February 9, 2022

Consolidated Financial Summary for the Fiscal Nine Months Ended December 31, 2021 and Forecasts for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2022

  • Despite some unfavorable factors such as a decrease in automobile unit sales due to the supply shortage of certain parts including semiconductors and an increase in raw material cost, consolidated operating profit for the fiscal nine months amounted to 671.6 billion yen, a year-on- year increase by 224.6 billion yen, due primarily to cost reductions, control of incentives and favorable currency effects.
  • Consolidated profit for the fiscal nine months attributable to owners of the parent amounted to 582.1 billion yen, a year-on-year increase by 138.0 billion yen.
  • The previously announced forecast for consolidated operating profit for the current fiscal year (April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022) was revised upward by 140 billion yen to 800 billion yen.
  • The previously announced forecast for profit for the fiscal year attributable to owners of the parent was revised upward by 115 billion yen to 670 billion yen, a year-on-yearincrease.
  1. Consolidated financial summary and business-by-business results for the fiscal nine months ended December 31, 2021

Sales revenue: 10,677.0 billion yen (a year-on-yearincrease of 11.8%) Increase due to higher sales revenue from all businesses.

    • Operating profit: 671.6 billion yen (a year-on-yearincrease of 50.3%)

    Increase due primarily to favorable currency effects and higher profit related to changes in sales revenue and model mix.

    • Profit for the period attributable to owners of the parent: 582.1 billion yen (a year-on-yearincrease of 31.1%)
  1. Motorcycle business
    • Sales revenue: 1,602.0 billion yen (a year-on-yearincrease of 343.9 billion yen) Increase due primarily to a sales increase in Brazil.
    • Operating profit: 232.3 billion yen (a year-on-year increase of 80.0 billion yen).
      Increase due primarily to an increase in profit related to changes in sales revenue and model mix.
  2. Automobile business

Sales revenue: 6,823.6 billion yen (a year-on-year increase of 462.7 billion yen) Although sales decreased in North America, sales revenue experienced a year-on-year increase due primarily to an increase in sales in Asia and favorable currency effects.

Operating profit: 188.5 billion yen (a year-on-year increase of 135.9 billion yen) Increase was due primarily to the control of selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses.

Combined with operating profit from financial services business related to automobile sales, the estimated operating profit for automobile business is 437.2 billion yen.

  1. Financial Services business

Operating profit: 258.1 billion yen (a year-on-year increase of 7.5 billion yen) Increase due primarily to an increase in profit due to higher revenue.

  1. Life Creation (power products) and Other businesses

Operating loss: 7.4 billion yen (a year-on-year improvement of 1.1 billion yen) Aircraft/aircraft engine business, which is included in "Other businesses," accounted for an operating loss of 23.6 billion yen.

  1. Forecasts for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2022(FY22)
    • Honda is expecting that the external business environment will remain challenging due primarily to the resurgence of COVID-19, the supply shortage of certain parts including semiconductors and a further increase in raw material cost. Despite this assumption, Honda made an upward revision to the previously announced forecast for consolidated operating profit for FY22 to 800 billion yen, an increase by 140 billion yen, reflecting its continuous efforts to improve profitability including the control of selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses and incentives.
    • The previously announced forecast for profit for the fiscal year attributable to owners of the parent was revised upward by 115 billion yen to 670 billion yen.

Consolidated Financial Results for the Fiscal Nine Months

Fiscal nine months

Fiscal nine months

ended

ended

Difference

Dec. 31, 2020

Dec. 31, 2021

(9 months period)

(9 months period)

Honda Group

Motorcycles

10.591

12.775

+2.184

Unit Sales*1

Automobiles*3

3.425

3.000

-0.425

(million units)

Life Creation

3.855

4.500

+0.645

Consolidated

Motorcycles

7.263

7.964

+0.701

Unit Sales*2

Automobiles*3

1.899

1.792

-0.107

(million units)

Life Creation

3.855

4.500

+0.645

Sales revenue

9,546.7

10,677.0

+1,130.3

Operating profit

447.0

671.6

+224.6

Financial

Share of profit of investments accounted for

204.5

157.0

-47.5

using the equity method

Results

Profit before income taxes

658.7

845.2

+186.5

(billion yen)

Profit for the period

444.1

582.1

+138.0

attributable to owners of the

parent

Honda's

106

111

JPY depreciated

Average

USD=

against the USD

Rate (yen)

by 5 yen/dollar

Forecasts for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2022 (FY22)

Previous

Revised

Difference

Difference

FY21

FY22

FY22

compared

compared to

results

forecasts

forecasts

to previous

FY21 results

2021/11/5

(2022/2/9)

forecasts

Honda Group

Motorcycles

15.132

17.500

17.040

+1.908

-0.460

4.546

4.200

4.200

-0.346

Unit Sales*1

Automobiles*3

(million units)

Life Creation

5.623

6.100

5.950

+0.327

-0.150

Consolidated

Motorcycles

10.264

11.040

10.695

+0.431

-0.345

2.617

2.525

2.465

-0.152

-0.060

Unit Sales*2

Automobiles*3

(million units)

Life Creation

5.623

6.100

5.950

+0.327

-0.150

Sales revenue

13,170.5

14,600.0

14,550.0

+1,379.4

-50.0

Operating profit

660.2

660.0

800.0

+139.7

+140.0

Financial

Share of profit of investments

272.7

200.0

210.0

-62.7

+10.0

Results/

accounted for using the equity method

Forecasts

Profit before income taxes

914.0

860.0

1,020.0

+105.9

+160.0

(billion yen)

Profit for the year

attributable to owners of the

657.4

555.0

670.0

+12.5

+115.0

parent

Annual dividend per share (yen)

110

110

110

--

--

JPY to

JPY to

Honda's

106

110

depreciate

depreciate

Average

USD=

111

against the

against the

Rate (yen)

USD by 5

USD by 1

yen/dollar

yen/dollar

Consolidated Financial Results for the Fiscal 3rd Quarter

3rd quarter

3rd quarter

ended

ended

Difference

Dec. 31, 2020

Dec. 31, 2021

(3 months period)

(3 months period)

Honda Group

Motorcycles

4.269

4.602

+0.333

Unit Sales*1

Automobiles*3

1.380

1.085

-0.295

(million units)

Life Creation

1.402

1.270

-0.132

Consolidated

Motorcycles

3.019

2.877

-0.142

Unit Sales*2

Automobiles*3

0.809

0.610

-0.199

(million units)

Life Creation

1.402

1.270

-0.132

Sales revenue

3,771.5

3,688.7

-82.7

Operating profit

277.7

229.4

-48.2

Financial

Share of profit of investments accounted for

102.2

49.7

-52.4

using the equity method

Results

Profit before income taxes

386.4

284.8

-101.5

(billion yen)

Profit for the period

284.0

192.9

-91.0

attributable to owners of the

parent

Honda's

JPY depreciated

Average

USD=

104

114

against the USD

Rate (yen)

by 10 yen/dollar

*1 Honda Group Unit Sales is the total unit sales of completed products (motorcycles, ATVs, Side-by-Sides, automobiles, power products) of Honda, its consolidated subsidiaries and its affiliates and joint ventures accounted for using the equity method.

*2 Consolidated Unit Sales is the total unit sales of completed products (motorcycles, ATVs, Side-by-Sides, automobiles, power products) corresponding to consolidated sales revenue, which consists of unit sales of completed products of Honda and its consolidated subsidiaries.

*3 Certain sales of automobiles that are financed with residual value type auto loans by our Japanese finance subsidiaries and provided through our consolidated subsidiaries are accounted for as operating leases in conformity with IFRS and are not included in consolidated sales revenue to the external customers in our automobile business. Accordingly, they are not included in Consolidated Unit Sales, but are included in Honda Group Unit Sales of our automobile business.

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