STOCKHOLM: Finnish elevator maker Kone on Friday reported a smaller than expected rise in second-quarter operating profit and slightly narrowed its full-year profitability projection.
CEO Philippe Delorme said that the Chinese property market had remained very challenging, leading to a significant decline in orders and sales in the company’s China New Building Solutions business.
Operating profit was 335 million euros ($365 million), against 283 million euros a year earlier and a mean forecast of 348 million euros in an LSEG poll of analysts.
The profit was on unchanged sales at comparable exchange rates and the company’s comparable order intake was up 4%.
Kone, which also makes escalators, moving walkways and automatic building doors, said it now expects a full-year adjusted group operating profit margin of 11.5-12.2% and sales growth of 0-4% at comparable exchange rates.
Its previous guidance, given in April, was for a margin of 11.5-12.3% on comparable sales growth of 0-5%.
Source Homevior.in
