Results, forecasts and guidance revisions from Japan's listed companies, in English.
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.
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.
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.
FANUC raised its full-year net profit forecast to ¥228.3bn after first-half operating profit rose 35.7%, lifted its interim dividend to ¥72.54 a share and authorized buybacks of up to ¥50bn through April 2027.
Olympus expects no additional hit to results for the year to March 2027 from FDA import alerts that restrict certain products from three of its facilities from entering the US until further notice.
OXIDE's semiconductor unit booked a first-half record ¥3.456bn of orders and the company committed another ¥841mn to Faraday-rotator capacity, while healthcare, hit by raw-material costs, carries a sharply lower forecast.
Mani's operating profit rose 21.4% to ¥9.94bn as diamond-bar sales in China returned to 88% of pre-recall levels in the first year back, ahead of the company's own two-year recovery goal.
HIOKI's nine-month orders rose 40.0% against 22.8% for sales, with automatic test equipment orders more than doubling, and the company says component shortages are delaying deliveries while it holds its full-year guidance.
Yaskawa's half-year sales rose 9.8% on data-centre and semiconductor demand, but operating profit fell 5.5% after a core-system migration, higher indirect costs and European restructuring; full-year sales guidance rose to ¥600bn while operating profit guidance fell to ¥57.5bn.
Terumo expects about $610mn of losses from ending its CSL Plasma supply contract, cutting its operating profit forecast to ¥160bn from ¥257.5bn while leaving adjusted operating profit at ¥274.5bn.
Furuno expects interim operating profit of ¥12.8bn, up from ¥10bn, citing faster merchant-ship sales, better product mix and pricing; full-year and dividend guidance are due with results on October 9.
Zojirushi booked ¥207mn of US tariff refunds in its nine-month results, received a further $6mn (about ¥1.03bn) after the period, and kept full-year guidance unchanged, citing raw-material costs.
IDEC lifted its forecast for operating profit in the year to March 2027 to ¥9.4bn from ¥7.2bn, citing firm semiconductor, robot and machine-tool demand centered on Japan and China and sales above its original assumption, while the dividend forecast stays at ¥130.
Nidec's restated results show a ¥519.0bn operating loss after ¥632.1bn of impairments, and the company says some staff tied to the misconduct still hold reporting roles, so undetected misstatements could remain.
AXELL CORPORATION now expects full-year net income of ¥1.7bn, up 91% from its May plan, and is raising its dividend to ¥79 from ¥41, pointing to stronger pachinko-chip demand and price increases that are offsetting a global memory-cost jump the company links to generative-AI demand.
Vacuum-equipment maker ULVAC booked record orders of ¥324.2bn for the year to June 2026, but ordinary profit fell 30% to ¥19.9bn as supply-chain and capacity limits slowed the conversion of orders into revenue. The board has proposed cutting the dividend to ¥152 a share, from ¥164, subject to shareholder approval, even as consolidated net profit rose slightly to ¥17.1bn.
Lasertec's consolidated sales fell 8.3% to ¥230.5bn and ordinary profit dropped 9.7% to ¥107.9bn for the year to June 2026, posting its first annual decline in the five years its results table covers, even though new orders rebounded sharply on AI-chip demand.
Cosel says demand for AI-related semiconductor manufacturing equipment helped its quarterly orders jump 155%, prompting Japan's power-supply maker to raise full-year operating-profit guidance by 72% to ¥2.3bn just three months after its last forecast.
Tera Probe's preliminary August sales rose 50% year on year to ¥5.52bn, slower than July's 62.6% jump, while its cumulative eight-month sales climbed 47% to ¥38.43bn, the fastest year-to-date rate the chip tester has posted this year; the company flagged the figures as preliminary and subject to revision.
The precision-parts maker now expects ¥14.5bn in full-year net profit, up 45% from its June guidance, on hybrid-vehicle motor-core and leadframe demand and a weaker yen, though it warns the second half will fall short of the first on cost pressure tied to Middle East tensions.