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Yoshimura Food's Profit Plunges 51% in Fiscal 2025

-- Yoshimura Food's (TYO:2884) profit attributable to owners of the parent plunged 51% to 918 million yen in the fiscal year 2025 from 1.86 billion yen a year earlier.

The food producer's basic earnings per share declined to 38.50 yen from 78.13 yen a year ago, according to a Tokyo bourse filing on Wednesday.

Net sales slipped 1.1% to 57.5 billion yen in the year ended Feb. 28 from 58.1 billion yen in the prior year.

For the fiscal year 2026, the company expects attributable profit of 1.4 billion yen, basic EPS of 58.64 yen, and net sales of 57.5 billion yen.

Yoshimura Food does not plan to pay any dividends for the current year.

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