Notice Concerning the Financial Results of the Parent Company, Etc.

May 29, 2025

Company name: TV Asahi Holdings Corporation Name of representative: Hiroshi Hayakawa, Chairman

(Securities code: 9409;

Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market)

Inquiries: Gengo Sunami, Member of the Board (Telephone: +81-3-6406-1115)

TV Asahi Holdings Corporation (the "Company") hereby announces the finalization of the financial results of the Company's parent company, etc., The Asahi Shimbun Company (head office address: 2-3-18, Nakanoshima, Kita Ward, Osaka; President, Chief Operating Officer: Katsu Tsunoda; paid-in capital: 650 million yen) for fiscal year ended March 31, 2025. Please see the attachments to this notice for the results.

Attachments: Consolidated Financial Results for the Fiscal Year ended March 31, 2025

(Consolidated Balance Sheet, Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income, Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity, Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows, Non-consolidated Balance Sheet, Non-consolidated Statement of Income, and Non-consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity)

Note: The shareholding ratio of The Asahi Shimbun Company is 24.72% (as of March 31, 2025).

(This ratio is calculated after deducting treasury shares and is rounded down to the nearest hundredth of one percent.)

May 29, 2025

Company name: The Asahi Shimbun Company

Head office: 2-3-18, Nakanoshima, Kita Ward, Osaka

Inquiries: Manabu Maeda, General Manager of Finance Division, Corporate Headquarters Telephone: +81-3-3545-0131

Scheduled date of annual general meeting of shareholders: June 24, 2025 Scheduled date to commence dividend payments: June 25, 2025 Scheduled date to file annual securities report: June 25, 2025

(Yen amounts are rounded down to millions, unless otherwise noted.)

1. Consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 (from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025)
   1. Consolidated operating results (Percentages indicate year-on-year changes.)

      	Net sales		Operating profit		Ordinary profit		Profit attributable to owners of parent
      Fiscal year ended	Millions of yen	%	Millions of yen	%	Millions of yen	%	Millions of yen	%
      March 31, 2025	278,068	3.3	5,619	(2.8)	16,539	26.5	9,765	(1.4)
      March 31, 2024	269,116	0.8	5,781	-	13,069	85.1	9,899	281.9

      Note: Comprehensive income	For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025:	¥17,675 million	[(34.0)%]
      	For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024:	¥26,783 million	[94.1%]

      	Basic earnings per share	Diluted earnings per share	Return on equity	Ratio of ordinary profit to total assets	Ratio of operating profit to net sales
      Fiscal year ended	Yen	Yen	%	%	%
      March 31, 2025	3,166.20	-	2.5	2.8	2.0
      March 31, 2024	3,209.60	-	2.7	2.3	2.1

      Reference: Share of profit (loss) of entities accounted for using equity method For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025: ¥8,150 million For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024: ¥5,162 million

   2. Consolidated financial position

      	Total assets	Net assets	Equity-to-asset ratio	Net assets per share
      As of March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024	Millions of yen 589,152 585,550	Millions of yen 407,458 390,847	% 67.9 65.4	Yen 129,683. 12 124,151.02

      Reference: Equity

      As of March 31, 2025: ¥399,984 million As of March 31, 2024: ¥382,917 million

   3. Consolidated cash flows

   	Cash flows from operating activities	Cash flows from investing activities	Cash flows from financing activities	Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
   Fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024	Millions of yen 14,799 14,434	Millions of yen (20,755) (4,429)	Millions of yen (3,229) (1,985)	Millions of yen 61,990 71,206

2. Cash dividends

1. Significant changes in the scope of consolidation during the period: Yes

   Newly included: 2 companies (Newton Press Inc. and LightUp Shopping Club Inc.)

   Excluded: 4 companies (Asahi Family News Co., Ltd., Asahi Orikomi Seibu K.K., Asahi Orikomi Nagoya K.K., and Asahi Support Center K.K.)

2. Changes in accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates, and restatement

   1. Changes in accounting policies due to revisions to accounting standards and other regulations: Yes

   2. Changes in accounting policies due to other reasons: None

   3. Changes in accounting estimates: None

   4. Restatement: None

3. Number of issued shares (common shares)

   1. Total number of issued shares at the end of the period (including treasury shares)

      As of March 31, 2025	3,200,000 shares
      As of March 31, 2024	3,200,000 shares

   2. Number of treasury shares at the end of the period

      As of March 31, 2025	115,679 shares
      As of March 31, 2024	115,710 shares

   3. Average number of shares outstanding during the period

(Note) The number of treasury shares at the end of the period refers to the treasury shares (shares of the Company) held by entities accounted for using equity method attributable to the Company.

1. Non-consolidated operating results (Percentages indicate year-on-year changes.)

   	Net sales		Operating profit		Ordinary profit		Profit
   Fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024	Millions of yen 175,891 182,998	% (3.9) 0.6	Millions of yen 3,228 4,690	% (31.2) -	Millions of yen 8,009 8,604	% (6.9) 246.6	Millions of yen 7,274 5,510	% 32.0 -

   	Basic earnings per share	Diluted earnings per share
   Fiscal year ended	Yen	Yen
   March 31, 2025	2,273.38	-
   March 31, 2024	1,722.11	-

2. Non-consolidated financial position

Reference: Equity

As of March 31, 2025: ¥205,770 million As of March 31, 2024: ¥199,845 million

* Financial results reports are exempt from audit conducted by certified public accountants or an audit firm.

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