Investor relations

Dividend/Shareholder Return

Basic policy regarding shareholder returns

The Company recognizes that shareholder returns are an important management issue. During the period of the Medium-Term Management Plan artience 2027 (2024~2026), we will use surplus cash from the achievement of profits for shareholder returns such as strategic investments and share buybacks, while maintaining stable dividends. In addition, the total return ratio is 50% or more.

Basic shareholder return policy

The Company recognizes shareholder returns as a significant management issue. In the period covered by the current medium-term management plan artience 2027 (2024 to 2026.) While pursuing a basic policy of paying stable dividends, the Company will allocate the surplus cash in the event of securing a profit to strategic investments, the acquisition of treasury shares and other forms of shareholder return. The total payoutratio target is set at 50% or more.

Diagram of the Basic Policy on Shareholder Returns

As of August 9, 2024

Dividend per share

Unit: Yen

  2020 2021 2022 2023 FY2024 (Forecast)
interim dividend 45.0 45.0 45.0 45.0 50.0
Year-end dividend 45.0 45.0 45.0 45.0 50.0(Forecast)
annual dividend 90.0 90.0 90.0 90.0 100.0(Forecast)
Graph of dividend trends

As of August 9, 2024

Share buybacks

Buyback period Repurchase method Total number of shares repurchased Total amount acquired

From August 13, 2024 to August 12, 2025

Market purchase on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

4,500,000 shares

(Maximum)

10.0 billion yen (maximum)
2022年8月8日 Tokyo Stock Exchange's Off-Auction Own ShareRepurchase Trading System(ToSTNeT-3) 570,000 shares 1,103,520,000 yen
2022年5月16日 Tokyo Stock Exchange's Off-Auction Own ShareRepurchase Trading System(ToSTNeT-3) 2,335,200 shares 4,628,366,400 yen
2021年2月15日 Tokyo Stock Exchange's Off-Auction Own ShareRepurchase Trading System(ToSTNeT-3) 2,630,000 shares 4,970,700,000 yen
2017年2月21日 Tokyo Stock Exchange's Off-Auction Own ShareRepurchase Trading System(ToSTNeT-3) 3,919,000 shares 2,175,045,000 yen

As of August 9, 2024

Status of treasury stock cancellation

Date of cancellation Type of stock Number of shares to be cancelled Ratio of the total number of issued shares
(excluding treasury stock)
May 31, 2024 (PDF:101KB)
May 31, 2024 (PDF:81KB)
Ordinary shares of the Company 5,000,000 shares 8.58%
2022年5月31日 Ordinary shares of the Company 2,335,200 shares 4.18%

As of May 31, 2024

Shareholder benefits

We offer shareholder benefits.
Please refer to the shareholder benefits page for details.

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