RE: essential reading9 Aug 2022 14:26
https://karenable.com/turtle-soup-aston-martin-1st-half-2022-results/
"Of all the numbers though, the movement in payables over the last 12 months is probably the most telling as to the degradation of AML’s financial situation. At the end of June 2021, payables sat at a quite high £609 mil. Just 6 months later, at the end of 2021, they had ballooned to £721 mil. (as a reference, Ferrari’s payables were £670 mil. at year end 2021 on a business more than 3x the size) and today they are at £843 mil. Given the fact that car wholesales are down in the last 6 months, from a purely operational standpoint, AML’s payables should not have continued to balloon and certainly not to this extent. However, if you look at AML’s cash situation, had they held payables at the already elevated year end 2021 levels, the cash on hand would have dropped from £156 mil. to £32 mil., again leaving AML nearly insolvent. "