Porsche said on Wednesday it wants a medium-term operating margin of 10 to 15 percent on sales of 41 to 45 billion euros. Reuters reported that a cut of about 9,000 of roughly 42,000 jobs has already been decided and is being carried out.
Porsche said on Wednesday it is trying to return to a medium-term operating margin of 10 to 15 percent, on sales of 41 to 45 billion euros, after a sharp drop in profitability. Reuters reported the targets from Frankfurt.
For this year the company expects a margin of 5.5 to 7.5 percent and revenue of about 36 billion euros, after the margin fell to about 1 percent in 2025, Reuters said. Chief executive Michael Leiters said costs would keep being cut rigorously. A reduction of about 9,000 of roughly 42,000 jobs has already been decided and is already being implemented. The strategic aim is 30 percent fewer jobs, with deep cuts in management posts.
Leiters said he wants Porsche to break even on fewer than 200,000 sales a year, and that he expects that point in 2027. He said he does not expect the tougher setting of competition in China, supply-chain problems and US tariffs to improve soon.
The New York Times, reporting from Stuttgart, said the profit margin fell to 1.1 percent last year from 18 percent two years earlier, and that the company wants to raise the average price of its top-end models by about 20 percent to 330,000 euros. Those price and margin figures are the Times' account, not the Reuters dispatch.
The company did not publish a site-by-site closure list in the reports used here. The job figure is a program already decided, not a new same-day dismissal notice for 9,000 people.
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- Michael Leiters said he wants to make Porsche future-proof and does not expect the difficult China, supply-chain and tariff setting to improve soon.