Olympus and Panasonic Q1 financial results



Olympus posted their financial results for the first quarter of their fiscal year. Here is the recap from 43addict:

It looks like Olympus’ strategy of pricing the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II above the competition helped the Imaging Business become profitable during the three month period ending Jun 30th, 2017 compared with the previous period. This is certainly one way to balance the books, but I hope Olympus tries to increase their overall share of the mirrorless market going forward. Their mirrorless division was profitable, while the overall imaging division was not.

Panasonic published their latest Q1 financial results last week:



Panasonic's camera business is under the appliances segment (no camera specific data was provided):