Financial Highlights

F
INANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
Ricoh Company, Ltd., and Consolidated Subsidiaries
For the Years Ended March 31, 1998 and 1999
Millions of yen
1998
For the Year:
Net sales
Domestic
Overseas
Net income
Per Share Data (in yen and dollars):
Net income
Basic
Diluted
Cash dividends, applicable to the year
At Year-End:
Total assets
Shareholders’ investment
Thousands of
U.S. dollars
%
change
1999
1999/1998
1999
¥1,403,348
831,339
572,009
30,131
¥1,425,999
820,975
605,024
30,655
$11,785,116
6,784,918
5,000,198
253,347
1.6%
-1.2
5.8
1.7
¥
¥
$
0.37
0.34
0.09
-1.4%
-1.0
—
$13,454,686
4,028,587
-2.0%
2.6
44.97
41.35
11.00
¥ 1,660,496
475,005
44.33
40.94
11.00
¥1,628,017
487,459
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 ¥121=$1.
Billion is used in the American sense of one thousand million.
NET SALES
SALES
AND
NET INCOME PER SHARE
COMMON STOCK
RETURN
NET INCOME
ON
OF
Basic
1,426.0
1,403.3
1500
5
50
35
1,316.1
28.9
1200
4
1,113.0
1,020.3
30.1
44.16 44.97 44.33
41.35 40.94
38.95
30.7
40
28
33.55
21.9
900
Diluted
30
3
21
2
14
20
1
7
10
0
0
18.6
31.21
28.54
26.43
2.2
600
1.8
2.0
2.1
2.1
300
0
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
(Billions of Yen, %)
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
(Billions of Yen)
0
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
(Yen)
1