77 Japanese Companies to Report Earnings on November 4
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On November 4, 77 Japanese companies are expected to report their earnings.
The list includes well-known names such as IHI, Mitsubishi Corporation, and NTT.
IHI is known for making industrial machines and engines.
Mitsubishi Corporation is a large trading house that deals in many kinds of products.
NTT is one of Japan's biggest telecommunications companies.
These earnings reports show how much money a company has made or lost recently.
Investors and analysts pay close attention to these numbers.
The reports usually cover three months of business activity, known as a quarter.
Earnings season happens several times a year when many companies announce results around the same time.
Two days earlier, on November 2, several other major firms had already announced their results.
These included Sumitomo Corporation, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Kyocera, Japan Airlines, Sumitomo Chemical, and Nippon Ham.
This list is sometimes called a earnings scoreboard, showing which companies have reported and which haven't yet.
On the same day, some companies also updated their forecasts for sales and dividends.
A forecast update means a company changes its prediction about future business performance.
A dividend is money a company pays to its shareholders from its profits.
Such updates can show whether a company expects to do better or worse than before.
Vocabulary10 words
- earnings
- money a company makes in a certain time
- trading house
- a company that buys and sells many kinds of goods
- investor
- a person who puts money into a company
- quarter
- a three-month period of the year
- earnings scoreboard
- a list showing which companies have shared results
- forecast
- a prediction about future business results
- dividend
- money paid to people who own company shares
- industrial
- related to factories and machines
- telecommunications
- sending information by phone or internet
- shareholder
- a person who owns part of a company
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1. Report their earnings 2. A trading house 3. Sumitomo Corp, MOL, Kyocera, JAL, Sumitomo Chemical, and Nippon Ham
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On November 4, 77 Japanese companies are expected to report their _____.
The list includes well-known names such as IHI, Mitsubishi Corporation, and _____.
Mitsubishi Corporation is a large _____ that deals in many kinds of products.
NTT is one of Japan's biggest _____ companies.
These earnings reports show how much money a company has made or _____ recently.
_____ and analysts pay close attention to these numbers.
The reports usually cover three months of business activity, known as a _____.
Two days earlier, several other major firms had already announced their _____.
Some companies also updated their forecasts for sales and _____.
A dividend is money a company pays to its _____ from its profits.
Discussion questions
- Why do investors care so much about company earnings reports?
- What might change if a company's earnings are much lower than expected?
- Why do many companies report their results around the same time each quarter?
- How could updated forecasts affect decisions made by shareholders?
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