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Philips shares jump 15% as second-quarter sales grow despite China weakness

Shares of Dutch device maker Philips jumped as much as 15% on Monday after the company reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings.

The stock was last up 14.62% when markets closed in Europe.

Comparable group sales rose 2% to 4.5 billion euros ($4.88 billion), as demand in North America held strong, even as China sales dipped.

Philips, which makes medical devices and personal-care products such as electric toothbrushes, also saw its comparable order intake grow 9% over the three-month period.

Philips said the waning China demand was due in part by Beijing's drive toward self-sufficiency in critical technologies, including within health care, amid rising U.S.-China tensions. However, it added that the country remains a "fundamentally attractive growth market."

CEO Roy Jakobs told CNBC that he was encouraged by the "robust" second-quarter results, adding that he had "strong confidence" that the company would meet its full-year guidance of comparable sales growth of 3%-5%.

"Within a challenging macro environment we achieved strong margin improvement, supported by our productivity program, solid operational cashflow due to improved working capital management and comparable sales growth in line with our plan," Jakobs added in a statement.

The company reported a number of cost savings over the period, including productivity savings of 195 million euros across operating model savings of 57 million euros, procurement savings of 71 million euros, and other programs' savings of 67 million euros. Since 2022, Philips has embarked on a reorganization set to cut roughly 10,000 jobs, or 13% of Philips' workforce as of January last year, Reuters reported at the time.

At the same time, Philips said it had agreed to pay $1.1 billion

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