AI Chip Demand Lifts Miraial's Profit 52%, But a Marine-Instrument Buyout Adds Debt
Generative-AI datacenter demand pushed first-half net income at resin maker Miraial up 52% to ¥431mn, even as its April acquisition of a marine-instrument maker piled on ¥1.9bn of new borrowing and forced the company to introduce an adjusted-profit metric to smooth out the deal's goodwill and M&A costs.