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NorthSand

ノースサンド

TSE Growth ・ Ticker 446A ・ Listed

Updated

Result on listing day

+7.1%

Offer price

1,120 yen

First traded price

1,200 yen

Selling 100 shares at the first traded price would have produced a gain of 8,000 yen, before fees and tax. 100 shares is the minimum trading unit in Japan.

Application period (book building)
2025-11-06 — 2025-11-12
Lottery result
2025-11-13
Listing date
2025-11-21
Cash needed to apply for one lot (100 shares)
about 112,000 yen
Offering size (at the offer price)
22 billion yen ・ 19,800,000 shares
Market capitalisation at listing
77 billion yen
Lock-up
Not translated — this is the wording from the Japanese offering documents, kept verbatim so it matches what your broker shows: 既存株主の全てに180日間または360日間

Closing prices after listing

Compared with the first traded price of 1,200 yen.

2025-11-211,467 yen+22.3%
2025-11-251,368 yen+14.0%
2025-11-261,396 yen+16.3%
2025-11-271,274 yen+6.2%
2025-11-281,332 yen+11.0%

Brokers you can apply through

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

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

What stands out

  • Revenue rose roughly sixfold in three years, from 4.45 billion yen in the year to January 2023 to 26.19 billion yen in the year to January 2026
  • 1,916 consultants as of the second quarter of the year to January 2027, with utilisation held above 90%
  • The world's first authorised reseller of the information-sharing tool Notion

What could go wrong

  • The business runs on people, so growth can stall if hiring falls behind plan or consultant turnover rises
  • Revenue depends on the utilisation rate; margins fall quickly when projects run dry
  • Clients are mainly large Japanese companies, so orders could shrink if corporate IT investment or demand for consulting contracts

About the company

A full-service consulting firm whose consultants work alongside client companies as a team to fix IT and business problems.

How it makes money

Revenue comes mainly from placing consultants inside client companies and charging according to how many consultants work and for how long. IT consulting — drawing up medium-term IT plans, replacing core systems — and business consulting in areas such as marketing and human resources are sold as a single business rather than as separate lines. The company is also the world's first authorised reseller of the information-sharing tool Notion, with a dedicated team covering licences, rollout design and adoption support. Revenue is essentially consultant headcount multiplied by utilisation rate and average rate per consultant. As of the second quarter of the year to January 2027 it had 1,916 consultants and a utilisation rate above 90%.

Where growth is meant to come from

Revenue grew from 4.45 billion yen in the year to January 2023 to 26.19 billion yen in the year to January 2026. On 11 September 2026 the company raised its full-year guidance for the year to January 2027 to revenue of 40.56 billion yen, operating profit of 9.21 billion yen and an annual dividend of 35 yen. Over the medium term it targets average revenue growth of at least 30% a year through the year to January 2029, with a longer-term goal of 100 billion yen in revenue and an operating margin above 30%. In September 2026 it applied to move to the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime market.

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.