- Financial Highlight
| Settlement period | The 10th term (consolidated) |
The 11th term (consolidated) |
The 12th term (consolidated) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Month of settlement | 2007.9. | 2008.9. | 2009.9. |
| Net Sales | 76,007 | 87,097 | 93,897 |
| operating income | 5,501 | 4,629 | 4,483 |
| Recurring profit/loss | 5,143 | 4,507 | 4,347 |
| Net profit/loss | 2,016 | 1,030 | 1,268 |
| Capital stock (Number of total issued stocks) |
6,746 660,224shares |
6,771 648,343shares |
6,771 648,343shares |
| Net Assets | 31,170 | 30,146 | 31,579 |
| Capital-asset ratio | 51.9% | 38.5% | 38.2% |
| Shareholders' equity per share | 38,645yen | 37,317yen | 39,687yen |
| Cash dividends per share | 1,000yen | 700yen | 1,000yen |
| Net earnings per share | 3,055 | 1,587 | 1,955 |
| Fully diluted net earnings per share | 3,050 | 1,586 | - |
| Dividends payout ratio | 32.7% | 44.1% | 51.1% |
| Number of employee | 1,643 | 1,966 | 2,141 |
- Ameba Related Business
- "Existing Businesses" (1) Internet Media Business (Advertising, Charged Services, Content Businesses)
- "Existing Businesses" (2) Internet Media Business (Commerce)
- "Existing Businesses" (3) Internet Advertising Agency Business
- "Financial Business" Investment Development / FX business
Ameba Related Business
Ameba related business is a blog-related business centered on the "Ameba" service, which was launched as CyberAgent's leading media property. The main source of income is derived from advertisement posting fees on blog media and charged fees of "Ame Gold," a virtual currency purchased by Ameba users.
In the fiscal year ending September 2009, consolidated net sales of the Ameba related business saw a favorable performance of 5.62 billion yen, a 50.2% increase over the previous period. In the midst of a severe advertising market environment due to a stagnant economy, the need for blog advertisements on "Ameba," which continually maintains rapid growth, remains high, leading to increased revenue in all advertising segments such as word-of-mouth advertising, mobile advertising, and content-linked advertising. Furthermore, along with the commencement of communication service "Ameba Pigg," the usage of the virtual currency "Ame Gold" has also accelerated. Charged services saw a rapid expansion with an increase of 1,147% over the previous period, resulting in a return to surplus in the Ameba business in the 4th quarter ending September 2009. Focus will be continuously placed on the development of mobile services, where further market expansion is expected and the expansion of functions for the communication service "Ameba Pigg," which leads charged services, while developing advertising services as well as bolstering sales structure unique to "Ameba," to aim for further growth as CyberAgent Group's profit pillar.
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"Existing Businesses" (1) Internet Media Business (Advertising, Charged Services, Content Businesses)
Affiliate advertising (pay-per-results), etc., which is not easily affected by the economic downturn, led the way in advertisement sales with 20.2 billion yen, a 23.9 % increase over the previous period. Online game and content charged businesses operated by CyberAgent's consolidated subsidiaries, GCREST, Inc. and CA MOBILE, Ltd., also saw favorable results of a 12.5% increase over the previous year. Centered on these subsidiaries, the Company will actively provide social application services to other media such as "mixi" and "Mobage-town" in the fiscal year ending September 2010 to boost charged services.
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"Existing Businesses" (2) Internet Media Business (Commerce)
In the fiscal year ending September 2009, income from services centered on the Internet shopping site "netprice" operated by the listed subsidiary netprice.com, Ltd., (TSE Mothers: 3328, hereinafter referred to as netprice) totaled 13.1 billion yen, which is approximately 70% of the Internet media business (commerce). While the group is aiming at high profits centered on our business focus "Ameba," the Company has transferred part of netprice stock from the standpoint of "choice and focus" to make netprice an equity method subsidiary from the fiscal year ending September 2010.
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"Existing Businesses" (3) Internet Advertising Agency Business
Internet advertising sales remained flat from the previous period at 42.5 billion yen with little effect from the financial downturn being seen compared to mass advertisement (i.e., TV, newspapers, magazines, and radio waves) due to an increase in Internet use as well as the ability to measure effect. Furthermore, proactive sales of SEO solutions with high profit rates led to increased profit rates. Currently, the Internet advertising business has broken free from the bottom of the economic slump, forecasting increased revenue for the fiscal year ending September 2010.
"SEO" is an abbreviation of Search Engine Optimization and refers to methods or technologies used to list websites higher up in search engine results.
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"Financial Business" Investment Development / FX business
Regarding the investment development business, while the Company continues to invest in the Asian region such as China and Vietnam where emerging enterprises are active, investment activities have been halted in Japan where the IPO market has seen a decline. Our FX (Foreign Exchange Margin Trading) business, which was launched on a small scale in 2003, has seen success, marking net sales of 5.8 billion yen, a 23.4% increase over the previous period, and is showing continuous growth. Though traded volume exceeded 9 trillion yen in September 2009 to claim 6th place in the market, the forecasts for this term were calculated at the same level as the previous period, taking into consideration the leverage constraint to be enforced in 2010.
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