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Kyushu Electric lifts profit even as revenue slips

Revenue slipped to ¥2.25tn in the year to March, but ordinary income still rose to ¥207.06bn and profit attributable to owners of parent to ¥154.54bn. Total assets reached ¥5.98tn and net assets ¥1.23tn, which keeps the group in the useful category of large, profitable and no longer explaining away a crisis year.

Jun 24, 20262 min read
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Kyushu Electric Power ended the year to March 2026 with a smaller top line and a larger bottom line, an outcome utilities rarely complain about. Operating revenue fell to ¥2.25tn from ¥2.36tn, but ordinary income rose to ¥207.06bn from ¥194.67bn, and profit attributable to owners of parent climbed to ¥154.54bn from ¥128.77bn.

For readers tracking Japan's power companies, the scale matters as much as the direction. Kyushu Electric kept ordinary income above ¥200bn while expanding total assets to ¥5.98tn from ¥5.77tn and net assets to ¥1.23tn from ¥1.03tn. The filing also lists basic earnings per share at 314.65 yen for the year.

Kyushu Electric earnings snapshot
Filed consolidated figures for the years to March 2026 and March 2025.
MetricYear to Mar. 2026Year to Mar. 2025
Operating revenue¥2.25tn¥2.36tn
Ordinary income¥207.06bn¥194.67bn
Profit attributable to owners of parent¥154.54bn¥128.77bn
Total assets¥5.98tn¥5.77tn
Net assets¥1.23tn¥1.03tn
Basic earnings per share¥314.65¥260.14

The longer run is more volatile than the latest headline suggests. The annual report lists operating revenue at ¥1.74tn in the year to March 2022, ¥2.22tn in 2023, ¥2.14tn in 2024, ¥2.36tn in 2025 and ¥2.25tn in 2026. Ordinary income moved from ¥32.38bn to an ¥86.63bn loss, then to ¥238.16bn, ¥194.67bn and ¥207.06bn across the same stretch.

Profit attributable to owners of parent tells a similar story: ¥6.87bn in the year to March 2022, a ¥56.43bn loss in 2023, then ¥166.44bn in 2024, ¥128.77bn in 2025 and ¥154.54bn in 2026. So the latest year looks solid rather than euphoric. It did not surpass the profit peak reported for 2024, but it still leaves Kyushu Electric well clear of the loss-making dip recorded two years earlier.

What the annual-report summary does not do is explain the mix underneath. It gives a clean numerical readout, not a driver breakdown, so readers should resist pinning the improvement on any single factor without fuller disclosure. A separate internal control report adds one governance datapoint: Kyushu Electric said its internal control over financial reporting was effective as of March 31, after evaluating the parent company, 54 consolidated subsidiaries and one equity-method affiliate, while excluding one consolidated subsidiary and 54 equity-method affiliates as immaterial.