Ferrari is owned by its parent company, Ferrari N.V., since 2015.

87 years, two owners since 1980

The year is coloured by whoever held it at the time.

1. 1939 Enzo Ferrari set up his own company in 1939, initially called Auto Avio Costruzioni, after leaving Alfa Romeo under a contract that barred him from building cars in his own name. It made machine tools, chiefly hydraulic grinding machines, and one racing model, the 815, which ran in the Mille Miglia on 28 April 1940. He moved the business from Modena to Maranello in late 1943, where it has been ever since, and the first car to carry the Ferrari name, the 125 S, followed in 1947.
2. 1969 The Fiat group bought 50 percent of Ferrari S.p.A. in 1969 and raised that to 90 percent in 1988 after Enzo Ferrari's death, the remaining 10 percent staying with his son Piero Ferrari. That 90 percent is the shareholding Fiat's successor Fiat Chrysler Automobiles transferred to Ferrari N.V. in October 2015 on the way out. There is no company to name on either side: Enzo Ferrari sold as an individual, and the buyer was Fiat S.p.A., the group holding company, which merged into Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. in October 2014 and is not the Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. that carries the Fiat badge today.
3. 1988 Fiat took majority control of Ferrari S.p.A. in 1988, raising its holding from the half it had held since 1969 to 90 per cent after the death of Enzo Ferrari that year, with the remaining 10 per cent held by his son Piero Ferrari. Ferrari's own annual report puts it in one sentence: "The Fiat group acquired a 50 percent stake in Ferrari S.p.A. in 1969 and increased its stake to 90 percent in 1988 following the death of Enzo Ferrari, with the remaining 10 percent held by Enzo Ferrari's son, Piero Ferrari." The 1969 half is recorded separately as a stake taken rather than as control: it left the founder holding the other half, and no filing describes Fiat as controlling the company before 1988, so this is the year control passed. The seller was an individual, whom this dataset does not model. The buyer was Fiat S.p.A., the Turin group holding company, which merged into Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. in October 2014 and is not the Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. that carries the Fiat badge today, so it is not an entity here either; that 90 per cent is the shareholding FCA transferred to Ferrari N.V. in October 2015. No filing read states the month.
4. 2014 Ferrari S.p.A. passed from Fiat S.p.A. to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. on 12 October 2014, when Fiat S.p.A. merged with and into its Dutch subsidiary Fiat Investments N.V., which was renamed Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. the same day and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange the next. FCA's first annual report says the group designs, engineers, manufactures, distributes and sells luxury vehicles under the Ferrari and Maserati brands, and records that on 29 October 2014 its board authorised the separation of Ferrari; Ferrari's own first annual report identifies the holding as FCA's 90 per cent shareholding in Ferrari S.p.A., the same 90 per cent Fiat had held since 1988. Neither party is in the dataset: Fiat S.p.A. ceased to exist in the merger, and FCA N.V. is the same registrant that was renamed Stellantis in 2021, which the dataset treats as beginning only then. The same merger moved every Fiat group marque the same day, which the shared transaction id records. Exor, the Agnelli family holding company, consolidated Fiat S.p.A. as a subsidiary before the merger and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. after it, with 29.25% of FCA's shares and 44.37% of its votes at the end of 2014.
5. 2015 Ferrari S.p.A. came under Ferrari N.V. in October 2015, in the restructuring that set up the separation from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. FCA transferred its 90 percent shareholding in Ferrari S.p.A. to the new Dutch holding company and Piero Ferrari transferred his 10 percent, so that Ferrari N.V. held all of it; the same step moved the assets and business of Ferrari North Europe Limited across. Ferrari's IPO prospectus dates the restructuring to 17 October 2015 and its first annual report to 19 October 2015, and both put it days before the initial public offering. FCA itself is not an entity in this dataset. Ferrari N.V. was FCA's own company at the time: FCA had formed it to carry out the separation, held 90 percent of it after the restructuring, and controlled it until the separation completed on 3 January 2016.