{"id":51502,"date":"2026-07-09T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/51502\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:00:07","slug":"dhl-profit-surges-on-express-recovery-company-raises-2026-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/51502\/","title":{"rendered":"DHL Profit Surges on Express Recovery, Company Raises 2026 Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDHL<\/a> Group is raising its full-year earnings forecast amid a strong second quarter reeling in double-digit revenue growth and a substantial improvement in operating profit.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn preliminary results unveiled Tuesday, the logistics giant said total revenue increased by more than 10 percent from the year prior, without giving a concrete figure.<\/p>\n

\n\tGroup earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) reached around 1.85 billion euros ($2.1 billion), up roughly 29 percent from 1.4 billion euros ($1.6 billion) in the year prior.<\/p>\n

\n\tDHL<\/a> will add further details upon releasing its full second quarter report on Aug. 5.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBusiness development in the second quarter showed continued growth in demand and, consequently, positive earnings momentum for the Group, particularly in the DHL Express<\/a> division,\u201d DHL Group said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company noted that the return to revenue growth was helped by favorable comparisons with the year-ago period, \u201cwhich had been impacted by customs and other trade policy conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRevenue decreased 3.9 percent in last year\u2019s second quarter,<\/a> with cross-border international shipments at DHL Express<\/a> declining 10 percent.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time, the U.S. had imposed sweeping tariffs on most of its trade partners, with duties on China reaching triple digits<\/a> for a brief stretch last spring. The majority of these \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs that President Donald Trump slapped on other countries were ruled illegal in February via a Supreme Court ruling, forcing the executive branch to conjure up alternative options. The U.S. also scrapped the duty-free de minimis provision<\/a> for small parcels out of China last May, further holding volumes down.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe full-year guidance is \u201cassuming no further worsening of the geopolitical situation,\u201d the company said. Across the company, pre-tax income forecasts for 2026 were increased to exceed 6.5 billion euros ($7.4 billion) compared to the previous guidance of 6.2 billion euros ($7.1 billion).<\/p>\n

\n\tDHL is following in the footsteps of another logistics titan, Maersk, in raising its profit outlook<\/a> for the year. Like DHL, the ocean carrier cited growing demand as the primary reason for the rosier guidance.<\/p>\n

\n\tChief competitor FedEx released its own guidance<\/a> for the 2026 calendar year, which implied 20 percent earnings per share growth from June through December.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor its major divisions. DHL\u2019s EBIT expectations were increased to more than 5.9 billion euros ($6.7 billion), above the previously guided 5.6 billion euros ($6.4 billion). These units consist of DHL Express, as well as its global freight forwarding division, its DHL Supply Chain contract logistics segment and its high-volume e-commerce parcel delivery business.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe outlook remains unchanged for its parcel and postal delivery unit in Germany, with pre-tax earnings still expected to remain above 900 million euros ($1 billion). The company also anticipates its \u201cgroup functions\u201d to incur a 400-million-euro ($457.2 million) loss. That segment mainly provides services internally within DHL.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition, the company credited its \u201cFit for Growth\u201d measures for helping reduce the company\u2019s cost base, leading to earnings \u201crising more strongly than market expectation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Fit for Growth program was announced last March, and is aimed at cutting companywide expenses by 1 billion euros<\/a> ($1.1 billion) through 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe preliminary results said DHL Express generated an EBIT of 1.2 billion euros ($1.4 billion) in its second quarter, accelerating 64 percent from 730 million euros ($833.4 million) last year and reflecting a \u201cvery favorable operating leverage effect of the return to [volume] growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGrowth in the segment was supported by about 150 million euros ($171.3 million) of gains driven by capacity constraints<\/a> in the air freight<\/a> market.<\/p>\n

\n\tPre-tax profit at DHL Global Forwarding totaled 240 million euros ($274 million) compared with 196 million euros ($223.8 million) last year due to a positive effect of low-to-mid double-digit million from successfully managing market disruptions.<\/p>\n

\n\tDHL Supply Chain recorded earnings of approximately 305 million euros ($348.2 million) in the quarter, down 12 percent compared with the prior-year result of 348 million euros ($397.3 million).<\/p>\n

\n\tFinally, DHL eCommerce drove an estimated EBIT of 50 million euros ($57.1 million) compared with 56 million euros ($63.9 million) last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe e-commerce parcel delivery branch hopes to further expand in the U.S. and attract larger clients, recently reupping its partnership<\/a> with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).<\/p>\n

\n\tUnder the exclusive multi-year deal, which is expected to produce $10 billion in revenue, all of DHL eCommerce\u2019s last-mile domestic parcels in the U.S. will be delivered through USPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DHL Group is raising its full-year earnings forecast amid a strong second quarter reeling in double-digit revenue growth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21057],"tags":[29004,21073,21072,24258],"class_list":["post-51502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dhl","tag-air-freight","tag-deutsche-post","tag-dhl","tag-dhl-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51502","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=51502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}