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Japan Pharma & Healthcare Company News (Page 2)

Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed pharma & healthcare companies, in English.

  1. Sawai Group grows sales and restores pretax profit, but parent earnings ease

    Revenue rose to ¥201.68bn and pretax profit rebounded to ¥14.27bn in the year to March, but profit attributable to owners of parent slipped to ¥10.44bn and EPS eased to ¥90.39. That leaves a familiar generics-market tension: operations improved before tax, shareholders saw less of it at the bottom line.

  2. Wakamoto swings back to profit, but cash flow stays negative

    Sales rose to ¥9.91bn and ordinary income turned positive at ¥256.4mn, while net income reached ¥227.2mn. Operating cash flow was still negative at ¥486.9mn, even as the annual dividend rose to ¥3.50 a share.

  3. Astellas revenue passes ¥2.1tn as profit and ROE recover

    Revenue rose to ¥2,139,245,000,000 in the year to March 2026 from ¥1,912,323,000,000 a year earlier, while profit before tax jumped to ¥376,587,000,000 and net profit attributable to owners of parent to ¥291,535,000,000. ROE reached 17.4%, and a separate internal control report said financial-reporting controls were effective as of March 31.

  4. SanBio’s zero-revenue quarter hides the real shift: AKUGO now has a price, sales and a US Phase 3 path

    The three months to April 30 produced no revenue and an ¥836 million net loss, yet AKUGO was added to Japan's reimbursement list in May at ¥72 million and commercial sales began. SanBio also said it agreed Phase 3 trial design with the FDA for traumatic brain injury, though the company did not disclose early sales volume or hospital uptake.

  5. CellSource cuts its way to interim profit, but keeps full-year operating loss forecast

    CellSource turned a softer top line into a better interim profit picture. Consolidated revenue for the six months to April slipped 2.5% to JPY 1,775m, but SG&A fell 8.5% and operating profit climbed to JPY 125m from JPY 17m, even as combined blood- and adipose-derived processing cases edged down to 10,114 from 10,303. Management still kept its full-year forecast for a JPY 170m operating loss, saying the year remains one of strategic investment rather than tidy recovery.