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i-mobile's Nine-Month Profit Slides 16%

i-mobile's (TYO:6535) profit attributable to owners of the parent fell 16% to 2.44 billion yen in the nine months ended April 30 from 2.91 billion yen a year earlier.The advertising platform company's earnings per share declined to 43.44 yen from 50.25 yen a year ago, according to a Tokyo bourse filing on Thursday.Net sales rose 3% to 19.2 billion yen from 18.7 billion yen in the prior-year period.For the fiscal year ending July 31, the company expects attributable profit of 3.12 billion yen, basic EPS of 55.61 yen, and net sales of 22 billion yen.i-mobile plans to pay a year-end dividend of 27 yen per share for the current fiscal year, higher compared with 26 yen paid in the year-ago period.