RECOMM CO.,LTD. Q2 FY2025 earnings call

Overall Financial Results

• First half (first 2 quarters) total revenue hit a record high of 6.617 billion yen, up 20.3% year-over-year. Operating profit was 193 million yen, up 8.3% year-over-year. Adjusted for the 200 million yen one-time revenue from FC franchisee business transfer in the prior year period, operating profit increased 215 million yen year-over-year.
• The company completed organizational restructuring after the prior year's decline in profit amid revenue growth, cutting total headcount to slim operations, reallocating talent, and reducing fixed costs. Personnel costs were cut by 77 million yen and non-personnel SG&A by 25 million yen in the first half.

Operational Updates & Strategic Initiatives

• Completed the consolidation of TAKNET SYSTEMS PTE LTD, an AI server distributor based in Singapore. TAKNET is projected to add ~1.5 billion yen in annual revenue and 150 million yen in annual operating profit. The company will leverage cross-sales of TAKNET's AI servers through other overseas subsidiaries, and plans to sell Recam's strategic product SPACECOOL through TAKNET's regional network.
• Entered a business partnership with Kuramoto Seisakusho: Recam will refer potential Lark customers to Kuramoto, distribute Kuramoto's commercial cleaning robots, and offer Recam's AI-RPA and BPO digitalization services to Kuramoto's Lark customers. Recam acquired share warrants for Kuramoto in Q3.
• Launched new business process auto-recording tool "Process Recorder", which captures work processes automatically to create operation manuals; it is sold bundled with Recam's existing DX products.
• Strengthened human capital management: Requires 100 hours of annual training per employee with 95% completion, with high participation in AI skill training; 6 young employees are on secondment to build global talent; mentorship programs for new hires cut turnover from 14% to 8% year-over-year. Hired 10 new graduates in April 2025, with updated training including training on global strategic products for employees targeting overseas roles.
• Long-term Growth Strategy: Global Specialized Trading House Vision
  • Four-stage expansion strategy: (1) Acquire new customers with value-added own-brand commodity products; (2) Cross-sell other products to lock in acquired customers; (3) Expand into local non-Japanese markets; (4) Develop new products tailored to local market needs. Currently only Malaysia and Singapore have entered Stage 3 (local market expansion); 55% of first half consolidated revenue already comes from these two markets, proving the growth potential of this strategy.
  • Sequential rollout of global strategic products: ReSPR air purifiers, Robo Worker RPA, SPACECOOL radiative cooling materials, and Supermicro AI servers (via TAKNET).
• Medium-term Management Plan (2025-2027 September Term): Sales DX × M&A
  • Core 2027 targets: 20%+ CAGR for revenue, 10%+ operating margin on revenue, 20%+ ROE. The core vision is to standardize and systematize sales through sales DX to maximize per-employee productivity, then transplant this capability to acquired local companies via M&A to expand the group's overall profit base. As of the first half, operating margin improved from 1.4% in the prior year second half to 2.9%, a 1.5 percentage point improvement on track for medium-term targets.

1. Overseas Solutions Business: Revenue of 4.263 billion yen, 40.1% year-over-year growth, accounting for 64.4% of total consolidated revenue. Segment profit of 237 million yen, which nearly doubled year-over-year. Approximately 65% of the profit growth comes from the consolidation effect of acquired Singaporean subsidiary TAKNET SYSTEMS PTE LTD, and ~30% comes from SG&A reduction after overseas sales organizational restructuring. 2. Domestic Solutions Business: Revenue of 2.035 billion yen, 6.2% year-over-year decline, accounting for 30.8% of total consolidated revenue. Revenue decline is driven by a 30% drop in FC franchisee revenue after a business transfer, partially offset by 9.3% growth in direct sales. Despite lower revenue, segment profit grew 7.2% year-over-year due to organizational sliming and improved per-employee productivity after restructuring. 3. BPR Business: Revenue of 319 million yen, 10.2% year-over-year growth, accounting for 4.8% of total consolidated revenue. Segment profit declined 42.8% year-over-year. Profit decline is caused by the inclusion of a low-margin 42 million yen large order in the first half and increased SG&A from hiring senior management whose productivity gains have not yet materialized.

• The full-year 2025 September term original guidance is maintained with no revisions. The full-year plan targets all-time record results: revenue of 14.8 billion yen (126.6% of prior year), operating profit of 700 million yen (259.8% of prior year), profit attributable to parent shareholders of 430 million yen (518.1% of prior year), and EBITDA of 831 million yen (186.7% of prior year). Dividend is maintained at 1.6 yen per share, flat year-over-year.
• Full-year operating profit growth is projected to come from 69 million yen from existing business improvement, 200 million yen from M&A, 100 million yen from SG&A reduction, and 62 million yen from turning new business from a prior year loss to profit. As of the first half, existing business improvement, M&A impact, and SG&A reduction are broadly on track; new business profit improvement is the key full-year priority for the second half.
• The company targets achieving monthly break-even for the Robo Worker business by the end of September (end of full-year 2025) via strengthened cross-selling with overseas locations leveraging its multi-language product capability.

• The new Robo Worker business continued to post monthly losses as of March (end of first half), so its profit improvement is a critical unmet risk factor that will determine full-year results performance.
• For the BPR business, internal RPA automation driven by Robo Worker is only at 22% of its full-year target as of the first half, putting SG&A reduction targets at risk of missing in the second half.
• Domestic Solutions Business has the most behind revenue performance among the three segments, driven by stagnant cybersecurity product sales, requiring additional urgent corrective actions in the second half.
• Only two markets (Malaysia and Singapore) have reached the high-growth Stage 3 (local market expansion) so far, so accelerating Stage 3 expansion across other international markets is a key unfulfilled long-term growth risk.

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