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Daimler cuts full-year operating profit forecast
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on May 13, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on May 13, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Daimler Truck revises its 2025 profit forecast to -5% to 5% EBIT growth, citing trade war impacts and market uncertainty.
(Reuters) -Daimler Truck, one of the world's biggest truckmakers, cut its operating profit forecast for 2025 on Tuesday, citing heightened demand uncertainty.
The company is now forecasting adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) growth of -5% to 5%, compared with 5% to 15% growth expected previously.
U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war has pummeled markets in recent weeks and even beforehand, a Reuters analysis showed that about 40 companies worldwide had pulled or lowered their guidance in the first two weeks of the first-quarter earnings season, including General Motors and Volvo Cars.
Daimler Truck's updated outlook for 2025 is subject to further macroeconomic and geopolitical developments, it said.
(Reporting by Amir Orusov, Gnaneshwar Rajan and Emma-Victoria Farr; Editing by Pooja Desai and Sandra Maler)
The main topic is Daimler Truck's revised 2025 profit forecast due to market uncertainty and trade war impacts.
Daimler's adjusted EBIT growth forecast for 2025 is now -5% to 5%, down from 5% to 15%.
The revision is influenced by heightened demand uncertainty and the ongoing trade war.
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