Rolls-Royce shares jump as profit beats expectations
Rolls-Royce shares rose nearly four percent on Thursday after the FTSE 100 engineering firm reported a 46 percent surge in first-half underlying operating profit to £2.5 billion, driven by a boom in defence spending and a sweeping transformation under CEO Tufan Erginbilgic. The company raised its full-year profit guidance to between £4.7 billion and £4.9 billion, exceeding analyst forecasts of £4.2 billion. All divisions—civil aerospace, defence, and power systems—showed improved profitability. Statutory profit fell to £1.6 billion from £4.4 billion a year earlier due to disposals and exchange rate movements. Rolls-Royce announced an interim dividend of 6p per share and is £1.4 billion through a £2.5 billion share buyback programme. The defence division secured a £2.4 billion order intake, with a backlog of £17.5 billion, supported by NATO orders and UK defence spending plans. Shares have risen over 42 percent in the past year.
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