Japan Specialist

Mark Chadwick

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Switch slowdown: Nintendo’s Q3 revenue and profit fell sharply as the ageing console nears the end of its cycle, missing hardware sales expectations.</li>
<li>Guidance cut: Full-year revenue and profit forecasts were lowered, but investors remain focused on the upcoming Switch 2 launch.</li>
<li>Muted upside: Switch 2 is an incremental upgrade, unlikely to expand the market significantly or boost Nintendo’s valuation beyond its current fair value of ¥9,000 per share.</li>
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Switch slowdown: Nintendo’s Q3 revenue and profit fell sharply as the ageing console nears the end of its cycle, missing hardware sales expectations.
Guidance cut: Full-year revenue and profit forecasts were lowered, but investors remain focused on the upcoming Switch 2 launch.
Muted upside: Switch 2 is an incremental upgrade, unlikely to expand the market significantly or boost Nintendo’s valuation beyond its current fair value of ¥9,000 per share.


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Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>Our outlook remains bullish on MSCI ACWI. Discussed in latest Int’l Compass (1/9/2025) how viewed the pullback as buying opportunity and were watching for $116-$117 support to hold on ACWI-US.</li>
<li>$116 support held perfectly and we expect upside to continue following 1+ month bull flag breakouts, followed by successful retests of support, on ACWI-US and the S&amp;P 500.</li>
<li>We also upgraded Germany to overweight last week, with RS on the DAX breaking out from a 2-year base. U.S. (SPX) and Germany are our only two country overweights.</li>
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Our outlook remains bullish on MSCI ACWI. Discussed in latest Int’l Compass (1/9/2025) how viewed the pullback as buying opportunity and were watching for $116-$117 support to hold on ACWI-US.
$116 support held perfectly and we expect upside to continue following 1+ month bull flag breakouts, followed by successful retests of support, on ACWI-US and the S&amp;P 500.
We also upgraded Germany to overweight last week, with RS on the DAX breaking out from a 2-year base. U.S. (SPX) and Germany are our only two country overweights.


Remain Risk-On With Market Dynamics Improving; 6+ Month Base Breakouts for MSCI ACWI Ex-US and EAFE

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<li>Nintendo will release its Q2 financial results this Tuesday, and we forecast operating profit (OP) to come in at ¥54 billion</li>
<li>We expect Nintendo may revise its full year guidance downward to reflect softer demand for Switch hardware.</li>
<li>In the short term, however, a bearish stance may be prudent, especially if Q2 results disappoint and Nintendo refrains from disclosing a Switch 2 timeline</li>
</ul>


Nintendo will release its Q2 financial results this Tuesday, and we forecast operating profit (OP) to come in at ¥54 billion
We expect Nintendo may revise its full year guidance downward to reflect softer demand for Switch hardware.
In the short term, however, a bearish stance may be prudent, especially if Q2 results disappoint and Nintendo refrains from disclosing a Switch 2 timeline


<ul>
<li>Nintendo reported Q3 net revenue of JPY 277 billion, down 17% year-over-year</li>
<li>Switch hardware unit sales totalled 2.6 million, down 10% YoY, although a sequential improvement of 0.5 million units was seen due to special bundles</li>
<li>We believe the Switch 2 will be a higher-specification refresh of the existing model rather than a transformative product.</li>
</ul>


Nintendo reported Q3 net revenue of JPY 277 billion, down 17% year-over-year
Switch hardware unit sales totalled 2.6 million, down 10% YoY, although a sequential improvement of 0.5 million units was seen due to special bundles
We believe the Switch 2 will be a higher-specification refresh of the existing model rather than a transformative product.


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Nintendo Co., Ltd. globally develops, manufactures and sells home-use video game hardware and software in home entertainment business.  The company also produces home-game products including cards.

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Nintendo (7974)| Nintendo: Switch 2 Can’t Come Soon Enough

​Nintendo's Q3 revenue and profit decline as aging Switch nears end of cycle, investors eye Switch 2 launch for potential growth.

Mark Chadwick

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​Nintendo's Q2 financial results expected to show ¥54 billion operating profit, but full year guidance may be revised down due to softer Switch...

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​Nintendo's Q3 net revenue down 17% YoY, Switch hardware sales down 10% YoY but up sequentially due to special bundles. Switch 2 expected to be a...

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Nintendo's Q3 revenue and profit decline as aging Switch nears end of cycle, investors eye Switch 2 launch for potential growth.

Nintendo's Q2 financial results expected to show ¥54 billion operating profit, but full year guidance may be revised down due to softer Switch...

Nintendo's Q3 net revenue down 17% YoY, Switch hardware sales down 10% YoY but up sequentially due to special bundles. Switch 2 expected to be a...