pluszero is still growing profitably, but at a more measured pace than a year ago. On a non-consolidated basis for the six months to April 30, sales rose 6.8% to ¥851.5 million, operating profit increased 7.5% to ¥312.2 million, ordinary profit rose 7.5% to ¥312.8 million and net profit edged up 3.3% to ¥196.2 million. The company left its full-year forecast unchanged at ¥2.01 billion in sales, ¥743 million in operating profit and ¥475 million in net profit.
The interesting wrinkle is that unchanged guidance came even as the first half looked comfortably on track against management’s internal half-year plan. In its presentation materials, pluszero said first-half sales reached 98.4% of that target, while operating profit and net profit were already at 120.1% and 132.6%. The company said contract numbers increased steadily, especially among information and communications and manufacturing clients, and that it had started offering its high-reliability call-center AI agent, miraio, while continuing to commercialize its AEI technology through licenses, launch support and API-based services. The same presentation said miraio is already live at two companies and being prepared at six more.
A separate same-day notice did not change that operating picture. pluszero said it will buy back and cancel all 184,500 units of its seventh paid stock options at the original issue price of ¥112 each, for a total of ¥20.664 million, after a difference emerged between the valuation used by the company and one presented by an external expert engaged by its audit firm. The company said the gap came from different assumptions about how to reflect forced-exercise conditions and possible holder losses in a Monte Carlo valuation model, and added that the earnings impact should be minor.
The short read-through is simple enough: pluszero is still converting AI demand into profit, even if growth is settling into something more ordinary.