Daishinsha H1 Operating Profit Drops 27% to ¥128 Million as Marketing Produce Revenue Slips 6.7%

Daishinsha Inc. (TSE: 9169) reported consolidated results for the first half of the fiscal year ending November 2026 — the six months from November 21, 2025 to May 20, 2026 — under Japanese GAAP. Revenue fell 5.9% to ¥3,159 million, operating profit dropped 27.4% to ¥128 million, ordinary profit declined 20.8% to ¥133 million, and net profit attributable to owners of the parent eased 19.3% to ¥74 million. Half-year earnings per share came to ¥30.24, down from ¥37.45 a year earlier.

The company, which runs a communication-design and marketing group out of Osaka, said the Japanese economy recovered moderately over the period even as the effects of U.S. trade policy lingered. It flagged Middle East tensions and their impact on crude prices, alongside continued shifts in U.S. trade policy, as the main variables it is watching.

Marketing Produce, the profit engine, contracts

The Marketing Produce segment — the group's largest, covering planning and production of corporate communication tools, store and showroom spatial design, and commercial-facility event operation — saw external revenue fall 6.7% to ¥2,265 million as strategy-support work built on customer-experience (CX) design and communication-tool production projects declined. Segment profit dropped 45.2% to ¥78.8 million, accounting for most of the group's operating-profit shortfall.

Printing grows but barely earns; Design Research profit jumps

Printing lifted revenue 9.0% to ¥542.6 million on solid demand in high-brand commercial printing, but soaring paper and other printing-material costs, higher outsourced processing fees, and lost bids in the price-sensitive fine-art printing field cut segment profit 46.6% to just ¥0.3 million. Design Research revenue fell 18.5% to ¥325.8 million as traditional marketing research for pharmaceutical clients shrank and exhibition-type projects with high outsourcing ratios thinned — yet the lower outsourcing mix drove segment profit up 250.5% to ¥28.8 million, helped by CX-themed work stemming from the company's October 2025 book "The CX Management Textbook." The small BPO segment, which handles HR, accounting and general-affairs work for group companies, saw revenue fall 20.4% to ¥6.1 million on a contract expiry while efficiency gains lifted segment profit 67.7% to ¥3.6 million.

Balance sheet strengthens, operating cash flow nearly triples

Total assets stood at ¥6,776 million, down ¥136 million from the FY11/2025 year-end, as a ¥511 million drop in notes and accounts receivable outweighed increases in electronically recorded receivables (+¥122 million), property, plant and equipment (+¥234 million) and investment securities (+¥116 million). Liabilities fell ¥232 million to ¥2,962 million on a ¥224 million reduction in trade payables and a ¥110 million cut in short-term borrowings. Net assets rose ¥96 million to ¥3,814 million, lifting the equity ratio to 56.1% from 53.6%. Operating cash flow surged to ¥335.8 million from ¥123.5 million a year earlier on receivables collection, but investing outflows widened to ¥334.6 million — including ¥270.0 million of property, plant and equipment purchases — leaving cash and equivalents at ¥571.0 million, down ¥111.2 million.

Full-year guidance and dividend held

Daishinsha reiterated the FY11/2026 forecast it published on January 19, 2026: revenue of ¥6,800 million (+4.6%), operating profit of ¥180 million (−9.8%), ordinary profit of ¥200 million (−11.6%), and net profit of ¥120 million (−25.8%), for full-year EPS of ¥48.96. The implied second half therefore carries the bulk of the year's revenue growth. The dividend plan is likewise unchanged at ¥0.00 interim and ¥20.00 year-end, for ¥20.00 annually — flat versus FY11/2025. The company reported no material subsequent events and no changes to its scope of consolidation or accounting policies.

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