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KLab Inc.

KLab Inc. is a Japanese mobile online game developer and operator, specializing in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone-based mobile online games. The company is known for titles based on popular anime and manga IP licenses, targeting both domestic and international markets. In addition to its core game business, KLab engages in game production outsourcing and anime investment activities.

Market Cap
¥13.6B
US$87.0M
EV
¥10.3B
US$65.9M
Stock¥164▼-8.38%
US$1 = ¥156.80 (2026-10-23)
LTM EV/EBITDA
NM
LTM EV/EBIT
NM
LTM PER
30.5
x
LTM PBR
1.2
x
Stock vs TOPIX (1Y, base=100)vs TOPIX ▼-60.1%pt
1001
Oct 24, 25 – Oct 23, 26StockTOPIX
1Aug 7, 26Q2 FY2026/12 earnings announced
MC → EV Bridge
13.6BUS$87.0MMarket Cap1.13BUS$7.23M+ Debt3.65BUS$23.3M− Cash0.79BUS$5.04M− Inv. Sec.10.3BUS$65.9MEV
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Performance & Balance
Revenue 5Y (¥B)
23.9US$152M'21/1216.9US$108M'22/1210.7US$68.3M'23/128.31US$53.0M'24/126.86US$43.7M'25/12
EBITDA 5Y (¥B)
-0.44-US$2.81M'21/12-0.31-US$1.99M'22/12-0.89-US$5.68M'23/12-1.24-US$7.92M'24/12-1.24-US$7.91M'25/12
Net Income 5Y (¥B)
-3.47-US$22.1M'21/12-0.54-US$3.45M'22/12-1.82-US$11.6M'23/12-2.78-US$17.7M'24/12-4.18-US$26.6M'25/12
Capital Structure
91%
EquityD/E 0.10xDebt
Liquidity vs Debt 5Y (¥B)▲ Net Cash
CashInv. Sec.Debt
7.05US$45.0M1.00US$6.40M'21/128.98US$57.3M3.51US$22.4M'22/125.45US$34.8M3.18US$20.3M'23/123.64US$23.2M2.22US$14.2M'24/125.46US$34.8M0.24US$1.55M'25/12
Shareholders
Top 10 hold 25.5%
1
INTERACTIVE BROKERS LLC (Standing Proxy: Interactive Brokers Securities Japan Inc.)
5.40%
2
CLEARSTREAM BANKING S.A. (Standing Proxy: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Tokyo Branch)
4.49%
3
The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust Account)
4.48%
4
Rakuten Securities, Inc. (Joint Account)
4.22%
5
Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd.
1.67%
6
Tomoaki FUKURA
1.61%
7
Sun* Inc.
1.20%
8
SBI SECURITIES Co., Ltd.
0.92%
9
O.T.M. Asset Management Co., Ltd.
0.80%
10
Masayuki NAKAMURA
0.76%
Management
11 officers
Tetsuya SANADA
Representative Director, President and CEO
Sep 1998 Founded Cyberbird Inc.; Director and Vice President Aug 2000 Founded KLab Inc.; Representative Director and Chairman Mar 2001 Representative Director and President, KLab Inc. Sep 2009 Executive Officer, KLab Inc. (current) Dec 2009 Representative Director and President, KLabGames Inc. Mar 2018 Representative Director, Chairman and President, KLab Inc. Mar 2019 Director and Chairman, KLab Inc. Apr 2022 Representative Director and President, BLOCKSMITH & Co. (current) Mar 2025 Representative Director, President and CEO, KLab Inc. (current)
1964-09-10
Yosuke IGARASHI
Director
Feb 2000 Joined Vision Arts Co., Ltd. (now Sony Global Solutions Inc.) Aug 2003 Joined KLab Inc. Jun 2005 Director, KLab Inc. Sep 2009 Executive Officer and COO, KLab Inc. Sep 2012 Director, Executive Vice President and COO, KLab Inc. Nov 2012 Chairman, Kelai Software Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Mar 2018 Representative Director, Executive Vice President and COO, KLab Inc. Mar 2019 Representative Director and Vice Chairman, KLab Inc. Mar 2019 Director, Kelai Software Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Mar 2025 Director, KLab Inc. (current) Jul 2025 Chairman, Kelai Software Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (current)
1973-10-13
Kazuyuki TAKADA
Director, CFO
Jun 2008 Joined BearingPoint Japan (now PwC Consulting LLC) Sep 2010 Joined KLab Inc. Apr 2012 General Manager, Corporate Management Division, KLab Inc. (current) Sep 2012 Executive Officer, KLab Inc. (current) Mar 2014 Director, General Manager, Corporate Management Division and Head of IR Office, KLab Inc. Mar 2015 Managing Director and CFO, KLab Inc. Mar 2019 Senior Managing Director and CFO, KLab Inc. Mar 2025 Director and CFO, KLab Inc. (current)
1978-08-20
Yoshiki NAKANE
Director
Apr 1999 Joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Apr 2005 Joined KLab Inc. Sep 2009 Executive Officer, KLab Inc. (current) Sep 2010 General Manager, First Development Division, KLab Inc. Apr 2013 General Manager, Development Division, KLab Inc. Aug 2013 General Manager, Studio Management Division, KLab Inc. Apr 2014 General Manager, Quality Control Division, KLab Inc. Jun 2016 General Manager, Creative Division, KLab Inc. Mar 2019 Director, KLab Inc. (current)
1975-03-10
Shintaro YAMADA
Outside Director
Jul 2006 Began activities as a model Jul 2007 Began activities as an actor Jul 2018 Founded Nacht Inc.; Director (current) Nov 2020 Representative Director, SHIP Inc. (current) Mar 2021 Founded genuInely Inc.; Representative Director (current) Mar 2026 Outside Director, KLab Inc. (current)
1986-07-10
Masaharu INOUE
Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
Apr 1984 Joined Sumitomo Bank, Ltd. (now Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) Apr 2000 Registered as attorney-at-law (current) Apr 2008 Outside Audit and Supervisory Board Member, KLab Inc. Sep 2009 Joined Mercury General Law Firm (current) Nov 2013 Outside Director, BeamMechanics Inc. Jan 2014 Outside Director, Solplus Inc. Jan 2015 Outside Director, Primo Japan Co., Ltd. Mar 2016 Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), KLab Inc. (current) Apr 2016 Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), SKIYAKI Inc. (now Space Shower SKIYAKI Holdings Inc.) (current) Jul 2017 Outside Director, Zappallas, Inc. Nov 2017 Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), Arara Inc. (now Paycloud Holdings Inc.) (current)
1961-07-29
Ryusuke HARADA
Director
Mar 2010 Joined FinEdge Financial Services Jun 2012 Joined PayWave Digital Bank Jan 2015 Joined NovaPay Technologies Mar 2026 Director, KLab Inc. (current)
1986-02-13
Sheikh Salem Khalid Fumaid Mohamed AL QASIMI
Outside Director
Jan 2008 Joined Ministry of Interior Police, Government of the United Arab Emirates (current) Mar 2026 Outside Director, KLab Inc. (current)
1981-01-06
Hiroshi MURAKAMI
Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
Apr 1992 Joined Toray Industries, Inc. Oct 1996 Joined Abe, Inokubo & Katayama Law Office; Member, Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association (registered Oct 1996, 48th class) Aug 2002 Joined Pillsbury Winthrop (New York) (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP); New York State attorney (registered 2003) Aug 2003 Joined Ohebashi Law Office (current) Jun 2015 Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), Anshin Hosho Co., Ltd. (current) Mar 2026 Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), KLab Inc. (current)
1969-10-11
Yosuke YAMAGUCHI
Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
Sep 2007 Joined Kitahama Law Office, Foreign Law Joint Enterprise Jul 2011 Seconded to Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd. (now Japan Exchange Regulation) Aug 2016 Co-Partner, Iwatani Muramoto Yamaguchi Law Office (current) Dec 2018 Outside Audit and Supervisory Board Member, Cringle Pharma Inc. (current) Apr 2020 Outside Audit and Supervisory Board Member, akippa Inc. (current) Dec 2021 Outside Audit and Supervisory Board Member, Fit Crew Inc. Jul 2022 Outside Audit and Supervisory Board Member, Center Mobile Inc. Mar 2026 Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), KLab Inc. (current)
1979-03-26
Kenji UEDA
Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
Apr 2002 Joined Takara Real Estate Co., Ltd. Apr 2011 Member, Neyagawa City Council Apr 2015 Member, Osaka Prefectural Assembly (current) Mar 2026 Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), KLab Inc. (current)
1983-12-14
Large Shareholding Reports
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-10-15
15.96%→15.66%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-10-15
14.31%→14.24%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-10-15
13.65%→12.13%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-10-15
13.53%→13.65%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-10-15
14.24%→13.53%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-10-15
17.88%→17.81%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-10-15
17.81%→15.96%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-10-09
20.10%→20.42%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-10-09
19.31%→18.15%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-10-09
20.42%→19.31%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-09-24
12.20%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-09-10
14.31%→13.60%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-09-10
13.72%→13.70%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-09-09
16.21%→15.73%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-09-04
27.64%→22.45%
ULTIMATE CLASSIC INVESTMENT LLC
2026-01-19
0.00%→27.64%
Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd.
2026-01-09
2.34%→1.95%
Tetsuya SANADA
2026-01-07
4.68%→3.46%
Tetsuya SANADA
2026-01-07
3.46%→5.37%
Correction filing (name/detail fix only) — ratio carried over from the original filing
Tetsuya SANADA
2026-01-06
3.46%→5.37%
Tetsuya SANADA
2026-01-06
4.68%→3.46%
NOMURA INTERNATIONAL PLC
2025-12-22
3.71%→2.84%
NOMURA INTERNATIONAL PLC
2025-12-03
3.71%
Macquarie Bank Limited
2025-11-14
5.06%→3.69%
Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd.
2025-11-07
2.34%→2.34%
NOMURA INTERNATIONAL PLC
2025-10-21
1.29%→3.24%
Macquarie Bank Limited
2025-10-17
6.32%→5.06%
Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
2025-10-06
3.63%→2.38%
Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
2025-09-19
3.63%
J.P. Morgan Securities plc
2025-09-18
3.30%→1.82%
J.P. Morgan Securities plc
2025-08-05
3.30%
Disclosures
No disclosures
Primary Source Filings
EDINETAmended
2026-10-15
Change Report
EDINETAmended
2026-10-15
Change Report
EDINETAmended
2026-10-15
Change Report
EDINETAmended
2026-10-15
Change Report
EDINETAmended
2026-10-15
Change Report
EDINETAmended
2026-10-15
Change Report
EDINETAmended
2026-10-15
Change Report
EDINETAmended
2026-10-09
Change Report
EDINETAmended
2026-10-09
Change Report
EDINETAmended
2026-10-09
Change Report
EDINETAmended
2026-09-24
Change Report
EDINET
2026-09-10
Large Shareholding Report
EDINETAmended
2026-09-10
Change Report
EDINET
2026-09-09
Large Shareholding Report
EDINET
2026-09-04
Large Shareholding Report
TDnet
2026-08-06
Q2 Earnings Flash
FY ending Dec 2026
EDINET
2026-08-06
Semi-Annual Securities Report
Period: Jan 2026 – Dec 2026
TDnet
2026-05-14
Q1 Earnings Flash
FY ending Dec 2026
EDINET
2026-03-26
Annual Securities Report
Period: Jan 2025 – Dec 2025
EDINET
2026-01-19
Large Shareholding Report
EDINET
2026-01-09
Large Shareholding Report
EDINETAmended
2026-01-07
Change Report
EDINETAmended
2026-01-07
Change Report
EDINET
2026-01-06
Large Shareholding Report
EDINET
2026-01-06
Large Shareholding Report
EDINET
2025-12-22
Large Shareholding Report
EDINETAmended
2025-12-12
Amended Securities Registration Statement
EDINET
2025-12-05
Securities Registration Statement
EDINET
2025-12-03
Large Shareholding Report
EDINET
2025-11-14
Large Shareholding Report
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