Nov 19 (Reuters) - Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng ( XPEV )
forecast fourth quarter revenue above Wall Street
estimates on Tuesday, as a refreshed product line-up and
improving domestic market help the company see higher demand.
U.S.-listed shares of the company were up 5.1% in premarket
trading.
XPeng ( XPEV ) is seeing a steady demand for its MONA M03 mid-sized
sedan, having delivered more than 10,000 units for the second
straight month in October.
MONA M03 competes with BYD's Seagull and Dolphin and the
higher-priced Tesla Model 3, and was launched in a bid to grab
market share from BYD, Nio, and Tesla
.
After months of decline, the passenger vehicle sales of
China - the largest auto market in the world - rose for a second
straight month in October.
XPeng ( XPEV ) expects fourth quarter revenue between 15.3 billion
yuan and 16.2 billion yuan, compared with analysts' average
estimate of 14.77 billion yuan, according to data compiled by
LSEG.
XPeng ( XPEV ) unveiled its P7+ executive sedan earlier this month,
which became its first vehicle to incorporate large AI models
that are trained on massive amounts of data.
The P7+ received over 31,000 non-refundable orders in
three hours following the launch, and according to analysts at
Jefferies, marks the beginning of the company's efforts to
revamp its product line-up.
XPeng ( XPEV ) expects to deliver between 87,000 and 91,000
vehicles in the fourth quarter, up 44.6% to 51.3% from a year
ago. It delivered 46,533 vehicles in the third-quarter, up 16.3%
from a year ago.
Revenue for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 was 10.10
billion yuan ($1.39 billion), beating estimates of 9.77 billion
yuan.
It reported a loss of 1.90 yuan per ADR, while analysts were
expecting a loss of 1.71 yuan per ADR.
($1 = 7.2434 Chinese yuan renminbi)
(Reporting by Rishi Kant and Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru)