Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed electronics companies, in English.
Ibiden's electronics operating profit rose 96.7% to ¥50.0bn in the half year to September, and the company plans about ¥151bn of substrate capacity, to start producing from fiscal 2029.
Hitachi Energy's investor-day decks put first-half sales at $11.0bn and backlog above $65bn, and lift the 2030 adjusted EBITA margin ambition to 19–21%, backed by a $9bn capacity programme and a data-centre order push.
TDK now expects ¥3.05tn in sales and ¥365bn in operating profit for the year to March 2027, citing AI data-centre demand, and has raised its annual dividend forecast to ¥50 a share from ¥40.
Tamura has finished buying 80% of EMG Power Electric and will make the Italian maker its hub for medium-voltage dry transformers, with EMG's earnings consolidated from the fourth quarter of the year ending March 2027.
Panasonic Holdings now forecasts a ¥70 annual dividend, up from ¥54, after raising its operating profit guidance to ¥710bn from ¥590bn for the year to March 2027; the new ¥43 year-end payment is a forecast.
Murata raised its full-year operating-profit forecast to ¥520bn from ¥430bn, crediting data-centre demand, higher production volume and product mix, with the second-half assumption of ¥155 to the dollar unchanged.
Mitsubishi Electric posted record first-half sales and adjusted operating profit on factory-automation, chip and air-conditioning demand, raised its annual adjusted profit guide to ¥710bn and decided on a buyback of up to ¥200bn.
Renesas's nine-month IFRS operating profit of ¥758.0bn includes a ¥450.3bn gain on selling its Timing business, while its Non-GAAP measure shows ¥408.7bn and third-quarter sales up 30.2%.
Keyence's first-half operating profit rose 50.0% to ¥408.3bn on a 34.9% rise in sales, and the company lifted its interim dividend to ¥325 before a five-for-one share split on November 21.
Ibiden's board approved about ¥151bn of planned spending, centred on its Ogaki site in Gifu, to expand IC package substrates for CPUs, with sequential start-up and mass production planned from fiscal 2029.
Anritsu raised its operating-profit forecast to ¥22bn on strong optical-transceiver test demand and lifted its annual dividend forecast to ¥63, while guiding its environmental-measurement unit to a ¥1.2bn loss after a goodwill write-down.
Nidec will file its internal control confirmation report with the Tokyo Stock Exchange on October 30, but extra auditor-requested checks on 252 sign-off candidates leave no date for audited corrected reports.
NEC's newly consolidated CSG added ¥81.3bn of revenue and ¥5.9bn of interim profit, against ¥394.4bn of goodwill, and the group raised its Non-GAAP profit guide to ¥460bn while forecasting minus ¥90bn of free cash flow.
Liberaware has been selected for Tokyo's second-round SusHi Tech Global growth programme, which offers up to ¥200mn and up to 18 months of support, while the drone maker says the effect on its results is still under review.
Koito's first-half operating profit beat its forecast by 22.9%, but the full-year operating profit guide rises only 1.7% to ¥61bn because management expects a second half slightly below its original plan, while the dividend forecast rises to ¥64.
Hitachi raised its full-year profit forecast to ¥920bn from ¥900bn and lifted its interim dividend to ¥32, though first-half profit attributable to owners fell 11.9% to ¥416.6bn against a year-earlier base with reorganisation gains.
Advantest raised its operating profit forecast for the year to March 2027 to ¥967.0bn on AI-related tester demand, lifted its interim dividend to ¥49, and authorised buying back up to ¥280bn of shares through March 24, 2027.
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.
Nidec has decided to seek damages from six former directors, two former auditors and a former CFO, but it has not filed, is still setting claim amounts, and has deferred surplus-related liability until its past accounts are corrected.
PowerX began shipping its 10-foot Mega Power 2500 battery system on 26 October; 444 of 477 firm orders are scheduled for 2027, and the company expects only a minor effect on this year's forecast.
Fenwal Controls of Japan will replace all 4,001 HPR-510 release devices after a minus-20-degree discharge test failure, and the NFCV-1 container valve has lost its type approval; HPR-400 and HPR-500 devices passed testing.
Nagano Keiki lifted its forecast operating profit for the year to March 2027 to ¥10bn from ¥6.8bn, saying pressure-sensor demand from semiconductor-related facilities rose sharply.
KOA now expects ¥8.31bn of operating profit this fiscal year, up from ¥5.36bn, citing AI-related, automotive and industrial demand, and it raised its year-end dividend forecast to ¥46.50 a share.
Futaba Corporation has agreed to buy 91.9% of an Iwate-based surface-drone maker for ¥698mn including estimated costs, with the transfer planned for October 30, to pair it with its aerial drones; the effect on results is called minor.