News, Before It’s News
News, Before It’s News
Toyota Motor
· JP:7203
November 5th, 2025
Unknown Executive
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us today, taking time out to presumably busy schedule. Now, we would like to begin TMC's FY '26 Q2 Financial Results Briefing. I am [indiscernible] from Corporate Communications, pleased to be your MC today. Now I would like to invite our Chief Financial Officer, Kenta Kon, for his presentation. Kon-san, over to you.
Kenta Kon
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for the introduction. I am Kon. Before I begin, I would like to start by sincerely thanking our customers around the world, who love Toyota cars; our shareholders, who support our efforts; our dealers and buyers and our other stakeholders. Here is a summary of Q2 results. Our operating income for the first half of this fiscal year was JPY 2 trillion. Despite the impact of U.S. tariffs, strong demand supported by the competitiveness of products has led to increased sales volumes, mainly in Japan and North America and has expanded value chain profits.
The full year operating income forecast is JPY 3.4 trillion, despite the impact of the U.S. tariffs, we have continued to build upon our improvement efforts, such as increasing sales volume, improving costs and expanding value chain profits. We are steadily translating comprehensive future investments into improved productivity and increased returns with a strong focus on improving the breakeven volume. As for shareholder returns, to reward our long-term shareholders, the interim dividend is raised to JPY 45 per share, and the full year dividend forecast is JPY 95 per share. As announced at the Japan Mobility Show 2...