ADWAYS announced an outlook calling for current-year ordinary profit to be revised upward to 2.2 times the previous forecast, along with a substantial increase in the year-end dividend. The company also turned profitable on a cumulative second-quarter basis.
ADWAYS announced its earnings during the afternoon session on 12 August, disclosing that consolidated ordinary profit for the cumulative second quarter (January-June) of the fiscal year ending December 2026 came to ¥1.14 billion, a sharp 9.4-fold increase year on year. Accordingly, the company revised its full-year ordinary profit forecast upward from the previous ¥800 million to ¥1.75 billion. The expected increase in profit has been revised from 32.5% to 2.9-fold.
Based on the first-half results and second-half plan, consolidated ordinary profit for the July-December period is expected to rise approximately 24.1% year on year to ¥600 million. On this basis, the company has substantially revised its year-end dividend, paid in a single installment, from the previous plan of ¥6.57 per share to ¥12.06.
In the April-June quarter, the latest three-month period, the company posted a profit of ¥540 million, while its operating margin improved sharply from -9.4% in the previous period to 13.8%. The earnings summary also presents the first-half results and the revised full-year forecast.