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Canon's nine-month operating profit rose 8.4% to ¥327.7bn as Imaging profit jumped 33.2%, while Medical and Industrial slipped and changes to depreciation method and machinery useful lives added ¥14.4bn to net income.
Canon spent ¥199,999,719,200 buying back 45.33 million shares under a board authorization that ran to January 2027, closing the program in early September with the yen budget almost fully used.
Canon's first-half net profit rose 9.8% to ¥171.2bn on a 38.8% jump in imaging-division operating profit, even as the industrial-equipment unit's profit fell by a third and the company revised its full-year forecast without disclosing the prior numbers.
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