Notification of GMO CLICK Group’s Financial Results for the Fiscal Year ending March 31, 2015
Financial Results Highlights
Revenue of 24.958 billion yen, up 16.3% from last year
Net profit of 4.855 billion Yen, up 31.6% from last year
GMO CLICK Holdings, Inc., a leading online financial service provider in Japan, announces financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015 with revenue of 24.958 billion yen, up 16.3% from last year.
During the fiscal year 2014-2015, being benefited from the US stock market, domestic stock market in Japan had showed a positive increase. Despite the negative impact from raising sales tax in Japan, Nikkei 225 had risen gradually due to quantitative easing in European and the US governments, and impacts from Abenomics (economic policies introduced by Shinzo Abe administration).
Moreover, due to the withdrawal of Fed from the market, US dollar to Japanese yen rose to 1:120 level at the financial year end.
During the year, GMO CLICK has continued to hold various marketing promotion campaigns and provide information regarding financial markets on TV programmes in Japan. Together with the continual improvements of trading environment and introduction of lower trading costs, our customer base has further expanded to a high record. As at March 31, 2015, securities trading accounts had showed an increase of 18.4% to 241,985 accounts. FX trading accounts of had also showed an increase of 18.0% to 394,072 accounts.
