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The son of Masayoshi, chairman and chief executive director of Softbank Group Corp., speaks at the SoftBank World event in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
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Group Softbank On Thursday, the financial income was reported in the first quarter, which led the expectations caused by income in its Vision Fund Tech Investment ARM.
The Japanese giant reported $ 421.8 billion ($ 2.87 billion) in the quarter ended in June, against $ 127.6 billion expected by LSEG. This is the second straight quarter profit for SoftBank. The company reported the loss of 174.28 billion in the same period last year.
In the financial first quarter, SoftBank said the cost of its visions increased by $ 4.8 billion. Profit for the vision segment of funds, which takes into account other factors such as costs, reaching 451.4 billion in the quarter, compared to the loss of last year.
Softbank is engaged in the cost of AI. The Japanese giant is Leading Financing Round for $ 40 billion In the Chatgpt Openai developer and he is currently waiting for his $ 6.5 offered acquisition firm AI Chip AMPERE Computing Close.
Investors will welcome the Vision Fund’s performance, which hope these big AI rates will start paying off.
Softbank said the cost of the vision fund’s cost helped the profitable income from companies such as the trip firm as well as the Indian Swiggy food firm. The performance also contributed to private investments in some companies of India in which the fund holds.
Meanwhile, SoftBank is a key company in a $ 500 billion massive project in the United States, which aims to create data centers and infrastructure II in the country. Investors are waiting for details about how SoftBank plans to finance these costs.
In May, Softbank posted its first annual income for the four -year fiscal year, ended in March, helped the income in old SoftBank investments Alibaba. T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom.
In June, the SoftBank quarter reported 256.55 billion, what investment losses for other shares that weighed the group’s total income. The Japanese firm said it has published an investment loss from the sale of T-Mobile and Alibaba shares, which was partly offset by the Semiconductor Giant Nvidia stock.
On Thursday, SoftBank said he sold $ 13 million in August for $ 3 billion.
Meanwhile, the designer chips, which is mostly owned by SoftBank, made a Japanese company 8.66 billion. SoftBank binding this to increase research and development costs, which led to investments grow faster than income.
