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Jins slightly downgrades outlook on expected China slowdon in H2
Japanese-based retail group Jins has reported a 13.4 percent year-on-year increase in Q2 sales to 19,852 million Japanese yen (€121m), strongly accelerating from the previous quarter. Sales in Japan grew by 12.1 percent to ¥15,453 million (€94m) while they were up by 18.1 percent overseas. The strong momentum on the ...
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ArticleSlight average eyewear stocks price hike in Q1 reflects extreme ups and downs
The average stock price of public eyewear companies inched up by 1.6 percent on a non-weighted basis during the first quarter of 2024, slowing down from the 8.4 percent growth calculated for Q4 2023. The Q1 2024 performance also fell short of the 8.1 percent quarter-on-quarter growth of the MSCI ...
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Jins Q1 revenue up 6.5 %
Japanese-based retailer JINS has reported a 6.5 percent year-on-year increase in quarterly revenue to 18.2 billion Japanese yen (€114 m) for the first quarter of its fiscal year ending August 2024. The group’s topline growth pace slowed down from the 16.0 percent hike reported for the previous quarter. Q1 sales ...
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ArticleEyewear stock price up 8% in Q4, sector market capitalization up 10% year-on-year
Along with our usual quarterly update on public eyewear companies’ stock price variations, we are also publishing in the table below the year-on-year changes to provide a longer-term perspective, as well as our annual market capitalization ranking further down on this page. After a negative third quarter, the average stock ...
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Japanese myopia eye drops research enters clinical trial phase
Japan’s Rohto Pharmaceutical is partnering with Tsubota Laboratory for research and developement of a new myopia management eye drop solution. The eye drops, which were successfully tested on mice according to an article by Nikkei Asia, aims at slowing myopia progression by suppressing the thinning of the sclera, thereby reducing ...
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ArticleFittingbox acquires main VTO challenger
Fittingbox, the global leader and a pioneer in eyewear virtual-try-on (VTO) services, has announced that it was acquiring its main challenger, Ditto Technologies, from U.S.-based Luna Solutions. It is the first acquisition by Fittingbox since the creation of the company in 2006. “We will have the largest customer portfolio in ...
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ArticleJINS ends fiscal year on high note
Japanese-based retail group JINS has reported a 16.0 percent year-on-year increase in Q4 revenue to 19.7 billion Japanese yen (€125m), accelerating from the previous quarter when sales rose by 10.4 percent versus Q3 2022. The Q4 sales hike was driven by an 11.0 percent growth in domestic revenue to JPY ...
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ArticleEyewear companies' average stock price down in Q3
After two consecutive quarters of double-digit growth, the average stock price of eyewear companies went down by an average 7 percent on a non-weighted basis (see chart below) in the quarter ended Sept. 30. This also marks an unusual underperformance compared with the MSCI World Index, a global index comprising ...
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JINS reports solid quarterly results
Japanese-based optical retail group JINS has reported a 10.4 percent year-on-year increase in Q3 sales to 19.0 billion Japanese yen (€121m), driven by a sharp increase in overseas sales that jumped by 31.3 percent to ¥4.6 billion (€29m) or close to one fourth of group revenue. Q3 sales in Japan ...
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ArticleTwo retail groups top our Q2 stock price chart
Stock prices of eyewear industry companies confirmed in Q2 their upward trend started in the previous quarter. On a non-weighed average basis, they increased by 12.5 percent quarter-on-quarter overperforming the 6.3 percent rice of MSCI World, a global index comprising over 1,500 companies. EWI Stock price chart Q2 2023 ...
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JINS recruits Apple former creative director
Japanese-based retail group JINS has announced the recuitment of Paul Nixon to the newly created position of global chief creative director. The American executive was on a career break since November last year after having worked for over 17 years at Apple, most notably as creative director for apple.com, leading ...
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ArticleJINS downgrades outlook, rethinks business model and supply chain
JINS HOLDINGS has downgraded its outlook for the current fiscal year ending next Aug. 31 after mixed results in the first half of the year, mostly due to lackluster sales on the Japan-based group’s domestic market. Sales in Japan grew by 2.4 percent year-on-year in H1 to 26,2 billion Japanese ...
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ArticleEyewear stocks start 2023 on the right foot
Stock prices of eyewear companies were off to a good start of the year, with an average growth of 13 percent on a non-weighted basis in Q1 2023 compared with Q4 2022. It is the first time in more than a year that their average value significantly increased, overperforming the ...
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JINS driven by overseas markets in Q1
Japanese-based retailer JINS booked an 11.6 percent year-on-year increase in Q1 sales to 17,051 million Japanese yen (€120m), accelerating strongly from the 5.1 percent growth reported for the previous quarter. The Q1 sales uptick was largely driven by a 35.5 percent jump in overseas revenue to ¥ 4,584 million (€32m) ...
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ArticleMixed results for JINS
Japan-based retailer JINS Holdings has posted mixed results for the last quarter of its fiscal year 08/22. Sales were up by 5.1 percent year-on-year to 17 billion Japanese yen (€116m) but the same quarter in the previous year had been particularly low, with revenue down 12 percent versus 08/20, due ...
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JINS downgrades FY outlook, recapitalizes U.S. branch
JINS Holdings has revised its full year 2022 outlook downwards and now expects total sales to reach 66.9 billion Japanese yen (€481m), down by 6.0 percent compared to the initial forecast but still 4.7 percent higher than revenues reported for 2021. The group mentioned a slower-than-expected sales recovery both in ...
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ArticleEyewear companies stocks down by 17% in Q2
Contrary to other sectors such as energy, aerospace, defense or agriculture, which saw their stock value increase significantly in the last few months, the eyewear industry was not among the beneficiaries from the move of global money away from investments in Big Tech companies. Indeed, the 23 eyewear public companies ...
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JINS still driven by overseas markets
Japanese-based optical retailer JINS has reported a 3.4 percent year-on-year increase in sales to 32.7 billion Japanese yen for the first half of its current financial year. Most of the growth came from the overseas business of the group where revenue increased by 14.3 percent to JPY 7.1 bn while ...
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ArticleEyewear industry stock prices down 13% in Q1
The first quarter of 2022 was the worst quarter for global equity markets since the first quarter of 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic started spreading worldwide, leading to travel restrictions and lockdowns and prompting stock markets to collapse in March. Since the start of this year, the U.S. equity market ...
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ArticleJINS tests violet light for myopia management project
JINS, the Tokyo-based optical retail group, is about to launch the second stage of its clinical research on the suppression of myopia progression, in partnership with Tsubota Laboratory, a startup from Keio University, one of the top universities in the country. The project takes its roots in 2011 when JINS ...
