Here are the latest financial results from Nikon, Fujifilm, and Tamron:
Nikon released its financial results for Q3 of the year ending March 2023 and reported a significant increase in revenue and operating profit YoY:
“Nikon Corporation NINOY reported a net profit of ¥20.6 billion for the third quarter (ended Dec 31, 2022) compared with the year-ago profit of ¥12.6 billion. For the third quarter, revenues rose 25.8% year over year to ¥167.7 billion.
The Imaging Products (41.7% of revenues) segment’s revenues rose 49.4% year over year to ¥69.9 billion in the reported quarter, owing to higher sales of Z 9 full-frame mirrorless camera and yen depreciation.
The Imaging Products segment’s operating profit was ¥19 billion compared with the operating profit of ¥6.3 billion in the year-ago quarter.
Imaging Products’ revenues are expected to rise 29.1% year over year to ¥230 billion.”
Brisk sales of instant photo systems and digital cameras boosted overall revenue by 24.4% year-over-year to ¥323.7 billion, and operating income by 80.8% year-over-year to ¥62.7 billion.
In the Consumer Imaging, revenues increased due to strong sales of instant photo systems, color photographic paper and dry minilabs / materials. In November 2022, we launched the smartphone printer INSTAX SQUARE Link. It is rated highly in the market for its new functions: AR Print which allows users to apply an augmented reality (AR) effect to INSTAX prints, and INSTAX Connect which allows users to send INSTAX images with chat messages.
In the Professional Imaging, revenue increased due to steady sales of new models from the X Series, which celebrated its 10th anniversary. These are X-H2S released in July 2022, X-H2 released in September 2022, and X-T5 released in November 2022 that adheres to the X Series’ original concept of “compact, lightweight, and superior image quality,” while prioritizing photography in its design.