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Quarterly Earnings at Japan’s Largest LSP Honyaku Center Drop 17.5%, Revenues Flat

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November 17, 2017

Quarterly Earnings at Japan’s Largest LSP Honyaku Center Drop 17.5%, Revenues Flat

Financial Results ·

by Gino Diño

On November 17, 2017

3 years ago
Financial Results ·

by Gino Diño

On November 17, 2017

Quarterly Earnings at Japan’s Largest LSP Honyaku Center Drop 17.5%, Revenues Flat

On November 9, 2017, Honyaku Center, Japan’s largest language service provider, posted its financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year 2018 (Japan’s fiscal year starts April 1, 2017). Honyaku recorded net sales of JPY 4.903bn (USD 43.5m), a slight 1.3% decrease from last year’s JPY 4.97bn (USD 49.1m).

Operating income likewise decreased by 17.5% from the same period of the previous year from JPY 341m in Q2 2016 to JPY 281m this quarter. Honyaku attributes this decline mainly to the poor performance of its conventions division.

Honyaku Center divides its business into six units: translation, interpretation, language education, temporary staffing, conventions, and others. Within the translation unit, the company further breaks down results by vertical: medical, patent, industrial, and financial & legal.

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Core Translation Business Growing Modestly

The translation unit remained clocked up growth of 5.7% in revenues from the same period of the previous year to JPY 3.581bn. Almost all verticals registered growth.

Medical translations led with a 10.8% increase, followed by 7.3% from patent translations, and 3.2% from industrial translations. Financial and legal translation sales declined by 7.4%

Good performance of major IT and telecom accounts helped the interpretation division post a 30.3% year-on-year increase in net sales to JPY 458m.

Meanwhile, in other divisions, temporary staffing revenues increased 25.7% compared with the same period in 2016 to JPY 554m. The language education arm remained stable with a 6.9% increase year-on-year to JPY 100m.

The conventions segment was still the sore spot this quarter like it was in the first quarter of the fiscal year 2018, as Honyaku expected. Division sales declined by 80.1% from the same period of the previous year to JPY 118m.

Finally, Honyaku’s other services held its own: strong sales of support services saw revenues increase by 5.5% year-on-year to JPY 90m.

M&A and Outlook

Honyaku recently joined the M&A game by acquiring Tokyo-based Media Research Inc. and taking out a 13% stake in Mirai Translate from Osaka-based FueTrek.

In terms of outlook, the Tokyo LSP, expects to beat its previous forecast of full year 2018 revenues by around 600 million yen and operating profits by an additional 30 million yen.

Honyaku’s updated guidance for full year 2018 now stands at JPY 10.6bn (US 94.1m)in revenues and JPY 780m (USD 6.92m) in operating income.

On the Tokyo stock exchange Honyaku shares barely budged after the earnings report was released. Honyaku’s shares have been treading water for years. The company’s current market capitalization is a relatively modest JPY 6.6bn (USD 58.6m).

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