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Winner, Winner: The Chicken McNugget Story
How a 1940s breeding contest, a Cornell food scientist, and a hedge by Ray Dalio helped McDonald's turn the Chicken McNugget into a fast-food icon.
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ISB Q3 2026 earnings summary
Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.Q3 2026 earnings summary10 Nov, 2026
Executive summary
9M 2026 net sales rose 3.0% YoY to ¥28,562 million; operating profit increased 27.5% to ¥2,206 million and profit attributable to owners of parent rose 58.7% to ¥1,534 million.
Automotive plan revisions and spending cuts delayed embedded-systems projects; engineer redeployment to high-demand fields is accelerating ahead of Q4.
Financial highlights
Ordinary profit rose to ¥2,281 million from ¥1,752 million; gross profit increased to ¥6,925 million from ¥6,435 million, while SG&A was ¥4,718 million versus ¥4,705 million.
Basic EPS was ¥133.80, up from ¥84.44; comprehensive income rose to ¥1,502 million from ¥1,028 million.
Operating profit margin was 7.7%, up 150 bps from 6.2% in the prior-year period.
Outlook and guidance
FY2026 forecasts remain unchanged: net sales ¥38,500 million, operating profit ¥3,000 million, ordinary profit ¥3,050 million and net profit ¥1,850 million.
9M progress was 74.2% of sales, 73.5% of operating profit, 74.8% of ordinary profit and 82.9% of parent-attributable profit forecasts.
FY2026 basic EPS forecast is ¥161.40; Q4 priorities include redeploying engineers to non-automotive embedded fields and expanding medical and DX projects.
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