From 11:30 A.M. on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, we held a financial results briefing (online) for H1 of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023.
This page provides information on our explanation (summaries) at the briefing.
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Consolidated P/L and P/L by business segment are shown in the tables.
Net sales was ¥42.23 billion (up 13.1% YoY), operating profit was ¥3.53 billion (up 885.9% YoY), ordinary profit was ¥3.75 billion (up 528.4% YoY), and profit attributable to owners of parent was ¥2.53 billion (up 702.7% YoY). In terms of performance by business segment, operating profit in the contents and digital business was ¥1.62 billion (up 44.8% YoY) and operating profit in the PS business was ¥1.93 billion (versus an operating loss of ¥470 million in the same period of previous fiscal year).
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Consolidated results for the full year ending March 31, 2023 and forecasts by business segment are shown in the tables.
As for the full-year results outlook, as announced in “Announcement of Earnings Forecasts for the Second Quarter and Revision of Full-Year Earnings Forecasts” on October 24, net sales is ¥105 billion (¥98 billion prior to the revision), operating profit is ¥6 billion (¥4 billion prior to the revision), ordinary profit is ¥6 billion (¥4 billion prior to the revision), and profit attributable to owners of parent is ¥4 billion (¥3 billion prior to the revision). By business segment, the content and digital business is expected to generate operating profit of ¥3 billion (¥2 billion prior to the revision) and PS business is expected to generate operating profit of ¥3 billion (¥2.5 billion prior to the revision).
* The segment results of the contents and digital businesses, and PS business are calculated by taking into account the elimination of internal transactions from the simple sum of the figures for each business.
For the status of each business, please refer to the Consolidated Financial Results for the Six Months Ended September 30, 2022 and the Financial Presentation for the second quarter of fiscal year ending March 31, 2023.
Supplementary explanation
Tsuburaya Productions Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, “TPC”) has a convention that royalty income from Chinese sub-licensees is remitted quarterly on a manufacturing basis. Against this backdrop, royalty income for the July-September quarter exceeded expectations and was paid in mid-October this year. As TPC had not incorporated the aforementioned royalties into its numerical targets for this fiscal year, as a result of discussions, we decided to incorporate the figures for Q3 and upwardly revised its results of this fiscal year.
In PS business, FIELDS CORPORATION (hereinafter, “FIELDS”) announced that it would sell seven pachinko and eight pachislot titles at the end of the last fiscal year. Subsequently, at the time of Q1, FIELDS changed to seven pachinko and seven pachislot titles. For pachinko, FIELDS completed the sales of three titles in the H1, and is selling the fourth title across the quarter, with some of them scheduled to be delivered in the Q3. Consequently, FIELDS plans to sell three titles in the H2. FIELDS also sold two pachislot titles in the H1 and plans to sell five titles in the H2, of which sales have already begun for two titles.