The final profits of all seven companies are this, as the financial results for the nine months up to December last year of major trading companies were completed, and favorable performance continued against the backdrop of rising resource prices accompanying the recovery trend of the world economy. It was the highest time ever.
According to the financial results from April to December last year announced by seven major trading companies by the 4th, the final profit of the entire group is 678.8 billion, which is 1.8 times that of the same period of the previous year for "Itochu Corporation". Starting with the yen, "Mitsubishi Corporation" increased 3.8 times to 644.7 billion yen, and "Mitsui & Co." increased 3.1 times to 633.2 billion yen.
In addition, profits of "Marubeni," "Toyota Tsusho," and "Sojitz" increased from double to 3.7 times, and "Sumitomo Corporation," which had a final deficit of over 100 billion yen in the previous year, turned around, 3351. It was in the black at 100 million yen, and all seven companies reached record highs for this period.
This is mainly due to the rise in prices of resources such as iron ore, coal and oil, and the improvement of the automobile and food-related businesses in response to the recovery trend of the world economy from the corona disaster.
In addition, all seven companies have revised their earnings forecasts for the current fiscal year upwards, and all of them are expected to reach record profits.
"We have achieved good results, but we do not believe that resource prices will remain high for a long time. We will continue to focus on non-resource fields," said Takeshi Hatamura, vice president of ITOCHU Corporation, who met online. I have.