{"id":37926,"date":"2025-11-11T07:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=37926"},"modified":"2025-11-11T07:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:18:19","slug":"softbank-profits-more-than-double-as-ai-valuations-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=37926","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank profits more than double as AI valuations soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=5f04e0e2-7a9c-4885-92a3-9ed5242c7d38\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Masayoshi Son\u2019s SoftBank Group said net profit more than doubled in its second quarter and announced a four-to-one stock split on Tuesday as valuations of artificial intelligence companies soar alongside growing fears of a bubble.<\/p>\n<p>Net profit at the AI-invested company was \u00a52.5tn ($16.2bn) in the quarter to the end of September, far above analysts\u2019 expectations of \u00a5207bn, according to LSEG data and the \u00a51.2tn recorded in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The profits were driven by the group\u2019s tech-heavy Vision Fund, which recorded an investment gain of \u00a52.8tn in the quarter from stakes in OpenAI and PayPay.<\/p>\n<aside aria-labelledby=\"aside-label\" class=\"n-content-recommended--single-story n-content-recommended--inset\" data-component=\"recommended\">\n<p class=\"n-content-recommended__title o3-type-body-highlight\">Recommended<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser o-teaser--article o-teaser--small o-teaser--stacked o-teaser--has-image js-teaser\" data-id=\"4008c2ed-0be3-4c06-baf5-3c54be5e1e2e\">\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-container js-teaser-image-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4008c2ed-0be3-4c06-baf5-3c54be5e1e2e\" data-trackable=\"image-link\" data-trackable-context-story-link=\"image-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-placeholder\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2493\/1402\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Son has bet his reputation on a series of huge investments aimed at turning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/stream\/2d38f7bb-9601-4365-90fa-779306db9cf1\" data-trackable=\"link\">SoftBank<\/a> into a critical player in AI, a technology he believes will shape \u201chumanity\u2019s future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside his ownership of UK chip designer Arm, Son has invested in OpenAI, Nvidia and Oracle. He most recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4080ecae-0654-4597-9596-025c373874c3\" data-trackable=\"link\">bought ABB\u2019s robotics arm<\/a> in a deal valuing the business at $5.4bn.<\/p>\n<p>SoftBank\u2019s shares have more than doubled this year to over \u00a522,000, driven by its investment in OpenAI, making Son Japan\u2019s richest man.<\/p>\n<p>The company on Tuesday said the stock split, which will take effect on January 1, will make the shares \u201cmore accessible to investors and further expand its investor base\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Last month the ChatGPT maker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/74d537c6-bd80-4797-9897-3d5455dfc414\" data-trackable=\"link\">completed a long-awaited restructuring<\/a>, unlocking a second tranche of investment from SoftBank and the possibility of an eventual public listing.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/5f04e0e2-7a9c-4885-92a3-9ed5242c7d38\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}