{"id":21213,"date":"2026-05-23T00:39:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/21213\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:39:34","slug":"first-quarter-volkswagen-group-makes-progress-in-a-challenging-environment-overhead-costs-reduced-by-one-billion-euro-transformation-to-be-accelerated-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/21213\/","title":{"rendered":"First Quarter: Volkswagen Group makes progress in a challenging environment \u2013 overhead costs reduced by one billion Euro, transformation to be accelerated further"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Volkswagen Group expects sales revenue in 2026 to develop within a range of 0 and +3\u00a0percent compared with the previous year. The Group\u2019s operating return on sales is expected to range between 4.0 and 5.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In the Automotive Division, the company expects an investment ratio of between 11 and 12\u00a0percent in 2026. Net cash flow for the year 2026 is expected to range between EUR 3 billion and EUR 6 billion. Net liquidity in the Automotive Division is expected to range between EUR\u00a032\u00a0billion and EUR 34 billion in 2026. The Volkswagen Group continues to pursue its objective of maintaining a solid financing and liquidity policy.<\/p>\n<p>Challenges are expected in particular from the macroeconomic environment, uncertainties regarding restrictions in international trade and geopolitical tensions, increasing competitive intensity, volatile commodity, energy and foreign exchange markets, as well as high requirements resulting from emissions-related regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast is based on the assumption that the current tariff situation in international trade remains unchanged. The potential future impact of an escalation in the Middle East cannot be reliably assessed at present and is therefore not reflected in the forecasted figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Volkswagen Group expects sales revenue in 2026 to develop within a range of 0 and +3\u00a0percent compared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20947],"tags":[666,6447,5356],"class_list":["post-21213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-volkswagen","tag-finance","tag-strategy","tag-volkswagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}