Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed trading houses & wholesale companies, in English.
Alfresa's half-year operating profit fell 19.6% to ¥13.03bn on 3.5% higher sales; the wholesaler ties the 5.2% profit decline in its prescription-drug wholesale segment to April's price revision, distribution reforms and logistics costs.
Hanwa subscribed to new Nakayama Steel shares for ¥3.79bn on 2 October, taking its holding to 20.48% and tying it to a new electric-furnace project, and on 6 November lifted its full-year ordinary profit forecast to ¥65bn from ¥57bn.
Autobacs Seven's half-year net profit rose 99.6% to ¥6.99bn on a tax adjustment tied to the decision to transfer its French subsidiary, while pre-tax profit fell 10.2%; a ¥1.75bn dealer acquisition lifted consumer sales.
Sumitomo Corporation lifted its profit guide for the year to March 2027 by ¥40bn to ¥670bn and raised its dividend forecast to ¥44 a share, citing first-half profit of ¥347.9bn and expected second-half strength.
Macnica now expects ¥67.5bn of operating profit for the year to March 2027, 29.8% above its May forecast, on semiconductor demand, while its CPS Solutions segment, which includes the autonomous-bus business, is guided to a wider ¥8.0bn loss.
Yokohama Reito wrote off almost all of its outstanding funding to Norwegian salmon partner Hofseth with a ¥24.2bn special loss, turning its net profit forecast into a ¥13.8bn loss while raising sales and operating profit guidance; directors will give up pay.
Sojitz held its ¥130bn profit guide as methanol prices and a new subsidiary lifted chemicals profit to ¥20.1bn, automotive fell to near zero, and a signed Gregory Crinum coal transfer still needs official approvals.
Tomen Devices booked interim net profit of ¥25.11bn on higher memory prices, but inventory and borrowing grew sharply, its equity ratio fell to 14.0%, and full-year guidance stayed where it was.
Tokyo Electron Device lifted its full-year sales forecast to ¥270bn from ¥240bn on customer advance orders and AI demand, but said longer supplier lead times on some products need watching.
Yamazen lifted its full-year operating profit forecast to ¥17.9bn from ¥15.0bn, saying chip, AI, data-centre and defence demand ran above plan and that some products are due to ship earlier than expected.
IDOM expects ¥655.0bn of sales but only ¥18.5bn of operating profit, down from ¥24.0bn, as inventory clearance, weaker auction prices and hiring for 13 large-store openings weigh; its full-year dividend forecast falls to ¥31.38.
Kanaden lifted its interim sales forecast to ¥69.3bn from ¥63bn and operating profit to ¥1.95bn, crediting AI and data-centre demand across chip equipment, switchgear and power systems, while full-year guidance is still under review.
Hit capsule-toy releases and strong convenience-store lottery and trading-card sales push Happinet's six-month net profit forecast to ¥9.0bn from ¥5.0bn, while the toy distributor keeps its full-year guidance unchanged pending the Christmas selling season.
Cutting-tool distributor Naito says higher tungsten costs tied to China's export controls, plus customers rushing orders ahead of feared shortages, helped drive a nearly fourfold jump in first-half profit, prompting an upward revision to its full-year guidance.
Kaga Electronics raised its full-year profit forecast after absorbing Shinko Shoji, but a ¥6bn non-cash negative-goodwill gain accounts for most of the ¥7bn net-profit increase, and the company strips that gain out before setting its higher dividend.
Kobe Bussan grew nine-month sales 5.2% to ¥432.9bn but net profit fell 10.9% on a currency-hedging base effect and merger costs, and it separately completed a ¥57bn purchase of 15 overseas in-flight caterers after the quarter closed.
Ending a duplicate-warehouse cost overlap helped Beauty Garage nearly double quarterly operating profit to ¥475.8mn, but its online store still can't take credit cards at checkout seven months after a suspected data leak, with a fresh outside investigation launched in August yet to find a cause.
Senshu Electric lifted its full-year profit forecast and raised its annual dividend to ¥170 from ¥160, citing a recovery in orders from semiconductor equipment and machine-tool customers.
A nationwide refresh of Japan's one-tablet-per-student fleet drove record sales and profit at this Tokyo systems integrator, but management is already guiding net profit down 16% next year as that public-sector surge recedes.
The retailer's board resolved to hand AUTOBACS FRANCE, which lost €4.9mn on €44.7mn in sales last year, to Munich's FairCap Holding 12 GmbH for a nominal euro, and the accounting fallout, a ¥4.5bn deferred-tax benefit against a ¥2.3bn restructuring charge, raises the parent's net-profit forecast to ¥11.2bn while leaving sales and operating-profit guidance flat.
Kobe Bussan's July sales rose 7.6% and store openings kept pace, but a reversal in yen forward valuation gains dropped ordinary profit to about a fifth of last year's level, a swing the company calls temporary and non-operational.
RYODEN Corporation raised its full-year operating profit forecast 25% after AI- and data-center-linked cooling and factory-automation orders drove a 132.8% jump in first-quarter operating profit, and it is using the upside to raise its dividend, split its stock and buy back shares.
Metaplanet's revenue and operating profit both more than doubled in the first half, but a ¥184.3bn non-cash writedown on its 43,000 BTC holding pushed the company to a ¥182.8bn net loss. It also closed a ¥2.1bn deal for Siiibo Securities, now Metaplanet Securities, to sell bitcoin-backed corporate bonds under a program called BitBonds.
Memory-chip price gains and faster-than-planned new business growth lift the Tokyo-listed distributor's operating profit forecast 135%, and its board has revised the year-end dividend forecast to include a one-off ¥100 special payout on top of the unchanged base dividend.