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Volkswagen's second-quarter profit slumped below expectations, and the German automaker moved Friday to lower its full-year 2026 sales forecast.
A revenue squeeze is now the working assumption for the remainder of the year. What the Q2 result showed The April-to-June period produced a profit result Volkswagen had not anticipated.
No specific profit figure or the scale of the miss was disclosed in the initial release.
The decision to revise annual guidance downward in the same announcement signals that management treated the quarterly shortfall as informative about the rest of 2026, not as a one-period setback the second half would correct.
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