SHOEI CORPORATION Q4 FY2025 earnings call

Overall Consolidated Financial Performance

• Total consolidated revenue: 19.031 billion yen, down 2.1% year-over-year

• Gross profit: 4.157 billion yen; gross profit margin increased year-over-year due to ongoing profit improvement efforts

• Operating profit: 0.747 billion yen; ordinary profit: 0.747 billion yen; net profit attributable to parent company shareholders: 0.467 billion yen

• Ordinary profit declined year-over-year primarily due to a large reduction in derivative valuation gains compared to the prior period

• Balance Sheet Highlights:

  • Total assets increased by 0.812 billion yen compared to the end of the prior period, driven by higher cash/deposits and growth in tangible/intangible fixed assets, partially offset by lower notes and accounts receivable
  • Total liabilities increased by 0.336 billion yen, primarily due to growth in short-term and long-term borrowings
  • Net assets increased by 0.475 billion yen, primarily driven by higher retained earnings

• Cash Flow Highlights:

  • Ending cash and cash equivalents increased by 0.256 billion yen year-over-year to 1.110 billion yen
  • Operating cash flow: +0.926 billion yen, supported by pre-tax profit of 0.744 billion yen, depreciation of 0.187 billion yen, and a 0.370 billion yen reduction in trade receivables
  • Investing cash flow: -0.987 billion yen, driven primarily by 0.942 billion yen in capital expenditures for tangible fixed assets
  • Financing cash flow: +0.275 billion yen, as 0.995 billion yen in new long-term borrowing proceeds offset 0.198 billion yen in long-term debt repayments and 0.154 billion yen in dividend payments

Strategic and Organizational Highlights

• The company started as a specialty film packaging manufacturer and has expanded into 5 core business areas: packaging, direct mail, logistics processing, cosmetics manufacturing (including filling and assembly), and product development/manufacturing for retail channels (such as 100-yen shops), plus integrated sales promotion support services that combine cross-functional offerings
• The Sales Development Department was launched in autumn two years ago to strengthen R&D and planning capabilities, and leads agile collaboration with group companies including Fine Chemistix Co., Ltd., SHOEI PLASTIC (THAILAND) CO.,LTD., and Shanghai Zhaorong Commercial Co., Ltd. in China
• The company's long-term goal is to become a comprehensive customer support enterprise that leverages group-wide product capabilities

1. Sales Promotion Support Business: Total revenue of 9.482 billion yen, down 0.4% year-over-year, accounting for 49.8% of total consolidated revenue. Breakdown by sub-segment:

• Sales promotion (centered on promotional product campaigns): Revenue of 4.893 billion yen, up 5.3% year-over-year, driven by price reviews, strong sales of high value-added products and steady repeat orders.
• OEM: Revenue of 2.969 billion yen, down 2.0% year-over-year. While order volumes for pillow packaging and assembly work for general goods and cosmetics at in-house factories grew, lower repeat orders for daily consumer goods filling pulled down overall results.
• Delivery agency: Revenue of 1.620 billion yen, down 12.3% year-over-year, impacted by reduced shipment volumes due to industry shifts to e-commerce and rising printing costs.

1. Product Sales Business: Total revenue of 9.701 billion yen, down 3.5% year-over-year, accounting for 51.0% of total consolidated revenue. Breakdown by sub-segment:

• 100-yen shop channel: Revenue of 8.493 billion yen, up 2.7% year-over-year. Growth was driven by strong performance of high value-added polyethylene products (deodorant bags, freshness-keeping bags) and expanded new product development tapping demand for non-polyethylene general goods.
• Mass merchant channel: Revenue of 0.536 billion yen, down 41.0% year-over-year, as the company intentionally reduced sales of low-margin products to improve overall profitability.

Segment profit for the Product Sales Business remained nearly flat year-over-year at 0.393 billion yen, as the shift to higher-margin products, active specification changes and product discontinuations, and supplier diversification for cost reduction offset revenue declines.

• For the FY2026 March term (full year): The company expects 8.0% year-over-year consolidated revenue growth to 20.545 billion yen, with operating profit of 1.401 billion yen, ordinary profit of 1.332 billion yen, and net profit attributable to parent company shareholders of 0.900 billion yen.
• Segment-level revenue guidance for FY2026 March term: Sales Promotion Support Business is expected to grow 5.5% year-over-year to 10.004 billion yen; Product Sales Business is expected to grow 10.5% year-over-year to 10.720 billion yen.
• 2027 long-term roadmap: The company targets 24.0 billion yen in total revenue and an 8% operating profit margin by 2027. To hit this target, management views M&A as a necessary strategic step, and will prioritize targets in adjacent fields to existing businesses that can deliver clear synergies with the company's current operations.
• The company also plans to grow OEM/ODM as a third core business pillar, and will advance the development of original products and in-house brands to support this goal.

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