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Shares of SoftBank Group

surged 13% Friday to hit a fresh record, following the company’s higher-than-expected fiscal first-quarter profit.

This marks the Japanese investment firm’s fourth straight session of gains, and comes after it closed at a record high in its previous session, before its earnings release.

SoftBank’s profits for the April to June quarter came in at 421.8 billion yen ($2.87 billion), substantially overshooting LSEG consensus estimates of127.6 billion yen.