Notice Regarding Year-on-Year Changes
in First Quarter Consolidated Financial Results
Company name: SUBARU CORPORATION
Representative: Tomomi Nakamura, President and CEO
Code number: 7270 (First Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange)
Contact for inquiries: Katsuo Saito, Corporate Vice President
and General Manager of Administration Department
Phone: +81-3-6447-8825
Subaru Corporation hereby notifies year-on-year changes between the consolidated financial results for the first quarter of FYE 2019 (April 1 – June 30, 2018) announced today and the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Details are set out below.
1. Year-on-Year Changes in First Quarter Consolidated Financial Results
| Net sales | Operating income |
Ordinary income |
Net income attributable to owners of parent |
Net income per share, basic |
|
| 1st Quarter of FYE 2018 (A) | ¥ million 814,010 |
¥ million 119,344 |
¥ million 119,273 |
¥ million 82,326 |
Yen 107.38 |
| 1st Quarter of FYE 2019 (B) | 709,227 | 57,576 | 60,097 | 45,463 | 59.30 |
| Change in amount (B－A) | (104,783) | (61,768) | (59,176) | (36,863) | |
| Percentage change (%) | (12.9) | (51.8) | (49.6) | (44.8) |
Note: The Company has changed its accounting policies with effect from the first quarter of FYE 2019. Accordingly, the new policies have been retroactively applied to FYE 2018 results before carrying out year-on-year comparison and analysis of net sales figures.
2. Reasons for the Changes
In the automotive business, Japanese market sales declined by 12,000 units (28.5%) year-on-year to 29,000 vehicles, due to factors including the leveling off of demand spurred by new Impreza and Subaru XV models and delayed sales as customers await the forthcoming upgrade of the Forester. Overseas, the Crosstrek (called Subaru XV in Japan) sold briskly, especially in the key North American market, but a decline in sales of the Forester and other models resulted in overall sales falling by 22,000 units (9.5%) year-on-year to 209,000 vehicles.
As a result, net sales in the first quarter declined by ¥104.8 billion (12.9%) year-on-year to ¥709.2 billion.
Operating income decreased by ¥61.8 billion (51.8%) year-on-year to ¥57.6 billion due to factors including lower vehicle sales volumes and rising costs, and ordinary income fell by ¥59.2 billion (49.6%) year-on-year to ¥60.1 billion. Quarterly net income attributable to owners of parent also declined by ¥36.9 billion (44.8%) to ¥45.5 billion.
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