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Licensed retail split TPC royalty against licensees against retailers, 2025 LG ↔ TPC year to February 2026

2025 LG ↔ TPC year to February 2026

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What this is

Royalty yield band from the industry/Sanrio comp (5.51–5.56% of retail) and Funko's filed average royalty (16.1% 2024, 17.4% 2025, all licensors) × wholesale/retail 0.5; applied to LG's (E) $15.7bn on both scopes of.

The values

  • LG 2025: $15.7bn
  • LG 2025: ¥2,348bn

Some detail is too fine to show here; it is kept in the trainer’s notes.

Where it comes from

Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:

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  1. 15.7 × 149.57 = 2,348.2
  2. 15.7 × 0.0551 = 0.865 → ¥129.4bn
  3. × 0.087 = 1.366 → ¥204.3bn
  4. kept 1 − 0.087 = 91.3% to 1 − 0.0551 = 94.5%
  5. 2,348.2 − 204.3 = 2,143.9
  6. 2,348.2 − 129.4 = 2,218.8
  7. Licensees (0.5 − 0.087) = 41.3% to (0.5 − 0.0551) = 44.5% of retail
  8. royalty/wholesale 0.0551/0.5 = 11.0%, 0.087/0.5 = 17.4%
  9. TCG-IN merch 11.96 × 149.57 = 1,788.9
  10. 13.36 × 149.57 = 1,998.3

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