Nippon Investment Bespoke Research UK Ltd

Nippon Investment Bespoke Research UK

We provide sponsored research reports on up to 15 Japanese listed companies that have no coverage by sell side analysts or are very thinly covered.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Japan Lifeline [JLL] produced historical semi-annual earnings with FY24 1H OP of ¥6,260mil (+14.4% YoY) on sales of ¥27,985mil (+11.4% YoY), which landed above expectation.</li>
<li>Despite this robust performance, JLL has not revised its full-year FY24 guidance as the 2H presents with several potential earnings risks such as 1) fewer operating days, which will impact device sales, 2) an increase in outsourced products reducing GPM, 3) the possibility of a change in the competitive landscape for one of JLL’s core products.</li>
<li>The company’s shareholder return policy is the higher of (1) a pay-out ratio of 40% or (2) a Dividend on Equity [DOE] of 5%.</li>
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Japan Lifeline [JLL] produced historical semi-annual earnings with FY24 1H OP of ¥6,260mil (+14.4% YoY) on sales of ¥27,985mil (+11.4% YoY), which landed above expectation.
Despite this robust performance, JLL has not revised its full-year FY24 guidance as the 2H presents with several potential earnings risks such as 1) fewer operating days, which will impact device sales, 2) an increase in outsourced products reducing GPM, 3) the possibility of a change in the competitive landscape for one of JLL’s core products.
The company’s shareholder return policy is the higher of (1) a pay-out ratio of 40% or (2) a Dividend on Equity [DOE] of 5%.


Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd (7575 JP): Research Update