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SpiderPlus & Co. (JP:4192)
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SpiderPlus & Co.

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Neutral 51 (OpenAI - 5.2)
Rating:51Neutral
Price Target:
¥264.00
▼(-9.59% Downside)
Action:ReiteratedDate:03/07/26
The score is held back primarily by weak technicals (price below key moving averages, negative MACD) and a loss-making profile implied by the negative P/E. These are partly offset by improving fundamentals, including solid revenue growth, strong gross margins, and a positive cash flow inflection in 2025.
Positive Factors
High Gross Margin / Unit Economics
A ~74% gross margin in 2025 indicates strong unit economics typical of scalable software platforms. Durable high margins provide room to invest in product, sales and support while sustaining profitability as revenue scales, reducing sensitivity to variable costs.
Recurring SaaS Revenue Model
A subscription-based SaaS model delivers recurring, contractable revenue and higher lifetime value per customer. This supports predictable cash flows, easier customer expansion and retention strategies, and aligns with long-term digitalization trends in construction workflows.
Positive Cash Flow Inflection
A shift to positive operating and free cash flow in 2025 is a durable inflection that reduces external funding reliance. If sustained, it enables reinvestment in product and sales, improves liquidity, and materially lowers the execution risk tied to prior cash burn.
Negative Factors
Not Yet Consistently Profitable
Despite margin improvement and revenue growth, the company remains slightly loss-making in 2025. Persistent near-term losses can erode equity, limit reinvestment capacity, and require prolonged improvement in operating leverage before durable net-profitability is achieved.
Prior Multi-Year Cash Burn & Volatility
Historic multi-year cash burn (2021–2024) indicates execution and conversion risk. Even with a 2025 recovery, volatility in cash flow raises uncertainty about sustainability of improvements and means management must prove consistent conversion of revenue to free cash.
Rising Leverage & Weak Historical ROE
Leverage has increased while the company posted negative ROE in prior years, constraining financial flexibility. If profitability does not sustainably improve, rising debt combined with weak historical returns risks limiting investment and could pressure equity cushions over time.

SpiderPlus & Co. (4192) vs. iShares MSCI Japan ETF (EWJ)

SpiderPlus & Co. Business Overview & Revenue Model

Company DescriptionSpiderPlus & Co. engages in information and communication technology business in Japan. It offers SPIDERPLUS, a drawing and site management application for the construction industry in Japan. The company also engages in the engineering business, including thermal insulation work. The company was formerly known as Regolith, Inc. and changed its name to SpiderPlus & Co. in September 2020. SpiderPlus & Co. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
How the Company Makes MoneySpiderPlus & Co. primarily generates revenue through the sale of its software products and subscription services. The company operates on a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, charging clients recurring fees for access to its platforms, which include cloud-based analytics and automation tools. Additionally, SpiderPlus & Co. earns revenue from consulting services, assisting businesses in the implementation and optimization of its technologies. Key partnerships with industry leaders in technology and consulting enhance its market reach and contribute to revenue growth by facilitating greater adoption of its products. Furthermore, the company may benefit from performance-based contracts with clients, where earnings can increase based on the measurable success of their solutions.

SpiderPlus & Co. Financial Statement Overview

Summary
Financials show a turnaround: revenue grew (~8% in 2025 vs. 2024), gross margin is high (~74%), and operating/free cash flow turned positive in 2025 after several years of burn. Offsetting this, profitability is not yet established (slightly negative operating profit and net income in 2025) and prior-year losses/cash flow volatility keep the score moderate.
Income Statement
55
Neutral
Revenue growth remains positive across the period, with 2025 showing solid top-line expansion (up ~8% vs. 2024) and a strong improvement in profitability versus the heavy losses in 2022–2024. Gross margin has trended upward and is high in 2025 (~74%), indicating good underlying unit economics. However, the company is still not consistently profitable: 2025 shows slightly negative operating profit and net income, and the multi-year track record includes several years of meaningful losses, which keeps the score mid-range.
Balance Sheet
68
Positive
Leverage looks manageable, with debt-to-equity at ~0.31 in 2025 and equity remaining sizable relative to assets. This provides a reasonable cushion and suggests the balance sheet can support ongoing investment. The main weakness is that profitability has been weak in recent years (negative returns on equity in 2022–2024), which can pressure equity over time if losses persist, and debt levels have risen versus earlier years.
Cash Flow
60
Neutral
Cash generation improved meaningfully in 2025, with operating cash flow and free cash flow turning positive after multiple years of cash burn (2021–2024). This is a constructive inflection and reduces near-term funding pressure. The offset is volatility: prior years show large negative operating and free cash flow, and 2025 operating cash flow is modest relative to revenue, indicating cash conversion still needs to prove durable.
BreakdownTTMDec 2025Dec 2024Dec 2023Dec 2022Dec 2021
Income Statement
Total Revenue4.52B4.90B4.07B3.19B2.48B2.21B
Gross Profit3.24B3.62B2.77B2.07B1.52B1.26B
EBITDA-6.22M149.76M-589.25M-281.10M-901.27M-475.78M
Net Income-457.28M-17.36M-771.66M-463.35M-1.04B-511.67M
Balance Sheet
Total Assets4.11B4.16B4.21B4.60B4.79B5.43B
Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments2.64B2.48B2.74B2.85B3.04B4.20B
Total Debt950.88M836.68M1.03B504.44M450.67M178.12M
Total Liabilities1.49B1.50B1.57B1.21B1.11B804.21M
Stockholders Equity2.62B2.66B2.65B3.39B3.68B4.62B
Cash Flow
Free Cash Flow0.0063.18M-387.38M-413.56M-1.71B-854.95M
Operating Cash Flow0.0078.89M-369.09M-331.22M-1.00B-493.48M
Investing Cash Flow0.00-181.98M-52.41M-85.01M-508.68M-610.36M
Financing Cash Flow0.00-158.63M322.64M217.61M363.05M4.83B

SpiderPlus & Co. Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis Sentiment
Negative
Last Price292.00
Price Trends
50DMA
288.48
Negative
100DMA
310.15
Negative
200DMA
388.70
Negative
Market Momentum
MACD
-10.80
Negative
RSI
42.50
Neutral
STOCH
68.14
Neutral
Evaluating momentum and price trends is crucial in stock analysis to make informed investment decisions. For JP:4192, the sentiment is Negative. The current price of 292 is above the 20-day moving average (MA) of 257.75, above the 50-day MA of 288.48, and below the 200-day MA of 388.70, indicating a bearish trend. The MACD of -10.80 indicates Negative momentum. The RSI at 42.50 is Neutral, neither overbought nor oversold. The STOCH value of 68.14 is Neutral, not indicating any strong overbought or oversold conditions. Overall, these indicators collectively point to a Negative sentiment for JP:4192.

SpiderPlus & Co. Peers Comparison

Overall Rating
UnderperformOutperform
Sector (61)
Financial Indicators
Name
Overall Rating
Market Cap
P/E Ratio
ROE
Dividend Yield
Revenue Growth
EPS Growth
80
Outperform
¥9.49B13.211.48%17.83%34.25%
67
Neutral
¥8.91B11.670.70%9.78%-23.98%
66
Neutral
¥4.86B21.997.60%19.13%
61
Neutral
$37.18B12.37-10.20%1.83%8.50%-7.62%
58
Neutral
¥11.75B23.5914.63%-760.87%
57
Neutral
¥42.97B29.3429.56%86.66%
51
Neutral
¥8.91B-594.9122.18%28.27%
* Technology Sector Average
Performance Comparison
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Price
Change
% Change
JP:4192
SpiderPlus & Co.
251.00
-237.00
-48.57%
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Yappli, Inc.
686.00
-50.18
-6.82%
JP:4375
Safie Inc.
771.00
26.00
3.49%
JP:4389
Property Data Bank, Inc.
809.00
108.70
15.52%
JP:4448
Chatwork Co.Ltd.
278.00
-188.00
-40.34%
JP:5033
Nulab Inc.
749.00
-249.00
-24.95%

SpiderPlus & Co. Corporate Events

SpiderPlus & Co. to Introduce Restricted Stock Plan for Directors
Feb 26, 2026

SpiderPlus & Co. plans to introduce a new restricted stock compensation plan for its directors, including outside directors, pending shareholder approval at its March 25, 2026 annual meeting. The scheme, separate from existing cash compensation limits, will provide up to ¥60 million per year in stock-based pay, capped at 200,000 shares annually, representing 0.6% or less of issued shares, with pricing tied to market levels.

The plan is designed to strengthen incentives for sustainable corporate value creation and to better align directors’ interests with those of shareholders by imposing multi-year transfer restrictions and forfeiture conditions on allotted shares. Governance safeguards include oversight by the Nomination and Compensation Advisory Committee, strict lock-up periods, automatic clawbacks if directors leave under non-justifiable circumstances, and mechanisms to adjust or lift restrictions in the event of organizational restructuring, underscoring a more sophisticated, equity-linked pay structure for key management.

The most recent analyst rating on (JP:4192) stock is a Hold with a Yen270.00 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on SpiderPlus & Co. stock, see the JP:4192 Stock Forecast page.

SpiderPlus Revamps Board Lineup to Strengthen Governance and Execution
Feb 26, 2026

SpiderPlus & Co. has nominated six director candidates for approval at its 27th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on March 25, 2026, including the reappointment of President Kenji Ito and five other directors, with three outside directors expected to continue as independent officers under Tokyo Stock Exchange rules. The company is also adding seasoned technology and consulting executive Hitoshi Kawahara as a new outside director and planned independent officer, while CFO Yutaka Fujiwara will step down from the board to concentrate on business execution as an executive officer, indicating a strategic move to bolster both governance and operational focus.

Kawahara brings extensive leadership experience from IBM Japan, Salesforce Japan, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting, and multiple advisory and outside director roles, which is expected to strengthen SpiderPlus’s board with global enterprise, digital transformation, and consulting expertise. By reshaping its board and clarifying the separation between oversight and execution, SpiderPlus appears to be reinforcing its corporate governance framework in line with growth market expectations, potentially enhancing strategic decision-making and stakeholder confidence.

The most recent analyst rating on (JP:4192) stock is a Hold with a Yen270.00 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on SpiderPlus & Co. stock, see the JP:4192 Stock Forecast page.

SpiderPlus & Co. Targets Construction Productivity Amid Labor Shortages
Feb 19, 2026

SpiderPlus & Co., listed on the TSE Growth market, develops and provides technology solutions aimed at improving productivity and reforming work methods at construction sites. The company focuses on digital tools for the construction industry, positioning itself as a provider of operational efficiency and labor-saving technologies in a sector facing structural workforce constraints.

In its FY2025 Q4 results briefing materials, SpiderPlus outlines the backdrop of a construction industry expected to enjoy long-term expansion on the back of national resilience policies, urban redevelopment projects, and strong infrastructure demand. At the same time, it highlights an increasingly severe labor shortage and supply-demand imbalance, underscoring a growing need for productivity-enhancing technologies that can secure construction capacity and support sustainable industry growth.

The most recent analyst rating on (JP:4192) stock is a Hold with a Yen270.00 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on SpiderPlus & Co. stock, see the JP:4192 Stock Forecast page.

SpiderPlus Publishes Q&A Transcript and Video From FY2025 Results Briefing
Feb 19, 2026

SpiderPlus & Co. has released the transcript of the Q&A session and archived video from its financial results briefing held on February 12, 2026, featuring President and CEO Kenji Ito and CFO Yutaka Fujiwara. The disclosure offers investors and other stakeholders detailed visibility into management’s views on the company’s performance and strategic direction.

Topics addressed in the Q&A span business strengths, hiring and human capital investment, the expansion of solution businesses such as BPO and professional services, and the company’s policy for using generative AI. Management also discussed shifts in the revenue model, overseas growth in Southeast Asia, and how AI may affect SaaS replacement risks.

Further discussion covered migration to the SPIDER+ Workspace offering and its impact on metrics like ARPU and ARPA, as well as efforts to horizontally deploy jointly developed functions across customers. The company also outlined its stance on alliances and M&A opportunities, together with initiatives aimed at reducing churn rates.

The briefing included explanations of the rationale behind FY2026 financial forecasts and SpiderPlus’s approach to balancing investment discipline with profit and loss considerations. Management additionally addressed capital reduction and the potential timing for initiating dividends, underscoring ongoing efforts to optimize capital structure and shareholder returns.

The most recent analyst rating on (JP:4192) stock is a Hold with a Yen270.00 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on SpiderPlus & Co. stock, see the JP:4192 Stock Forecast page.

SpiderPlus&Co. Moves to Restructure Capital and Eliminate Retained Earnings Deficit
Feb 12, 2026

SpiderPlus&Co. plans to substantially reduce its share capital and legal capital surplus and reclassify these amounts to other capital surplus as part of a broader capital restructuring. The move, which does not change the total number of issued shares, is designed to enhance financial soundness and give the company more agility and flexibility in future capital policy.

Following these reductions, the company will transfer ¥2,645,596,666 from other capital surplus to retained earnings brought forward to eliminate its accumulated deficit. As this is an internal reallocation within net assets, SpiderPlus&Co. expects no change in total net assets and no impact on business performance, with the plan subject to shareholder approval at the March 25, 2026 general meeting.

The most recent analyst rating on (JP:4192) stock is a Hold with a Yen315.00 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on SpiderPlus & Co. stock, see the JP:4192 Stock Forecast page.

SpiderPlus Books ¥43 Million Impairment on Vietnam Unit With No Consolidated Impact
Feb 12, 2026

SpiderPlus & Co. said it will book an extraordinary loss of 43 million yen in its non-consolidated financial results for fiscal 2025, stemming from a loss on valuation of shares in its consolidated subsidiary SpiderPlus Vietnam. The impairment follows an assessment under Japan’s Accounting Standard for Financial Instruments, reflecting a review of the subsidiary’s business progress and resulting in a write-down of its equity value.

The company emphasized that this loss is confined to its non-consolidated accounts and does not affect consolidated performance, signaling that the group’s overall earnings and operations remain intact. For stakeholders, the move indicates a conservative stance on valuing overseas expansion efforts, while confirming that the impact on group-level profitability and financial health is limited.

The most recent analyst rating on (JP:4192) stock is a Hold with a Yen315.00 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on SpiderPlus & Co. stock, see the JP:4192 Stock Forecast page.

SpiderPlus Narrows Losses as SPIDER+ Drives 20% Revenue Growth in FY2025
Feb 12, 2026

SpiderPlus & Co. reported fiscal 2025 consolidated net sales of ¥4,895 million, essentially matching its forecast as uptake of its SPIDER+ service and related BPO and professional solutions progressed as planned. Through efficient investment and cost controls, the company narrowed its operating loss to ¥10 million, substantially better than its earlier projection of a ¥58 million loss.

Compared with fiscal 2024, net sales rose 20.2% on strong stock revenue from optional SPIDER+ functions and broader rollout to previously non-adopting users at existing clients. Profit metrics improved sharply, with operating loss, ordinary loss, and loss attributable to owners of parent all shrinking, signaling strengthening business fundamentals and improved earnings quality for stakeholders despite the company remaining marginally loss-making.

The most recent analyst rating on (JP:4192) stock is a Hold with a Yen315.00 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on SpiderPlus & Co. stock, see the JP:4192 Stock Forecast page.

SpiderPlus Narrows Losses on Strong Recurring Revenue, Projects Return to Profit in 2026
Feb 12, 2026

SpiderPlus & Co. reported consolidated net sales of ¥4.9 billion for the year ended December 31, 2025, up 20.2% year on year, while trimming its net loss attributable to owners of the parent to ¥17 million from ¥771 million. The company maintained a solid equity ratio of 64.0%, saw cash and cash equivalents fall to ¥2.48 billion amid reduced financing inflows, and kept its dividend at zero, signaling a continued emphasis on reinvestment over shareholder payouts.

Non-consolidated results were buoyed by growth in annual recurring revenue, driven by an increase in new SPIDERPLUS users and higher revenue per contracted company through additional optional features. Management cited strategic investments and disciplined cost control as key drivers behind the swing from operating and ordinary losses in the prior year toward near break-even, and it forecast further top-line expansion in 2026 with net sales projected to rise about 20% to ¥5.9 billion and a return to positive operating income.

The most recent analyst rating on (JP:4192) stock is a Hold with a Yen315.00 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on SpiderPlus & Co. stock, see the JP:4192 Stock Forecast page.

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