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Operator

SBC Medical Group Holdings Incorporated, it trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol SBC. It is a medical services organization providing management support across a wide range of healthcare fields, including advanced aesthetic healthcare, dermatology, orthopedics, fertility treatment, gynecology, dentistry, alopecia treatment, and ophthalmology. Serving 676 million customers annually, the group is driving AI strategy to lead the future of healthcare. Today, we have with us Hikaru Fukui, Head of IR. First, let us start with a video.

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Thank you very much for joining us today despite your busy schedules. I will now present SBC Medical Group's business overview. Additionally, financial results and the update on our business strategies, capital, and IR strategy for the second quarter of 2026. Let me begin by explaining how SBC actually operates because our model is somewhat different from what many people initially expect. We are a medical services organization, or MSO, behind Japan's number one aesthetic medical group. Built over 26 years, we provide clinics with everything they need to operate efficiently, including marketing, procurement, technology, hiring, and training. Everything is managed centrally, which makes the model highly scalable. As the clinics grow, our earnings grow alongside them. On that base, it is strengthening its platform through AI and expanding into longevity and global markets, backed by strong profitability and a solid balance sheet. Our clinic highlights. As of the end of June 2026, our number of locations reached 287, up 34 year-on-year, and the annual number of customer visits over the trailing 12 months was 6.92 million, up 10%.

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Year-to-date clinic revenue rose 11%, same clinic revenue was up 6%, and average spend per visit in the quarter increased 9%, with both customer volume and unit price rising together. Our clinic business is showing renewed strength. If I had to sum up this quarter in a single sentence, it is the quarter in which we completed the structural reforms we undertook in 2025, and SBC's growth entered a phase of re-acceleration. On the back of an expanding business base and more sophisticated support functions, including AI, we delivered profit growth that outpaced revenue growth. Our financial highlights, second quarter revenue was $49 million, up 13% year-on-year.

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Adjusted EBITDA was $20 million, up 32%, and our adjusted EBITDA margin was 41%. Profit growth outpaced revenue growth, with profitability improving. In the second quarter, we grew both revenue and profit despite a weaker JPY. Because most of our business is conducted in JPY, a weaker JPY is a headwind for our reported results. Even so, we absorbed it and still delivered strong revenue and operating income. The main driver was higher management services revenue, reflecting the expansion of the points business following the change in our operating policy in June 2025. A revision of certain service fees also contributed. Now to our strategy update. We aim to be a healthcare platform that supports longevity, people living young and bigger lives, from two sides, aesthetic medicine, an appearance-based approach, and non-aesthetic or general medicine, a function-based approach.

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Our goal is to become the name that comes to mind when people in Japan think of healthcare and AI. We believe four growth strategies will get us there, accelerating our multi-brand strategy in aesthetic dermatology, expanding our non-aesthetic business, expanding globally, and strengthening our competitiveness and reforming our cost structure through AI. I will briefly comment on each of these four growth strategies. We believe that AI is developing into a source of SBC's next competitive advantage. In aesthetic dermatology, we are accelerating our multi-brand strategy to capture increasingly diverse needs and raise lifetime value. First half transaction value grew a strong 19% year-on-year. To reach the customer segment that prefers basic dermatological treatments, which is driving market expansion, we are renaming Shonan Aesthetic Dermatology to SBC NEO Skin Clinic.

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The skin clinic name lowers the barrier to aesthetic medicine and broadens our appeal, and we will open two additional clinics. Next, our high-value brands for beauty-conscious customers who choose based on the expertise of doctors and equipment. We will add three new skin clinic locations for a total of four and one JUN CLINIC for a total of seven. To meet solid demand in men's aesthetics and hair removal, we are launching two new formats, THE LASER, a large-scale hair removal clinic, and SBC MEN'S FLASH, which specializes in men's hair removal with high-speed operations. Gorilla Clinic's first half transaction value was JPY 62 million, up 19% year-on-year.

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Using hair removal and oral age treatment as entry points, we guide customers step by step toward dermatological and higher value treatments, and this deeper penetration of our existing customer base drove the growth. Aiming for a Japan where longevity means SBC, we position non-aesthetic healthcare as our second growth engine. Our transaction value mix is still roughly 84% aesthetic and 16% non-aesthetic, which means the potential upside is significant. To drive this, we established a dedicated team in June 2026, led by Naoya Fujimoto, formerly an executive officer at a major healthcare and IT talent platform company. It will strengthen both customer acquisition and medical management, first sharpening the acquisition and operations of existing clinics to raise utilization and revenue per clinic, and in parallel, using M&A to expand the number of locations. The premise of our global expansion is a stable earnings base in Japan.

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On that foundation, we grow overseas with discipline. In the U.S., we are advancing our collaboration with OrangeTwist, in which we took a minority stake in December 2025. OrangeTwist has 24 locations across six states and a membership base where recurring revenue exceeds 40% of sales. We are currently sharing operating know-how and expanding the service menu. Over the medium to long term, we aim to export the model we establish in the U.S. to Japan and Asia. In Southeast Asia, we are exporting, as it lights the operating system honed in Japan of affordable, reliable, and standardized. We are proving this out at our first Thai clinic, BLEZ CLINIC. Under our Powered by SBC model, the local partner provides capital and operations while SBC supplies procurement, standardization, training, and patient acquisition, earning recurring fees linked to revenue in return.

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This expands our footprint at a high return on invested capital, or ROIC, while holding down capital expenditure. Starting from Thailand, we will expand the model across ASEAN. AI is a foundational strategy supporting both growth and efficiency. We are leveraging more than 26 years of accumulated management data to support AI development, building a barrier that is hard to replicate. Strengthening our MSO platform through AI lifts growth in three directions at once, the number of locations, the fee per clinic, and the range of service menus. A more attractive platform draws in new clinics, more active transactions, raised service fee levels, and the service menu expands, a virtuous cycle that we believe drives recurring consolidated revenue and EPS growth. More sophisticated support functions, AI foremost among them, translate directly into greater value for clinics, and we are raising service fee levels in stages accordingly.

Speaker

Enhanced call center functions are expected to add roughly $11 million per year, and stronger support for the Galleria and Laos clinics is expected to add roughly $4 million, together about $15 million per year on a full year basis. On a win-win basis with the medical corporations, we aim to sustainably raise our average fee per clinic, or AFPC, at limited additional cost, which further supports profitability. Since our NASDAQ listing, we have reinforced our core platform and laid strategic groundwork overseas and in new domains. From here, we enter a phase of multifaceted acceleration, expanding and rebranding domestic aesthetics dermatology, launching new formats, strengthening non-aesthetic healthcare, moving the U.S. into phase 2, expanding B2B and joint ventures in Southeast Asia, applying AI, and planning a longevity center for 2027. Through disciplined investment, we will pursue differentiated earnings and sustained EPS growth. Finally, our capital and IR strategy.

Speaker

Our basic policy is to pursue EPS growth and a normalization of our valuation in parallel, enhancing shareholder value over the medium to long term. Backed by unpaid cash, we are investing in both organic growth and disciplined M&A. At the same time, we recognize that SBC's recognition in the capital markets, particularly in the U.S., is still limited. That said, our investor base is broadening rapidly. Our shareholder base has grown roughly 4.7 times year-on-year as of July 2026. Building on this momentum, in 2026 we have actively participated and will continue to participate in IR conferences in New York, Hong Kong, and elsewhere, and step up our year-round investor engagement, including NDR, one-on-ones, and outreach to retail investors.

Speaker

We will also keep working to expand analyst coverage through all of this with continuous EPS growth and the pursuit of an appropriate valuation in the capital markets as our two wheels. We expect to deliver even greater value to all our stakeholders, beginning with you, our shareholders. We hope you will look forward to what lies ahead for SBC. That concludes my remarks. Thank you very much for your attention.

Operator

All right. Well, thank you so much for that video presentation. It explains everything perfectly. Let's jump into some questions. First of all, you describe this quarter as a re-acceleration of growth. Tell us what has changed, and do you expect this momentum to continue?

Hikaru FukuiHead of Investor Relations

Thank you very much for your question, Anna. Yes, we do. Over the last two years, the market became much more competitive, so we reviewed almost every part of our businesses. We looked again at our marketing, pricing, services, and how we communicate with customers. We also strengthened our multi-branding strategy so that we can offer the right service at the right price to each customer group. We also made our marketing much more data-driven. We now look closely at customer needs and behavior and use that data to improve our decisions. We are now seeing the results. At this moment, we confirm not only number of customers visit, but also customer spending is growing. That is very different from the last two years. We believe this is not just a short-term recovery. It reflects a stronger business platform, and we are confident that this growth can continue.

Operator

Wonderful. You call non-aesthetics healthcare your second growth engine. How large can this business become?

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