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Volvo CE Maintains Healthy Profitability for End of 2024

Volvo CE maintains healthy profitability in Q4 2024 despite global sales drop. Net order intake grows 19%, with growth in major markets. Balancing current needs with investments for future, company optimistic for 2025 with new product launches and continued market development.

Wed January 29, 2025 - National Edition
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Volvo CE has maintained a healthy profitability on lower volumes for the fourth quarter, following 12 months of declining sales, impacted as it has been by an ongoing weaker market landscape across many regions in the world. But while net sales have dropped 16 percent in Q4, net order intake for the same quarter has risen 19 percent, driven by improvements in major markets across Europe, North America, Africa and Oceania.

And while South America has seen a growth in net sales of 19 percent and deliveries increased 29 percent for the last quarter, overall global sales are down for the full year by the same Q4 drop of 16 percent.

In Q4, net sales decreased by 16 percent to SEK 22,197 M (26,578), of which net sales of machines decreased by 19 percent and service sales decreased by 2 percent. Adjusted operating income amounted to SEK 2,609 M (3,320), corresponding to an adjusted operating income of 11.8 percent (12.5). For the full year 2024, net sales dropped by the same 16 percent, amounting to SEK 88,305 M (104,981). Adjusted operating income amounted to SEK 12,737 M (16,993).

Balancing Needs of Today With Continued Investment in Tomorrow

Volvo CE is maintaining a more positive outlook coming into 2025, following a year of milestone investments and pioneering new product launches, continuing with its largest product portfolio overhaul in decades.

Melker Jernberg, president of Volvo CE, said, "Despite lower volumes, we have been able to maintain a healthy profitability, whilst at the same time introducing new products and services, including a new range of articulated haulers to our existing portfolio.

"As we navigate challenging market conditions, we stand firm in our commitments and continue to invest. This last quarter has seen us move forward with our biggest launch year ever, balancing tomorrow's innovations with our customers' needs for today. 2025 will see us continue with these exciting developments, strengthened by an incredible performance from all our employees around the world."

New excavator models were rolled out, including the EC650 in China and the EC300 in South Korea, while in Europe, the latest generation of excavators was expanded with the launch of three mid-size crawler excavators. In January, a comprehensive range of industry-leading articulated haulers was launched. The updated range consists of seven models from 25 to 60 tons including one completely new model, the A50, offering customers a new size class for unbeatable hauler performance, accessible to customers in global markets over the coming months.

Market Development

Compared with the historically high levels in Europe and North America for the final quarter of 2023, the total machine market contracted in these regions, largely due to a saturated end customer demand in Europe, resulting in a 25 percent drop, and a normalization of replenished dealer and rental fleets in North America, prompting an 8 percent drop.

However, South America saw a 5 percent increase due mainly to improvements in Brazil, while government policies to stimulate the real estate market were the main driver for market growth in China (6 percent). Asia, excluding China, was flat with lower development in Southeast Asia, South Korea and Turkey, while markets in India and the Middle East grew.




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