Results, forecasts and guidance revisions from Japan's listed companies, in English.
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.
First-quarter revenue jumped 43% to JPY 825m and operating profit to JPY 164m from JPY 34m, led by new-graduate services, yet the company kept its full-year forecast at JPY 3.1bn of revenue and JPY 50m of operating profit. Office-move depreciation and continued investment in mond help explain why the guide still looks so cautious.
Nine-month non-consolidated revenue fell 32.0% to JPY 731.7m after lower-margin business was trimmed, but operating profit swung to JPY 146.4m from a JPY 65.8m loss. The company also restarted shareholder benefits using a fixed JPY 15m pool for eligible holders and approved a JPY 600m borrowing to fund the FPO share acquisition.
Tobila Systems is still finding demand, just not leverage. First-half non-consolidated revenue rose 22.0% to JPY 1.674bn, helped by security and solution sales, but operating profit fell 7.7% to JPY 485m and net profit slipped 5.1% to JPY 335m; management kept the full-year outlook and its JPY 20 year-end dividend plan unchanged. More anti-fraud spending is useful. Turning it into more earnings would be nicer.
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.
Artner's first quarter points to stubbornly tight demand for engineers serving auto-related and semiconductor-equipment customers. The group posted JPY 3,503m in sales with an 18.1% operating margin, while the parent-company supplement showed utilisation at 98.3%, an average billing rate of JPY 4,808 an hour and engineer headcount up 5.8% to 1,350. The accounting caveat remains: the year-on-year operating detail is from parent-company disclosures, not a fully comparable group series.
The cruise seller raised its year-end dividend forecast to JPY 26 a share from JPY 20 after lifting full-year earnings ranges, with sales now seen at JPY 2,850m to JPY 3,050m and net income at JPY 230m to JPY 260m. Management said a nearly sold-out May charter cruise and firm operator-hosted trip sales drove the better view.
First-half non-consolidated sales rose 6.8% to JPY 851.5m and operating profit 7.5% to JPY 312.2m, and management left the full-year plan unchanged at JPY 2.01bn of sales and JPY 743m of operating profit. Presentation slides showed profit running ahead of internal half-year targets, while a same-day stock-option cancellation was described as having only a minor earnings impact.
GENDA is still buying growth faster than it is booking clean profit. First-quarter sales jumped 45.0% to JPY 49,702m, but GAAP operating income fell 79.2% to JPY 288m and the group swung to a JPY 752m net loss as depreciation, goodwill amortisation and financing costs rose; management kept full-year targets unchanged and kept steering investors toward adjusted EBITDA of JPY 4,612m. The filing still offered no quarterly cash-flow statement, which is mildly inconvenient when the pitch is "trust the adjusted numbers".
ANYCOLOR's year to April was still robust on a non-consolidated basis, with revenue up 29.9% to JPY 55,681m and operating profit up 23.9% to JPY 20,172m, plus a dividend rise to JPY 75 a share. The mood shift is in next year's guide: revenue is seen at JPY 56,000m to JPY 60,000m and operating profit at JPY 18,000m to JPY 20,000m, with a JPY 62 dividend forecast, a clear message that growth is still there but the margins may have peaked for now.
Beauty Garage lifted revenue 13.3% to ¥38.2 billion in the year to April 2026, but operating profit fell 4.8% to ¥1.52 billion and operating cash flow dropped to ¥553 million from ¥1.42 billion. Management tied much of the squeeze to opening and stabilising the new Kashiwa fulfillment center while old and new logistics sites ran in parallel, and the presentation put the negative profit impact at roughly ¥580 million. The board still kept the year-end dividend at ¥8 a share, taking the full-year payout to ¥16. The company's rebound case depends on that warehouse behaving less like a construction site and more like an asset.
Kumi Chemical now expects first-half revenue of ¥102,900 million and operating profit of ¥10,400 million, well above its December forecast, citing pulled-forward agrochemical shipments and solid chemical-product sales. But a separate notice said a subsidiary's chlorination business will record a ¥514 million impairment and a ¥907 million structural reform cost in the February-to-April quarter. The company left its full-year outlook unchanged while assessing Middle East risks. So the operating story improved sharply, but reported profit still comes with attachments.
Asukanet's sales fell 2.2% to ¥7,102 million in the year to April 2026, but operating profit rose 125.6% to ¥391 million and net profit returned to ¥292 million from a loss a year earlier. Funeral revenue weakened, while photobook margins improved and aerial-display losses narrowed. Management is now targeting ¥10 billion in sales and ¥800 million in operating profit by the year ending April 2029, with M&A and future investment part of the plan. Last year proved the company can clean up the profit line; the next test is whether it can grow it.
Bestera's first-quarter sales rose 29.3% to ¥3.27 billion and operating profit jumped 164.1% to ¥353 million, with new orders up 188.5% to ¥3.865 billion. The company kept its annual outlook unchanged, but separately approved total new borrowing of ¥6 billion as larger demolition projects absorb more working capital. A second update on the April accident at a Kawasaki demolition site said three workers died, two were injured and one remains missing, with investigations continuing and the direct earnings impact still unquantified. The operating momentum is clear. The financial consequences of the accident are not.
Ishii Hyoki's first-quarter sales rose 12.3% to ¥4.049 billion and operating profit nearly doubled to ¥367 million, helped by AI-related package-substrate demand in manufacturing equipment. Separately, the company rewrote its dividend policy to target a consolidated payout ratio of 30% or more from dividends for the year ending January 2027, replacing a looser framework with no numeric floor. Management kept full-year guidance unchanged. The useful read-through is that better operations are now being matched by a clearer shareholder-return rule, though not yet by higher profit guidance.
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.
Green Energy & Company reported revenue of ¥18,358 million for the year to April 2026, up 58.0%, and operating profit of ¥1,191 million, up 119.3%. Management said grid-connected battery projects were the main driver: the company sold five such projects in the year versus none a year earlier, while O&M and power-generation revenue jumped 290.0% to ¥3,685 million. Operating cash flow swung to a ¥1,318 million inflow from a ¥961 million outflow. The company is guiding for further growth this year, though it notes that utility grid-connection procedures still have a say in the timetable.
Arr Planner's first-quarter revenue rose 23.3% to ¥12,635 million and operating profit climbed 53.7% to ¥1,004 million. The company said nationwide housing starts in January to March were 85.7% of the prior-year level after demand had been pulled forward before stricter building reviews, but higher selling prices and a one-stop model across land and homes kept sales moving. Order value also rose 21.1% to ¥14,637 million, according to the presentation, while full-year guidance stayed unchanged. In other words, the company is still outrunning the backdrop, just not declaring victory over it.
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.
Gakujo lowered revenue guidance for the year ending October to ¥12.0 billion from ¥13.3 billion and operating profit to ¥2.6 billion from ¥3.25 billion after interim revenue came in at ¥4.618 billion against a ¥5.1 billion forecast. Management said demand for young talent remains firm, but earlier recruiting schedules and listing-timing changes pushed more young-career sales into the second half, while systems and promotion spending continued.
HEROZ nudged up revenue for the year ended April to ¥6.424 billion from ¥6.4 billion and operating profit to ¥523 million from ¥500 million, but net profit attributable to owners is now seen at ¥376 million versus ¥50 million. The bridge is a ¥311.135 million gain on a subsidiary sale and a ¥99.249 million tax adjustment gain, partly offset by ¥114.838 million of transaction costs and a ¥30.065 million bitcoin valuation loss, which is why ordinary profit edges down to ¥408 million.
G-cotta raised its outlook for the year ending September to ¥15.685 billion in sales from ¥15.109 billion and to ¥994 million in operating profit from ¥812 million. Management credits solid performance in the core cotta business, tighter cost control and stronger-than-expected results at Works Group's beauty and hairdressing operation, so this looks more like a profitability improvement than a simple top-line surprise.
Japan Ski Resort Development lifted nine-month sales 8.9% to ¥9.98 billion as inbound visitors hit a record 543,000, up 23.3%, and winter visits across eight ski areas held near last season's record at 1.88 million. Operating profit still fell 4.5% to ¥2.72 billion, while net profit was helped by a land sale at Iwatake, so the company kept its full-year outlook unchanged. Good slopes, less clean operating leverage.
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.