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Financial profile · Q1 FY2027

A mature telecom core funding measured expansion into higher-growth digital services

KDDI’s multi-year history shows a mature telecom core with moderate revenue growth and broadly stable operating margins, supplemented by financial and digital-growth businesses. Operating cash flow has generally funded meaningful network and technology investment, but financial-business working capital can make quarterly cash conversion volatile.

What is developing

The latest comparable results preserve the established earnings model: revenue and operating income grew, while TTM operating cash flow and free cash flow remained positive. The quarter’s negative cash conversion reflects a working-capital swing in the financial business rather than a demonstrated change in the underlying profit model.

What matters next

Whether operating cash flow turns positive as financial-business borrowing flows normalize without a sustained increase in capital spending.

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96.2B 69.4B 96.1B 309.3B 353.4B 405.2B 490B 597B 588.6B 1.1T
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116.2B 133.7B 125.3B 86.5B 108.6B 123.4B 148.2B 164.5B 165.9B 194.9B
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477.9B 526.6B 539.7B 540.9B 540.4B 541B 541.1B 568.1B 595.8B 580.3B
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235.1B 292.1B 382B 712B 779.3B 855.2B 911.8B 1.1T 1.5T 1.9T
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119.3B 142.8B 146B 147.6B 142.2B 176.8B 974.3B 1.1T 1.3T 1.2T
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80.3B 325.2B 145.3B 264.2B 185.7B 343.2B 381.2B 331.5B 370.5B 476.6B
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298B 289.6B 284.4B 280.6B 278.7B 279.4B 279.4B 310.6B 259B 257.6B
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