Fabrica Holdings <4193> announced its consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ending March 2024 on the 15th. Sales increased by 7.4% compared to the previous year to 8.162 billion yen, operating profit decreased by 16.5% to 1.07 billion yen, ordinary profit decreased by 13.8% to 1.087 billion yen, and net income attributable to the parent company shareholders decreased by 16.9% to 673 million yen.
The sales of the SMS Solutions Group increased by 6.0% compared to the same period last year to 4.814 billion yen, and segment profit decreased by 3.8% to 1.249 billion yen. Due to the transition of COVID-19 infection to Category 5 infectious disease, the demand for SMS distribution from municipalities to infected persons in the previous fiscal year decreased. However, we strengthened the policy of increasing the number of distributions by promoting early onboarding for new large customers and expanding cross-selling and usage expansion for existing customers.
The U-CAR Solutions Group's sales increased by 7.4% to 1.355 billion yen, and segment profit increased by 2.8% to 352 million yen. Although there were incidents that occurred in several major used car sales companies and the deterioration of the business environment surrounding the entire used car sales industry, we promoted DX for business activities and promoted support and consulting activities for small and medium-sized businesses, which are the main customer base. As a result, the number of introductions of the business support cloud service "symphony" for used car sales companies increased by 276 companies compared to the same period of the previous year.
The Internet service group's sales increased by 19.1% to 318 million yen, and the segment loss was 20 million yen (compared to a loss of 18 million yen in the same period last year). While the media area is performing well, the investment in the growth of the CRM platform "Action Link" for EC business operators continued to increase costs.
The auto service group's sales increased by 9.6% to 1.673 billion yen, and segment profit decreased by 12.8% to 87 million yen. Although sales increased steadily, the increase in cost of goods sold and the increase in sales and administrative expenses affected the increase in revenue and the decrease in profit.
For the consolidated performance forecast for the year ending March 2025, sales are expected to increase by 6.6% compared to the previous year to 8.7 billion yen, operating profit is expected to increase by 2.7% to 1.1 billion yen, ordinary profit is expected to increase by 1.2% to 1.1 billion yen, and net income attributable to parent company shareholders is expected to increase by 3.9% to 700 million yen.