CTW Announces Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Results

TOKYO, Nov. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CTW Cayman (Nasdaq: CTW) (“CTW” or “the Company”), a leading game platform company providing global access to web-based games through its flagship HTML5 platform, G123.jp, reports financial results for the six months (“2H25”) and fiscal year ended July 31, 2025 (“FY25”).

Financial and Business Highlights

Comments from Ryuichi Sasaki, Founder, CEO, and Chairman of CTW

“We are proud to have built the world’s leading platform that allows gamers to enjoy playing anime-based games without the need to download special apps or be distracted by in-game ads. Our strong fiscal 2025 results are indicative of our creative vision, strategic direction, and steady execution, all bearing fruit on an increasingly larger scale. Yet, I believe that our journey is just getting started as a public company.”

“Revenue of $90.4 million in fiscal 2025 grew 32%, with accelerated growth of 41% YoY in the second half of the year as compared to the second half of fiscal 2024, reflecting high engagement with our platform and the success of our recently launched games. Encouragingly, revenue increased in all of our major geographic markets in 2025, confirming global interest in anime and in our ability to source and launch games based on compelling IP. This performance is in line with our strategic focus to expand our user base beyond Japan, our historically largest market, and into other regions, especially North America. Users outside of Japan accounted for 30% of revenue in fiscal 2025, up from 19% in the previous year, and we believe we can expand even further into other markets as anime increasingly goes mainstream around the world.”

“In fiscal 2025, we launched seven new games, including hits such as So I’m a Spider, So What? Ruler of the Labyrinth and Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest – Rebellion Soul. Together, these seven new games generated $32.3 million in revenue in 2025 and more than offset the maturation of other our existing games, consistent with the gradual tapering of activity for games that follow a natural lifecycle. This dynamic of continuously growing our business through new game launches and user-acquisition marketing is at the very core of our operating model. Our robust pipeline of new launches should continue to drive strong revenue growth in fiscal 2026 and beyond. Notably, the Doraemon Comic Traveler and Crayon Shinchan: My Sugoroku Great Strategy games are close to launch and are each based on rich anime history and represent the most valuable licensed IP in our corporate history. We expect strong global interest from gamers who are familiar with these main characters and healthy in-game purchases from each of those titles.”

“We have invested considerably over the past year to ensure the scalability of our operations. Investments in R&D and personnel in Shanghai and Taipei, especially to strengthen our AI capabilities, have us well positioned for future growth. We have also made initial investments in North America, a large and relatively untapped market for us, and plan to continue this effort in fiscal 2026. While these recent investments may have masked our full potential profitability in 2025, they have also reinforced the foundation to prepare us for future profitable growth, especially when combined with our pipeline of games and our proven ability to secure valuable licensed IP and efficient user acquisition.”

Fiscal 2025 Results

Revenue increased 32% in FY25 to $90.4 million compared to $68.4 million in FY24, with the rate of growth accelerating in the second half of the fiscal year (2H25) to 41% when compared to 2H24. The strong revenue growth was driven by higher in-game purchases, which increased 27% YoY to $107.0 million as compared to $84.5 million in FY24, and lower revenue share percentage paid to developers which decreased to 12.2% of gross in-game purchases in FY25 from 16.1% in FY24. In FY25, CTW launched seven new games that collectively generated $32.3 million in revenue, compared to 15 new games launched in FY24 that generated $12.6 million in revenue.

Segment profits* increased 16% YoY in FY25 to $31.3 million (29.3% of in-game purchases) as compared to $27.0 million in FY24 (32.0% of in-game purchases), as higher revenue was partially offset by increased advertising expense. While advertising expense increased from $52.4 million in FY25 (49.0% of revenue) as compared to $37.3 million in FY24 (44.2% of revenue), ROAS increased to 116.4% in FY25 from 99.3% in FY24.

Net Income was $3.8 million ($0.06 per share) in FY25, as compared with $6.0 million ($0.10 per share) in FY24. In FY25, $3.2 million of net income was recognized in 2H25.

Adjusted EBITDA* was $8.0 million (8.8% of revenue) in FY25, compared to $12.0 million in FY24 (17.5% of revenue). CTW maintained positive Adjusted EBITDA while actively supporting new game launches with increased advertising expenditure and higher spending to scale its global operations for future growth.

Earnings Conference Call and Webcast

Management will host an earnings webcast at 8:30am EST on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 to review its financial results and provide a general corporate update. Interested investors can register for the webcast here.

The Company has posted a supplemental slide presentation accompanying this release to its investor relations website at ctw.inc/investors. Investors are encouraged to review these materials in conjunction with this release.

About CTW Cayman

CTW is a leading game platform company providing global access to web-based, free-to-play games inspired by popular Japanese animations, including So I’m a Spider, So What? Ruler of the Labyrinth, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest – Rebellion Soul, and Queen’s Blade Limit Break. CTW delivers these games through its globally-accessible flagship HTML5 platform, G123.jp. According to a Frost & Sullivan Report, CTW was the largest anime IP-based H5 game platform in the world in 2023 in terms of gross billings.

For more information, visit www.ctw.inc or G123.jp.

Forward Looking Statements

This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are made under the “safe harbor” provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements can be identified by terminology such as “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “future,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” “potential,” “continue,” “ongoing,” “targets,” “guidance” and similar statements. CTW may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Any statements that are not historical facts, including statements about CTW’s beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: CTW’s growth strategies; its future business development, results of operations and financial condition; its ability to distribute successful and engaging games with high “playability” on its platform; its ability to efficiently attract and retain end-users who come to play and make in-game purchases; its ability to achieve positive return on investment on user acquisition efforts; its ability to establish and maintain relationships with game developers; governmental policies and regulations relating to CTW’s industry; and general economic and business conditions globally and in Japan and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors is included in CTW’s filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and CTW undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.

Contacts

Matt Chesler, CFA

FNK IR

646-809-2183

investor@ctw.inc

CTW Cayman, Inc.

Key Operating Metrics

The following table includes the Company’s key operating metrics for the years ended July 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023.

Glossary of Terms for Key Operating Metrics

CTW Cayman, Inc.

U.S. GAAP Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Adjusted Results

(Amounts in U.S. dollars thousands)

(unaudited)

Reconciliation to the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measure of the on-GAAP measures included in this press release is as follows. The following table reconciles the Company’s net income (loss) to Adjusted EBITDA:

CTW Cayman has determined to supplement its consolidated financial statements, prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”), presented elsewhere within this report, with non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA, “Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization.”

This non-GAAP disclosure has limitations as an analytical tool, should not be viewed as a substitute for Net Earnings (Loss) determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under U.S. GAAP, nor is it necessarily comparable to non-GAAP performance measures that may be presented by other companies. CTW Cayman considers this non-GAAP measure in addition to its results prepared under current accounting standards, but it is not a substitute for, nor superior to, U.S. GAAP measures. This non-GAAP measure is provided to enhance readers’ overall understanding of the Company’s current financial performance and to provide further information for comparative purposes. This supplemental presentation should not be construed as an inference that the Company's future results will be unaffected by similar adjustments to Net Earnings (Loss) determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Specifically, CTW Cayman believes the non-GAAP measure provides useful information to management and investors by isolating certain expenses, gains, and losses that may not be indicative of the Company’s core operating results and business outlook. In addition, CTW Cayman believes the non-GAAP measure enhances the comparability of results against prior periods.

In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures. The ASU’s amendments “improve reportable segment disclosure requirements, primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses”. In addition, the standard introduces new disclosure requirements specifically for entities with a single reportable segment, and it aims to help investors better understand a company’s performance and assess potential future cash flows. The new guidance applies to all public entities subject to segment reporting under ASC 280. This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. The Group adopted this ASU for the year ended July 31, 2025. The adoption of ASU does not change how segments are identified, aggregated, or measured, it adds incremental disclosure requirements.

An operating segment is a component of the Group that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses, and is identified on the basis of the internal financial reports that are provided to and regularly reviewed by the Group’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) in order to allocate resources and assess performance of the segment.

The management of the Group concludes that it has only one reporting segment. The Group provides game distribution and related services to game developers. The Group’s services have similar economic characteristics with respect to nature and form of the services provided. The Group’s chief operating decision maker has been identified as the Chief Executive Officer, who reviews Consolidated results when making decisions about allocating resources and assessing performance of the Group, rather than by geographic area; hence the Group has only one reporting segment. CODM reviews operation results on the consolidated in-game purchase amount, recoup of advances to game developers and revenue share with game developers and IP holders, advertising expenses, transaction fees, server cost directly related to the host of games, in-house payroll cost directly related to the art and design support services provided. The following table summarizes the operating results reviewed by CODM and reconciliation to net income as reported in the consolidated statement of comprehensive income.