Optim ＜3694＞ announced consolidated financial results for the 2nd quarter (24/4/9) of the fiscal year ending 2025/3 on the 14th. Sales increased 3.0% from the same period last year to 4.517 billion yen, operating profit increased 4.1% to 0.794 billion yen, ordinary profit decreased 1.2% to 0.663 billion yen, and interim net profit attributable to parent company shareholders decreased 2.7% to 0.383 billion yen.

In the current interim consolidated accounting period, the company group continued to steadily grow “mobile management services” from the previous fiscal year, create innovation in the rapidly expanding DX market for “X-Tech (cross tech) services,” and aim to achieve significant growth, and has developed businesses using both sides.

Regarding the “X-Tech Service,” which is the center of aggressive growth investment, Agritech Service is actively carrying out sales activities and growth investments for the drone pesticide spraying DX service “Pinpoint Time Spraying Service (hereinafter, PTS).” In this interim consolidated accounting period, drone pesticide spraying DX service PTS was provided nationwide, and as a result, sales of PTS for paddy rice in particular have grown significantly compared to the previous interim consolidated accounting period. In Office DX, the number of licenses for document management services “OptiM Contract” and “OptiM electronic book storage” utilizing AI is steadily increasing. Marketing DX announced the customer success service “OptiM Customer Success Portal” realized by AI. It is a service where generative AI maximizes customer satisfaction and customer contact points in all industries and supports expansion of profit opportunities. Also, with regard to the “local government official super application” of the local government DX service, we aim to expand it to local governments nationwide based on the track record that more than 30% of smartphone owners of Saga citizens use the “Saga City Official Super App.”

As for “mobile management services,” the number of licenses for “Optimal Biz” is steadily increasing along with market growth. In this interim consolidated accounting period, functions for Windows were enhanced and business-only terminal management menus were added to restaurants, retail stores, logistics businesses, factories, etc.

As for “other services,” license sales such as “Optimal Remote” and “Tabho” are moving as planned. Furthermore, the company group is actively promoting research and development investment in the generative AI field, and has used large-scale language models (LLM) such as the camera application “OptiM Taglet” for automatic report creation using generative AI, the customer success service “OptiM Customer Success Portal” where generative AI realizes sentence creation work for physicians and nurses, and “OptiM AI Hospital,” a service where generative AI supports sentence creation work for physicians and nurses The provision of services has begun.

As for the consolidated earnings forecast for the full year ending 2025/3, sales are 11.3 billion yen, up 10.3% from the previous fiscal year, operating income of 1.95 billion yen, up 0.5% from the same period, ordinary income, and net income attributable to parent company shareholders. Since it is difficult to reasonably estimate the profit and loss of related companies not controlled by the company group, specific forecast figures have not been disclosed.