Bosch sees 2025 organic sales up 1%-3%, tempered by weak markets

Reuters

Thu, May 8, 2025, 1:05 AM 1 min read

(Reuters) -German automotive supplier Robert Bosch said connected Thursday it expects 2025 income to turn a currency-adjusted 1% to 3%.

Volatility successful planetary commercialized makes the forecast fraught with uncertainty, the institution said, besides citing a hard concern situation successful its main markets but besides imaginable tailwinds from authorities infrastructure concern programmes."The consequences of further tariffs and imaginable economical effects from European and German infrastructure investments besides marque an appraisal much difficult," it added.

In the archetypal 4th of 2025, Bosch income roseate 4% compared with the aforesaid play past year.

In contrast, German adjacent Schaeffler connected Wednesday posted a first-quarter gross diminution of 2.9%, citing wide softness successful the industry.

Bosch confirmed its operating borderline people of 7% for 2026, though calling it "an highly challenging".

Bosch added that it expects the fig of jobs astatine the institution to diminution further, peculiarly successful Germany and Europe.

(Reporting by Ilona Wissenbach and Christina Amann, Writing by Amir OrusovEditing by Ludwig Burger)