The Nissan ARIYA on the EV check observe on the New York International Auto Show on March 28, 2024.
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Shares of Japanese automaker Nissan tumbled as a lot as 10.12%, a day after the corporate posted downbeat quarterly outcomes and mentioned it might scale back international manufacturing capability by 20%.
Shares of the corporate — which additionally introduced plans to chop workers by 9,000 — hit a four-year intraday low of 368.5 yen on Friday, their weakest since September 2020.
Nissan launched its second-quarter results ended September on Thursday, which confirmed that it recorded a 9.3 billion yen (about $62 million) internet loss, a reversal from the 190.7 billion yen internet revenue it made in the identical quarter final yr.
Operating revenue within the second quarter plunged nearly 85% year-on-year to 31.9 billion yen, whereas income dropped 5% to 2.99 trillion yen.
Nissan additionally sharply lowered its full-year outlook, reducing its income projection to 12.7 trillion yen from 14 trillion yen, whereas additionally lowering its working revenue forecast to 150 billion yen from 500 billion yen.
The firm board selected to not pay an interim dividend, and in addition scrapped the year-end dividend forecast.
Nissan mentioned that the corporate was “facing a severe situation” and can take “urgent measures to turnaround its performance.”
These measures embody discount in headcount, different value cuts in addition to plans to “rationalize its asset portfolio, and prioritize capital expenditures and investments in research and development.”
It aims to reduce fastened prices by 300 billion yen and variable prices by 100 billion yen, in comparison with its 2024 monetary yr.
The firm mentioned it might additionally undertake a construction that permits it to be sustainably worthwhile and cash-generative by its 2026 fiscal yr, even with annual gross sales of three.5 million models.
Sales volume for the first half of its fiscal yr got here in at 1.6 million models, down 1.6% in comparison with the identical interval a yr in the past.
Nissan added that CEO Makoto Uchida will voluntarily forfeit 50% of his month-to-month compensation from November, whereas different govt committee members may even voluntarily go for pay cuts.
