Alue Co.,Ltd.

Expansion and Sluggish Performance of Overseas Training and Language Services through Asian Bases

An initiative providing overseas training programs, classroom-based training, and language services through overseas bases in Shanghai, Singapore, India, the Philippines, and elsewhere. Sales of overseas training services continue to decline due to sluggish orders in Singapore and a shrinking human resources development market in China.

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helps 5 · hurts 2

AI-Powered Personalized Learning Plans and Support for Sustained Learning

A theme focused on providing AI services that optimize individualized learning plans using learning history data and score prediction models. The offering is expanding from learning-plan creation to ongoing learning support through services such as AI Learning Navi (AI learning navigator) and AI subtitles.

6companies8 threads

helps 8

FY2020-Q2 →

Entry into the corporate training business through the acquisition of アイ・ラーニング

A theme centered on acquiring アイ・ラーニング and making it a subsidiary, while incorporating corporate and professional training services as a new business segment. Sales and profit from the training business are below the year-earlier period.

4companies4 threads

helps 4

FY2021-Q1 →

Second-quarter earnings concentration due to the concentration of new employee training delivery

Seasonality in performance whereby revenue and profit are concentrated in the second quarter and smaller in the first and third quarters because new employee training and new-hire induction programs are concentrated from April to June.

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helps 1 · hurts 3

Demand for talent development driven by a declining labor force, productivity gains, and AI adoption

A theme centered on growing demand from companies and individuals for talent development and training services, driven by the declining workforce, the need to improve labor productivity, and the potential for generative AI to increase value added.

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helps 4

Developing the Offline and Corporate Language Training Markets

An ongoing effort to expand the customer base and service scope in the offline market and corporate language training by leveraging online English learning as its foundation, corporate sales, and high-value-added training content.

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helps 3

FY2022 →

Expanding the Language Services Customer Base through Web Marketing and Media Advertising

Initiatives to raise awareness of language-related services for individuals through web marketing and media advertising, and to acquire new customers on an ongoing basis. The aim is to increase the number of individual learners and sales.

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helps 2

FY2022 →

Restrictions on Overseas Services Due to External Events

Risk that services such as classroom-based training overseas may be restricted or suspended due to external events, including terrorism, infectious diseases and natural disasters. The company addresses this through the collection of safety information, common operating standards and coordination with external organizations.

Becoming a Global Company Aiming to Be No. 1 in Talent Development in Asia

A vision to become a global company that grows continuously through business creation and talent development, with the goal of becoming No. 1 in talent development in Asia.

Expansion of the Sales Channel and Organizational Development Businesses Through Making エナジースイッチ a Wholly Owned Subsidiary and Its Subsequent Absorption Merger

A project to make エナジースイッチ a wholly owned subsidiary, expand sales channels by leveraging its customer base, and provide content in the diversity and inclusion field. It will subsequently transition to an absorption merger to concentrate management resources and improve operational efficiency.

Visualizing Workforce Development Outcomes and Evaluating Return on Investment

FY2023 → FY2025

An ongoing focus on visualizing the results of investment in talent development and validating and clarifying the return on investment, thereby improving the effectiveness of development initiatives and service awareness.

Industry-Academia Collaborative Research on Paradoxical Leadership with Kyoto University

An initiative with Kyoto University to research and disseminate paradoxical leadership that reconciles short-term and long-term interests through a joint course. Its purpose is to develop insights into management leadership for a sustainable society and carbon neutrality.

Expanding the cloud-based e-learning platform through the acquisition of etudes

FY2022 → FY2024

A transaction focused on acquiring the cloud-based e-learning system business, "etudes," and expanding the education services platform through integration with the existing corporate human resources development business.

Intensified Competition and Insufficient Advertising Effectiveness for Consumer-Focused ALUGO

FY2019-Q2 →

Risk that intensified competition, price competition, a mismatch with customer needs, and insufficient advertising effectiveness will constrain customer acquisition and business growth for the consumer-focused English training service “ALUGO.”

Provision of talent development services focused on development outcomes

FY2018 → FY2019

An ongoing business theme under the Mission: providing talent development services focused on development outcomes, while strengthening the business foundation and expanding the scale of the business through collaboration across the Group.

Changes in New-Hire Training Demand Due to Declines in the Young Working-Age Population and New Graduate Hiring

The risk that demand for training for new hires and young employees will contract as a result of declines or changes in the young working-age population and companies’ new graduate hiring, affecting business performance.

Mismatch with Customer Needs and Rising Operating Costs for etudes

Risk that, following the acquisition of the business, the number of customers and profitability of the e-learning service “etudes” will deteriorate due to a mismatch with customer needs and rising system operating and modification costs.

Preparation for Adoption of the Accounting Standard for Fair Value Measurement

Contested

Companies in these themes point in more than one direction. The same force lifts one filer and costs another, and the split is the reading.

A theme involving the application of the Fair Value Measurement Accounting Standards, etc., and their continued use as new accounting policies. Although there is no impact on profit or loss, it addresses the application of standards governing fair value measurement and accounting disclosures.

Concentrated in Information and Communications・ Services and Others・ Retail・ Trading Companies and Wholesalelast written FY2023-Q4

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helps 3 · hurts 6 · flat 2142

Improving capital efficiency and returning value to shareholders through share repurchases and cancellations, and capital policy

Ongoing initiatives concerning shareholder returns and capital allocation and policy through the acquisition of treasury shares.

Concentrated in Information & Communications・ Services and Other・ Materials & Chemicals・ Construction & Materialsgrowing faster than other themes

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helps 1190 · hurts 3 · flat 3

Attracting and Developing Talented Personnel

Strengthening the human resources base through the recruitment and retention of highly specialized and self-motivated personnel, job-specific education and training, and the accumulation and transfer of knowledge. An ongoing human resources strategy that also includes flexible work arrangements and employee benefits.

Concentrated in Information and Communications・ Services and Others・ Retail・ Trading Companies and Wholesalegrowing faster than other themes

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helps 1113 · hurts 48

Company-wide risk management framework based on audits and internal controls

An ongoing governance framework that operates and strengthens company-wide risk management and internal controls through the audit division, Internal Control Committee, Audit and Supervisory Committee, internal regulations, whistleblowing system and other mechanisms.

Concentrated in Information & communications・ services and other; Retail; Electrical equipment and precision instrumentsshrinking against other themes

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helps 566 · hurts 3 · flat 10

FY2015 →

Broad

Themes almost every covered company sits in, where the direction is unanimous. The company list is the value here, not the direction — these are the ones worth scanning for who is missing.

Review of the Rationale for Holding Strategic Shareholdings

A governance policy of holding strategic shareholdings to strengthen relationships and collaboration and enhance corporate value, with their rationale continuously reviewed by the board of directors and other bodies.

Concentrated in Information & Communications・ Services and Other; Materials and Chemicals; Retailgrowing faster than other themes

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helps 751 · hurts 1 · flat 687

Talent acquisition, development and retention, and labor compliance risks

The risk that business performance and operations may be affected if the recruitment and internal development of necessary personnel do not progress as planned, while business operations remain heavily dependent on human resources.

Concentrated in Information & Communications・ Services and Others・ Trading Companies & Wholesale・ Retailmoving with the rest

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hurts 800

Intensifying competition from competitors and new entrants

The risk that intensifying competition from existing competitors and new entrants will place the service at a relative disadvantage and adversely affect business performance. This also covers changes in the competitive environment, including the mechanization and automation of advertising through generative AI.

Concentrated in Information & Communications and Services・ Electrical Appliances and Precision Instruments・ Retailshrinking against other themes

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hurts 632

Risk of dependence on specific executives

The risk that business operations and decision-making depend on the abilities, judgment and continued tenure of a specific executive, such that the executive’s absence or change could affect management. This includes situations where the company is working to delegate authority and establish an organizational management structure, but remains highly dependent on that executive.

Concentrated in Information & Communications・ Services and Others・ Retail・ Real Estateshrinking against other themes

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hurts 570

Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers/Growth Market Listing and Growth and Talent Investment Through a Public Offering

Episodic

Themes tied to a dated event. The period is the point — it opens, it runs, and in most cases it closes, and a theme that stopped being written about is a finding in itself.

Theme concerning the listing of shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market, the raising of growth capital through the accompanying public offering, and improved share liquidity.

Concentrated in Information & Communications・ Services and Other・ Retail・ Pharmaceuticalsshrinking against other themes

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helps 273 · flat 1

FY2019-Q1 → FY2026-H1

Surging resource and energy prices due to geopolitical tensions and their impact on the business environment

External environment risk in which rising energy and raw material prices and inflation against a backdrop of geopolitical developments lead to greater uncertainty in the business environment, a slowdown in overseas demand for used-car exports, and impacts on dealer-to-dealer sales. A time-specific event including developments in the Middle East since FY2024-H1.

Concentrated in Information & Communications・ Services and Others・ Construction & Materials・ Electric Appliances and Precision Instrumentsgrowing faster than other themes

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hurts 160

FY2022-Q2 → FY2026-H1

Transition to and Continued Listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market

A theme covering companies that moved from the Mothers market to the Growth Market following the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s market segment restructuring and continue to be listed in that segment.

Concentrated in Information & Communications・ Services and Other・ Pharmaceuticals・ Real Estateshrinking against other themes

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helps 9 · flat 53

FY2021 → FY2026-H1

Housekeeping

Standards adoption, auditor changes and the like. Genuinely common and occasionally the exact thing you want to query, but placed last so the feature does not open on bookkeeping.

Preparing for Adoption of the New Lease Accounting Standard

A topic focused on assessing the impact on consolidated financial statements and preparing accounting treatments in anticipation of the effective date of the newly issued lease accounting standard.

Concentrated in Information & Communications・ Services and Others・ Retail・ Construction & Materialsgrowing faster than other themes

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hurts 15 · flat 1264