EAGLE INDUSTRY CO.,LTD. Q4 FY2025 earnings call

• Overall Financial Results

  • Consolidated revenue and operating income both increased year-over-year, outperforming the prior fiscal year, despite weak results from the automotive and semiconductor segments.
  • Ordinary profit declined slightly due to foreign exchange losses. Net income attributable to parent shareholders fell on impairment losses and higher net income attributable to non-controlling interests from internal group restructuring.
  • Key profit drivers that offset headwinds included cost reduction, productivity improvements, product price increases, favorable product mix, and positive foreign exchange impacts. Headwinds included lower automotive and semiconductor sales, rising personnel costs, and higher raw material prices.

• Portfolio & Midterm Strategy

  • FY2026 is the final year of the 3-year midterm management plan that began in FY2024. The company will continue building a balanced revenue portfolio, leveraging recovery in the semiconductor segment and growth of new products in other segments.
  • Targets of 6% ROIC and 9% ROE will be delayed due to the semiconductor segment downturn; the company aims to achieve these targets early in future periods after profitability recovers. Shareholder returns will stay on track with the midterm plan, targeting a total of 19 billion yen, and a full-year 100 yen per share dividend will be maintained for FY2026.

• Segment-Specific Strategic Initiatives

  • Automotive & Construction Machinery: Continue cost reduction and price adjustment to protect earnings. Advance development and sales expansion of next-generation core products for EVs and construction machinery; expansion for suspension valves is already on track to offset falling internal combustion engine product sales.
  • General Industrial Machinery: Operates under a global alliance with Germany's Burgmann, with a business model that generates recurring revenue from after-sales service after initial mechanical seal delivery to plant equipment. The company actively accepts new positive net present value projects even if they generate initial losses, to lock in future long-term after-sales revenue.
  • Semiconductor: Sales began recovering in the second half of FY2025. The company will continue developing new products leveraging its broad seal product portfolio to expand sales to semiconductor equipment makers and large foundries, targeting a return to profitability in future periods.
  • Marine: Holds 60% global market share for stern tube seals for medium and large vessels over 10,000 tons, with a mixed revenue model from new ship deliveries and after-sales service. The company will monitor the impact of U.S. port fee policies on Chinese-flagged vessels on market demand.
  • Aerospace: Continues expanding aircraft engine seal production. The space business is growing from sales of seals for H3 rockets and satellites, with growing private sector and overseas inquiries. Management expects the segment to expand to over 1 billion yen in revenue in coming periods. The company's proprietary mechanically sealed product for reusable rocket turbopumps, which uses unique surface texturing to maintain stable non-contact operation for improved durability, has completed testing and is now in joint practical application testing with engine manufacturers. Management believes the company is the only firm in the world capable of providing this product, and will actively pursue new opportunities in this advanced technology segment.

• Capital Expenditure

  • FY2025 actual capital expenditure came in at 11.2 billion yen, aligned with the narrowed original plan. Capital expenditure is expected to remain at a similar level in FY2026 to support mass production of new products and production expansion across segments.

For the 2025 March fiscal year (FY2025):

1. Automotive & Construction Machinery: Decreased revenue and profit. Falling sales of conventional internal combustion engine products, particularly in Japan and Southeast Asia, drove the decline.
2. General Industrial Machinery: Increased revenue and profit. Strong full-year performance, with after-sales service for oil refining and petrochemical plants contributing heavily to earnings, especially growth in Southeast Asian after-sales from past projects.
3. Semiconductor: Widened operating losses. While the overall semiconductor industry (led by generative AI) is recovering, delayed inventory adjustment of the company's products and higher fixed costs from a new factory completion expanded losses.
4. Marine: Increased revenue and profit, achieved record high profit. Strong performance driven by higher vessel activity amid increased logistics and elevated geopolitical risk.
5. Aerospace: Increased revenue and profit, achieved record high profit. Growing sales of aircraft engine seals to public and private customers, alongside rising demand for space industry products.

For the 2026 March fiscal year (FY2026), management provided the following guidance, with assumed exchange rates of 145.0 yen per U.S. dollar and 160.0 yen per euro:

• Overall guidance: 170 billion yen total revenue, 9 billion yen operating profit, 13.1 billion yen ordinary profit, and 8.5 billion yen net income attributable to parent shareholders. This represents year-over-year revenue growth and increased operating profit.
• Segment-specific guidance:
  • Automotive & Construction Machinery: Decreased revenue and profit. While EV product sales are expected to grow, ongoing declines in conventional product sales and the impact of U.S. trade policies will drive the decline.
  • General Industrial Machinery: Revenue will grow but operating profit will decrease. Higher sales from new international project orders will be offset by initial losses from these new projects.
  • Semiconductor: Revenue will grow and operating losses will narrow. Improvement is driven by completed inventory adjustment and expanded sales of new products.
  • Marine: Decreased revenue and profit. Higher sales of new ships will shift the product mix toward lower-margin new delivery, reducing overall profit.
  • Aerospace: Revenue will grow but profit will see a slight decline. Higher depreciation from growth-focused capital expenditure for future expansion will offset revenue gains.

• The impact of U.S. new administration reciprocal tariff policies on the company's U.S. group subsidiary tariff burden has been incorporated into the FY2026 guidance. However, indirect impacts from changing customer and market dynamics on the company's production and sales cannot currently be estimated, so this will be monitored as a key ongoing risk.
• Automotive segment business outlook is highly uncertain due to shifting U.S. trade policy developments amid the ongoing global EV transition.
• U.S. policies imposing port entry fees on Chinese-flagged vessels could impact Chinese-flagged vessel operation and new shipbuilding activity, creating downside risk for the marine segment, which will be monitored closely.
• Reaching the midterm plan's ROIC and ROE targets will be delayed due to the FY2025 semiconductor segment downturn.

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