move into Q2 and the rest of the year, could it be stepped up at the level of Q1 or even step back, I guess, how do you think about that?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

I don’t think we can give anymore detail surrounding than what we have got yet got so far here, because as we said the uncertainty is high and I think that the visibility we can give you what we already stated unfortunately.

Emmanuel Rosner

Analyst

Okay. So then on the different topic, so obviously over time your gross above market is heavily driven by sort of the market share gains, I think you also indicated that your win rate has stayed pretty high. Can you maybe talk about new discussion, recent discussion with automakers around timing of those launches? Are there any important or major delays just sort of like know how are things sort of like looking for the rest of this year, I think is being pushed out and any notable differences between regions?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

No, as we indicated it before, so far we don’t see any delays here. Of course that’s something that we are cautious of considering down certain development here, but so far, nothing is indicated in that direction, so in that sense, business as usual.

Emmanuel Rosner

Analyst

Okay, thank you.

Anders Trapp

Analyst

We have time for one last question.

Operator

Operator

Thank you sir. And that comes from the line of Joseph Spak from RBC. Please go ahead.

Joseph Spak

Analyst

Thanks so much for squeezing me in. Maybe one more quick one on the outgrowth, I know this is a pretty sort of just-in-time industry, but is it possible there are sort of any shipments maybe in like the second week of March like right ahead of sort of the last two weeks shutdown in North America and Europe that sort of contributed to some of the outgrowth that could reverse in second quarter?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Yes, I mean longer we had Europe and North America running here in the quarter, it supported that mix effect, so yes.

Joseph Spak

Analyst

So, it’s possible that they took some orders assuming that they would continue to produce and then may sort of appropriately had to shutdown.

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Yes. I think I mean our customers are starting to pickup. So I mean we don’t have any insight that looks like there, but that’s reasonable to think yes.

Joseph Spak

Analyst

Okay. And then maybe just one on some of the risks you called out in the newsletter, you talked about maybe potentials on the demand or even power shortages in China, uncertainty in Mexico and the UAW is coming out now and saying they are not sort of comfortable with sort of an early May restart? And also just what are you seeing in your supply chain, because if I go back to some very old notes from the financial crisis, I think you said back then, you guys sort of helped to support like maybe 10 or so of your suppliers and are you seeing anything there or needing to take any action there? Thank you

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

I mean, we are of course very close to our supplier base and working together with them to have all the restart activities lined up and so on, including that of course monitoring also the health of the suppliers. And I must say, so far it looks good. We are not currently in anyway close to the situation where we were in the financial crisis. So I would say healthier positions now, but we should also remember that we all live basically two months into this crisis here. So of course that’s something we need to continue to look carefully at, but I would say so far so good and we haven’t needed to do anything yet.

Anders Trapp

Analyst

Yes, Joseph any follow-up question?

Joseph Spak

Analyst

Yes, sorry. And just on some like maybe Mexico or some others in China that you pointed out?

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Yes, I think I mean just to redirect again I am certain to hear and I mean to get U.S. going full again, you need to have Mexico really on that. And I think we see different status in terms of how the stay-at-home policies looking like and so on and also the ambitions to restart in terms of timing and so on. So, there is still lot of unknowns surrounding all this and that’s why we are very cautious here of giving any indications where we think we are going, because there is so many things that – it’s outside a normal industry judgment you could say, because we are once again dependent on how the virus develops and also the regional and country governments are reacting to that.

Joseph Spak

Analyst

Thank you.

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you all for your questions. I will hand back the call now to the President and CEO, Mr. Mikael Bratt for closing remarks. Please go ahead sir.

Mikael Bratt

Analyst

Thank you, Geno. Before we end today’s call, I would like to say that while preparing for restarting, we will continue to managing the effects of the short light vehicle production decline with a never ending focus on quality and operational excellence. Our second quarter earnings call is scheduled for Friday, July 17, 2020. And thank you everyone for participating on today’s call. We sincerely appreciate your continued interest in Autoliv. Until next time, stay safe.

Operator

Operator

Okay. That does conclude our conference for today. Speakers, please standby. Participants, you may all disconnect. Thank you for joining. Stay safe everyone.