Sales and Profits
FY2023/9 Results (Consolidated)
the JBS Group has expanded its businesses by dealing directly with major enterprises, leveraging its strengths in the provision of a comprehensive range of solutions from designing value to construction and promoting utilization in the continually expanding public cloud market, particularly involving Microsoft products. Our customers have an increasing need to promote the use of cloud computing. In addition to actively recruiting personnel and shifting skills to enhance our support system, we have established a new integrated production and sales organization to serve our key customers, and have deepened our customer relationships.
In December 2022, we acquired Nextscape Inc., which has strengths in Microsoft cloud services, particularly in Microsoft Azure, MR devices, video streaming, and app development. In addition, we have established a system that enables us to contract Microsoft licenses globally on a lump-sum basis, expanded our overseas sites, and concluded a business alliance with Crayon Group Holding ASA to enhance our global support system for Japanese companies.
In addition, since the launch of new solution services related to ChatGPT in April 2023, we have received a high level of interest from client companies and have gradually begun to introduce these services. We will continue to work on development and engineer training to further expand our services.
As a result, business results for the consolidated fiscal year under review recorded net sales of 112,800 million yen, operating profit of 4,192 million yen, ordinary profit of 4,349 million yen, and profit attributable to owners of parent of 3,350 million yen.
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FY2024/9 Financial Forecasts (Consolidated)
Against the backdrop of the corporate DX shift, cloud demand is expected to expand in a wide range of areas, including infrastructure, app development, and ERP. In addition, as not only public cloud service providers but also all hardware and software manufacturers are accelerating the development of functions that incorporate the increasingly noticed generative AI, we will continue to provide proposals and services to maximize cloud benefits for our customers by combining the superior products of each company, with Microsoft Cloud at the core.
In FY2024/9, we plan to increase the scale of our overall business through the above measures, and by actively hiring and strengthening training for further growth in the future. The Company forecasts an increase in both sales and profit, with net sales of 126,800 million yen (up 12.4% year-on-year), operating income of 5,100 million yen (up 21.6% year-on-year), ordinary income of 5,100 million yen (up 17.3% year-on-year), and net income of 3,450 million yen (up 3.0% year-on-year).
- The Company has started to adopt consolidated accounting in the fiscal year ended September 30, 2023.
| FY2023/9 Results (Consolidated) |
FY2024/9 Forecasts (Consolidated) |
YoY | YoY % | |
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| Net Sales | 112.8 bil.yen | 126.8 bil.yen | 14.0 bil.yen | 12.4% |
| Operating Profit | 4.19 bil.yen | 5.10 bil.yen | 0.91 bil.yen | 21.6% |
| Operating Margin | 3.7% | 4.0% | 0.3% | |
| Net Income | 3.35 bil.yen | 3.45 bil.yen | 0.10 bil.yen | 3.0% |
Shareholder Returns & Dividends
Aiming for a dividend payout ratio of 30%, also we will continue stable dividends in the future.
In the fiscal year ended September 2023, resulting in a dividend payout ratio of 27.0% by 10 yen per share of interim dividends ans 10 yen per share ※1 of year-end dividends, based on our dividend policy and business performance.
For the fiscal year ending September 2024, we plan to increase the annual dividend to 25 yen per share by increased profits and raising the dividend payout ratio.
- 1 The Company conducted a stock split at a ratio of 500 shares to 1 share of common stock on June 3, 2022 and a ratio of 2 shares to 1 share of common stock on April 1, 2023. The results before the splits are calculated based on the assumption that the said split was made.
Dividend per share / Payout ratio ※1
Our Feature
JBS has been dramatically improving its competitive power by focusing on fostering social capital, human capital, and intellectual capital, and continuously engaging in efforts such as system reform in order to generate new social value and corporate value and maximize the abilities of the organization and human resources.
Partnerships with the world’s leading tech companies
JBS possesses many partnership certifications in its relationships with cloud and cutting-edge technology companies that continue to provide excellent global services. We have also received numerous annual accolades given to excellent partners. In particular, we have won the Partner of the Year award for ten consecutive years from Microsoft, our biggest business partner. By quickly gathering the latest tech information from these companies and receiving support for advance verification, JBS has organized a system to deliver the latest outcomes to our customers.
Designing from upstream for social value and corporate value of technology utilization
JBS has formed a capital alliance with Mitsubishi Research Institute. Together, we combine the thinktank knowledge and the consulting expertise of Mitsubishi Research Institute with the technological knowledge of JBS, to design value creation for customers. Aiming to realize a resilient and sustainable society in the post-Covid era, we will contribute to establishing an internationally competitive society and economy by creating a DX business in various fields such as medicine, education, government, and the public sector.
Side-by-side support to create value in a wide variety of industries and business categories
With over 30 years of experience in IT support, JBS has formed partnerships with enterprises representing diverse industries and business categories. By harnessing these relationships, we provide support to co-create value of new technologies. Specifically, in the mass media industry, we have a capital alliance with NTV Wands Inc., the digital subsidiary of Nippon Television Holdings, Inc. We is promoting the use of digital technology in the industry through various initiatives.
Cloud-native professional group
At JBS, we have some of Japan’s top-class Microsoft Cloud-certified engineers. As of the end of September 2022, we have a total of 3,133 employees (gross headcount) with Microsoft certification. We also have three Microsoft MVP winners. In addition to Microsoft certifications, our employees possess various other certifications required for IT optimization.
- Microsoft Certified 3,133 (gross headcount) Microsoft MVP 3 people
- Cisco 108, VMware 93, AWS 86, HPI 53, Dell 38, SAP 20
Training programs co-created with partners
JBS has a certification acquisition support system based on a map of the IT Skill Standards (ITSS) career framework and certification exams and qualifications, as well as a dedicated training facility. We also offer joint training programs with major cloud service companies for our employees to keep their skills up to date to adapt to the latest technologies.
Diverse career paths according to each employee’s skills
At JBS, we constantly strive to better meet our customers’ expectation by improving the quality of our employees’ skills. For example, for the Microsoft Cloud, we encourage employees to not only obtain the most basic Fundamentals certification but also aim for Associate and Expert certifications, and we provide financial incentives for this. Additionally, we also facilitate rotations of human resources to other departments, and have an in-house job application system and overseas assignment system in place.
Showcasing our services by first implementing them at JBS
JBS leads the way in implementing technologies that are still unfamiliar in Japan or cloud services within our own environment to use them by ourselves. By accumulating know-how in implementation and operation through these activities, we make highly feasible proposals to our customers. One example is our adoption of a hybrid work environment, which has become a norm in the post-Covid era. We have already implemented such an environment in early 2020, offering it as a best practice to our customers.
Latest technologies x employee ideas as axes for business development
JBS has a dedicated team for the verification of new technology concepts provided by partner companies as well as a new business development program based on ideas from employees. Additionally, through cooperation with the Social System Design Center, we engage in business creation to solve social issues through collaborations of industry-academia-community innovators.
Turning services implemented at JBS into assets
JBS offers optimized cloud management and operational environments through consulting, building, and operational support services conforming to a world-standard cloud implementation framework and by providing cloud-managed services. Our JBS Cloud Suite equipped with solutions from our partner companies and our originally-developed services can provide our know-how to customers in a user-friendly and accessible way.
