8/3/2026

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Moderator
Host / Investor Relations

Thank you very much for joining LY Corporation financial results briefing for FY2026 first quarter. Before we begin, we have a few requests. For this briefing, we will be using the presentation materials available on the LY Corporation website. Please also take note that this briefing is being live streamed. Please wait while we prepare to begin. Thank you for your patience. We will now begin the LY Corporation FY2026 First Quarter Financial Results Briefing. Thank you very much for joining us today. For this briefing, we will be using the presentation materials available on the LY Corporation website. Attending today's briefing is LY Corporation President and Representative Director CEO Takeshi Idezawa, Director and Chief Financial Officer Ryosuke Sakaue, Executive Corporate Officer Media Search Domain Lead Hiroshi Kataoka, Executive Corporate Officer, Commerce Domain Lead, Makoto Hide Executive Corporate Officer, Corporate Business Domain Lead, Yuuki Ikehata are in attendance. First, Sakaue will present the financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026. This will be followed by a Q&A session. The briefing is expected to last approximately one hour. Please take note that this briefing is also being live streamed. We will now start the briefing.

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Ryosuke Sakaue
Director and Chief Financial Officer

This is Sakaue of LY Corporation. Thank you very much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to join us at FY2026 Q1 Financial Results Briefing. Let me explain the summary of the financial results. There are three topics. First of all, It is about consolidated business results. The LOI Corporation's gross profit grew with performance exceeding the internal projections. More specifically, the consolidated revenue was 553.9 billion yen up 13.1% year-on-year. Adjusted EBITDA 154.8 billion yen up 23.1% year-on-year. Strong growth were achieved. The second point is that the Agent I's domain agents expanded to 25 domains. DAU expanded to 12 medium. So we are seeing the good progress in terms of the shift to AI agent. The third is tender offer for Kakaku.com Inc. We aim to create synergies by combining user touchpoints, products, data, and payment platform of two companies. Please go to the next slide. This is the agenda that I'd like to follow. First of all, about the Q1 consolidated results. Both revenue and profit made steady progress toward achieving the four-year guidance. In media and strategic revenue, the progress was below the 25% of the guidance. This is due to the seasonality, basically, and we assume that the revenue will concentrate in the second half, so we believe that the final results are in line with expectations. Once again, this is the trend of the overall results. Revenue grew 13.1% year-on-year. The speed of the growth has accelerated. I just said EBITDA grew by 23.1% year-on-year, significant growth. Margin improved to 28%, the major improvement, so the level of profitability is increasing. PayPay consolidation expanded the profit, and this has been the case in the past, but in addition, the higher gross profit of LY Corporation contributed to overall profit growth. So this was the major characteristic of Q1 results. Looking at the individual businesses, the media, commerce, and strategic gross profit grew in all segments. In addition, in media segment, the cost management was successful. That led to the EBITDA increase of 14.8 billion yen. On the right hand side, there were newly consolidated subsidiaries in the last fiscal year that offset the negative impact coming from ASCO. So I just said EBITDA grew as much as 23.1% year on year. Next page. What we are focused upon is the shift to Agent I, user navigation enhancement between LINE and Yahoo Japan, and also additional feature of the long-term memory of the user preference. Those are driving greater everyday usage. And also the Agent I agent has expanded to 25 and we are improving the usability. Through those initiatives, the Agent I user grew to the 12 million DAU. Next page. This is about the collaboration with 7-11. Last week we made announcement and once again LINE Yahoo has over 100 million digital customers. 7-11 has about 20 million per day physical customer and as you can see in the middle we have a OIP premium, an official account and mini app we would like to For the LIP premium members, we provide a higher rewards rate and also the coupons that can be utilized in the 7-11 stores. We plan to enhance the membership value as well as referrals. As for the official account and mini app, through the expansion of the digital touchpoint such as digital membership and mobile order, we would like to improve the convenient and rewarding shopping experience. Next is buy segment. Looking at the media business, the shift in the revenue mix progressed and the revenue grew steadily by 2.6% year-on-year. Manchester Depita was 14.2% year-on-year and achieving the double-digit growth. The margin increased to 4.2 point and expanded to 41.8%. Now we have a new level of the margin. This is the analysis of the media business. The portfolio transformation of this segment is progressing, and the search and display ads were down year on year. However, the account ads continue to show the high growth. Also, LIP premium, the user number increased. So user subscription including the LIP premium, this is a new perspective, has also grew and contributed to the revenue. Adjusted EBITDA, with the higher revenue of the account ad and LIP premium, the gross profit improved. and by using AI, the productivity improved and SG&A expenses were reduced and the adjusted EBITDA grew by 14%. Next, the number of the paid accounts. has been growing. Total is right now 500,000 and we exceeded that level. As for the revenue, it's expanding in line with our plan. Next. And as for the mini apps, in Q1, the number has reached 35,000, MAU 22.18 million, higher than 50% growth continued. So it's growing very rapidly.

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Moderator
Host / Investor Relations

DX Transformation Solutions for Stores and CRM is another initiative. In June, we began offering restaurant options, a digital transformation service for restaurants, and started to monetize. The service is off to a strong start. We also plan to launch the service for hair and beauty salons during the second quarter. Additionally, the CRM options, which enables more advanced management of line official accounts, was launched in June for a monthly fee of 5,000 yen. It supports centralized management of customer information and communication optimized for each user. Through these monetization enhancements, we aim to achieve sustainable revenue growth of account advertising. Please turn to the next page. This is on LYP premium. The number of direct members excluding free users through mobile phone carrier benefits has steadily increased to 6.82 million, up 36.8% year-on-year. Going forward, we aim to reach 10 million subscribers including new plan users. As part of our new plan offerings, we launched the lower-priced Light Plan Enjoy Pack in July and plan to introduce the Line Music New Plan in the fall or later. Going forward, We talked about the benefits with the 7-11 offline benefits, and we intend to further strengthen the benefits and establish the media business as a key driver of earnings. Next page, please. This is commerce business revenue increased by 12.5% year-on-year, achieving double-digit growth. Adjusted EBDA also rose 10.2% year-on-year, achieving double big-digit growth. After ASCO's pressure, we now were able to come back to the profitable level. The adjusted EBDA margin improved significantly to 17.3%, a level close to the previous fiscal year. Next page, this is on commerce business performance. Line Yahoo's revenue grew 11.2% year-over-year, excluding the consolidation effects of Binos and Lineman, driven by strong performance in shopping and reuse. Adjusted EBITDA posted double-digit growth driven by revenue growth at Line Yahoo and the contribution from the consolidation of subsidiaries despite the impact of ASCO. This is on transaction value. Starting this fiscal year, the disclosure classification for commerce transaction value has been revised to align with that of the P&L. As a result, transaction value no longer includes media or equity method affiliates, providing a clearer view of each service's growth. For details, please see page 24 of the supplementary materials. Shopping transaction value, this is mostly Yahoo Shopping, grew 9.1% year-on-year, continuing its growth trend. Reuse transaction value also performed strongly, up 18.4% year-on-year. Service transaction value also maintained double-digit growth. Please see next page. This is on shopping and reuse business. Yahoo Shopping posted strong performance with a transaction value up 8.6% year-on-year, driven by the time-limited pay-pay points promotions, the strengthening of product categories such as gourmet food, and the enhancement of AI-powered features. In the reuse business, the entertainment market expanded, and measures such as shipping fee refunds and coupon distributions proved successful, driving double-digit percentage growth in transaction value. Please see next page. This is on strategic businesses. Revenue grew 34.9% year-on-year, maintaining strong growth. Adjusted EBITDA also reached 35 billion yen, an increase of nearly 14 billion yen year-on-year. Along with the revenue increase, the margin expanded to 26.9%, continuing strong top-line growth and improved profitability. Please see next page. Revenue maintained as strong, with the revenue of Peipei consolidated up 28.4% year-on-year. Other fintechs saw significant growth of 81.7% year-on-year, driven by the impact of the new consolidation of Lineback Taiwan and the growth of Line Fintech. Adjusted EBTA rose significantly by 64.4% year-on-year as the substantial increase in revenue offset higher at S&G expenses and other costs. Please see next page. This is some PayPay consolidated business overview. The number of registered users expanded to over 74 million and GMV maintained strong growth up 23% year-on-year. Driven by increases in online payment GMV and interest income, revenue grew by 27.4% year-over-year, exceeding the growth rate of GMV, while EBDA also saw strong growth of 59.1% year-over-year. Thank you for watching. Overview is shown here. The tender offer price will be determined based on whether Kakaku.com acquires treasury shares from KDDI or not. The total acquisition cost is expected to be approximately 690 billion yen in either case. This is a joint proposal with Bain Capital and we aim to enhance Kakaku.com's long-term corporate value. By combining the strengths of both companies, the economic ownership ratio is expected to be 50.1% for Bain Capital and 49.9% for LY Corporation. Please see next page. When this transaction is completed, we will leverage LINE Yaku's extensive user touchpoint, data, and payment infrastructure to drive synergies. There are four specific points shown here. We will drive user traffic to Kakaku.com's media platform and integrate Kakaku.com with Agent I and payment experiences, and we aim to deepen and expand DX solutions for the restaurants and HR domain. This deal is yet to be closed, so I will not go into the details. However, when this transaction is finalized, further details will be provided separately. Please see next page. This concludes the summary of our first quarter financial results. Thank you very much.

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Ryosuke Sakaue
Director and Chief Financial Officer

Now we'd like to take questions. If you have any questions, please use raise hand function of the Zoom. When it is time for you to ask questions and when the moderator calls your name, please unmute and ask your questions. Once again, if you have any questions, please use raise hand function of the Zoom. When the moderator calls your name, please start asking your question. We would like to limit the number of the questions to two questions per person and ask one question at a time. If there are any questions in English, the English questions need to be translated consecutively so it would take time. The answer from Japanese to English will be given to you simultaneously. So now we are open for questions. Please raise your hand if you have any questions. First, Okasan Shoken, Okumura-san, please unmute and ask your question. Thank you. Okumura speaking. Can you hear me? Yes. Thank you. I have two questions, please. First, About the kakaku.com, TOB, scheduled TOB, based upon the current conditions, basically it's 4 to 5% yield. So for you, the IRR, 10%, I think is the standard for you. So the difference or the gap, how do you plan to fill that? What is the strongest conviction for this project? You mentioned the synergy in page 25, but I'm sure that there are things which are not yet final. So what are your expectations and what would be the impact that you expect from this, if you can elaborate on that? Thank you. Thank you very much, Okumura-san, for your questions. Let me answer first, and then Idezawa-san might make some additional comments. IRR 10%, that criteria, yes, that's correct. And for us, the biggest synergy that we have in our expectation is tabelog. Using tabelog, official account area we want to develop, That is the area that we would like to work on the most. This is something that we must do. This is the most important domain. So we have the highest expectation from that. In addition, the next priority is kakaku.com's services. And they have various, for example, product data and word of mouth data. And those can be utilized for our Agent I so that the Agent I can provide a better navigation for the shoppers. The Agent I can become smarter. So that's how we plan to utilize this. Yes, that's the question. Sorry, the answer to your first question. One follow-up question, if I may. So, the impact on the dividend and also, would there be an impact in terms of the buyback? As of now, the dividend, we announced the increase of the dividend payment. We do not expect any impact on those. The capital allocation for three years basically will not be changed based on the current assumptions. Thank you. My second question is about the media business and the results and the forecast. So search ad, I think you mentioned that the downward trend might stop. And on page 6, you mentioned the differences, the fluctuations, and the gross profit, 5.4 billion up. and the gross profit increase is higher than the profit increase. So because this is because of the fact that the search is down, the profitability per product, are there any positive impact from it? What is the current status as well as the outlook, if you can comment? Yes, Sakaue, I would like to answer to that question. First of all, about the stopping of the decline of the search. Yes, that is starting to happen and that's what we see internally. So search ads, when we look at the efficiency and power of monetization, I think we are seeing the improvements. So through that, the decline of the revenue is something that we are seeing. And as for the gross profit improvement, on page 11, if you refer to that, as you pointed out correctly, the low profit margin is declined and the high profit product increased. So due to the improvement of the mix, that led to the higher number. So that is the biggest part was the search advertising, as you correctly mentioned. Yes, thank you. So it's a product mix and the productivity, sorry, the profitability of each product hasn't changed. Yes, we have four now. So for each product, the productivity of each product remains the same. Okay, thank you very much for your thorough explanation. That's all.

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Moderator
Host / Investor Relations

We would like to take question from Sato-san of Jefferies Securities. Please unmute and ask your question. This is Sato of Jefferies. Can you hear my voice? Yes, we can. I have two questions as well. My question is similar to the previous question. I'm also asking about Kakaku.com. Why is this important to you? I think you explained on that topic, so I was listening and nodding to the explanation, but frankly speaking, tabelog, From LY Corporation's perspective, is the most attractive asset, kakaku.com business. I think that you can also do that through using AI, but why this is most important to you? If the deal with kakaku.com is unsuccessful, what are you going to do? That is my first question. Thank you for the question. Why this is important to us? The strategic significance is that when we look at AI era, the broad touchpoint with users and AI ThreeServices.kakaku.com has highly specialized data and customer platforms, so combining them would be very important in the era of AI. Rather than click type, conversion and reservation has to be made before we can receive payment from the users and monetize So I said tabelog is high priority and also kagaku.com. The purchase action can be completed using AI. So from that perspective, it is very important asset and recruiting box. The job posting box, once conversion is achieved, then the service can be monetized. Simple posting of the job ads, that will no longer be a valuable service in the era of AI. So these three assets, although I talked about our priority, we believe all three are important assets. There were a raising of prices. As I have said, 10% of IRR is our financial discipline, and it's possible that there may be further development, but we will continue to look into that. The second question, what happens if this deal fails? Especially restaurant-related areas and purchase AI agent or procurement AI agent, this is a must-have domain for us. The changes through AI happens and expands in a very speedy manner in the next several months. In order to expand our market share in this domain, we need can change the partners or using the synergy of SV group like we did for Pepe. We shall make investment in large amount to start up in an organic manner. So that is the backup plan we have. This is a domain where business environment rapidly changes. Several years later, do we try to acquire kakaku.com again? At that time, it will be too late. So we believe this time around will be the last opportunity. If we miss this opportunity, we will change our strategy, including organic development products. Backup plan concept of IRR take 10% remains the same. So that is they must achieve requirement. Anything? This is Idezawa speaking. First, in terms of the importance and priority, Kakaku.com has three businesses and it also does incubation. The characteristic is that they all have high-quality conversion points and they were networked in the era of AI. AI agent will connect various services. AI is highly capable, but across Japan, the reservation of restaurants or product information or human talent registration, that is a very difficult area for AI to achieve. But if there is a concentration of such data somewhere and network, that will become very important. and this company that we are targeting has very attractive services. So that is why we are proposing what happens if we cannot buy. The speed is very important at this juncture. So that is the reason why we are proposing that we collaborate and work together. If this fails, we need to consider the backup plan on a speedy matter. We already have a backup plan and we will look into that later. My point is that their services, the monetization, charging, and settlement services, how can you attach those so that end-to-end service can be provided? Thank you very much. My second point, overall, the first quarter financial results were fairly good. Margin improved more than I thought, and adjusted EBITDA is growing in each segment. This momentum... Do you think it's going to continue in Q2 and beyond? Or you have a tendency to be slow in spending costs in the beginning of the year. So cost-cutting, cost-saving worked quite well in the first quarter. So is that the reason for the higher margin? What about the sustainability of maintaining this momentum? From second quarter and onward, as indicated in the topics, this performance surpassed internal plan. So it was better, the profit was better than our expectation in terms of the gross margin. Q2 and onward, in terms of the growth rate, we don't see major risks. As you say, SG&A, we were slow starter in spending. and that is actually true for a Q1 in commerce business we planned to do promotion but we were able to achieve GMV without spending for promotion so that happened in commerce In the second quarter, the hometown tax scheme, due to the change in that and seasonality, there may be some change in the second quarter. Media, the mix of the revenue direction-wise will remain the same, and display ad will continue to be tough. but account add and we have recurring business so we expect to add on gradually and SG&A will start to normalize from the second quarter so the profit growth will may not be as high as the first quarter but full year total the guidance We have the confidence to surpass the full year guidance. I do understand that the high hurdle was there thanks to the hometown tax payment scheme. But as much as you can comment, Was campaigns or major launch festival or any major event that you are planning in the second quarter that you did not do last year? So far, no, no plan of anything new and major. That's all. Thank you.

speaker
Ryosuke Sakaue
Director and Chief Financial Officer

Thank you very much. Next, from Goldman Sachs, Munakata-san, please unmute and ask your questions. This is Munagata of Goldman Sachs. I hope you can hear me. Yes. Thank you. The search ads, I have one question on that and also another question on commerce. About the search ads. In the supplementary information, I was looking at it, and the number of the search is down, and the demand is slowing down, and that was offset by the improvement of the part of the products, I understand. So right now, the slowing down of the ad business and the number of search being reduced, I think that's one of the points that in the stock market drawing a lot of questions. So is this within your expectation? I want to check on that. And about the product improvement, I think that the unit price is coming up. So what are the items who contributed or which are the initiatives which contributed specifically? That's my first question. Yes, let me answer. But the number of search, yes, since last year, with AI, the quick response can be given. So re-query is not likely to occur. So the total number of the search, I think naturally, will continue to face some difficulties. And this is something that we expected. We ourselves, the response of the AI, the percentage is being increased. So the number of the search is not likely to increase and that's going to continue. As for the unit price, higher unit price and offsetting the lower search number, what we have as a data, we would use it for the search and then By doing so, that led to the higher unit price per click. So we are trying to offset the lower number of the searches like that. I see. Thank you very much. So as Q1, I think basically it's in line when you look at the search as a loan. Yes, that's correct. So my second question is on commerce. The shopping and reuse, the growth rate have been quite steady and strong in my view, especially what were the effective ones. In your presentation, you mentioned that AI function, navigation, so improvement of the functions. Are you getting a good reaction from it? And in September onwards, there will be some change to the opening of the store plan in Yahoo Japan Shopping. So by minimizing the negative impact and to have a smooth operation, what are the initiatives that you plan to have? Yahoo Japan Shopping, there are many things, but pay-pay points related, time-limited provision of the points, I think it's been a year and a half already. And for users, I don't know whether that's a good thing, but I think that has been effective in building the ecosystem, because the points that we provide can be utilized within the ecosystem. So It's more than a year and it's impacting the GMB in a healthy manner. And what I didn't mention is that the profit of the Yafu Japan Shopping is improving. The outsourcing, the fees and so forth, we could improve the efficiency of the cost side and that was effective in Q1. As for reuse, I think that the entertainment market Growing area and that part. I think that we are providing the sales promotion and other features and so forth. Especially weaker yen in relation to FX and also the prices are increasing in general. and maybe Yahoo Japan Shopping would be difficult and maybe EDS is selling better. So with the rising prices, I think the reuse is doing better than the Yahoo Japan Shopping in general. As for the revision of the shopping plan, this is something that we already talked about and there were some impact but especially the small stores or the stores with the small revenue churned but that did not have any major negative impact and I think that We had a positive impact, for example, having the cleaner search results and we changed the monetization or billing so that it led to some benefits as well. Thank you very much. So Yahoo Japan Shopping, we are doing well in containing users. So the frequency of use of the users is increasing. but rather users coming from others but rather the frequency of the usage is increasing. Is that a better expression? We have heavy, middle and other users and the heavy users or frequent users I think they make even more frequent purchases in the Afu Japan Shocking. Thank you.

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Moderator
Host / Investor Relations

We would like to ask Harahata-san of Nomura Securities to ask your questions. Thank you for the opportunity. I'm Harahata. I have two questions. First question, Seven and I Holdings Partnership in the short term and medium term, what kind of impact do you expect to which KPI, LYP premium or account add, any expectations in those areas? That is my first question. Idezawa, we'll answer your question. The partnership with seven... 7 and I, 7-11, there are two initiatives that we have announced. One is for LYP premium members. Basically, digital rewards are provided. 7 and I holdings with 7-11, we have collaborated in stores, in physical stores, coupons, can be used and such a coupon will be added. From that perspective, we can expect the number of members of LYP Premium will likely to increase and also official app, mini app will be jointly developed in order to increase the digital touchpoint. 7-Eleven has 20 million daily customers and we have 100 million so we both have a maximum user count and by joining forces we can Thank you very much. My second question is on media Thank you very much. What are the challenges of your company's advertising media? The market-related question will be answered by Ikehata, and on AI Recommend, I will answer. Thank you for the question, I am Ikehata. The advertisers' perception of the market and trend, as much as we know, let me comment. AI and various changes are happening and advertisers more than before are looking for the return on investment. They are stricter in part of the sector. They are becoming more selective in advertising investments. The global environment is impacting But we do not believe that that is the major impact for the first quarter of our performance. The advertisers are judging the advertising methods very strictly and judging based on that. That is the overall industry trend. We are to improve the advertising effectiveness and media space improvement so that we can collaborate with advertisers to improve their investment return. related to AI compared to other companies. Our company have media data, click data, and we are working on utilizing such data to advertising the text We have many media that is just with a lot of text. So even when we use AI, the market itself is tough. That is because there is a shift to video, the video media. The video inventory is insufficient. That is a structural issue that is remaining. And text type of advertising display ad is improving thanks to the use of AI. Thank you very much.

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Ryosuke Sakaue
Director and Chief Financial Officer

Thank you very much. Next is SMBC Nikko Securities, Maeda-san. Please unmute and ask your questions. Thank you, Maeda from SMBC Nikko. I have two questions. So I have two questions. Earlier, the agent AI The DAU, 12 million DAU. How to interpret this number? I think that this is a cumulative number with different things added. So is it strong or weak? And how have you monetized based on this? So The AI-driven growth is what you talk about, and how should we understand this number of DAU? This is a strategic question, so Idezawa-san will answer. Yes, first of all, the definition of the number, what we are disclosing right now, 12 million DAUs, The agent I, Yahoo Finance, agent I, the average DUV, and Line Talkroom, overall average. Those two are added together. And so as a beginning, I think it's a pretty good number. And our target is 100 million users using agent I. So that's what we aim for. So in that sense, This is something that we need to grow further. So at the beginning, I think it's a pretty good number. As for monetization, in the previous meeting, I think we talked about the direction, and we're currently validating, verifying that, and specific monetization. We have not yet specifically started, so I cannot really say much. We are making preparations for it. As for the direction, the user subscription is one thing, and for the companies, using the official account or mini app, providing AI functions to those companies. And also AI advertising is another thing. So you can buy via agent in e-commerce. So then we can get the advertising fee from companies. So we have multiple things that are being validated right now. Thank you. Thank you. My second question. It's also about the kakaku.com. IRR 10%, is it including synergy or without synergy? Use of the debt, is that something that you can try to achieve? So depending on the different way of thinking, the view on capital allocation, and also the market or the view on the price will change. So how to have the leverage with debt or is that something that you're not thinking about? So once again IRR 10% do you think that you can achieve it without synergy? Sorry to say many things but if you can talk about that. We are working on the details and that leverage, yes, that is something that we have in our assumptions. As for synergies, there are different patterns, the more likely ones and the not likely ones. Something that can be achieved easily and including all that, the IRR of 10% is what we are thinking about. So, use of agent I, we are making plans for the agent I, but rather looking at the cost side and more certain ones, including the synergy, we think that the 10% is our standard. I see. Thank you very much.

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Moderator
Host / Investor Relations

Next, we will take questions from Hosui-san of SBI Securities. I'm Hosui from SBI Securities. Thank you for this opportunity. My first question is on media. My second question is on reuse. The media revenue is my first question. In the initial guidance, search and display total was flat ear on ear. That is the annual forecast. What is the background and outlook of the decline of the revenue of display and user charging? By 13% other than LYP, what is growing and is it sustainable? On this play ad... As of now, in total, we want to keep it at flat. The guidance is not revised. We still have eight months, so we will make effort to realize the guidance. For display ad, we will integrate former LINE and former Yahoo advertising platform, and we are preparing for the launch of LINE Home. In the first half, we expect things to continue to be tough. In the second half, we are hoping to implement measures to achieve recovery. And that strategy remains the same. Media, the monetization, charging users and other growths In addition to LYP premium stamps, those were very good and a lot makes up the large portion, but the majority is LYP premium. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Well, it's up to the second half, but the media segment was able to accumulate good profit. And we have, in a way, savings for that. So I think that is achievable. Thank you very much. My second question is on reuse. You talked about the growth of entertainment. Is it overseas through binos or mostly domestic? What are the items that are selling well? In terms of KPI, the unit price, frequency of transaction, and MAU, what kind of KPI is growing? Hide will answer your question. This is Hide. I will answer your question. The growth in reuse is coming from entertainment. Both domestic and international businesses are growing. Service-wise, we have Yahoo flea market and Yahoo auction. Both are growing. So entertainment products are growing in both platforms and the market itself is growing in that area. KPI-wise, overall, the number of sellers and buyers both are growing and purchasers and conversion rates are Those are also growing. So overall, we are seeing growth. And among entertainment products, trading cards, that category is growing and they are high ticket items. So the average prices are also growing. So that was my reply. Thank you very much for the detail. Thank you very much.

speaker
Ryosuke Sakaue
Director and Chief Financial Officer

We are taking questions. If you have any questions, please use raise hand function of Zoom. Seems that there are no other questions, so we'd like to end Q&A session. Finally, I'd like to invite Sakaue-san to say the last words. Thank you very much for taking the time to join us. So as a beginning of the fiscal year 26, I think we made a good start. The four-year guidance, I think especially about the consolidated numbers, we are more confident that we can achieve them. So in the shorter term, maybe we can exceed the guidance. And more importantly, the Agent I user, 100 million users, we would like to make sure that everybody uses it. And we'll be launching the different products to realize that. So we would like to continue to work on that. So I hope that you will give us your support and your comments. Thank you very much for your participation. With that, I'd like to end the Q1 2026 results briefing. I would like to end that. So once again, thank you very much for staying until the end. Thank you.

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