Japan's Kusuri No Aoki jumps after posting strong profit

Kusuri No Aoki Holdings

15/03/2018 24:48

** Drugstore operator Kusuri No Aoki Holdings  3549.T  jumps
10 pct to 7,250 yen, highest since Nov. 21
    ** Co says operating profit for June-Feb period rises 5.4
pct to 8.97 bln yen
    ** As of the previous close, the stock had risen 10.39
percent so far this year. 
    ** Kusuri No Aoki Holdings has outperformed the Tokyo SE
TOPIX Retail Trade Stock Price Index sector  .IRETL.T  by 10.1
percentage points in the past one month.
    ** The main stock index NIKKEI 225 INDEX  .N225  has fallen
1.32 percent in the past month. 
    ** As of 00:40 GMT, about 227,800 shares of the
Ishikawa-ken-based company have been traded, about 157.6 percent
of their 30-day moving average of 144,530 shares a day.
 
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