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Kureha Kanko stays in the red as half-year revenue rises to ¥278.7mn

The company cut its net loss to ¥12.3mn in the six months to March, but the latest half still fell short of the profit it recorded over the previous full year.

Jun 26, 20262 min read
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Kureha Kanko remained loss-making in the six months to March 31, 2026, but the losses narrowed. Revenue rose to ¥278.7mn from ¥263.3mn a year earlier, ordinary loss improved to ¥20.8mn from ¥28.3mn, and net loss narrowed to ¥12.3mn from ¥15.1mn.

Key figures in the filing
Half-year and full-year periods are shown separately, exactly as disclosed in the EDINET summary.
PeriodRevenueOrdinary profit/lossNet profit/loss
Six months to March 31, 2026¥278.7mn-¥20.8mn-¥12.3mn
Six months to March 31, 2025¥263.3mn-¥28.3mn-¥15.1mn
Six months to March 31, 2024¥277.9mn-¥34.6mn-¥48.3mn
Year to September 30, 2025¥779.7mn¥25.5mn¥30.2mn
Year to September 30, 2024¥782.0mn¥28.4mn¥13.8mn

The filing also shows a broader split between half-year and full-year results. All three interim periods listed in the summary were loss-making at the net level, with losses of ¥48.3mn, ¥15.1mn and ¥12.3mn, while the two full years shown were profitable, with net income of ¥13.8mn and ¥30.2mn. Ordinary income followed the same pattern, negative in each half-year period and positive in both full years.

The packet offers little narrative detail beyond those line items. What it does show is that the latest half-year revenue was slightly above the ¥277.9mn reported for the comparable period two years earlier, while the losses were much smaller than the ¥34.6mn ordinary loss and ¥48.3mn net loss recorded then. It also shows that the previous two full-year revenue figures were both around ¥780mn, even though midyear profitability remained elusive.

Balance-sheet basics were unchanged on the most visible capital measures. Capital stock stood at ¥100mn and total issued shares at 9,000 as of March 31, 2026. For readers outside Japan, the useful signal is straightforward: revenue improved versus a year earlier, but that improvement still did not produce an interim profit, and the packet includes no management explanation, segment detail or outlook to show how the rest of the year is expected to develop.