Screen Holdings Co U/Adr

Good afternoon, everybody. Let us start the screen-holding company's full-year financial results explanation for the year ending in March 2025. Let me introduce you to these presenters. So first of all, Toshio Hiroe, Representative Director, President, and CEO. This is Hiroe. Thank you very much for your participation. And this is Yoichi Kondo, Representative Director and CFO. This is Kondo. And in addition to CEO and CFO, we have three officers. First, Masato Goto, Senior Managing Executive Officer.

This is Goto. And Manabu Ishimura, Senior Financial Strategy Officer. This is Ishimura. And Akihiko Miyagawa, Senior Corporate Strategy Officer. I am Miyagawa. Thank you very much. Now, we'd like to have Kundo CFO to give the presentation about the financial results. Now, let me start my presentation on the briefing of the financial results for the year ending in March 2025.

First of all, we achieved the record increase of the sales and profits against the previous year, hitting the record highs for the fourth year in a row. Especially, SBE made a great contribution in leading this growth. And the year-end dividend payment will be raised to 188 per share compared to the January focus of 163 per share. And annual dividend payment will be 308 per share, also record high. And about SBE, there's a client request for the early delivery, so we could see the large increase in sales and profits year on year. Net sales, OB income, and OB margin all hit the record highs, and net sales growth rate outperformed WFE market for two years in a row. And we saw a great improvement in our market share for the single wafer cleaning equipment. And with FT, we saw the great improvement in the performance. And balance sheet, the equity ratio improved to 62.7%, and credit rating was raised to A-plus by JCR.