Results, forecasts and guidance revisions from Japan's listed companies, in English.
The move: DCM beat its own first-quarter plan and lifted operating profit to ¥11.4bn, but management kept the full-year outlook unchanged after a quarter helped by warm weather, bulk buying and consolidation effects.
Pretax profit climbed from ¥1.02bn to ¥1.73bn while revenue slipped to ¥33.81bn, and the amended filing put year-end parent equity at ¥8.89bn.
Revenue rose to ¥68.70bn and profit attributable to owners of parent reached ¥5.03bn, but ordinary income slipped to ¥758mn from ¥1.12bn. The filing gives the gap, not the bridge, so this is a mixed food-processing read rather than a tidy recovery story.
The discount retailer grew net sales to ¥255.70bn and net income to ¥14.70bn in the year to March, then raised the annual dividend to ¥75 a share from ¥70. Cash and total assets ended lower than a year earlier, so the bigger payout looks like confidence in earnings rather than a looser balance sheet.
Its annual report puts revenue at ¥300.09bn and business profit at ¥12.53bn for the year to March 2026, up from ¥269.16bn and ¥9.31bn a year earlier. The formal filing makes clear this is now a much larger restaurant operator than it was even a few years ago.
First-quarter sales rose 2.5% to ¥27.8bn, helped by electric-assist bicycles and repair demand, while operating profit fell 5.3% to ¥3.1bn. Management left its full-year sales target at ¥86.3bn and operating profit target at ¥4.3bn unchanged.
Net sales rose to ¥334.61bn from ¥302.68bn, but ordinary income slipped to ¥10.03bn from ¥10.86bn and profit attributable to owners of parent was ¥6.84bn. A same-day control report said financial-reporting controls were effective.
The food group posted ¥1.07tn of net sales, ¥30.40bn of ordinary income and ¥20.23bn of parent profit in the year to March 2026. The filing is short on drivers, but it is clear on direction: sales kept rising and profit recovered with them.
Net sales reached ¥554,251,000,000 in the year to March 2026, up from ¥530,878,000,000 a year earlier, while ordinary income slipped to ¥16,030,000,000 from ¥18,089,000,000. Profit attributable to owners of parent still climbed to ¥23,988,000,000, leaving investors with a bigger business and a less tidy earnings bridge.
Net sales were ¥615.76 billion in the year to March 2026, essentially unchanged from ¥615.81 billion a year earlier, while ordinary income edged up to ¥20.48 billion. Profit attributable to owners of the parent rose to ¥32.89 billion from ¥13.90 billion, and the filing does not spell out why the bottom line moved so sharply.
First-quarter revenue rose 24.1% to ¥6,134 million and ordinary profit 89.1% to ¥480 million, helped by inbound demand and new stores, but management left full-year guidance and the ¥7 year-end dividend outlook unchanged. Japan same-store sales were only 100.4%, so the quarter was strong without being a clean same-store breakout.
First-quarter sales reached ¥4.299 billion and operating profit ¥1.234 billion, then management paired the print with Kobe and Bangkok openings and a non-binding move toward buying the company behind UNDERCOVER. This is a map expansion story as much as a margin story.
It now expects ¥5.428 billion of sales, ¥78 million of operating profit and ¥70 million of ordinary profit for the year to July, and raised its planned year-end dividend to ¥0.63 a share from ¥0.35. Domestic proposal-based selling and bullion-related demand did the lifting, while overseas orders stayed softer.
The company lowered full-year sales guidance to ¥15,700 million from ¥16,300 million and cut operating profit to ¥210 million from ¥355 million after saying demand for New Year's greeting-card printing is shrinking faster than expected. Promotional work held up, but earlier security investment and heavier spending on people pushed costs above plan.
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.
Asahi cut its outlook for the year ended December 2025 ahead of a delayed July 8 results release, trimming revenue by 2.0% but cutting operating profit to ¥185 billion and net profit attributable to owners to ¥120 billion. The company tied the reset to a cyberattack-related system disruption in Japan, higher raw-material costs, impairment losses and related expenses. An extraordinary shareholders meeting is now planned for early September because the same disruption delayed settlement procedures and reporting materials. The figures are revised guidance, not final results.
Asahi cut revenue guidance for the year ended December 2025 to ¥2.89 trillion from ¥2.95 trillion, but the bigger damage is below the line, with business profit reduced to ¥260 billion from ¥290 billion and net profit to ¥120 billion from ¥167.5 billion. The brewer blamed cyberattack-related system disruption in Japan, higher raw-material costs, impairment losses and other system-related expenses. It now says the overdue full-year results are due on July 8, and the reporting item skipped at the March shareholders' meeting will move to an extraordinary meeting in early September, with June 30 set as the record date.
Sales were almost flat at JPY 36,072m in the year to April, while operating profit fell 4.9% to JPY 1,426m, and management guided to another slight earnings dip in the coming year. The annual dividend stayed at JPY 85 and is forecast to stay there, even as the company cited higher raw-material costs, labour shortages and cautious consumers.
Sales slipped 0.2% to JPY 51,096m in the year to April, but operating profit fell 37.2% to JPY 780m and net profit 69.9% to JPY 98m. The company plans a JPY 24 annual dividend this year, up from JPY 23, and also plans JPY 24 for the coming year.
Pharma Foods kept its year-end profit target unchanged even after a much uglier nine months. Cumulative sales rose 3.7% to JPY 48,555m, but operating loss widened to JPY 1,430m, the equity ratio fell to 28.9% from 35.4%, and interest-bearing debt rose to JPY 17,235m; management says the loss was built into an investment-heavy plan and still forecasts JPY 2,000m in full-year operating profit. That leaves the fourth quarter doing a great deal of narrative heavy lifting.
B&P reported first-half revenue of 2,249 million yen, with operating profit down 4.5% to 336 million yen and net profit down 5.0% to 230 million yen. Management kept the full-year plan unchanged and said the second quarter improved as customers stepped up sales-promotion activity before the March year-end, after an early lull and a tough Expo-related comparison. The comparison with last year is not fully like-for-like because of the timing of the Idei consolidation. Still, the message is simple: sales are holding up, profit is softer, and management needs the second half to do more of the work.
Asakuma said May all-store sales at directly managed locations were 136.1% of the year-earlier month and same-store sales were 122.3%, with 78 stores operating and one temporarily closed. A same-day correction lifted February-to-April store counts by one each, which does not change May's sales ratios but matters when separating traffic momentum from simple network growth.
Eternal Hospitality said nine-month revenue rose to ¥38.318 billion and operating profit to ¥2.367 billion, with customer numbers and spending both higher at existing domestic company-operated Torikizoku stores. Management kept full-year guidance unchanged, but the near-term read is a little cooler: May same-store sales rose just 1.0% and average spend slipped to 99.0% of last year's level after the group lapped an earlier price increase. Consumer demand is still there; the easy comparison is not.
The company approved a JPY 35 million impairment and now expects JPY 11.105 billion in sales and JPY 258 million in operating profit for the year ending July, down from JPY 11.983 billion and JPY 533 million. Management blamed US tariff policy, a worsening Middle East situation, weaker wellness channels and higher costs, while keeping its JPY 15 year-end dividend forecast unchanged.