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Digital Grid raised its full-year outlook to ¥6.595 billion in revenue and ¥1.919 billion in net profit after nine-month net profit rose 17.9% to ¥1.872 billion. Management said Power PF and Renewable PF recognized more revenue than budgeted, while the AS business also helped. The read-through is positive, but not just because of the core platform: Renewable PF sales rose 54.6% over the first nine months, and presentation materials showed DGP fee revenue eased quarter on quarter even as handled power volume edged up.

After changing its year-end, Timee reported a six-month transition period with ¥21.0 billion in revenue and ¥3.81 billion in operating profit, while warning that direct comparison with the prior year is not meaningful. The platform still looks large, with more than 14.2 million registered workers, over 465,000 client locations and ¥69.5 billion in gross transaction value. New disclosures show where management wants the next leg of growth to come from: a summer rollout for long-term part-time hiring support, an expanded direct-recruiting model, a renamed logistics subsidiary and a planned finance arm.

Japan M&A Solution kept revenue guidance for the year ending October 2026 at ¥990 million but raised operating profit to ¥178 million and net income to ¥143 million. Management attributed the margin jump to the first completed deal in its fund business and to savings from fuller use of its in-house AI buyer-search system, while stressing that the sales forecast is unchanged. First-half revenue rose 41.2% to ¥526.936 million, and the company says it had already exceeded its previous full-year profit targets by the end of the second quarter.

i-mobile authorized repurchases of up to 1.2 million shares for as much as ¥700 million by June 30, starting with a ToSTNeT-3 order for up to 400,000 shares at ¥492. The company said the plan should improve shareholder returns, capital efficiency, governance and Prime-market compliance, but the telling detail is ownership: chairman Toshihiko Tanaka and president Tetsuya Noguchi have agreed to sell part of their holdings. That turns a standard buyback into a capital-allocation move with a governance motive attached. The company has not decided whether any repurchased shares will be cancelled.

GA Technologies posted first-half revenue of ¥142.4 billion and company-defined net revenue of ¥25.5 billion, but business profit fell 7.8% to ¥3.86 billion and operating cash flow swung to a ¥5.25 billion outflow as inventories rose. Management nevertheless kept its full-year framework unchanged, pointing to a stronger second quarter in the RENOSY business and a US marketplace operation that moved into the black. The case for patience is clear enough, but the second half still has to prove it.

Visional lifted nine-month revenue 24.3% to ¥73.157 billion and operating profit 12.2% to ¥19.612 billion, enough to keep its full-year outlook unchanged. BizReach remained the profit engine, with nine-month sales of ¥59.714 billion and a 42.7% pre-corporate-allocation operating margin. HRMOS grew faster, with sales up 77.7% to ¥6.653 billion, helped by the inclusion of Thinkings' sonar ATS business, though management says the acquisition effect on progress against the full-year sales plan is minor.

Top Culture reported interim net income of ¥812 million, well above plan, but said ¥747 million of that came from negative goodwill after subsidiary Meibundo took over nine bookstore operations and a corporate sales division. The underlying retail picture was weaker: operating profit was ¥142 million and ordinary profit ¥113 million, both far below the company's own forecast, while existing-store sales in the Tsutaya bookstore segment fell 2.4%. Management withdrew its full-year outlook to undecided as it works out how to run and renovate the inherited stores.

3D Matrix says it can remove its going-concern note after revenue rose 57% to ¥10.886 billion, operating profit turned positive at ¥1.335 billion and operating cash flow moved back into the black. The company also ended the year with ¥2.83 billion of cash and said convertible bond-type instruments linked to Heights Capital had been redeemed or converted, while bank facilities were expanded. Still, the much larger ordinary and net profit figures were boosted by a ¥2.661 billion foreign-exchange gain, so the cleaner recovery signal sits in operations and funding rather than the headline bottom line.

Raccoon finished the year to April 2026 with ¥6.574 billion in revenue and ¥1.32 billion in operating profit, but it is guiding for operating profit to fall to ¥600 million in the coming year as promotion spending rises. Management said fourth-quarter tests convinced it that heavier customer acquisition can accelerate growth, and its new midterm plan shifts attention toward adjusted EBITDA during a more M&A-minded phase. New services including URIHOmini, BizCheck and SD Direct show the practical version of that strategy: widen the funnel now, hope the margins catch up later.