Thursday, March 28

Softbank Net Profit Surges Record 50 Fold After Flipkart Acquisition

Masayoshi Son led Japanese leading tech company SoftBank net profit soared more than 50-fold from a year earlier to 313.7 billion yen (USD 2.8 billion) in the latest quarter thanks to Flipkart acquisition and coworking space Wework growth in India.

Last year in the same quarter, SoftBank‘s profits slumped to 5.5 billion yen due to its investment in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.

Sales in the April-June quarter edged up 4 percent to 2.3 trillion yen.

The value of the fund’s stake in Flipkart increased 164.3 billion yen after Walmart agreed in May to buy it.

Sales were flat at SoftBank’s U.S. mobile provider Sprint, dropping 0.4 percent to USD 8.1 billion.

The Tokyo-based company realized a one-time gain of 161.3 billion yen from the sale of a large share in the Chinese operations of its British-based Arm Holdings semiconductor business to Chinese investors.

Founder and CEO of Softbank Masayoshi Son said, “He aims to prepare SoftBank to grow continuously for 300 years based on a strategy of investing as a strategic holding company across a spectrum of industries that are leading the “Information Revolution.”

That approach has led SoftBank minority investments in companies ranging from a hotel network and trucking logistics to used auto sales and a real estate technology platform.

It also owns British semiconductor company ARM, an innovator in the “internet of things,” and a Japanese baseball team, the SoftBank Hawks.

SoftBank has also invested heavily in ride-sharing and renewable energy. SoftBank announced last month that it was investing about USD 2 billion to raise its stake in Yahoo Japan, a search-engine company, through an acquisition from U.S. investment company Altaba Inc.

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