Revenues Up, Profit Down for Rakuten Securities Parent in 2016

Tokyo-based electronic commerce and internet company Rakuten Inc. today reported its consolidated financials for the fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, 2016, showing a quarterly decline in net income, while reporting growth in key operating metrics compared to 2015.

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For the fiscal year 2016, Rakuten Inc. revealed that revenues from continuing ‎operations pointed higher, coming in at ¥781.91 billion ($6.869 billion), a gain of 9.6 percent ‎YoY from ¥713.55 billion ($6.269 billion) in 2015. ‎

However, Rakuten group yielded an operating income of only ¥119.08 billion ($1.04 billion) during the twelve ‎months ending December 31, 2016, a loss of -21.7 percent from ¥152.15 billion ($1.33 billion) in the year earlier. ‎This figure was largely influenced by negative impact of higher operating expense ‎which rose by 15.4 percent over the same period to ¥195.11 billion ($1.71 billion).‎

The same narrative was noted across the quarterly results, with operating revenues in Q4 2016 coming ‎in at ¥ 222,559 million ($1,955 million) which is up 11.9 percent compared to ¥198,844 million ($1,747 million) in Q4 2015. The operating income though has dropped -44.3 percent when weighed against the same ‎three months of the year prior. The figure was reported at ¥30,467 million ($267.79 million) relative to ¥54,745 million ($481.25 million) in Q4 2015 . ‎

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