Stocks that moved today, hot stocks - October 8th (Tuesday)

● $Life (8194.JP)$For the second quarter of the fiscal year ending February 2025, operating revenue increased by 5.4% year-on-year to 421.85 billion yen, while operating profit decreased by 1.4% to 12.32 billion yen. The company implemented strategies such as new store openings, expanding online supermarkets, strengthening private brand products like BIO-RAL, and product initiatives focusing on freshness and taste, resulting in the increase in operating revenue. They announced a tender offer to repurchase their own shares, buying back at 3,219 yen per share.

Highlights of the morning session: $Kaken Pharmaceutical (4521.JP)$Sales rights transferred from Sanyo Chemical, aiming to expand sales of wound care products.

Petroleum-related stocks have been popular every day. $Inpex (1605.JP)$Rebounded $ENEOS Holdings (5020.JP)$and has been rising for 6 consecutive days. The escalation of tensions in the Middle East has pushed up crude oil prices.

$Murata Manufacturing (6981.JP)$、 $Taiyo Yuden (6976.JP)$Selling pressure is increasing on electronic component stocks and others. In the previous day's U.S. stock market, the smartphone giant Apple was sold down by 2.3%.

$Alpha (4760.JP)$On the 7th, it announced an upward revision of the consolidated operating profit forecast for the full year ending 24.8 from the original 70 million yen profit to a profit of 10.14 billion yen (the previous year was a loss of 3.14 billion yen).
In the 4th quarter, revenue increased due to increased orders for novelty goods and campaign projects. In addition, efforts to control expenses exceeded the previous profit forecast at each stage.

$Olympus (7733.JP)$Fell for the first time in 4 days. The CFO, Ryuya Izumi of the company, expressed his intention to invest more than 100 billion yen by the 26.3rd term in an interview. Given the high growth perspective demanded by investors, CFO Izumi emphasized the necessity of M&A, stating that "You have to gain experience."

$HOKKO Chemical Industry (4992.JP)$Plunged. The company announced on the 7th that the consolidated operating profit for the 24.11 term 3Q cumulative (December-August) was 4.47 billion yen (7.7% decrease from the same period last year).
The impact of the price competition for petroleum catalysts (TPP), a major product of the fine chemical business of the Chinese subsidiary, along with increases in costs for human capital investments and logistics expenses.

$NEXTAGE (3186.JP)$Showing a selling posture. The company announced on the 7th that it has revised down the consolidated operating profit forecast for the full year of the 25.2 term from the previous 18.8 billion yen to 11 billion yen (27.4% decrease from the previous period). The consolidated operating profit for the first half of the term (Mar-Aug) was 10.2 billion yen (29.5% decrease from the same period last year).
Given that more time is needed than initially planned for the effective implementation of the reform initiatives being pursued, the number of passengers carried and the profit per unit have not reached the levels originally anticipated, taking into account that costs have preceded revenue.