circlace Inc Q4 FY2025 earnings call

Overall Financial Performance

• Full year consolidated revenue hit 3.804 billion yen, up 31.1% year-over-year, marking the highest revenue and growth rate since the company went public.
• Consolidated operating profit reached 203 million yen, turning profitable from a prior-year loss, and exceeded the initial plan at 111.9% of target. Net profit hit 184 million yen (also profitable year-over-year), reaching 120.3% of the initial target.
• Circlace standalone operating profit was 331 million yen, with significant year-over-year profit growth and improved profitability. Q4 standalone operating profit hit 101 million yen (up 42 million yen year-over-year), marking three consecutive quarters of operating margin above 10%.
• New subsidiary Aoranau achieved monthly breakeven 12 months after business launch.
• Q4 consolidated revenue was 1.102 billion yen with an operating margin of 13.7%, the highest level since consolidation, with both revenue growth and profitability improvement achieved amid ongoing growth investment.

Operational & Strategic Expansion

• Expanded supported technologies: added Microsoft capabilities in Q3 FY2025, and added Databricks support in Q1 FY2026, following existing support for Salesforce, Anaplan, ServiceNow, and AWS, to continue active expansion of the business domain aligned with IT trends.
• AGAVE SaaS wins major new clients: AGAVE Overseas Payroll was adopted by Calbee and Nippon Light Metal, reducing Nippon Light Metal's overseas payroll man-hours by 50%. Launched a new generative AI-powered helpdesk beta feature for AGAVE to enable instant response to inquiries from overseas expats and HR staff.
• Launched new AI-powered service: partnered with Pasona to launch AIO, an AI agent-integrated BPO service that enables DX promotion with low initial investment and improves productivity and added value.
• Participated in the Microsoft AI Hackathon at Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Lab Kobe to drive AI solution development and accelerated DX.
• New planned investment target arcbricks, a recently founded data company, secured a project to implement Databricks at Kameda General Hospital to address structural healthcare industry challenges via AI and machine learning.
• Improved internal operations: standardized internal group management, enforced cost efficiency review for purchasing, improved productivity, and reduced SG&A expense ratio. Revenue per employee reached 11.1 million yen, with steady annual growth, and a long-term target of over 17 million yen per employee by FY2030.
• Maintains strong financial health: equity ratio is 54.5%, with no issues regarding financial soundness. Total headcount grew by 60 to 356 year-over-year.

1. Consulting Services (Circlace standalone): Full year revenue grew 14% year-over-year, with Q4 revenue reaching 835 million yen, an all-time high. Consultant headcount increased by 49 to 249 year-over-year. This segment contributes ~85.6% of total standalone revenue.
2. SaaS Service (AGAVE): Full year revenue was 151 million yen, growing 35.5% year-over-year. Q4 revenue was 43 million yen, up 32.7% year-over-year. Contracted user IDs exceeded 11,000. This segment contributes ~4.6% of total consolidated revenue.
3. Aoranau (consolidated subsidiary): Full year revenue was 561 million yen, up over 619.4% year-over-year. Q4 revenue was 223 million yen, and the segment turned to a net profit of 41 million yen in Q4. Headcount increased by 25 to 32 year-over-year. This segment contributes ~14.7% of total consolidated revenue.

• For FY2026 (March 2026), management guides 20.9% year-over-year consolidated revenue growth to 4.6 billion yen.
• It guides 71.9% year-over-year growth in operating profit to 350 million yen.
• It guides 25% year-over-year growth in net profit to 230 million yen.
• The company will continue to invest for medium- and long-term business growth while working to achieve these financial targets, with growth driven by expansion of the Salesforce and ServiceNow businesses and cross-group synergy creation.

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