Sbi Holdings Inc Ord (SBHGF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Please allow me to speak while seated. From around 6 o'clock, 70 millimeter rain is expected. But thank you very much for this big turnout. And also there are many participants online as well. Without further ado, we have 143 pages, so we are going to skip some pages, the pages of numbers. You can refer to them in details later. So the consolidated performance overview, the revenue and each profit line, all of them hit record highs, especially the pre-tax income. It was up 168.9%, and also profit attributable to owners of the company, up 270.7%. So we showed very strong growth. At the same time, in terms of ROE, analyzed ROE stands at 22.5%, quite high ROE. And now this is the comparison with major securities groups. Nomura already announced earnings, and the DAO is going to make an announcement on November the 4th. So this is the first half on the left-hand side. SMBC NICO and Mitsubishi Fujiya Securities Holdings. The numbers are shown here. Buy segment. As to crypto, except crypto asset business, numbers all hit record highs. The reasons will be detailed later on. SBI Crypt, a mining company. was taken over, if you like. In other words, there was an unauthorized outflow, 2.5 billion. But it did not provide any inconveniences to the other customers. We were going to liquidate the business anyway, and the profit was not so big, and the staff number was very low. But that is unauthorized. Outflow of assets happened. They were operating in old systems, so the monitoring and supervision was not good enough. The previous management was gone. We were going to liquidate the business. As to the share interim dividend, if the performance is good, then the dividend will be increased or vice versa. So for the end of second quarter, 40 yen. It's an overview of each business se...