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Axelspace Holdings

アクセルスペースホールディングス

TSE Growth ・ Ticker 402A ・ Listed

Updated

Result on listing day

+100.3%

Offer price

375 yen

First traded price

751 yen

Selling 100 shares at the first traded price would have produced a gain of 37,600 yen, before fees and tax. 100 shares is the minimum trading unit in Japan.

Application period (book building)
2025-07-28 — 2025-08-01
Lottery result
2025-08-04
Listing date
2025-08-13
Cash needed to apply for one lot (100 shares)
about 37,500 yen
Offering size (at the offer price)
8.6 billion yen ・ 23,000,000 shares
Market capitalisation at listing
24 billion yen
Lock-up
Not translated — this is the wording from the Japanese offering documents, kept verbatim so it matches what your broker shows: 経営陣などに180日間、ベンチャーキャピタルの多くは90日または公開価格の1.5倍で解除

Closing prices after listing

Compared with the first traded price of 751 yen.

2025-08-13674 yen-10.3%
2025-08-14774 yen+3.1%
2025-08-15924 yen+23.0%
2025-08-181,074 yen+43.0%
2025-08-19999 yen+33.0%

Brokers you can apply through

You can only enter this lottery through a broker underwriting it. The lead underwriter is SMBC Nikko Securities, which receives the largest allocation.

Broker pages are in Japanese. A comparison in English is on the brokers page.

What stands out

  • Won the Ministry of Defense satellite constellation project, worth 43.6 billion yen, as the sole supplier of optical imagery
  • Order backlog of about 54.8 billion yen at the end of the third quarter of the year to May 2026, up 591.4% year on year
  • Launched seven GRUS-3 next generation Earth observation satellites in July 2026 and confirmed signals from all of them

What could go wrong

  • Losses are continuing. The net loss for the year to May 2026 was 4.06 billion yen, wider than the year before
  • Revenue depends heavily on large government projects, and a delay in component deliveries can force the company to revise its forecast, as it did during the year to May 2026
  • Risks specific to the satellite business, such as a launch failure or a malfunction in orbit

About the company

A space company that builds and operates its own small satellites, selling the Earth observation imagery they take and taking on satellite development work for customers.

How it makes money

It runs two businesses. AxelGlobe sells imagery taken by its own GRUS Earth observation satellites to government bodies, private companies and overseas customers. AxelLiner takes on satellite work for clients, covering design and manufacturing through launch and in-orbit operation. AxelLiner centres on government projects such as the K Program for economic security technologies, and revenue is booked in line with how far the work has progressed, so it rises while expensive components are being procured and eases during the design and manufacturing phase. Subsidies from government bodies are not counted as revenue under accounting rules, so the company also discloses total income, which adds subsidy income to revenue.

Where growth is meant to come from

In February 2026 it won the Ministry of Defense satellite constellation project, a contract worth 43.6 billion yen before tax that runs from February 2026 to the end of March 2031, and it takes part as the sole supplier of optical imagery. Its order backlog had built up to about 54.8 billion yen by the end of the third quarter of the year to May 2026, and in July 2026 it successfully launched seven GRUS-3 next generation Earth observation satellites. For the year to May 2027 the company forecasts revenue of 9 billion yen, about 3.6 times the previous year, while still expecting a net loss of 240 million yen.

Read about this company in Japanese →

Figures are taken from the offering documents and public sources, and are checked against two independent sources before publication. Nothing here is investment advice. Shares can and do open below their offer price.