TOKYO — Japan’s Honda Motor reported a 78% rise in quarterly revenue on Wednesday, boosted by elevated gross sales, particularly within the North American market, and a weaker yen.
Japan’s second-biggest automaker by gross sales mentioned its working revenue totaled 394.4 billion yen ($2.76 billion) within the three months by means of June, handily beating the typical 324.74 billion yen estimate in a ballot of 10 analysts by Refinitiv.
That in contrast with a 222.2 billion yen revenue in the identical interval final 12 months.
Like different automakers, Honda mentioned it benefited from sturdy gross sales to retail clients in the important thing U.S. market, posting a 44.7% year-on-year soar to 347,000 items, because the influence of post-pandemic disruptions within the provide of elements and chips eases.
That contrasted sharply with a steep 5% drop in gross sales in China to 309,000 automobiles that Honda reported for the quarter, confronted with rising native competitors and a fast shift to electrical automobiles on this planet’s greatest automobile market.
Enterprise circumstances in China had grown worse for Honda in comparison with when it issued its forecast of promoting 1.4 million automobiles for the total 12 months, a Honda official mentioned.
“We’re nonetheless working amid some restrictions from semiconductors,” the official mentioned.
“If we had been to revise our gross sales forecast in China, we’ll wish to transfer forward with contemplating whether or not we are able to distribute elements to and manufacture extra in different areas.”
Honda maintained its forecast for a 1.0 trillion yen working revenue for the present 12 months, decrease than the 1.117 trillion yen common forecast from 22 analysts.
The corporate will weigh the necessity for an replace to its full-year outlook together with the advantages it sees from a weakening yen when it broadcasts second-quarter outcomes across the begin of November, the official added.
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(Reporting by Daniel Leussink; Modifying by David Dolan, Chang-Ran Kim and David Evans)
