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Japan Electronics Company News (Page 7)

Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed electronics companies, in English.

  1. Abalance Rewrites Years of Earnings After Accounting Probes and a Fictitious-Sales Allegation

    Abalance has rewritten four periods of results after finding improper accounting in overseas raw-material buy-back deals and a suspected fictitious-sales scheme at a subsidiary it later absorbed, and its auditor twice declined to give a conclusion on the numbers. With a governance review and overseas-subsidiary reorganization still underway, the company has withheld its earnings and dividend guidance for the year ahead.

  2. Oi Electric Buys Back Nearly 13% of Its Own Shares via ToSTNeT-3

    The Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed electronics maker bought back 173,800 shares for ¥860.3mn via ToSTNeT-3, using almost all of the buyback authority its board approved just a day earlier.

  3. Oi Electric to Buy Back 13% of Its Stock to Catch Mitsubishi Electric's Planned Share Sale

    Oi Electric will spend up to ¥866.25mn buying back 13.08% of its shares in a single off-auction trade on August 19, structured to absorb stock that its largest shareholder, Mitsubishi Electric, has told the company it wants to sell.

  4. PowerX Draws ¥7.0bn Syndicated Loan to Refinance ¥6.0bn of Existing Debt

    PowerX drew ¥7.0bn from an ¥8.0bn Mizuho-led syndicated facility to repay ¥6.0bn of existing borrowing, with the new loan due back on September 17 and secured against company real estate and receivables.

  5. OKI Locks In 60% Stake as It Carves Out Its ATM Business Into a Hitachi Joint Venture

    Oki Electric will transfer its ATM and automated-equipment business into Hitachi Channel Solutions for newly issued shares plus a cash-funded top-up, reaching a 60% stake from October 1, 2026, while the profit impact for the year after next stays under review.

  6. Rigaku's Profit Halves as US Lab Sales Slow, Even as Onto Innovation Takes a Board Seat

    Operating profit fell by more than half at Japanese X-ray instrument maker Rigaku Holdings in the six months to June, dragged down by weaker lab-equipment sales tied to US trade friction and energy costs rather than academic-funding cuts alone. Chipmaking tools kept growing on memory and logic demand, and Carlyle has sold its Rigaku stake to US metrology firm Onto Innovation, which gets a board seat and a joint hybrid-metrology push aimed at advanced AI chips.

  7. Tokyo Electron Has Burned Through 80% of Its ¥150bn Buyback Budget in Two Months

    Tokyo Electron has used 80.37% of its ¥150bn buyback budget but only 25.40% of the authorized share count two months into a program that runs to March 2027, its July repurchase filing shows.

  8. PowerX Revenue Jumps 48% as Inventory Build Drives Cash Outflow to ¥4.66bn

    PowerX's first-half revenue rose 48% and its net loss narrowed to ¥1.55bn, but inventory and supplier-advance buildups for back-loaded battery deliveries pushed operating cash flow to a ¥4.66bn outflow, leaving the storage-system maker drawing on an ¥8bn Mizuho-led credit line and, after the half closed, a separate ¥5bn refinancing loan.

  9. AI Memory Boom More Than Doubles Half-Year Profit at Probe-Card Maker Micronics Japan

    Half-year net profit at the Tokyo-listed test-equipment maker jumped 140% to ¥11.5bn as memory makers redirected production capacity toward high-bandwidth chips, even as a smaller test-socket unit's losses nearly tripled.

  10. Sony Spent ¥66.4bn on Buybacks in July, Reaching 38.8% of Its ¥500bn Cap

    Sony Group has already spent ¥193.9bn, nearly two-fifths of its ¥500bn buyback ceiling, after roughly three months of a twelve-month program that runs to May 2027.

  11. Abalance Delays Its Next Results Again While It Rewrites Years of Past Filings

    Abalance expects to publish corrected historical filings and two backlogged fiscal-2026 results by August 21, but the same staffing squeeze pushes its next quarterly summary past its usual 45-day norm and into early October.

  12. Onto Innovation Becomes Rigaku Holdings' Top Shareholder as Carlyle-Linked Fund's Stake Shrinks to 0.29%

    A U.S. semiconductor-metrology company now holds 27% of the Tokyo-listed instrument maker after a Carlyle-linked fund's voting stake fell from 27.29% to 0.29%, while a separate asset manager crossed the 10% disclosure threshold the same week.

  13. Lasertec Orders Rebound Sharply as Profit Falls for the Year to June

    Lasertec's new orders more than doubled to ¥237.5bn on AI-chip demand, yet revenue and operating profit both fell for the year to June because last year's weak bookings finally hit shipments; the company is now guiding for a 25.8% revenue rebound next year.

  14. Kokusai Electric Raises Profit Forecast 46% as AI Chip Investment Accelerates

    Tokyo-listed wafer-equipment maker Kokusai Electric raised its full-year operating profit forecast by 46% to ¥79.4bn and increased its dividend by ¥18 to ¥65 a share, citing accelerating chipmaker investment in high-performance DRAM and logic production for generative AI.

  15. Omron Raises Full-Year Profit Outlook 29% on AI Chip and Battery Demand

    AI-linked semiconductor and data-center battery orders doubled operating profit at Omron's automation unit last quarter, pushing the group to raise its full-year profit target to ¥80.0bn from ¥62.0bn.

  16. Hirose Electric Raises Profit Guidance After a Strong Quarter, Flags a Transfer-Pricing Tax Bill

    Sales at the Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed connector maker rose 26.8% and operating profit jumped 35.6% in the quarter to June, but net profit rose just 1.4% after a corporate-tax increase tied to a transfer-pricing assessment, even as management lifted its full-year outlook.

  17. Nidec Says It Can't Rule Out a Data Leak From Taiwan Ransomware Attack

    A forensic probe found no log evidence that hackers pulled data from Nidec's Taiwan subsidiary, but a dark-web list of folder and file names means Nidec still can't rule out a leak, even as the unit's production and shipping continue as normal.

  18. Tokyo Seimitsu Lifts Dividend to ¥304 as Chip-Equipment Orders Nearly Double

    Tokyo Seimitsu's board raised its dividend forecast to ¥304 a share after semiconductor-equipment orders nearly doubled on generative-AI, HPC and HBM testing demand, and the group lifted full-year sales and profit guidance for the second time this year.

  19. Ibiden Raises Profit Guidance 41% on AI Server Chip Substrate Demand, Sets Second Stock Split

    Ibiden now expects ¥127.0bn in operating profit for the year to March 2027, up from its May forecast of ¥90.0bn, as orders for AI-server chip substrates outrun its own planning; a second 2-for-1 stock split takes effect in October, doubling the share count.

  20. Sony's Chip and Gaming Rebound Pushes Full-Year Profit Guide to ¥1.72tn

    A 40% jump in quarterly operating profit, driven by image sensors and PlayStation, let Sony raise its full-year profit target to ¥1.72tn, but the new guidance still leaves out any hit from the July earthquake that shut its Kumamoto chip plant.

  21. Murata Raises Full-Year Profit Forecast 13% as AI Server Demand Drives Record Quarterly Revenue

    Higher factory output and a weaker yen drove a 60% rise in Murata's quarterly operating profit, prompting the electronics maker to lift its full-year forecast 13% above April's target to a record ¥430bn.

  22. Tokyo Electron Raises Half-Year Profit and Dividend Forecasts on AI Chip Investment

    Tokyo Electron's quarterly operating profit rose 46% on AI-server chip investment, and it has already raised its half-year sales, profit and dividend forecasts, saying July's Kumamoto earthquake caused no significant damage to its facilities.

  23. Panasonic Doubles Quarterly Operating Profit, Raises Full-Year Forecast by ¥40bn

    Panasonic Holdings' operating profit more than doubled in the quarter to ¥182.5bn, and the company used the beat to lift its full-year profit forecast by ¥40bn to ¥590bn, though full-year sales guidance still sits 3.1% below last year's record total.

  24. IRISO Electronics Has No Release Date for Two Straight Earnings Reports

    IRISO Electronics has no release date for either its year-to-March 2026 results or the following quarter's earnings, as a third-party committee investigates suspected improper overseas payments alongside separate quality and inspection concerns.

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