Stocks that moved today, hot stocks - November 18th (Mon)

● $Aozora Bank (8304.JP)$For the second quarter of the fiscal year ending in March 2025, ordinary income decreased by 15.1% to 115.1 billion 28 million yen compared to the same period last year, and ordinary profit decreased by 30.5% to 9.9 billion 94 million yen. The performance for the fiscal year ending in March 2025 is planning for an ordinary profit of 24 billion yen.

Points of Interest in the Morning Session: $Nakanishi Mfg (5941.JP)$Increasing the rice cooking line, expanding the Gunma plant to double its size.

$Milbon (4919.JP)$is showing a buying trend. The company announced on the 15th that its consolidated operating profit for the cumulative 3rd quarter of the fiscal year ending December 24 was 4.85 billion yen (42.1% increase from the same period last year), exceeding the market consensus of 4.38 billion yen.

$Metaplanet (3350.JP)$Rallies. The company announced on the 18th that it has introduced a new shareholder benefit program aimed at providing special benefits and privileges to its shareholders.

$Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (8306.JP)$demonstrated resilience amidst unfavorable market conditions, $Dai-ichi Life Holdings (8750.JP)$also showing strong buying interest at levels below 4000 yen, major financial institutions operating in the United States are demonstrating support at lower levels.

$Disco (6146.JP)$and other major semiconductor manufacturing equipment companies are experiencing a consistently soft performance. In the U.S. stock market at the end of last week, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturing equipment company, $Applied Materials (AMAT.US)$experienced a sharp decline of over 9%, among other things. $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$Major semiconductor-related stocks, among others, are all seeking lower levels. The SOX index also fell by 3.4% to record the 6th consecutive day of decline, breaking below the key 5000 level, leading to this trend spreading to the Tokyo market as well.
Related Stocks: $Advantest (6857.JP)$、 $Tokyo Electron (8035.JP)$、 $Lasertec (6920.JP)$、 $Screen Holdings (7735.JP)$etc.

$Chugai Pharmaceutical (4519.JP)$Seeing significant declines. President-elect Trump's nomination of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services was met with disapproval, leading to a broad decline in U.S. pharmaceutical companies.
Related Stocks: $Daiichi Sankyo (4568.JP)$、 $Shionogi (4507.JP)$、 $Otsuka Holdings (4578.JP)$etc.

$Toyota Motor (7203.JP)$The stock fell for the first time in 3 days. In addition to engines that use hydrogen gas as fuel, the company also unveiled hybrid vehicles (HV) that use motors as power sources.

$Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (8316.JP)$The stock is firm. The company has set up a dedicated investment framework to utilize AI generated for its own business. By the end of March 2029, they plan to invest 50 billion yen to advance the development of their proprietary AI system.

$SanBio (4592.JP)$The stock is offered for sale. On the 15th, the company announced the results of the first round of manufacturing related to approval conditions for shipping of Accugo brain implant injection. The first round of manufacturing was deemed non-compliant.

$Daiichi Sankyo (4568.JP)$The stock fell. The company aims to export vaccines overseas. They have started preparing to begin supplying the Southeast Asian market by around 2030.