TOKYO, Nov. 2, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fields Corporation today announces financial information and business results for the Q2 of the year ending March 31, 2012.
The Company's core business, pachinko and pachislot sales are heavily concentrated in the second half of the fiscal year. The Company is therefore aiming for its highest ever profit.
In Q2, the Company released a big pachinko title, deploying Japanese superstar, Ayumi Hamasaki, and made hit sales of 70,000 units. As for the market, the pachinko halls sales made a steady progress despite beliefs that the sales figure would show a slight decline due to emphasis on reducing power consumption etc. this summer.
As for the group business, a monthly comic magazine "Hero's", recognized as the core of the Company's contents development will be issued in November 2011. And the film, "BERSERK", produced by the Company's subsidiary Lucent Pictures will be premiered in February 2012.
*"BERSERK" is a manga series and has sold 24 million volumes in Japan and 7 million overseas.
| Financial Results and Forecast (Consolidated) (Japan GAAP) | |||||
| (Unit: Billion yen) | 3.2011 | 3.2012 E | YoY | H1 | YTD |
| Net Sales | 103.5 | 100.0 | 96.5% | 33.3 | 33.3% |
| PS(Pachinko/Pachislot) | 94.1 | -- | -- | 29.5 | -- |
| Mobile | 2.0 | -- | -- | 1.1 | -- |
| Sports Entertainment | 2.1 | -- | -- | 1.0 | -- |
| Other | 5.8 | -- | -- | 2.2 | -- |
| (Adjustments) | (0.6) | -- | -- | (0.6) | -- |
| SG&A Expenses | 21.9 | 24.0 | 109.1% | 10.4 | 43.3% |
| Operating Income | 13.1 | 14.0 | 106.6% | 1.5 | 10.7% |
| PS(Pachinko/Pachislot) | 12.8 | -- | -- | 1.7 | -- |
| Mobile | 0.2 | -- | -- | 0.06 | -- |
| Sports Entertainment | (0.2) | -- | -- | (0.03) | -- |
| Other | 0.3 | -- | -- | (0.1) | -- |
| (Adjustments) | 0.008 | -- | -- | (0.01) | -- |
| Ordinary Income | 13.6 | 14.0 | 102.3% | 1.7 | 12.1% |
| Net Income | 7.5 | 8.0 | 106.4% | 2.4 | 30.0% |
| Total Asset | 78.9 | -- | -- | 63.1 | -- |
| Net Asset | 47.0 | -- | -- | 48.6 | -- |
| Net Income per share (Yen) | 22,643 | -- | -- | 7,313 | -- |
| CF from Operating Activities | 8.0 | -- | -- | 5.3 | -- |
| CF from Investing Activities | (4.3) | -- | -- | (1.9) | -- |
| CF from Financing Activities | (3.9) | -- | -- | (1.2) | -- |
| Cash and Cash Equivalents | 15.6 | -- | -- | 17.7 | -- |
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | |
| ROE | 9.2% | 12.4% | -3.5% | 8.2% | 17.1% |
| ROA | 12.0% | 17.3% | 1.6% | 11.6% | 17.1% |
| Shareholder' Equity(Billion yen) | 41.1 | 44.4 | 39.4 | 41.0 | 46.7 |
| Shareholder' Equity ratio | 62.2% | 64.3% | 75.8% | 50.5% | 59.2% |
| Annual Dividend per share(Yen) | 4,000 | 4,500 | 4,500 | 4,500 | 5,000 |
| Payout ratio | 37.4% | 29.5% | -- | 45.9% | 22.1% |
| Operating Income(Billion yen) | 8.9 | 13.1 | 1.9 | 8.1 | 13.1 |
| Net Income(Billion yen) | 3.7 | 5.2 | -1.4 | 3.2 | 7.5 |
| Pachinko Machine Sold | 345 | 273 | 202 | 330 | 262 |
| Pachislot Machine Sold(Thousand machine) | 165 | 210 | 128 | 119 | 217 |
About Fields
Fields Corporation and the Fields Group have a mission to provide "The Greatest Leisure for All People" in the form of products and services to meet the needs of a society with increasing leisure time. We are also identifying business opportunities through research, analysis and forecasting of lifestyle and environmental changes, and developing our business in a wide range of entertainment fields including the pachinko/pachislot field as well as video, mobile content, animation, publishing and sports.