PRE-MARKET AUSTRALIAN, JAPANESE AND SOUTH KOREAN STOCKS NEWS: Earnings including IGO, Magellan Financial Group, Mineral Resources, Perpetual, Qantas, Ramsay Health Care, Sigma Healthcare, South32 and Wesfarmers

Aurelia Metals (AMI AT) - Co. FY (AUD) net rose 69% Y/Y to 82.7mln, EBITDA rose 55% Y/Y to 189.2mln, rev. rose 40% Y/Y to 480.2mln. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Bapcor (BAP AT) - Co. FY (AUD) net loss 431.6mln, rev. fell 2.6% Y/Y to 1.92bln, no final dividend. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Capricorn Metals (CMM AT) - Co. FY (AUD) net rose 88% Y/Y to 282.2mln, rev. rose 46% Y/Y to 769.3mln, final dividend AUD 0.05/shr, reaffirmed FY27 guidance. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Eagers Automotive (APE AT) - Co. H1 (AUD) net rose 23% Y/Y to 165.2mln, rev. rose 24% Y/Y to 8.05bln. (Motley Fool)

EQT Holdings (EQT AT) - BGH Capital has reignited its AUD 643mln takeover bid for the Co., reportedly drawing on expertise from a former Perpetual executive to strengthen its position. (The Australian)

IGO (IGO AT) - Co. FY (AUD) net 145.3mln, rev. fell 12% Y/Y to 462.9mln, final dividend AUD 0.05/shr. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Magellan Financial Group (MFG AT) - Co. FY (AUD) net 87.9mln (prev. 165.0mln Y/Y), operating profit 144.9mln (prev. 159.7mln Y/Y), rev. 195.6mln (prev. 318.9mln Y/Y), dividend AUD 0.255/shr. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Mayne Pharma (MYX AT) - Co. FY (AUD) net 24.5mln, no final dividend. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Mineral Resources (MIN AT) - Co. FY (AUD) net 1.06bln (prev. loss 904mln Y/Y), rev. 6.46bln (prev. 4.47bln Y/Y), resumed dividend at AUD 0.83/shr. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Perpetual (PPT AT) - Co. FY (AUD) net 88.9mln, underlying net rose 6% Y/Y to 217.0mln, rev. 1.14bln. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Qantas Airways (QAN AT) - Co. FY (AUD) net 1.29bln (prev. 1.605bln Y/Y), underlying pretax profit 2.1bln (exp. 2.1bln), rev. 25.5bln (prev. 23.8bln Y/Y). (Newswires)

Ramsay Health Care (RHC AT) - Co. FY (AUD) net 329.2mln, EBITDA rose 6.9% Y/Y to 2.31bln, rev. rose 5.1% Y/Y to 18.69bln. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Sigma Healthcare (SIG AT) - Co. FY (AUD) net rose 34% Y/Y to 709.2mln, rev. rose 81% Y/Y to 10.83bln, final dividend AUD 0.02/shr. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Smartgroup (SIQ AT) - Co. H1 (AUD) net rose 11% Y/Y to 42.4mln, rev. rose 13% Y/Y to 179.5mln, interim dividend AUD 0.215/security. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

South32 (S32 AT) - Co. FY (USD) net 1.09bln (prev. 213mln Y/Y), underlying earnings 1.03bln (prev. 666mln Y/Y), rev. 5.82bln (prev. 5.78bln Y/Y). (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Waypoint REIT (WPR AT) - Co. H1 (AUD) net fell 52% Y/Y to 65.8mln, rev. fell 1.1% Y/Y to 81.5mln. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Wesfarmers (WES AT) - Co. FY (AUD) net fell 1.8% Y/Y to 2.87bln, EBIT rose 0.6% Y/Y to 4.49bln, rev. rose 3.4% Y/Y to 47.27bln, final dividend AUD 1.20/shr. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Xero (XRO AT) - Co. FY27 (NZD) expects adjusted EBITDA of 860-920mln, rev. of 3.62-3.73bln, alongside average revenue per customer expansion, customer growth and some AI feature monetisation. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

JFE Holdings (5411 JT) - JFE Engineering, a subsidiary of the Co., will begin supplying domestically produced steel monopiles for offshore wind farms, becoming the first Japanese company to do so. (Nikkei)

Kioxia Holdings (285A JT) - Co. plans to build a new memory manufacturing plant in Iwate Prefecture with investment exceeding JPY 1tln. (Nikkei)

Komatsu (6301 JT) - Co. will triple the size of a US mining equipment maintenance hub as copper mining demand increases amid AI data-centre infrastructure investment. (Nikkei)

Mitsubishi Motors (7211 JT) - Nissan Motor (7201 JT) could potentially divest its stake in the Co. following the end of a lockup period, with Honda Motor (7267 JT) or Foxconn cited as possible alternative capital partners. (Nikkei)

Orix JREIT (8954 JT) - Co.'s asset manager agreed to acquire a 50% quasi-co-ownership interest in Toyosu Prime Square, an office property in Tokyo, for JPY 29.4bln. (Newswires)

Toyota Motor (7203 JT) - Co. reportedly plans to cut September-November global production by 1.8% Y/Y amid weakness overseas. (Chukei)

Yamaha (7951 JT) - Co. plans to sell 14mln shares of Yamaha Motor (7272 JT), representing 1.37% of shares outstanding, reducing its stake to 1.46% from 2.84%. (Newswires)

Hyundai Motor (005380 KS) - Co. plans to expand global production capacity by 1.27mln units by 2030 and launch more than 100 new and updated models to strengthen its global market presence. (Yonhap)

Mirae Asset Securities (006800 KS) - Co. and Toss Securities are considering acquisitions of Japanese brokerages. (Newswires)

OTHER NEWS

US and South Korea are working to resolve differences related to the terms of a previously disclosed investment agreement. (Newswires)

This is the seasonal Australian reporting cluster landing at once, and the historical pattern with these multi-stock pre-market roundups is that the open sorts by sector rather than moving as a bloc: the resources names here (gold miners, diversifieds, lithium-adjacent) are effectively a leveraged read on the metals complex, while the domestic earners (retail, health, airlines, fund managers) trade on local guidance and dividend treatment. The distinction worth drawing is between results that merely confirm a strong commodity price backdrop, which tend to fade after the opening repricing, and those that reset guidance or capital returns, since resumed or omitted dividends have historically driven the more durable single-stock moves. The corporate angle, a revived private equity bid for a wealth manager, follows the established sequence in Australian financials: initial approach, lapse, re-approach at revised terms, with the target's register and competing suitors the usual tells. On the Japan side, the items are strategic rather than earnings: capacity additions in memory and mining equipment tied to data-centre and copper demand fit the recurring capex-cycle narrative, and a production trim at the largest automaker is the kind of supply-side signal that has previously fed through the autos peer set and the yen-sensitive exporter complex. Worth watching next are the guidance details behind the headline prints, any follow-through on the takeover situation, and whether the memory and equipment capex plans are echoed by regional peers.