By Graeme Roberts | 31 July 2013
Honda Motor fiscal first quarter operating income rose 5.1% to JPY184.9bn after motorcycle sales in Asia rose and it increased car sales in all regions except Japan.
Net income dipped to JPY9.2bn to JPY122.4bn.
Honda held its full-year forecast.
The quarterly dividend for the fiscal first quarter will be JPY20 per share, a JPY1 increase year on year. The fiscal year payout is planned at JPY80, up JPY4.
The operating result was below the average estimate of JPY209.3bn in a Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S poll of four analysts.
Honda's no-chnage full year forecast for JPY780bn was lower than JPY840bn, the mean of estimates by 21 analysts.