Financial Highlights

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
Ricoh Company, Ltd., and Consolidated Subsidiaries
For the Years Ended March 31, 1997 and 1998
Millions of yen
Per Share Data (in yen and dollars):
Net income
Basic
Diluted
Cash dividends, applicable to the year
At Year-End:
Total assets
Shareholders’ investment
%
Change
1998
1998/1997
1998
1997
For the Year:
Net sales
Domestic
Overseas
Net income
Thousands of
U.S. dollars
¥1,316,072
821,004
495,068
28,922
¥ 1,403,348
831,339
572,009
30,131
$10,631,424
6,298,023
4,333,402
228,265
6.6%
1.3
15.5
4.2
¥
¥
$
0.34
0.31
0.08
1.8%
6.2
-8.3
$12,579,515
3,598,523
0.9%
12.3
44.16
38.95
12.00
¥ 1,644,896
422,923
44.97
41.35
11.00
¥ 1,660,496
475,005
Notes: (1) Overseas sales include sales of foreign subsidiaries and export sales to unaffiliated foreign customers. See Note 17 to the consolidated financial statements.
(2) All dollar figures above and elsewhere in this report refer to U.S. currency. Yen amounts have been translated into U.S. dollars, for the convenience of the reader, at ¥132=$1.
Billion is used in the American sense of one thousand million.
NET SALES AND RETURN ON SALES
NET INCOME
NET INCOME PER SHARE OF COMMON STOCK
Basic
1500
5
1,403.3
50
35
1,316.1
28.9
1200
4
1,113.0
41.35
33.55
21.9
900
600
1.8
2.0
2.2
2.1
0
1995
1996
1997
(Billions of Yen, %)
3
21
2
14
18.6
1998
1
7
0
0
31.21
28.54
30
26.43
20
14.61 14.47
9.5
1.0
1994
38.95
40
28
44.97
44.16
30.1
1,020.3
968.3
300
Diluted
10
0
1994
1995
1996
1997
(Billions of Yen)
1998
1994
1995
1996
(Yen)
1997
1998
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