CareNet <2150> announced on the 13th its consolidated financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year ending December 2024 (January-September 2024). Revenue increased by 7.1% year-on-year to 7.788 billion yen, operating profit decreased by 18.4% to 1.416 billion yen, ordinary profit decreased by 19.3% to 1.429 billion yen, and net income attributable to the parent company's shareholders decreased by 24.1% to 0.839 billion yen.

Revenue from the pharmaceutical DX business increased by 4.2% year-on-year to 6.762 billion yen, and operating profit decreased by 12.4% to 2.372 billion yen. Efforts have been made to strengthen the sales structure of existing services.

Revenue from the medical platform business increased by 32.4% year-on-year to 1.034 billion yen, and operating profit increased by 7.0% to 0.263 billion yen. Revenue from the job support service "Career" for doctors increased by 15.8% to 0.568 billion yen. On the other hand, due to the new consolidation of Medical Create, revenue for medical educational videos and other services increased by 60.4% to 0.465 billion yen.

Additionally, for the medical professional site "CareNet.com," investments have continued to be made actively to acquire and maintain physician memberships, following the previous term. As a result, the number of physician memberships at the end of the third quarter reached 0.23 million 4 thousand members (an increase of 6.8% year-on-year).

Regarding the consolidated performance forecast for the full year ending December 2024, the initial plan remains unchanged, with revenue projected to increase by 13.3% compared to the previous term to 11.6 billion yen, operating profit expected to decrease by 9.4% to 2.2 billion yen, ordinary profit projected to decrease by 10.8% to 2.2 billion yen, and net profit attributable to the parent company's shareholders expected to decrease by 0.7% to 1.5 billion yen.