Results, forecasts and guidance revisions from Japan's listed companies, in English.
Indeed's US revenue per job posting grew 37% in the half while Recruit describes hiring demand as stagnant, lifting group operating profit 63.9% to ¥513.7bn, with full-year guidance left unchanged.
ENEOS raised its forecast operating profit to ¥910bn on oil earnings, while a ¥111.8bn renewables impairment, booked after it tightened its new development policy, cut attributable profit by ¥97.8bn.
SoftBank Group booked a ¥597.2bn loss on changes to its US data-center power-equipment procurement plan within a ¥768.0bn half-year net loss, while consolidated interest-bearing debt rose ¥7.91tn to ¥32.59tn and the equity ratio fell to 23.6%.
ULVAC raised its sales guide for the year to June 2027 to ¥283bn from ¥255bn after first-quarter orders rose 93.1% to ¥116.6bn, though backlog is not yet recognized revenue.
Tokyo Ohka Kogyo raised its sales forecast for the year to December 2026 to ¥300bn and operating profit to ¥63.5bn, and expects to beat the final-year targets of its mid-term plan a year early.
Sumitomo Realty raised its operating profit forecast to ¥330.0bn and its dividend to ¥55, citing Tokyo office rents, though property sales supply a larger share of the raise and the ¥100 dividend is a five-year target.
Sumitomo Metal Mining's ¥42.6bn charge at its Coral Bay nickel subsidiary pushed smelting into a half-year loss and cut full-year pretax guidance to ¥260bn, even as group pretax profit for the half-year rose 91.9%.
Subaru's first-half operating profit rose to ¥116.0bn on yen weakness, lower US tariff impact and warranty savings, even though global sales fell 6.1% to 444,000 vehicles; full-year guidance stands.
SoftBank Corp.'s enterprise cloud and AI revenue rose 36.7% to ¥163.8bn and finance segment profit rose 73.9%, yet group operating profit grew just 2.1% to ¥642.1bn after a prior-year acquisition gain fell away.
Shiseido now forecasts ¥87bn of core operating profit, up from ¥69bn, while expecting real sales growth of 1%, down from 3%; cost control, currency effects and one-off tariff refunds are the stated contributors.
Resona Holdings raised its target for the year to March 2027 by ¥10bn to ¥340bn after interim profit of ¥173.6bn, while comprehensive income fell 24.8% and credit costs rose.
Olympus received an FDA warning letter on six sites and an import alert on designated products, and says the import alert will add no further impact to this year's results, while a one-off US tariff refund of about ¥20.3bn lifts its reported profit range.
KNT-CT Holdings cut its full-year operating profit forecast 19.4% to ¥5bn, blaming the Middle East, soft domestic travel, weaker inbound demand and the cost of merging four companies in April 2027.
Leqembi sales rose 49.7% to ¥61.5bn in Eisai's first half, with the US self-injector IQLIK launched in August and full-year guidance of ¥70bn operating profit left unchanged.
Payment volume rose 42.0% to ¥5.8tn on a KDDI group project, yet the platform segment's pretax profit fell 13.9% and investment markdowns pushed Digital Garage to a ¥4.09bn pretax loss.
Cosmo Energy's ¥147.4bn half-year net profit already exceeds its ¥44.0bn full-year forecast, but operating cash flow was negative ¥1.2bn as inventories grew, and management left the annual guidance unchanged.
ARCHION's half-year results show ¥72.0bn of operating profit before a provisional ¥225.8bn negative-goodwill gain, with year-earlier comparisons resting on unaudited combined figures and an interim dividend of ¥4 a share.
Workman's first-half operating profit rose 31.4% to ¥19.0bn on operating revenues of ¥93.2bn, while chain-wide sales grew 20.3%; the retailer kept its full-year forecast and ¥89 dividend plan unchanged.
Umios's first-half operating profit fell 23.4% to ¥14.4bn and management flagged risk to its full-year target, but the guide is unchanged while the C$804mn High Liner purchase, signed on 26 October, awaits approvals and a January 2027 close.
Tokyo Century now expects about ¥38bn of after-tax profit from selling half of its US aircraft lessor to Itochu, up from about ¥30bn, citing a weaker yen, and has raised its full-year profit forecast to ¥145bn.
Skymark says its two Boeing 737-8s are about 15% more fuel efficient than its 737-800s, while first-half revenue hit a record ¥59bn, a ¥323mn currency loss weighed, and full-year guidance stayed unchanged.
Shimizu raised its full-year operating profit forecast to ¥192.0bn from ¥153.0bn, crediting extra work and cost cuts on domestic projects, and lifted its annual dividend forecast to ¥89 while excluding a ¥35.5bn non-cash gain from the payout calculation.
SG Holdings' delivery unit handled 4.7% more parcels but saw operating profit fall 18.0% to ¥24.9bn on pay and subcontractor costs, while group profit rose on acquired forwarding business; a filed-tariff revision is planned for January 2027.
Persol Holdings now guides to ¥1.269tn in revenue and ¥93.8bn in net profit for the year to March 2027, because Programmed becomes a discontinued operation and an estimated ¥50bn sale gain is booked; the other businesses' outlook is unchanged.