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Pan Pacific International Holdings Corporation
Retail · Aug 18

Pan Pacific International Clears ¥2.4 Trillion in Revenue as Record Net Profit Jumps 21.6%

The Don Quijote operator reported full-year revenue of ¥2,445,260 million, up 8.8%, operating profit of ¥174,842 million, up 7.7%, and net profit attributable to owners of parent of ¥110,088 million, up 21.6% — a record. Tax-free sales reached an all-time high, the new food-led "Robin Hood" format opened five stores, and Olympic Group became a wholly owned subsidiary on July 1, 2026. Guidance for FY6/2027 pairs 9.9% revenue growth with ordinary profit guided 1.2% lower.

Pan Pacific International Holdings Corporation · TSE: 7532 11 min read

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Ai Holdings Corporation
Diversified Industrials · Aug 19

Ai Holdings FY6/2026 Revenue Up 28% on Nakayo Consolidation as Net Profit Halves Against a Prior-Year Bargain-Purchase Gain

Ai Holdings reported full-year revenue of ¥85,024 million, up 28.4%, operating profit of ¥10,762 million, up 21.1%, and ordinary profit of ¥12,535 million, up 39.2% — but net profit attributable to owners of the parent fell 43.7% to ¥11,937 million. The whole of that divergence sits below the ordinary line: FY6/2025 contained a ¥17,878 million bargain-purchase gain on negative goodwill and a net tax credit, while this year's extraordinary income was a ¥3,836 million property-sale gain. Revenue growth came almost entirely from consolidating Nakayo's telecom business.

TSE: 30768 min read
Saita Holdings Co., Ltd.
Construction · Aug 18

Saita Holdings Operating Profit Falls 39.6% on Building-Materials Slump, but Net Profit Edges Up 0.7%

Saita Holdings reported revenue of ¥7,035.8 million for the year ended June 30, 2026, down 10.3%, and operating profit of ¥595.2 million, down 39.6%, as building-materials revenue fell 21.5% and the construction unit's profit dropped 40% under order-price competition. Net profit attributable to owners of parent nonetheless edged up 0.7% to ¥491.9 million, carried by a ¥171 million swing in foreign-exchange results and a lighter tax charge. Construction orders — next year's revenue — collapsed 37.5% to ¥2,414 million, and guidance for FY6/2027 calls for declines on every line.

TSE: 19999 min read
Kitagawa Seiki Co., Ltd.
Machinery · Aug 18

Kitagawa Seiki Operating Profit Jumps 52% as It Guides FY6/2027 Revenue Up 51% to ¥10 Billion

Kitagawa Seiki reported full-year revenue of ¥6,607 million, up 6.1%, and operating profit of ¥949 million, up 52.2%, with net profit attributable to owners of parent up 90.1% to ¥750 million and return on equity rising to 13.2% from 8.0%. The press-machinery maker then guided FY6/2027 revenue to ¥10,000 million, up 51.3% — the ¥10 billion goal of its 2030 medium-term plan, reached four years early — while guiding net profit up only 8.0%. The evidence for the revenue leap sits on the balance sheet, in a ¥1,224 million build in work in process and an ¥874 million rise in contract liabilities.

TSE: 63279 min read

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NTT Corporation
Telecommunications · Aug 6

NTT Q1 Revenue Climbs 10.9% to ¥3.62 Trillion as Global Solutions Adds ¥173 Billion

NTT Corporation reported first-quarter operating revenue of ¥3,617,707 million, up 10.9%, operating profit of ¥425,149 million, up 4.9%, and profit attributable to NTT of ¥274,830 million, up 5.8%. Nearly half of the group's ¥355,668 million revenue increase came from a single segment — Global Solutions, the consulting, IT-services and data-centre arm — whose external revenue rose ¥172,614 million. But operating costs grew faster than revenue, at 11.8%, so the operating margin narrowed to 11.75% from 12.42%; and full-year guidance, left untouched, still points to a 5.5% fall in annual profit.

TSE: 943211 min read
Daifuku Co., Ltd.
Machinery · Aug 6

Daifuku Raises FY26 Guidance After Record First Half as Orders Jump 31.6% on AI Chip Capex

Daifuku booked record interim orders of ¥440,186 million, up 31.6%, on revenue of ¥355,513 million, up 8.9%, operating profit of ¥56,680 million, up 10.9%, and net profit attributable to owners of parent of ¥43,143 million, up 14.7% — five interim records in a row. It then raised full-year revenue guidance to ¥735,000 million from ¥700,000 million, net profit to ¥86,500 million, and its order forecast to ¥860–900 billion from ¥780–820 billion. Two things deserve attention before the records are taken at face value: a weaker yen supplied roughly half the profit growth and about two-thirds of the revenue upgrade, and the parent company's own revenue fell 16.1%.

TSE: 638311 min read
Metaplanet Inc.
Bitcoin Treasury · Aug 14

Metaplanet Posts ¥182.8 Billion Half-Year Net Loss on Bitcoin Revaluation as Holdings Climb to 43,000 BTC

Revenue rose 133.7% to ¥4,944 million and operating profit 136.3% to ¥3,331 million, but a ¥184,297 million non-cash bitcoin valuation loss booked below the operating line produced an ordinary loss of ¥182,874 million and a net loss attributable to owners of parent of ¥182,774 million. No bitcoin was sold during the half: holdings rose 7,898 coins to 43,000 BTC and bitcoin per share climbed to 0.0263554. Full-year guidance of ¥16.0 billion revenue and ¥11.4 billion operating profit is unchanged.

TSE: 33508 min read
Nintendo Co., Ltd. headquarters in Minami-ku, Kyoto
Gaming · Aug 6

Nintendo Q1 Operating Profit Leaps 151% to ¥142.6 Billion as Switch 2 Ships 3.82 Million Units

Nintendo sold 3.82 million Nintendo Switch 2 consoles and 9.46 million Switch 2 games in the June quarter, and a richer software mix plus a refund of U.S. IEEPA tariffs previously charged to cost of sales drove operating profit up 150.5% to ¥142,596 million — even though net sales fell 9.5% to ¥517,813 million against the console's launch quarter a year earlier.

TSE: 79747 min read

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Suntory Beverage & Food Limited
Beverages · Aug 6

Suntory Beverage & Food H1 Revenue Climbs 11.6% to ¥899.9 Billion, but Operating Profit Falls 5.4% Excluding Currency

Suntory Beverage & Food reported first-half revenue of ¥899,879 million, up 11.6%, and operating profit of ¥73,965 million, up 3.0% — yet on a currency-neutral basis revenue grew only 5.4% and operating profit fell 5.4%. Profit attributable to owners of the parent rose 2.3% to ¥42,075 million, and the operating margin narrowed to 8.2% from 8.9%. Of five reporting segments, only Oceania — revenue up 69.7%, segment profit up 156.2% — and Japan grew profit on their own operating merits; Europe, Asia and the Americas all went backwards excluding currency. Full-year guidance and the ¥120.00 dividend are unchanged, though a July earthquake in Kumamoto damaged a plant that makes soft drinks for the company under contract.

TSE: 258710 min read
Hoshizaki Corporation
Machinery · Aug 6

Hoshizaki H1 Revenue Up 14.7% as the Americas Grows 29%, and the Board Approves a 2-for-1 Stock Split

Hoshizaki reported first-half revenue of ¥273,646 million, up 14.7%, its fastest interim growth in years — and operating profit of ¥32,705 million, up only 7.3%, with net profit attributable to owners of parent up 1.6% to ¥22,297 million. The gap is acquisition accounting: adjusted operating profit, which strips out ¥4,567 million of goodwill and intangible amortisation and ¥2,056 million of hyperinflation effects, rose 16.1% to ¥39,330 million. Almost all of the divergence sits in one segment, where Americas revenue grew 29.3% while reported segment profit fell 16.8%. Guidance and the ¥115.00 dividend are unchanged, and the board resolved a 2-for-1 stock split effective January 1, 2027.

TSE: 646511 min read
Daio Paper Corporation
Paper & Pulp · Aug 6

Daio Paper Slips to a ¥463 Million Q1 Net Loss as the Paper Business Turns Negative

Daio Paper reported first-quarter revenue of ¥161,160 million, up 1.8%, operating profit down 28.7% to ¥1,495 million, ordinary profit up 763.5% to ¥1,247 million, and a net loss attributable to owners of parent of ¥463 million against a ¥335 million profit a year earlier. Almost every line moved for a different reason: Paper & Paperboard swung to a ¥257 million segment loss while Home & Personal Care swung to a ¥1,159 million profit; a currency swing and higher dividend income lifted ordinary profit more than eight-fold; and below that, extraordinary income collapsed from ¥2,765 million to ¥120 million while tax and minority interests absorbed everything that was left. Full-year guidance was left unchanged.

TSE: 388011 min read
Toyobo Co., Ltd.
Chemicals · Aug 6

Toyobo Q1 Operating Profit Rises 28% on AI-Server Film Demand as It Restores FY3/2027 Guidance

Toyobo reported first-quarter revenue of ¥110,373 million, up 7.3%, operating profit of ¥7,132 million, up 28.1%, ordinary profit of ¥6,626 million, up 55.3%, and net profit attributable to owners of parent of ¥3,072 million, up 95.3%, as release film for multilayer ceramic capacitors expanded on AI-server demand. The larger news sits in the guidance box: a company that could not put a number on FY3/2027 at all — it had declared the forecast undetermined because the escalation in the Middle East made a reasonable estimate impossible — published one on August 6, and it points down, to operating profit of ¥23,000 million, a 17.6% decline.

TSE: 31019 min read
Seiko Epson Corporation
Electronics · Aug 5

Epson Raises FY3/2027 Guidance Across Every Line After Q1 Operating Profit Jumps 46%

Seiko Epson reported first-quarter revenue of ¥367,241 million, up 14.4%, business profit of ¥22,122 million, up 12.0%, and profit attributable to owners of the parent of ¥12,984 million, up 96.4%, on a yen 10% weaker against the dollar and 13% weaker against the euro. The company then raised full-year guidance on every line — revenue to ¥1,510.0 billion and operating profit to ¥101.0 billion, ¥60.0 billion and ¥15.0 billion above the May forecast — crediting the currency move and a one-off refund of U.S. tariffs.

TSE: 67247 min read
EDION Corporation
Retail · Aug 5

EDION Q1 Operating Profit More Than Doubles on Early Air-Conditioner Season as Yamada Merger Talks Advance

EDION reported first-quarter revenue of ¥201,494 million, up 9.9%, operating profit of ¥11,077 million, up 134.0%, and net profit of ¥7,573 million, up 136.4%, as an air-conditioner season that began roughly a month early lifted the operating margin to 5.5% from 2.6%. The quarter also carried a basic agreement with Yamada Holdings on integrating the two companies under a holding structure, and damage to four Kumamoto stores from the 2026 earthquake. Full-year guidance was left unchanged even though the quarter delivered 41.0% of the guided operating profit.

TSE: 27307 min read
Alfresa Holdings Corporation
Pharmaceutical Distribution · Aug 5

Alfresa Q1 Net Profit Halves as Wafer-Thin Wholesale Margin Thins Further

Alfresa Holdings reported first-quarter revenue of ¥788,960 million, up 4.1%, but operating profit of ¥5,596 million, down 19.6%, and net profit attributable to owners of the parent of ¥2,476 million, down 50.5%. The operating margin narrowed to 0.71% from 0.92%: only the core ethical-drug wholesaling segment held its profit, while manufacturing and dispensing pharmacies together lost ¥1,116 million against ¥500 million. The group bought back ¥14,999 million of its own shares in May and left full-year guidance unchanged.

TSE: 27847 min read
ALCONIX Corporation
Non-Ferrous Metals / Materials · Aug 5

Alconix Q1 Ordinary Profit Nearly Quadruples on Rare-Metal Trade as ¥42bn Securities Mark-Up Lifts Equity

ALCONIX reported first-quarter revenue of ¥72,512 million, up 38.1%, operating profit of ¥6,930 million, up 183.4%, and ordinary profit of ¥7,143 million, up 248.0%, with rare-metal trading and semiconductor-related demand lifting all four segments. Gross profit grew 64.5% against a 5.4% rise in overheads. Separately, investment securities rose ¥42,115 million, adding ¥28,694 million to the valuation reserve and taking comprehensive income to ¥35,134 million — six times net profit. Full-year guidance now calls for revenue of ¥265,000 million and the dividend rises to ¥95.00.

TSE: 30367 min read
GUNZE LIMITED
Textiles & Materials · Aug 5

Gunze Q1 Operating Profit Jumps 88% and Returns to Net Profit as Apparel Shrinks by Design

Gunze reported first-quarter revenue of ¥31,367 million, down 2.7%, operating profit of ¥3,387 million, up 87.6%, and net profit attributable to owners of the parent of ¥2,640 million against a ¥1,473 million loss a year earlier. The operating margin nearly doubled to 10.8% from 5.6%: apparel revenue fell 9.8% under a deliberate restructuring while its operating profit rose 226.7%, and plastic film profited from a lag between selling and raw-material prices. Guidance is unchanged, though the quarter already covers 50.8% of the guided full-year net profit.

TSE: 30026 min read
Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.
Beverages · Aug 14

Asahi H1 Operating Profit Leaps 56% to ¥144.1 Billion, but Core Profit Adds Just 1.5% as a Weak Yen Flatters Revenue

Asahi Group Holdings reported revenue of ¥1,463,963 million for the six months to June 2026, up 7.7% year on year, with operating profit up 56.2% to ¥144,143 million and profit attributable to owners of the parent up 68.8% to ¥99,148 million. Strip out the currency effect and the picture inverts: revenue fell 0.6% and core operating profit — the company's own measure of underlying trading — fell 8.5%.

TSE: 25029 min read
Dentsu Group Inc.
Advertising · Aug 14

Dentsu Swings to ¥46.3 Billion First-Half Profit as Prior-Year Impairment Clears and a Ginza Building Sale Lands

Dentsu Group booked revenue of ¥717.4 billion, up 4.9%, and net revenue of ¥583.1 billion, up 3.7%, in the six months to June 2026, turning an operating profit of ¥83.9 billion against a ¥36.5 billion operating loss a year earlier and a ¥46.3 billion profit attributable to owners of the parent against a ¥73.6 billion loss. Almost all of that ¥120 billion swing comes from the absence of last year's ¥86.6 billion goodwill impairment and the gain on the sale of the Dentsu Ginza Building; the underlying measure, adjusted operating profit, rose a far more modest 6.6% to ¥72.0 billion. Full-year guidance is unchanged.

TSE: 43249 min read
GMO Payment Gateway, Inc.
Fintech / Payments · Aug 14

GMO Payment Gateway Nine-Month Operating Profit Climbs 24% to ¥29.1 Billion as Payment Value Grows 7.3%

GMO Payment Gateway booked revenue of ¥69,728 million for the first nine months of the year to September 2026, up 14.3%, and operating profit of ¥29,112 million, up 24.2% — a gap of nearly ten percentage points between the two lines that lifted the operating margin to 41.8% from 38.4%. Profit attributable to owners of parent reached ¥18,981 million, up 21.8%, for basic earnings per share of ¥249.98. Full-year guidance was left unchanged, and the year-end dividend forecast stands at ¥170.00 per share against ¥144.00 paid for the prior year.

TSE: 37699 min read

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