VIS co.ltd. Q3 FY2025 earnings call

Corporate Purpose and Market Environment

• Vis's corporate purpose is "Bring happiness to working people." Management founded the business to improve workplace environments and enable individual self-actualization, addressing the gap between Japan's top global healthy life expectancy (around 85 years) and its mid-tier global happiness ranking (around 50th).
• Growing market demand: As companies increasingly prioritize human capital management, investment in workplaces is rising. Over 80% of HR managers surveyed prioritize employee motivation, and over 90% of senior HR leaders recognize the need to improve workplaces to support human capital management.

Core Business Model

• Branding Business (core): One-stop design services including office design, web design, graphic design, corporate logo and corporate identity development to improve client branding.
• Place Solution Business: Operates flexible coworking offices, conducts research on new ways of working and human capital management, provides value-upgrading proposals for midsize building owners, accumulates in-house operational expertise to deliver client solutions, and builds a work design platform that collects user data to offer organizational improvement surveys and ongoing office usage guidance.
• End-to-end project flow: Starts with consulting (employee surveys, executive interviews, workshops), followed by design, construction, and ongoing after-delivery follow-up focused on tracking employee growth and adaptation, rather than treating office creation as a one-time project.

Core Competitive Strengths

• Unique service scope: Unlike standard one-stop office design providers, Vis covers both physical (hard) and soft areas including consulting and human capital-focused improvements to boost client corporate value.
• Strong customer base: Over half of annual revenue comes from repeat customers, with the share growing year over year. A single growing client typically makes around 10 separate workplace-related capital investments as they scale (not just single headquarter relocations). 25% (94 out of 385) of all newly IPOed Japanese companies between 2021 and 2024 are Vis clients, and orders from established prime market companies seeking innovation are also growing.
• Solid talent foundation: Vis consistently hires new talent to handle diversifying project demand, and maintains a sufficient pool of qualified certified professionals.
• Award-winning design capabilities: Vis has won 34 total design awards, including multiple Nikkei New Office Awards from the Nikkei, which benefits both employee morale and client satisfaction.
• Cumulative design track record: Vis has delivered over 8,000 total office projects to date.

1. Branding Business: The core business of Vis, it generated 12.132 billion yen in third quarter consolidated revenue (122.4% of the prior year same period), with 1.453 billion yen in consolidated operating profit (161.1% of the prior year same period). For the third quarter, the business recorded 137 total projects, with an average project unit price of just over 44 million yen, and 483 million yen in operating profit (a 28.5 percentage point increase from the prior year same period). Large-scale projects (defined as projects over 100 million yen) reached 27 units by the end of the third quarter, matching the full-year total of the prior fiscal year with one quarter remaining. This segment accounts for nearly all of Vis's total revenue. 2. Place Solution Business: Operates 3 locations of the flexible coworking/shared office brand "The Place" in Shibuya (Tokyo), Osaka, and Nagoya. No separate financial performance figures were disclosed in the transcript.

• Full-year 2025 March fiscal year revenue is now expected to be just over 16.2 billion yen, an upward revision of +7.8% from the original initial forecast, which will mark the 4th consecutive year of revenue growth.
• Full-year operating profit is expected to be +15.8% above the original initial forecast, which will mark the 4th consecutive year of profit growth.
• Annual dividend per share is revised upward from the original forecast of 36 yen to 44 yen per share, reflecting stronger than expected full-year performance.
• Management expects the full-year result to significantly outperform the initial opening forecast.

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