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Kansai Electric reports ¥232.9bn half-year profit as revenue slips to ¥2.01tn

Revenue fell to ¥2.01tn and ordinary income slipped to ¥315.0bn in the six months to September, but profit attributable to owners rose to ¥232.9bn and net assets reached ¥3.31tn.

Jun 24, 20262 min read
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Kansai Electric Power's amended semiannual report points to a mixed first-half picture. In the six months to September 30, 2025, operating revenue fell to ¥2.01tn from ¥2.14tn a year earlier, and ordinary income slipped to ¥315.0bn from ¥319.2bn. Profit attributable to owners of the parent, however, rose to ¥232.9bn from ¥228.8bn.

Kansai Electric key figures
Flow items cover the period shown. Balance-sheet items and cash are period-end positions.
MetricSep 2025 half-year / Sep 30, 2025Sep 2024 half-year / Sep 30, 2024Year to Mar 2025 / Mar 31, 2025
Operating revenue¥2.01tn¥2.14tn¥4.34tn
Ordinary income¥315.0bn¥319.2bn¥531.7bn
Profit attributable to owners of parent¥232.9bn¥228.8bn¥420.4bn
Total assets¥9.60tn¥9.15tn¥9.65tn
Net assets¥3.31tn¥2.55tn¥3.11tn
Equity-to-asset ratio34.0%27.2%31.8%
Operating cash flow¥230.0bn¥136.3bn¥575.3bn
Cash and cash equivalents¥771.1bn¥341.8bn¥941.4bn

The balance sheet moved in a clearer direction. Total assets at September-end stood at ¥9.60tn, up from ¥9.15tn a year earlier. Net assets rose to ¥3.31tn from ¥2.55tn, and the equity-to-asset ratio improved to 34.0% from 27.2%. Compared with the March 2025 year-end snapshot, total assets were slightly lower than ¥9.65tn, but net assets were above ¥3.11tn and the equity ratio was higher than 31.8%.

Cash flow, meanwhile, showed operating inflows of ¥230.0bn against investing outflows of ¥289.4bn and financing outflows of ¥105.8bn. Cash and cash equivalents ended September at ¥771.1bn, below the ¥941.4bn at March-end but above the ¥341.8bn held a year earlier.

The previous full year gives the scale reference. For the year to March 2025, Kansai Electric reported ¥4.34tn of revenue, ¥531.7bn of ordinary income and ¥420.4bn of profit attributable to owners of the parent, with total assets of ¥9.65tn at year-end.

For readers outside Japan, the useful signal is straightforward: this remains a multi-trillion-yen utility with a large profit base, even as the latest half-year figures show lower sales than a year earlier. Because the evidence supplied for this article is an excerpted numeric summary from an amended report, the clean takeaway is limited to the corrected numbers themselves, not the reason for the amendment or the drivers behind the line items.