Yokohama Targets in 2026 with Off-Road Tire
Following its record-breaking performance in 2025, Yokohama is confident about its development in 2026. The company stated that 2026, the final year of its YX2026 mid-term management plan, has set a clear profit growth target of 13%.
On February 20, 2026, Yokohama announced its sales forecast for the year. It believes that after completing the acquisition of Goodyear's off-road tire business, the group's overall product portfolio possesses extremely strong market competitiveness.
In fact, Yokohama's large-size passenger car tires are already strong competitors in the high-end market; and over the past three years, with the successive acquisitions of Trelleborg Wheel Systems and Goodyear Specialty Tires, its influence in the off-road tire market has rapidly increased.
Yokohama particularly values the Goodyear off-road tire business acquired in 2025, calling it "strategically important" to its product lineup and defining it as the "best off-road replacement tire" in the industry.
Furthermore, according to previous interviews with major players in the off-road tire market, Goodyear also possesses a strong brand influence in the off-road tire original equipment market (especially in the agricultural machinery sector). Based on this, Yokohama boldly predicted after releasing its annual report that its sales and revenue would further increase in fiscal year 2026.
Specifically, for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026, the group expects total revenue to reach 1.3 trillion yen (approximately 57 billion yuan), a 5.3% increase from 1.235 trillion yen in 2025; and operating profit to reach 188 billion yen (approximately 8.247 billion yuan), a 13% increase from 166.6 billion yen last year.
Yokohama emphasized that fiscal year 2026 is the final year of the YX2026 mid-term management plan. The previous year, the group had already achieved double-digit growth in both sales and profit—revenue increased by 12.8% year-on-year, and revenue increased by 24%, marking the fifth consecutive year of year-on-year sales growth for Yokohama. Therefore, in this final year, Yokohama has focused its 13% profit growth target on two key segments: high-value tire sales and off-road tires.
In outlining its 2026 outlook, Yokohama stated that this year it will focus on expanding sales of high-value-added consumer tires, fully leveraging the synergies of its multi-brand strategy for off-road tires (OHT), and further enhancing its core competitiveness in various off-road market segments by integrating the technology and market resources of companies such as ATG and TWS.
In the high-value passenger car tire sector, Yokohama has previously planned to shift nearly half of its passenger car tire production capacity to the production of large-size tires and ultra-high performance (UHP) tires, thereby enhancing brand premium and consolidating and strengthening its competitive advantage in the high-end market.
In addition to building a global business structure driven by both passenger car and off-road tires, Yokohama will also further optimize its cost structure to provide strong support for achieving double-digit profit growth.
