FILE - A woman walks in front of SoftBank store in Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Jan. 20, 2020. Photo by Eugene Hoshiko / AP

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology company SoftBank Group Corp. said Tuesday that it has sold all the Nvidia Corp. shares that it owned for $5.83 billion, while it reported its profit nearly tripled in the first half of this fiscal year from a year earlier.

Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp. said it sold the stake in Silicon Vally-based Nvidia in October in a move that reflects its shift in focus to OpenAI.

SoftBank reported its profit in April-September soared to about 2.5 trillion yen (about $13 billion). Its sales for the six month period rose 7.7% year-on-year to 3.7 trillion yen ($24 billion), it said.

SoftBank’s fortunes tend to fluctuate because it inv

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