Solvvy Inc. Q2 FY2025 earnings call

Overall Financial Performance

• The company achieved record-high Q2 revenue, with both revenue and profit growing strongly year-over-year, and the business is on track to meet full-year and medium-term management plan targets.
• Both operating profit and ordinary profit significantly exceeded both year-ago levels and the current quarter plan. Continuous DX investment paid off, enabling large reductions in selling, general and administrative expenses.

Business Integration Progress

• The business integration with MediaSeek Inc. was completed in November 2024, and MediaSeek's results have been included in consolidated financials starting from this period, driving additional revenue and profit growth.
• Synergies from the integration have been realized across product launches, new client acquisition, and development efficiency, with more synergies expected going forward.
• The segment structure was updated to add two new segments (LFT and FNT) to reflect the expanded business scope, and the allocation method for corporate-wide expenses was revised for more accurate segment performance measurement.

Operational Milestones

• New market expansion: Leveraging Solvvy's B-to-B marketing and inside sales capabilities to promote MediaSeek's school management system "MyClass", the company won a large-scale contract worth hundreds of millions of yen with a leading private university, a deal MediaSeek could not have secured independently. The education sector is expected to be a new growth driver amid expanding lifelong learning support from local governments.
• New FinTech launch: In February 2025, the company launched a new installment payment service for home renovation construction costs through its renovation SaaS platform "KROX". The service improves contractor order conversion and average order size compared to traditional renovation loans, and delivers better user experience for homeowners by enabling fully online end-to-end processing. The integration allowed the company to use MediaSeek's development resources to launch the service earlier than originally planned.

Following the completion of the business integration with MediaSeek Inc. in November 2024, Solvvy updated its segment structure to four core segments: HWT (HomeworthTech), EXT (ExtendTech), LFT (LifeTech), and FNT (FinTech) and others. Both of the original core segments HWT and EXT achieved strong year-over-year revenue growth. HWT (HomeworthTech) saw a large improvement in profitability, driven by a higher sales mix of high gross margin building warranty services. The unrecognized revenue (total current + long-term unearned revenue) from HWT's long-term warranty contracts exceeded 12.7 billion yen as of the end of December 2024, maintaining steady growth and providing a solid base for future earnings. New segments LFT focuses on system consulting and SaaS, while FNT focuses on mid-to-long term financial business development. Overall consolidated revenue for the quarter was 2.98 billion yen, up 129.9% year-over-year; operating profit was 668 million yen, up 124.4% YoY; ordinary profit was 857 million yen, up 131.5% YoY; net profit attributable to parent company shareholders was 573 million yen, up 129.1% YoY.

• Management maintains the full-year financial plan for revenue, operating profit, and ordinary profit, and expects on-track performance in the second half of the fiscal year to meet all full-year targets.
• EXT (ExtendTech) saw a temporary impact on Q2 growth rate because some revenue and profit originally scheduled for Q2 was recognized earlier in Q4 of the prior fiscal year and Q1 of the current fiscal year, but there is no change to the full-year outlook for the segment.
• Despite a delay in some inspection and repair service projects that shifted planned revenue to the second half of the year, the impact on full-year profit is expected to be minor due to the high cost ratio of these projects.

• HWT's long-term warranty business has an earnings structure that suppresses profit during the expansion phase: revenue and costs are amortized over the warranty period, while selling general and administrative expenses are recognized fully in the current period. This creates short-term profit pressure during periods of rapid business growth.
• Some project start delays in the inspection and repair service business shifted planned Q2 revenue to the second half of the fiscal year.

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