Mercari Inc (MRCIF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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It is time, so we would like to begin Mayor Kari's FY2025 second quarter. Sorry about that. We would like to begin FY2025 second quarter earnings briefing for Mayor Kari. My name is Kamei Kyoko. I'm an announcer, and I'll be your emcee today. Thank you for having me. Today, our Executive Officer, SVP of Corporate and CFO, Sayaka Eda, will be taking you through the second quarter results of FY2025. Afterwards, we will have a Q&A session for the media, and the session will end at 4.35. Please refrain from recording today's session in its entirety. Without further ado, Ms. Zeta, please go ahead. Good afternoon. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to attend the earnings briefing for Merakari FY2025 second quarter. So CFO Eda, myself, will be introducing the earnings results today. First of all, this is our group mission. Circulate all forms of value to unleash the potential in all people. So each group, each business is striving to achieve this group mission every day. Now jumping right into the financial overview. First, starting with the consolidated results. These are the forecasts that we announced at the beginning of the fiscal year. In principle, we want to aim for top line growth that will lead to increased profits. And of course, we want to grow each business, but we want to expand our businesses centered around group synergy and also We were expecting a build-up of core operating profit towards the end of the year. So revenue forecast was 200 to 210 billion yen. Core operating profit is 22 to 25 billion yen. With this in mind, here are the second quarter highlights. So we achieved... Recruiting King consolidated core operating profit of $7 billion, up 79% year-on-year. So we achieved high profitability for all three business pillars, namely marke...