Create Restaurants' Profit Climbs 6.2% in Fiscal Q1

Create Restaurants' (TYO:3387) profit attributable to owners of the parent rose 6.2% to 2.22 billion yen for the fiscal first quarter from 2.09 billion yen a year earlier. The restaurant operator's earnings per share increased to 5.27 yen from 4.96 yen a year ago, according to a Tokyo bourse filing on Tuesday. Revenue grew 3.5% to 43.3 billion yen from 41.8 billion yen in the prior-year period. For the fiscal year ending February 2027, the company expects attributable profit of 5.7 billion yen, basic EPS of 13.54 yen, and revenue of 171 billion yen. Create Restaurants plans to pay interim and year-end dividends of 2.50 yen per share, each, for the current fiscal year. Combined, the dividend payouts are higher than the amount paid in the year-ago period.