Yoshitaka Kitao
Chairman of the Board, President & CEO

Thank you very much for attending this SBI Holdings full year results announcement. At the venue, we see dozens of people, and I understand that more than 110 people are participating online as well. Without further ado, let me start. So we have quite a big volume of documents. So I would like to go through numbers briefly.

The consolidated performance revenue, JPY 1,896.6 billion, up 31.4%. Pretax income, JPY 516.7 billion. 83% up. And the profit for the period, JPY 430.5 billion, up 127.6%, in which profit attributable to owners of the company, JPY 427.6 billion, plus 163.7%. Each of them are record highs, especially the ROE has been my focus, 28.0% year-on-year, it's a big increase. Usually, the Japanese banking industry for FY 2024 average was 7.25%.

What about U.S., JPMorgan Chase, even JPMorgan Chase, 16.69%; Morgan Stanley, 16.52%; Goldman Sachs, 14.91%. The other banks, big financial companies representing the U.S. market compared to them, our ROE is better. So the comparison of consolidated performance with major securities groups, as I mentioned earlier, we have covered their numbers. The Nomura, JPY 362.1 billion, ROE 10.1%; and Daiwa, JPY 175.3 billion, 10.3%; and there is SMBC Nikko Securities, JPY 94.4 billion, 7.5% ROE; and the Mitsubishi UFJ, JPY 664.3 billion, 10% of ROE. So 28% of our number is really a surprisingly good number.

Looking at Nikkei Index, the 3 largest securities and so on, this way of writing of conventional media, but even the new medias and the conventional medias, all of them are using the Internet. And I'm wondering why Nikkei continues to write such stupid