Shareholder Return

Shareholder Return Policy

The Company's management objectives are to strengthen its financial position and enhance its corporate value on a sustainable basis through actively develop its business and positions the continuous return of profits to shareholders as one of its most important management measures, and its basic policy is to distribute profits by paying dividends twice annually in the form of an interim dividend and a year-end dividend. 

Dividend

item Dividend amount per share (yen) Dividend payout ratio (%) Total payout ratio(%)
March 31, 2026 58 51.5 96.7
March 31, 2025 53 81.8 209.3
March 31, 2024 51 71.1 245.4
March 31, 2023 51 32.9 -
March 31, 2022 51 30.3 -
March 31, 2021 41 30.0 -
March 31, 2020 30 31.3 -
March 31, 2019 30 32.0 -
March 31, 2018 25 35.1 -
March 31, 2017 25 31.4 -
March 31, 2016

20

 30.1 -

* Implementation of stock split * On of April 1, 2018, 1: 2 stock split. Accordingly, dividend amount converted into base after split before fiscal year ended Mar. 31, 2018.

Details of the Acquisition and Cancellation of Treasury Shares

Details of the Acquisition of Treasury Shares

Purchase period Number of shares Total amount
November 1, 2024 - July 7, 2025 2,000,000 shares 4,344,992,400 yen
February 1, 2024 - March 19, 2024 1,500,000 shares

2,897,945,585 yen
January 31, 2024 1,000,000 shares 1,739,000,000 yen

Details of the Cancellation of Treasury Shares

Date Type of shares Number of shares
November 14, 2025 Common shares 4,000,000 shares
April 26, 2024 Common shares 1,500,000 shares
February 9, 2024 Common shares 1,000,000 shares
 November 30, 2023 Common shares 2,500,000 shares

Shareholder Benefits Program

We have decided to introduce the Shareholder Benefits Program as one of our priority measures to expand our base of individual shareholders who hold our stock over the medium to long term, aiming to enhance the investment appeal of our stock and broaden our shareholder base.

The first record date will be March 31, 2027.

Description of Shareholder Benefits Program

Shareholders recorded in the shareholder register as of March 31 each year who have continuously held 500 or more shares for at least three years are eligible for QUO Card Pay benefits, with the amount determined by the length of their holding period.

Share Ownership Period QUO Card Pay Amount
3 years or more but less than 5 years 2,000 yen
5 years or more but less than 10 years 3,000 yen
10 years or more 5,000 yen

 

* The share ownership period refers to the period during which a holding of 500 shares or more has been continuously registered or recorded under the same shareholder number in our register of shareholders as of the record dates (the last day of March and the last day of September). For the purposes of the respective categories of years of continuous share ownership, a period of three years or more is defined as having been continuously registered or recorded in our register of shareholders as of the record dates (the last day of March and the last day of September) for seven or more consecutive record dates; a period of five years or more, 11 or more consecutive record dates; and a period of 10 years or more, 21 or more consecutive record dates.

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