Nomura Holdings Inc. said Thursday its group pretax profit for the nine months to Dec. 31 soared 217.3 percent from a year earlier to 189.18 billion yen amid the stock market recovery.

In its consolidated earnings report based on U.S. accounting standards, the brokerage giant posted revenues of 790.83 billion yen in the April-December period, up 24.7 percent.

But its net profit fell 29.9 percent to 102.42 billion yen due mainly to accounting technicalities.