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Yokogawa Electric's Profit Rises 12% in Fiscal 2025

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-- Yokogawa Electric's (TYO:6841) profit attributable to owners of the parent gained 12% to 58.1 billion yen for the fiscal year 2025 from 52.1 billion yen a year earlier.

The IT company's basic earnings per share increased to 227.72 yen from 200.41 yen a year ago, according to a Tokyo bourse filing on Thursday.

Net sales jumped 7.5% to 604.8 billion yen in the full year ended March 31 from 562.4 billion yen in the prior year.

For the fiscal year 2026, the company expects attributable profit of 58.5 billion yen, basic EPS of 229.75 yen and net sales of 615 billion yen.

Yokogawa plans to pay interim and year-end dividends of 46 yen per share, each, for the year, which is higher than the amount paid period a year ago.

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