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• Leadership Transition: New President Ikuo Sugie took office in June 2025, and this was his first earnings presentation as CEO.
• Core Earnings Performance: All major financial metrics including total revenue increased year-over-year. Operating profit and ordinary profit grew year-over-year despite rising cost headwinds.
• Cost Headwinds: The company faced temporary cost increases from ramp-up production to support new sales expansion, sustained high raw material costs, higher labor costs from wage increases, and tariff impacts on some products. Offsetting these headwinds, volume growth from new orders drove net profit growth.
• Balance Sheet Updates: Trade receivables increased alongside higher sales, but a decrease in tangible fixed assets led to total assets decreasing by 470 million yen compared to the prior period-end. The equity ratio rose 2.8 percentage points to 85%, indicating a strong, improved capital position.
• Cash Flow: Cash and cash equivalents decreased by 822 million yen from the end of March 2025, reaching 5.617 billion yen, due to debt repayment, dividend payments, and treasury share repurchases.
• Extraordinary Items: A 94 million yen impairment loss was recorded on assets of a domestic subsidiary that showed impairment indicators due to sustained operating losses. A positive tax adjustment was recorded from an increase in the USD-denominated value of deferred tax assets at the Mexican subsidiary, driven by weaker USD / stronger peso exchange rates, which boosted net income.

• Management maintains the full-year 2026 March fiscal year earnings guidance originally published on May 7, 2025, with no upward or downward revisions.
• Management retains the original full-year forecast due to ongoing macro uncertainty, including sustained high energy and raw material prices, unstable global geopolitical conditions, volatile foreign exchange markets, and ongoing tariff impacts.

The transcript only breaks down performance by geographic sales segments, not product segments: 1. Domestic sales: Increased 10.1% year-over-year, driven by continued delivery of large new orders won in the prior fiscal year. 2. Overseas sales: Increased 51.1% year-over-year, driven by continued delivery of new orders for Nissan North America and Toyota North America, which started delivery mid-way through the prior year. Combined total company sales increased 21.4% year-over-year. Consolidated operating income reached 1.07 billion yen, an increase of 278 million yen from the prior year period's 792 million yen. Net income attributable to parent company shareholders increased significantly year-over-year driven by positive foreign exchange effects.

• Sustained high energy and raw material prices, which continue to put upward pressure on operating costs.
• Ongoing wage increases that raise labor and fixed operating costs.
• Tariff impacts on certain exported products that increase costs.
• Geopolitical instability in overseas markets that creates operational and demand uncertainty.
• Volatility in foreign exchange markets that impacts the value of overseas assets and profitability.
• Impairment risk for underperforming domestic subsidiary assets, which resulted in a 94 million yen impairment charge in the half-year period.

No structured question and answer section was included in the provided transcript. Management noted that stakeholders can direct all questions to the company's Corporate Planning Department after the presentation.