丰田汽车上调了年度业绩展望，得益于混合动力汽车强劲销售帮助其逆势而上，同时宣布了一项价值890亿美元的提升股东回报计划，推动其股价飙升。
Toyota lifted its annual outlook as robust sales of hybrid vehicles helped it defy an industry downtrend, while also announcing an $89 billion plan to boost shareholder returns that sent its shares soaring.
这家全球最大汽车制造商的股价当天收盘大涨17%，创下近40年来最大单日涨幅，延续了此前的涨势——当时投资者在美国中期选举后抛售AI相关股票，转而买入蓝筹股。
Shares in the world's largest automaker finished up 17% on the day, their biggest one-day gain in almost 40 years, extending an advance made as investors bought blue chips after selling AI-related shares in the wake of the U.S. midterm elections.
传统车企目前面临的危机如此深重，以至于丰田能够坚持既定战略被视为一种胜利。
The crisis now facing traditional automakers is so profound that Toyota's ability to stay the course is regarded as something of a triumph.
“这是一个不错的季度。迄今为止发布业绩的一些车企表现非常糟糕，”中信证券日本汽车分析师克里斯托弗·里希特表示。
"It was a decent quarter. There are some automakers so far that have been reporting that had terrible quarters," said Christopher Richter, autos analyst at CITIC Securities Japan.
“他们上调了业绩指引，又推出了所有这些股东回报措施，简直让人‘哇’一声惊叹。” 到2031年3月最多回报14万亿日元（约合890亿美元）的计划，远超此前五年的7万亿日元，这紧随日本当局多年的公司治理改革之后。
"The fact that they guided upwards and then they had all the shareholder payout stuff, it's like, 'wow'." The plan to return as much as 14 trillion yen ($89 billion) by March 2031 compares with 7 trillion yen in the preceding five years and follows years of corporate governance reforms by Japanese authorities.
里希特表示，丰田庞大的现金储备（目前约为9.5万亿日元）长期以来一直是股东不满的根源，并补充称，该车企将需要继续向投资者回报更多资本，以提振其净资产收益率。
Toyota's massive cash pile, which currently sits at around 9.5 trillion yen, has long been a source of frustration for shareholders, Richter said, adding the automaker will need to continue to return more capital to investors to bolster its return on equity.
此外，受益于日元走弱和美国关税降低，抵消了中国市场销售下滑的影响，丰田表示，现在预计截至明年3月的财年营业利润将达到3.9万亿日元（约合246亿美元），较此前预测上调15%。
Also benefiting from a weaker yen and lower US tariffs that helped offset a slide in sales in China, Toyota said it now expects operating profit of 3.9 trillion yen ($24.6 billion) for the year ending March, up 15% from an earlier forecast.
该公司还公布了7至9月季度营业利润同比激增34%的业绩，超出预期。
It also posted a forecast-beating 34% climb in operating income for the July-September quarter.
随着伊朗战争导致燃油成本飙升，丰田凭借对油电混合动力车的专注获益，尽管面临来自中国电动汽车制造商竞争的巨大逆风。
Toyota has benefited from its focus on petrol-electric hybrids as fuel costs have surged in the wake of the Iran war, even as it faces considerable headwinds in the form of competition from Chinese electric vehicle makers.
与其他那些全力投入电动汽车、随后因电动汽车需求减弱而不得不减记数十亿美元投资的传统汽车公司不同，丰田主要专注于推进其几十年前通过普锐斯车型普及的混合动力技术。
Unlike other traditional car companies that went all-in on electric vehicles and then had to write down billions of dollars in investment when demand for EVs weakened, Toyota has primarily focused on advancing the hybrid technology it popularised with the Prius decades ago.
这一策略是丰田得以在其主要市场美国捍卫市场份额的关键，尽管在其他地方面临来自快速发展的中国电动汽车制造商的威胁。
The strategy has been key to its ability to defend market share in its main market, the United States, despite the threat from fast-moving Chinese EV makers elsewhere.
丰田首席财务官宫崎洋一在简报会上表示，在竞争激烈的中国市场，燃油价格上涨正在打击消费者情绪，而丰田目前正在展开反击。
While higher fuel prices were hitting consumer sentiment in the highly competitive Chinese market, Toyota was now fighting back, Chief Financial Officer Yoichi Miyazaki told a briefing.
他说：“我们已经能够遏制住市场份额的下滑，现在开始收复一些失地。”
"We've been able to halt the decline in our market share and are now starting to regain some ground," he said.
从生产、设计到软件和机器人技术，中国正日益为汽车行业其他参与者设定步伐。丰田表示，将建立自己的机器人业务，为制造商和其他行业提供机器人，并将该业务定位为未来增长的支柱。
China, increasingly, is setting the pace for the rest of the auto industry in everything from production and design to software and robotics. Toyota said it would establish a robotics business of its own that would provide robots for manufacturers and other industries, and position the business as a pillar of future growth.
丰田还表示，计划在截至2030财年期间投入至少22万亿日元用于研发和资本投资，并在2031年3月之前将净流动资产从3月底的水平削减一半以上，降至7万亿日元。
Toyota also said it plans to spend at least 22 trillion yen on R&D and capital investment through fiscal 2030 and more than halve net liquid assets to 7 trillion yen by March 2031 from end-March levels.
丰田首席会计官东崇德表示，公司正通过销售努力和降低成本来抵消中东局势以及材料价格飙升的影响。
Takanori Azuma, Toyota's chief accounting officer, said the company was offsetting the impact of the situation in the Middle East and a surge in material prices through sales efforts and cost reductions.