Sansan, the Tokyo-listed maker of digital business-card and cloud-invoicing software, reported net sales of ¥53.76bn for the year to May 2026, up 24.4% from a year earlier, while net profit attributable to shareholders jumped to ¥6.78bn, up from just ¥424mn the year before. Ordinary profit rose to ¥8.17bn, roughly triple the prior year's ¥2.74bn, while adjusted operating profit reached ¥8.43bn.
The company attributed the jump partly to booking a gain on the sale of shares in an affiliate, alongside stronger sales growth and a lower personnel-cost ratio. Sansan's flagship contact-database service and its Bill One invoicing product together lifted the Sansan/Bill One segment's revenue by 24%, while the Eight business-card app segment grew 33%.
The results came with a milestone for shareholders: a dividend of ¥2.50 per share, a payout ratio of 4.9%, after years in which the company paid nothing out.
Sansan also laid out new medium-term financial targets for the three years to May 2029, aiming for annual sales growth of 16% to 20% and an adjusted operating profit margin of 25% to 30% by the final year, a bet that its AI-assisted data-digitization tools for business cards, invoices and contracts can keep outgrowing the broader Japanese software market.