Kia Motors Corporation announced unaudited consolidated earnings results for the fiscal year 2018. Sales revenue in 2018 totaled KRW 54.2 trillion, posting a 1.2% increase from the same period last year. Despite a low base effect, which caused by one-off provision expenses of ordinary wages in third quarter 2017, 2018 operating profit increased at a lower-than-expected rate, with an operating margin of 2.1%. As a result, Kia recorded net profit of KRW 1 trillion and KRW 156 billion with net profit margin of 2.1%.