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Nippon Paper Lifts Profits on Recovery at Overseas Units Despite Flat Sales

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  • Nippon Paper’s nine-month sales were flat, as daily-life products growth offset weaker paper and paperboard demand.
  • Profitability improved sharply on normalized operations at Opal and NDP and extraordinary gains from asset sales and trust returns.
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Nippon Paper Lifts Profits on Recovery at Overseas Units Despite Flat Sales

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Nippon Paper ( (JP:3863) ) just unveiled an announcement.

Nippon Paper Industries reported consolidated net sales of ¥889.5 billion for the first three quarters of FY2026/3, a slight year-on-year increase of 0.4% as growth in the Daily-Life Products Business offset weaker sales in the Paper and Paperboard segment. Operating income rose 35.5% to ¥15.0 billion and ordinary income climbed to ¥14.0 billion, supported in part by improved earnings at overseas subsidiaries Opal and Nippon Dynawave Packaging, which returned to normal operations after major maintenance in the prior year, while net income jumped to ¥7.8 billion, aided by extraordinary gains from the sale of investment securities and the return of assets from a retirement benefits trust, signaling a meaningful recovery in profitability despite only modest top-line growth.

The most recent analyst rating on (JP:3863) stock is a Hold with a Yen1158.00 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on Nippon Paper stock, see the JP:3863 Stock Forecast page.

More about Nippon Paper

Nippon Paper Industries is a major Japanese pulp and paper manufacturer that operates across Paper and Paperboard and Daily-Life Products businesses, supplying a wide range of paper, packaging, and everyday consumer paper products to domestic and overseas markets.

Average Trading Volume: 439,691

Technical Sentiment Signal: Buy

Current Market Cap: Yen137.4B

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