Hope, Inc. Announces Consolidated Earnings Results for the Second Quarter Ended December 31, 2020
February 12, 2021 at 02:00 am EST
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Hope, Inc. announced consolidated earnings results for the second quarter ended December 31, 2020. For the quarter, the company reported net sales of ¥14,044 million. Operating profit of ¥259 million. Ordinary profit of ¥243 million. Profit attributable to owners of parent of ¥158 million. Basic earnings per share of ¥26.29.diluted earnings per share of ¥24.16.
Hope Inc is a Japan-based company engaged in advertising, energy and media businesses. The Company operates through three business segments. Energy segment offers GENEWAT, an electricity retail service that helps local governments reduce costs. Advertising segment offers two kinds of services. The smart resource (SR) service purchases advertising space in various media such as homepages owned by local governments, public relations papers, salary statements distributed to public employees, and envelopes and sells them to private companies. The smart creation (SC) service, in the form of collaborative issuance with local governments, recruits advertisers to produce information booklets for residents and donates the booklets to local governments. Media segment utilizes the relationships with local governments cultivated in the advertising business to provide business to government (BtoG) marketing services, Jichitai Works, and Jichitai Works HA x SH information distribution platform.
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