Moura Dubeux Engenharia S.A. (MDNE3) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary
August 13, 2026
Earnings Call Speaker Segments
Alan Aquino
executiveGood morning, everyone. We will now start our presentation of our results for the second quarter of 2026 of MDNE. I am Alan Aquino, and I'm presenting the results today with Diego Villar, the CEO of the company; Diego Wanderley, the CFO; and Diogo de Barral Araujo, the Director of Investor Relations. [Operator Instructions] We'd also like to remind you all that any declarations that can be made during the conference are based on premises of the directors of MDNE. Future considerations are not guarantees of support of results as they involve results, risks and factors that may or may not occur. Having made the disclaimer, Villar, please go ahead.
Diego Paixao Villar
executiveHi, Alan. It's a pleasure to be here with you for the quarter for most of us -- the majority of I know I'm going to mention 1 of the principal operational indicators and financial indicators. On my letter from the administration, the message that we sent to you, we mentioned the record of net profit of the company. But what the most important thing is in our perspective, less than the record itself is that at the beginning of last year, we said that the potential had a potential -- the company had a potential to change to a level to reach operating numbers that will shortly be reflected in the financial numbers of the company. And then we would like to realign these expectations with you. What makes me satisfied is to know that during this quarter and since the first quarter of 2025, we are delivering results that we have signaled to the market. We did -- we have done this with a great deal of discipline. And at the same time, we grew the company, bringing to you performance results and financial results, which are better than those which we have been delivered up until the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025. Those who follow the real estate market know that it's not easy to be improving the indicators of financial results. We've been able to do that with a huge amount of discipline in our cash management and the development of products and the commercialization of this and more important is the actual execution of these projects, the construction work, which is we are watching our margins, bringing more to a company extremely predictable with much less in the importance of the size is the capacity to be trustworthy and deliver results, which place us on a level among the best developers in Brazil. So that's what I think the most important thing and what we've been seeking for is the confidence and credibility and predictability for you that what we bring as a signal is what we will perform. Looking at the principal points, we've launched approximately BRL 1 billion in the second quarter of '26. When we look at the 12 months -- the year-to-date 12 months, we look at the BRL 4.6 billion in the last 12 months. 82% came from the condominium market, approximately BRL 3.8 billion and 18% in the development model, which is basically is liquid of BRL 855 million. Since the beginning of this year, we've been signaling a range from between BRL 4.5 billion and BRL 5.5 billion of launches and sales per year. When we look at BRL 5.5 billion, we brought the Ún1ca with BRL 2.5 billion, Mood with BRL 1 billion and the rest being complemented by the closed condominium model with the Moura Dubeux brand. We still don't have this configuration. We started this year to present these projects for Ún1ca, but this show itself to be in a balanced way starting next year. However, we're following exactly when I opened the presentation, disciplined and very, very confident that which we have been telling you and sharing with you what we've been delivering. As far as Moura Dubeux is concerned, what we're able to administer and the limitations and our limitations is that we're able to do that better than what we -- than the expectations that we would be the market demand and the conditions that -- which is not managed by us, we've always had a scenario which was more challenging for the country, and we've been able to navigate well with this caution when we look at the macroeconomic demands for labor and that which is put in the results, and which is not on our direct manage. When we look at the sales level, we sold exactly what we launched, BRL 1 billion in sales, contracted just during the second quarter of '26. And we look at the last 12 months, including this quarter, we reached the level of BRL 3.8 billion, BRL 2.7 billion in the model of condominium and 72% and a little more than BRL 1 billion, 28% in the development model. More importantly, I would say than these openings in this mix is the quality of our VSO. We've been going for 5 straight quarters performing between 51% and 56% of VSO and reinforcing again more important than the level of sales and launches is how much we -- the quality that we have. We maintain a strong VSO. We have started the third quarter in the month of July, isolated way, which is better than general between January and April, comparing it to the previous months, the quarters immediately before the second quarter. And it was July is the best beginning of the third quarter, which doesn't remove from us our caution or our concern of which we have with demand, the quality of our sales. We try not to make any type of discount in our mix of products. We even may open if it's something we haven't seen yet and something of sales velocity do not hurt our margins. However, the VSO up until this point in time as a comparison is moving at the same rate and the same level, which is more -- for us, is more important than the number of products or the VGV that's launched. What's most important is that the margins that we have been able to reach. The revenue, Rand is going to talk in more detail. I'll bring a few highlights. We reached BRL 731 million net revenue just in the second quarter. And more than that volume is the gross margin hitting 39% we adjust when we adjust that, it becomes over 40%. And that's what I've been saying since opening the meeting here. The quality of the financial indicators of the company which we guided in the beginning of this year, growing and improving our performance. This is a very extensive work that we do in the product mix and regional diversification, but more important than that is the reflection of our brand, the same quality and our engineering, able to produce all of that and still maintain the performance within the predictability that we see. We closed the deal, launch a new one and continue with you. For the year, we reached BRL 2.6 billion in revenue for the year in the last 12 months. In the last 12 months, it's BRL 2.6 billion, BRL 1.6 billion from condominiums and BRL 37 billion, almost BRL 1 billion from Mood, hardly anything from Ún1ca here yet, but we should see a participation of Ún1ca, a small participation going forward. Net revenue of BRL 174 million just in the second quarter was a record for us. It's good that we've been able to reach this level, but I also highlight that the company which is still prepared and protected than it was 18 months ago or 24 months ago due to the capacity we've had for diversification, the strength of our land of our brands in the 17 markets in which we operate and the product mix that we have been able to balance correctly. And with the introduction of Ún1ca was the Mood brand, which we hope to move in the next quarter. And we've been able to have a company that's more stable when we look at the medium to long term due to the risk factors based on product lines. This is the most important. We have a net margin of 24% net profit in the last 12 months of BRL 559 million. We've been giving guidance or something close to BRL 600 million of net profit for 2026. And last year, when we talked about that, we changed that level. We spoke about BRL 400 million for 2026, high BRL 400 million. Now we're talking about BRL 600 million or BRL 500 million or BRL 600 million. Here, most showing that this is a performance that the company is doing well with great discipline, very focus on what we have proposed to do. And this year, we're doing very well. The average return on equity is 28%. It's probably among the highest in the upper class market. So it's a way for us -- the correct way for us to look at the capital looking inside with this level of profitability, almost double of the average interest rate of the country today. We have cash generation of BRL 27 million in the second quarter. as a company basically unleveraged only 2.5% of net debt compared to net equity. It's important -- this is important in times of high interest rates as we see this. We consider this always our plan to be the company that has low debt, low leverage and shows how much we have the freedom to make the best decisions in the allocation of the company's capital and in the strategic decisions. In this line, this is where we continue guiding the company. Here, looking just a little bit more in the third quarter. We've already launched in the third quarter the end of July, a Beach Class in Macêdo in the Aldeota capital, a product of close condominium, almost. We launched the Infinity new with the of BRL 277 million, a project which closes the cycle of launches of the Novaes, the Newport project since last year, we have gone back to Lucena Plaza, Beach Class Novo Cais in Moura Dubeux Corporate and closed this year consolidating all of these launches between 2030 and 2032, all of that entire neighborhood, which everybody has seen here in [ Bahia ], which we show in the model that we have here which will be a model and a new -- a whole new neighborhood that we're building in. The construction is underway. The only 1 that's not under construction is what we just launched. However, due to the sales performance, we should probably already be building it this year, starting on the construction. So we've concluded our cycle of launches in the region, showing in fact, our capacity for real estate development. In Fortaleza, we had a picture last year of the Macêdo in the heart of [indiscernible], launching a beach class in the Plaza Macêdo. And today, looking at this, it's called VERT Macêdo, a project of closed condominium, 4 launches, all enclosed condominium model. And we also have projects that are prepared Mood, Ún1ca. And during the year, we'll probably have -- we feel very comfortable from the standpoint of legalizations and products that we can launch what we have been guiding you of approximately BRL 5 billion if the market is as it was in the first 6 months, we could probably even get a little bit above that. But more important than the size of that is the quality -- we've been showing the market products by product. The month of July closed, and there's no thought -- nothing that leads us to believe otherwise, as I have been talking with you over the year. But in any event, we need to have the maturity. We can't be naive. We have to maintain the lessons. And there are certain uncertainties that help us to be cautious, but it's no different than what we've seen and guided you during -- about this subject. BRL 3.2 billion is what we reached in launches up until the 31st of July for the year. And if you add this to the projection of the year, it will give that BRL 5.5 billion. It's not a formal commitment. It depends on the market. However, we are very well prepared and confident for that number. I'm going to pass it now over to Diego, who's going to talk about our financial numbers, and I'll come back at the end for any questions you might have. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for your participation in our call. I'm going to quickly pass through a few operational indicators that we consider relevant and have in a certain way passed this security for the administration that Villar has mentioned that we continue strongly with our plan for 2026. So starting with the launches. In the second quarter, we launched BRL 1.2 billion, a fall of 46% when we look at it year-on-year and a reduction of 22.6% in relation to the previous quarter. In the graph on the right, we see a vision of the accumulated for the first 6 months. So the company launched BRL 2.3 billion, grew 2.5% in relation to the first half of last year. the same vision of sales, we sold BRL 1 billion, a fall of almost 15% in relation to the year-on-year, in line with what we projected for sales in the first quarter of this year. The vision in the first 6 months of the year, the company accumulated BRL 2.32 billion and grew 7% in relation to the first semester of '25 -- and as I mentioned, these are operational indicators that we have observed closely. The first, we talk about cancellations, which is at a very high level, very healthy level, representing only 6.7% of our gross sales. We also explained a number, eliminating from that number, the exchange of ownership or migration to a different type of unit. This indicator falls even more and with cancellations goes down is 3.6% of our gross sales. And that's what we understand, in fact, true cancellations of the company experience, and now we talk about the VSO, 51%. It's worth mentioning and reinforcing here a lot of resilience in our sales and the quality of our sales. This is the eighth quarter in a consecutive quarter in which we present a VSO over the last 12 months above 50%. And we look at this indicator focused on the launches, it's still higher. The VSO of these launches is in 55.7%. So I think that we have a very healthy cancellation, a VSO that's resilient and to complement we bring our stock, our inventory of another indicator which we have looked at carefully -- the company closed the second quarter with BRL 4 billion in market value of stock. However, an important point is we've been able to reduce our volume of ready to move in stock went down BRL 100 million in the first quarter in the second quarter. Even with the company doing its chronogram of deliveries, we're able to see that deliveries are -- have been selling very well, close to 100%. And so our stock of ready to move in is only 2.7% of our total inventory. This indicators of 3.5% at the end of the first quarter. We're always looking at our indicator of stock coverage. If we stopped launching anything today in setting our sales during the last 12 months, within 12 months, we would be completely wiping out our stock of apartments. We also closed the quarter with 60 plots with BRL 11.8 billion in potential sale. We show here that only in this region, our position of leadership contributes greatly, so that we're able to get the best properties, which will bring good returns down the road. This BRL 11.8 billion, we always seek to be working with whenever -- it's not always possible, but we always try to work with the acquisition of these properties via swap. And of the 11.8%, 77% were signed up via swaps and only 23% in money, cash. 69%, 9 products are in [ ARN ], and 28 are in the incorporation development model. And so we have -- and to close our chronicling of deliveries here. And the year-to-date, we have delivered 6 projects, 2 more in the second quarter. We accumulated totaling 6. We started the third quarter with the delivery. We have already done 2 deliveries this month in July and August. And with that, we have 8 more projects to be delivered during 2026. I'm going to close the operational part and leave it with Wanderley, who's going to talk about our accounting -- our accounting numbers.
Diego Wanderley
executiveGood morning, everyone. Let's start with the highlights, the financial highlights with the net revenue. We delivered in the second quarter BRL 731 million, growth of 10% in relation to the second quarter -- first quarter and of the first quarter of '26. When we look at the cumulative year-to-date, the first half, we delivered BRL 360 million, 26% above the first quarter of '26. So the biggest participation in the condominium and the operation has been growing. The adhesion has been growing, the sign-up fees that have been growing and the land that we have been recognizing have brought this result of revenue higher when we look at it year-on-year. We know that it's still not a level of revenue that is stable. This revenue will grow and they have important growth when we talk about from 1 year to the next. Looking at the gross revenue, we delivered BRL 294 million here adjusted by capitalized interest in the second quarter and almost 30% growth. And when compared to the last quarter, a growth of almost 12%. Gross margin was 40.2% for the first quarter and a little bit below the margin in the first quarter due to the mix of revenues, which we found out in this -- which we have discovered in this quarter. We have BRL 67 million, approximately 41% higher than in the important growth in the profitability, which came also from the due to the gross margins, which reached adjusted by capitalized interest, 41%, gaining 6 percentage points in relation to 2025. 60% of this revenue comes from condominiums, 31% came from incorporation from the gross margin is 36% and adjusted the condominium model is of 46.9%. Looking at the commercial expenses and administrative expenses. On the left side, commercial expenses, selling expenses, we delivered BRL 62 million in the quarter, very much in line with the last 3 quarters. However, as a percentage of sales, we reached 5.7%, which is still a low percentage what we report in viability, which is 7%. So we continue to be very competitive. definitely from the commercial expenses, we've been able to deliver a representative below what we have budgeted. As far as administrative expenses, we delivered a growth in BRL 42 million in the quarter. This is 3.8% of sales and 5.7% of revenue. We started the provision in this quarter as well provisioned in the last AG which brings an increase in administrative expenses, which has an effect on the results, but the cash effect will only be at the end of the program, which is a 5-year program. So up until then, we'll be provisioning these payments, which will be in shares. And with that, we'll have an increase over the course of the -- over the next 2 years. The number is still very low when we look at it compared to the size of the revenue of the company. We're talking about a low level of 6%. And again, it's below that, which we consider reasonable. We budget 6.5% in our viability studies. So we still have space here in our expenses. Following to the EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, we delivered BRL 179 million in the quarter. We accumulated in the last 12 months, BRL 615 million in operational revenue. When we look at just 2026, BRL 326 million, 56% above that in the first half of '26. And again, a gain -- an important gain in the EBITDA margin with the leveraging of the company operationally translating into results, meaning 5.5 points -- percentage points. The EBITDA margin wound up at 56.5%. And all of that resulted in net revenue in the quarter of BRL 150 million -- BRL 174 million. In the last 12 months, we have BRL 559 million, BRL 560 million for the year at a level of BRL 329 million for the year, 73% growth in relation to the previous year, important growth, which for us is even more important, the indicators of net margin and return on capital grew by almost 7%. We delivered 24.2% in the accumulated of the year and the return went to the level of 28%. And as we see, all of this added to a low level of leverage, and we've been able to differentiate and deliver returns -- differential returns for our stockholders, remembering that we still have the level of operations, which the results should grow. We have space here for this to run near 30%, which is what we're looking at the moment. On the left-hand side, in corporation, we had a slight increase, 7.5% approximately. We closed with BRL 468 million of profit and the margin also grew 0.5% to 0.5%, which shows an increase of the Ún1ca and the Mood brands into our results. So this is very positive for us because a large part of our future results are already contracted. On the right-hand side, on the condominium side, we had a small fall of 10%, a small reduction. We closed the quarter with BRL 36 million, and the margin is in line at 28.9% and the administration fees grew 7.7%, totaling BRL 476 million -- BRL 67 million with the recognition of the condominium growth which has come from the operation, which has been growing. And to close the financial numbers, we're going to bring the cash and debt levels. For the quarter, we had a generation of cash of BRL 27 million. We closed the second quarter with BRL 56 million in net debt, which is 2.5% of our equity. It's important that we -- in the second quarter, we did an anticipation of receivables from the portfolio. We had access to this portfolio to have this generation of approximately BRL 150 million. With that, we close the financial numbers, and I'll pass it back over to Alan for the -- any questions and answers that you might have.
Alan Aquino
executiveThank you all. We will now start our question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] The first question comes from Gustavo from BTG.
Gustavo Cambauva
analystI wanted to touch on 2 subjects. The first, the monetization of the receivables from the TA. If we look at accounts receivable, we see there's almost BRL 1.5 billion of receivables the sale of land on the balance. But I want to know how you evaluate these for sales? And what do you -- what rhythm do you expect to monetize this mountain is still on the balance sheet? Secondly, when we will have the option of this change of the estimate to change you between 10% and 15% of net debt to EBITDA, net debt to equity, if you could. The second question is if you could give us a general overview of the 3 principal market in the Northeast in which you operate Salvador, Fortaleza, and Recife. More from the high level, the high luxury market, how do you see this evolve the dynamic in these 3 markets in terms of demand and offer supply and demand, stock and availability of property, if there's any preference on the part of the company in these 3 principal markets. Just these questions.
Diego Paixao Villar
executiveLet's look at this 1 at a time. First, about the torna, I don't want to -- it's a technical term, which we use in the market. It's an anticipation. In my vision, it's not an anticipation, and I explained why I give you some context of our strategy in relation to that subject. The asset, the torna asset is a lot of land, which is sold by Moura Dubeux to the condominium. It's an asset that has already performed. There's no return to be done. We put a payment period in fixed payments in the contracts of the condominium owners. So in the flow of their quotas includes the payment of the land, the building and our administration fee. But the contractual structure, I am the manager of the cash of the -- cash account of the condominium. And I'm also the decision-maker of who will be paid first so that the project in that period of time, 5 years, 4 years, each 1 has a deadline will be delivered on time. Remembering that late payments do not bring any financial only habitation because the condominium should go -- should live on its own cash flow. Moreover it guarantees the delivery dates and so forth. However, the rigor -- the contractual rigor, I can use 100% of these initial assets for the payment of this property, even so the first payments will not be enough to pay for the entire property. the sale with almost 0 risk of nonpayment I'm the manager who makes the decision of who pays first. And at the same time, we can utilize these resources to always prioritize the payment of this land. So it's clear that what we -- since there's no possibility of paying this in cash, we sell it in payments to finance it to the condominium owners. It goes into the receivables of an asset which is performed. no longer brings me any expenses on my balance sheet and the profit is already passed on my balance sheet. And the person buying it has no risk. Why is it important to explain this? My desire and my ideal would be that I have at 1 end, the market which is educated to purchase this receivable and a level of discount that is so low the guarantee that exists that the land, the receivable has a very low probability of not performing. So that when the profit comes into our financial statement, the cash comes along with it, and we do the operation. We sold property and we received the money with no liability that needs to be performed. The first thing that we did, as [indiscernible] and his team had the competence to set up had a discount, which I'm not -- I don't want to retreat that as a recurrence for all of our tornas. And then we add to this cost and opportunity cost for the company, which justifies, and we do. However, having done, first of all, educated the market. There's the second exercise, which I'm also involved directly, which is to have anyone who purchased or does this financial structure to understand this so they generate this recurring -- this constant recurrence. I do not have this yet. We do not yet have in a conservative way. We haven't foreseen any anticipation of for this year. my desire that is in the medium to long term we do things that way. We're going to do this. It's going to depend greatly on what I just mentioned to you, how the -- and if there will be any type of discount to do this, if anybody wants to stay with the correction, this is something which is maturing, and I have no premise close to be able to pass to you. The fact is that it's an asset which has performed, it's passed through the financial statement in the short term and very high. The second point which you pointed out to me about the performance in the different cities, I can also give you the vision up until today. A company like ours to go forward and make the right decisions going forward, even more in an election year, and we don't even have a certainty what are the possibilities of the economic policy which will be running the country. Up until 31st of July, we performed very well. Products have had excellent acceptance. The VSO of the company has been maintained. Cancellation is at the same levels that they have been historically based on the performance -- recent performance of changing our perspective. And it's very linear city by city. And I'm saying this in the medium to higher level properties, the luxury properties. Salvador this year has a performance which is above Recife and Fortaleza. But it's not that Recife and Fortaleza fell, it's because Salvador grew. We made the following launches timing in. We had the Beach at the beginning of the year. We had the M also at the beginning of the year. So over the last 2 months, they have been able to have a sales performance, which is above 80% in a very short period of time. And the Salvador 220 which we know as the Pista, which the market has been working with for a long time. We had launched it due to a judicial question, which we have been given some visibility to and that favored that place better than Fortaleza, the [ clock ]. Every week, every month, they have the same consistent sales performance. Recife, were very strongly impacted -- positively impacted by the Novo Cais, which in the recent -- in the last 18 months has been responsible for excellent results here. and whenever we did our homework and closed good properties to be able to have this performance. So I would say that the dynamic of these 3 capitals, it's a market whose performance is very similar to what it was a year ago. We have no product which at the moment brings us any points of attention or concern. But again, we're monitoring the market, the political issues, the indicators which could lead us to any type of concerns. And as our IR, we have constant contact with you. Whenever this changes, the winds change, you'll be the first to be informed. Basically, we are going to hold -- we could hold up any launches if that happens. It's not on our radar now. We're working right now and we'll be in conversations with you, but the caution is always part of our dynamic here. And this comes from your concern as well. If you look at the -- and very interesting bit of data here, we did a follow-on in what, February? In the end of January, we did a follow-on and the price of the share was BRL 25. At the time of the allocation, my cell phone never stopped ringing of everybody want an allocation. Now it must be around high BRL 23, 24, I'm not watching the screen right now. Where is it? Everybody wanted to allocation at BRL 25 this dynamic, this negative dynamic, which has come a little bit from Faria Lima due to the coverage that you had to give forward. But we've been very optimistic to understand that our market has a dynamic.
Alan Aquino
executiveThank you, Villar. Next question comes from Matheus de Meloni from Santander.
Matheus de Meloni
analystOn my side, I have 2 questions. First, you've set up a portfolio very iconic in Salvador and more recently, the acquisition of the site of the [indiscernible]. I want to understand how do you see the strategy, the post office building? How do you see the strategy going forward because it's better than other cities, other markets or more specific about Salvador? Or can you give us any more detail what you're thinking about the projects on this property of the old post office building? And the second question, which I think is connected to that, to understand a little bit the question, the trade-off between doing a retrofit of a property like that or starting a new project starting from 0, looking at the complexity of the construction and the times of execution and delivery. And at the end of the day, what is the viability if it's positive to do this type of retrofit? Or is it a question that's specific of a certain property that you have purchased? In this case, the question of the post office. So those are my questions.
Diego Wanderley
executiveThank you, Mattheus. Thank you. Okay. Let's go. Salvador, you said very well. We had the shortly, we had the Beach Class Salvador and then the Pista, which became the Oceano. And Recife, also, we have had the Lucena. We have the Infinity. Fortaleza, we also had buildings, similar buildings. I don't have 1 product that's better than the other. They're very similar in each 1 of the capitals in which we operate, especially in the 3 largest capitals. Talking about this dynamic of Salvador. In Recife, we have a new port, and we have a property that's very well located in to be able to do these launches shortly. I spoke a little bit about the launch of The VERT, closing that window. It's very well located, better located than now in 2 pieces of property on the beach in Lucena, almost BRL 12 billion in land bank. I think over time, we have shown that our development team, our real estate development team is more than competent to prepare not only to prospect, but to develop products, which have a good performance for commercialization and margin, but also reinforce the brand of the company as that does projects. unique projects in the Northeast. This is not my concern right now, having seen the performance of the company and what we're working on in the next 3 years in the company. So I don't have this. In relation to the case of Salvador specifically, the building that we purchased from the post office, we treat it as a 35,000 square foot square meter property, almost BRL 2 billion of PSV. It's not a decision for retrofit. That building will be imploded on a Sunday with all the safety that is required. We're studying and get extensive list of approvals all the way to the Army to get approval. And that property, we have a development of 4 or 5 new developments. What decides if we do a retrofit or in a case like this or an implosion or demolition as in the case of the Mansão Seara in Fortaleza, where we bought a hotel in operations and had not been abandoned, and we're demolishing it 1 step at a time, a mechanized solution and the construction potential of each city. In the case of Infinity and Recife and Lucena of the [indiscernible] case of the Pista, we had limitations, urban or environmental limitations, which the demolition would not help us to build the same potential with the maintenance of the current asset. So then we make the decision to retrofit it or some type of -- as in the case of [indiscernible] do a refund. Always prior to the acquisition, a study is done, this guides us it will be a retrofit, it will be a mechanized demolition, it will be inclusion what is the potential to exploit that property in terms of private area and also in terms of environmental approvals, historic approvals and at the same time, the quality of the product for our clients. It could actually happen that there would be a reduction in the construction potential with the demolition, but the product would add so much to the price that it still doesn't make sense. So it's an exact science. have always been the same way to make decisions. It's exact science in the variables, which take us to the end of the equation with the best decision for our clients and for our stockholders.
Alan Aquino
executiveThe next question is from Mariangela Castro from Itaú.
Mariangela Castro
analystOn my side, the 2 slides, I want to explain a little bit the margins of incorporation. And how do you see the difference in the gross margin of the projects of Ún1ca and Mood? What's your perspective regarding that? And the second question is we noticed an increase in the closed sales in the condominium in this quarter. I want to understand if this is opportunistic or if this size of type of sale is becoming more advantageous for the consumers in the region.
Diego Paixao Villar
executiveThank you, Maria Angela. I'm going to answer your first -- the second part, and by the way, can answer the first part. As far as the increase of closed sales, it's natural. We've had a mix -- a higher mix of condominiums in our portfolio. And at a certain point in time, there's an evolution of the project, it's easier for some clients to adhere to the closed sale, even paying a higher total with the accumulated numbers rather than in the pure condominium product. It's important to mention here that we placed in our viability studies that a condominium project should be sold in condominium in 70% or 80% and in closed sales, 20% to 30%, depending on each case. And on average, even considering what you just told me, we're below half of that. So that means that minimizes the exposition of cash of the company nominally. The possibility of profitability is smaller, but this favors really the VPL of that project, and that's why we're putting less than half of the capital that was foreseen in the viability study. So it's not a concern. It's a natural tendency that it would run in the orbit of closer to what we put in the viability because of the phases that are simultaneously happening as the things start to get close to being ready as the margin of Mood. And I'm going to let [ Mark ] answer that while I take.
Unknown Executive
executiveThank you for the question. Speaking about our margins, we see today Mood running in the neighbor stabilized with a gross margin of 33% and Ún1ca with a margin of 36%. It has a higher margin than Mood. Logically, this will happen as these projects advance and as the portfolio advances. And in our composition of margin, we still have a leftover a number of projects of 26 and a higher level of buildings, but this is ending. And I believe that by the end of this year of 2026, we won't have any more of this stock on hand. Starting next year, we should see an increase in the -- looking for 323%. And as Ún1ca starts to participate more in this segment in a more stabilized way, this margin could grow a little bit. So that's a dynamic that we should have for gross margin. You didn't ask, but in the condominiums, we also -- it's also very stable. We see that there's a variation quarter-by-quarter, but it depends really on the way in which we -- we signed the contract for the condominium. But when you look at a stable level, we run around a very reasonable level of margin. So in the consolidated, we can understand that this margin that we've been passing along in the last quarters can be maintained and possibly be slightly looking at the medium to long term. That was very clear. Just 1 more about these closed sales. In the release, you mentioned that there was a -- some of these sales were due to launch of condominium. What specific project was that? Every condominium that we launched, we opened the sales in condominium and the closed sales, both price lists. The closed sale is a little more expensive at the beginning. In the Casa Macêdo, we opened it up there, we opened up that way, too. And it's natural in this first moment that these sales will be longer pushed by the condominium in the first moment. The closed sales happen more after the first year in terms of volume. If I could add also what we had in this quarter, we have every quarter, but in this quarter, it was even higher. Some of the condominiums, which are only for investors which was the Salvador 220 and the beach class in Fortaleza. The Mercedes Beach Class, they had some sales, but the client paid a 12-month payment for a closed price. And this was -- the volume wasn't so big, but since the number of closed sales is low, and very few sales that happened in a quarter make this effect of growth. That was 1 of our commercial strategies. The product 220 brought investors wanting to pay cash or in the short term, the unit. In the condominium, it doesn't make any difference to us. We don't give any discount for anybody who pays upfront you pay the value of the quota. And on the next day, there will be a correction. So for us, we took some units added to their price and made cash or toll payments. However, that was just to not lose these investors and have the perception that he was acquiring a better condition. It was a commercial strategy. We have more than 600 units that were sold in that plan.
Alan Aquino
executiveNext question comes from Herman Lee from Bradesco.
Herman J. Lee
analystTwo questions I want to ask. First, an update on the partnership with Direcional. How is the pipeline with them for this year? There's been any changes? The second is to understand the dynamic on the P&L of how much of this tornas is passing. In my understanding, you sold with a lot with the correction of the debt balance. But as it's sold to the seller -- to the purchaser, it becomes a gain. I want to understand the impact on this on your financial statements and cash flow.
Diego Paixao Villar
executiveThe tornas, I'll let Wanderley handle that. Let me give you 1 point just of an adjustment in what you questioned. In relation to our joint venture with Ricardinho from Direcional, it's going very well. Nothing different than that was planned. The launches which are foreseen have already happened, 2 in Recife, 1 in [indiscernible] and 1 in Fortaleza. This year, we already have launches in Maceió and in Salvador, they're being very well run. They're ready. It's just waiting for the permission to construction to take rid of the IR. We should have in the next 60 days. Salvador should also happen in the mayor's office waiting for approval. So we have 1 more in Fortaleza. They're all going forward in a good rhythm. This participation it depends on Mica is running about BRL 700 million or BRL 800 million. It will happen. And we have nothing different than the plans for the next year. We closed our property here in [indiscernible]. We closed a property in Fortaleza. And so we're expanding that, which we agreed to in our meeting. It's basically that to continue with the discipline that we have always had. The boring part of being predictable is what we're proud of. Just to explain in detail, but basically the following whatever is financial revenue from torna we don't realize it until it happens. But -- we can give you the details. Thank you, Herman, for the question. Just to leave the 2 questions and separate the 2 things. One, the correction that we had in this quarter has nothing to do with the anticipation of receivables from our portfolio. What we have in the way of correction in the index in this quarter is from the that we have on our balance sheet, which is corrected by INCC. And due to the dynamic of accounting, this does not go as gross revenue. It goes as financial results as if we had -- we were financing the condominium in the vision in the accounting vision. In this case, it went up -- well, the number went up due to the size of the receivables, which has been growing. the economic value grew, but a bit so naturally this should also grow. And if you had this year an impact of the INCC in this last quarter, which was higher than average. And so this also contributed to this for this line to come in higher. In relation to the operation that we've done hasn't going to happen. You have a difference between the amount of the receivable and what you anticipated, and this has been recognized by financial results.
Alan Aquino
executiveNext question comes from [indiscernible].
Unknown Analyst
analystI have 2 here. One is on the point of sale. I wanted to understand how things have been on the projects that you launched which is new for Direcional to understand that if you see a dynamic that's different for the this place. And in second place, I want to do an update on the engineering and production, the production that you have more than 40 under construction right now underway. Do you see any problems to look at the period of the principal offender or look at the question of [indiscernible].
Diego Paixao Villar
executiveDirecional is no longer with us. All these products together with sold 60 apartments up until now, a good performance of sales, 3 towers, and with the first tower that we passed 80% it's a good number for the commercialization in Fortaleza' the same. The month of July and August is doing very well. We have no points of attention to 10% because it was in the period of June. Remembering that there was a [ cusp ]. And we -- I don't have any concern in relation to demand for the projects of Ún1ca and Direcional, again, in the curve what was foreseen. The second part of your question was about -- on the overs of this condominium, these projects were conceived previously for about 42 to 48 months. We decided to lengthen this to 60 months for several reasons, among them, the most sophisticated ones to dilute this thing, we've done it this way. These are higher -- larger projects, the dynamic today of productivity is no longer what it was, which was 5 or 10 years ago. Basically, we are curious. We did an event called Test with all the leadership and engineering team in which we have invested a great deal in the industrialization of this project, even with the more projects in garage structures, drywall, all these kinds of things we're using all of these apartments, the largest part of the finishing because the people have been breaking the personalization and the desire and so forth have been doing this adjustment. And at the end of the day, the major part of our projects, we have not had any problem with period with work period. What we see today is a problem, a onetime problem with what we have been developing. In Recife, there's a retrofit, which was more complex than what we imagined. Condominium has no limit with administrative of that construction, we're not the developer who sold the apartment. This closed sales can be include Lucena and the majority who didn't have sales, don't have closed any sales that are closed. It's not a concern for us. I would say, in relation to labor and the periods in the company, this is ending. We have everything. The majority of these time lines are set up for longer periods of time compared to what we launched. And these difficulties that we've had, we delivered or are delivering. So up until the condominium model helped the company to do better because they didn't have this limitation of time period. There are 2 incorporations, developments of high level in the past, which we launched in 2022, which are going to be delivered now in this period, which bring a 6-month period in the contract period of the client, and we have done all of the communication anticipated informing them of this period. We don't expose ourselves since 2022. It seems like we anticipate a difficulty of launching an incorporation, a high-level incorporation in high projects to be done in 30 or 36 months. We imagine not only because of that, but also due to the question of the exposure to leverage. It didn't make any sense in return on capital for the part of the results is to protect the company from the -- I hope I've answered your question. I hope we covered your question.
Alan Aquino
executiveThe next question comes from Ygor Altero from XP.
Ygor Altero
analystWe've seen a higher leverage and higher interest rates for families in the differently from Sao Paulo, where we have seen a very challenging number, but we can see a little bit how the -- your head is in relation to mentality in relation to the end game in terms of size. Do you think you can continue maintaining the same rhythm in the same last in the recent years? What can we expect? The operation in all these segments is very well oiled, and we understand what you see today as a bottleneck. Just these points.
Diego Paixao Villar
executiveI will be with you at your conference next year. It would be a pleasure to see you then. In fact, Sao Paulo has -- our region has a dynamic, which is different. It wasn't so over offered like Sao Paulo. The company has mentioned that this expectation of the companies that are with capital that are not publicly held have difficulty of the market to absorb all of this. competitors of launches is not us, not necessarily projects. You can do 1 in the scale is much more difficult. So we didn't suffer the same level of competition that we saw at Cyrela and EZTEC and the other big developers in Sao Paulo, but have been suffering even similarities in structure and financial capacity and execution of these projects. So this favored for a long time due to our performance of VSO, we're orbiting about 10 percentage points of VSO above the listed in the simplifies, as I mentioned to you here. In relation to the balancing of the condominiums going forward, the several months that I have been speaking with you, the Novo Cais Moura Dubeux has been above launches. But when we look at the medium to long term, we bring this closer to BRL 2.5 billion of launches because I have 2 concerns. And I've been showing this to you for a while, and we maintain a stable growth of Ún1ca and Mood, which is the first effect the demand and a company with interest rates that are so high and the level of BRL 4 billion if it's healthy. I feel very comfortable. [ BRL 14 billion ] -- as we performed in average bring inflation and only bring in Salvador the change in demand and going to the whole North in this regime is the least we can expect from -- the data that we have today of the sales velocity of the project and the acceptance and performance don't lead us to reduce anything. We reduced is also a question, an operational question. I said several times in the regime of Moura Dubeux, which is a much more repetitive system, a system that's much more industrialized than the way we've been performing. So this is something else that takes us to look at the screen in this balancing of the company. Resuming everything that I said, summarizing everything in the performance of the company and based on the expectation of what I have looking forward is we should expect to continue -- it's a company of BRL 5 billion to BRL 5.5 billion, more exposed for Mood and Ún1ca than in the condominiums model itself. This is lined up for the next 2 or 3 years. And again, next year, you'll see some of that as we present the operational data of the company. And in case we have the opportunity to demand a project for a higher level of profitability, we feel very comfortable operationally, we may do more than BRL 2.5 billion, possibly reaching the size BRL 3.5
Alan Aquino
executiveSo we're now closing our questions-and-answer question due to the time, thank you for your presence and the IR team is at your service for any questions. Villar, anything else?
Diego Paixao Villar
executiveAll the discipline on the team, your projects and business plans by stockholders, each 1 of you who sell the company or put your capital to its own stockholders for our company. We work hard here in the company to be able to surprise you with what we promise and to guide you what we're able to do. And we've been doing that. We have nothing that guides us away to do anything differently. My commitment to you is that if the winds change in any way or stop blowing. But in this case, we're very confident with the results that we're bringing during the year. We're very attentive and cautious with the dynamic -- economic dynamic and the results of the of the elections or the turbulence which we may go through. We are irresponsible with the launch of products, which we have some risk of execution, whether it be commercialization or labor. Don't worry about that with no doubt. It's a call which I've been promising to you. Thank you all very much. A good Thursday to everyone and a good weekend to you all. And I repeat our confidence in that you will be continue believing in the company and the confidence in us, and we're doing our best.
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