Business Performance Forecast

Consolidated Results Forecasts

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In FY2026, net sales are expected to increase year on year due mainly to recovery in methanol market prices, sales price increases reflecting higher raw material costs, and the ongoing robustness of semiconductor demand.
The Group also anticipates that operating profit will increase year on year despite growth in fixed costs as well as in general and administrative expenses, due mainly to higher revenues from methanol, electronic materials and chemicals for use in semiconductor manufacturing. Other positive factors affecting operating profit include an expected decrease in depreciation due to the recording of impairment losses in FY2025.
Ordinary profit is expected to increase year on year due primarily to higher operating profit, along with the absence of impairment losses recorded by overseas methanol producing companies in FY2025. Other positive factors affecting ordinary profit include expected improvement in equity in earnings of affiliates.
Profit attributable to owners of parent is likely to increase year on year thanks mainly to higher ordinary profit and the absence of impairment losses recorded in FY2025.

The Group believes that the current intensification of conflict in the Middle East could impact a broad range of areas in FY2026, possibly resulting in surges in energy prices, raw material supply shortages and other complications. However, as the Group considers future developments related to these factors to remain largely uncertain, they have not been fully integrated into its current forecasts. If the Group recognizes the emergence of a factor that may materially affect its operating results, it will disclose that factor in a timely manner.

The above forecasts assume exchange rates of ¥155=$1 and ¥180=€1.

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