
An interesting article from Harvard Business Review on how companies can use investors to their advantage where they specifically discussed the Nikon case:
Today Nikon announced their financial results for the year that ended March 2018. As previously reported, profits are up for the entire company – here are the key numbers with relevant data from the Imaging Products Business: Operating Profit: ¥56.2 billion (¥55.5 billion increase from last year, ¥3.2 billion above estimates) Imaging Products Business: fixed cost reduction and […]
Nikkei just published a new article ahead of the Nikon’s yearly financial results announcement titled “Nikon sees 30% profit boost on demand for panel-producing gear, Camera maker’s cost-cutting and reforms show signs of working“: “Nikon’s operating profit is expected to jump 30% to 70 billion yen ($640 million) in the current fiscal year ending March 2019, […]
Yesterday Nikon issued a press release announcing that they expect an “extraordinary loss” in the value of their Nikon Metrology business based in Belgium: As a result of reviewing NMNV’s future cash flow in the aforementioned process, the fair value of the investment in NMNV has declined, and 10,343 million yen of the loss on […]
Nikon released their third quarter financial results for the year ending March 2018: Nine-month profit up 56.7% to¥22.31 billion from¥14.24 billion last year Earnings per share up ¥56.13 from¥35.84 for last year Operating profit up more than 100% to¥41.5 billion from last year’s¥18.6 billion Revenue down by 7.2% to¥525.26 billion from last year’s¥566.12 billion (source: NASDAQ) […]