Yakult Honsha

Shareholders

Foreign ownership · FYE Mar 2025: 20.3%
Financial institutions: 23.0%
Other corporations: 21.6%
Individuals & others: 33.7%
Ten largest, combined: 34.7%
Shareholders: 119,050

Ownership mix Financial institutions Securities firms Other corporations Foreign corporations Foreign individuals Individuals & others

Share of the company held by each class of owner, as filed each year (%). The seven classes add up to the whole company.

Ownership by holder class, every year on record (%), 2019–2025. Scroll sideways for earlier years.
Fiscal year	Unit	2019 ^*1 FYE Mar	2020 ^*1 FYE Mar	2021 ^*1 FYE Mar	2022 ^*1 FYE Mar	2023 ^*1 FYE Mar	2024 ^*1 FYE Mar	2025 ^*1 FYE Mar
Financial institutions	%	27.2%	25.8%	28.1%	29.0%	25.6%	23.0%	23.0%
Securities firms	%	0.5%	0.6%	1.5%	1.4%	1.6%	2.1%	1.3%
Other corporations	%	27.5%	27.6%	25.4%	24.7%	23.6%	22.9%	21.6%
Foreign corporations	%	23.2%	24.1%	22.2%	22.6%	26.1%	20.5%	20.3%
Foreign individuals	%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Individuals & others	%	21.6%	22.0%	22.8%	22.2%	23.1%	31.5%	33.7%
Shareholders	holders	23,088	27,137	33,979	29,449	27,071	91,443	119,050

*1 Securities report (yuka shoken hokokusho) — status of shares by holder category, as filed

Foreign ownership Foreign holders, combined Foreign corporations Foreign individuals

How much of the company sits with holders outside Japan (%). Almost all of it is institutional: overseas individuals rarely hold Japanese stock directly.

Foreign holdings by fiscal year (%), with the year-on-year move in percentage points.
Fiscal year	Unit	2019 ^*1 FYE Mar	2020 ^*1 FYE Mar	2021 ^*1 FYE Mar	2022 ^*1 FYE Mar	2023 ^*1 FYE Mar	2024 ^*1 FYE Mar	2025 ^*1 FYE Mar
Foreign holders, combined	%	23.2%	24.1%	22.2%	22.7%	26.2%	20.5%	20.3%
Change	pp	—	+0.9pp	-1.9pp	+0.5pp	+3.5pp	-5.7pp	-0.2pp
Foreign corporations	%	23.2%	24.1%	22.2%	22.6%	26.1%	20.5%	20.3%
Foreign individuals	%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Foreign corporate holders	holders	546	565	601	620	657	591	572

*1 Securities report (yuka shoken hokokusho) — status of shares by holder category, as filed

Concentration Ten largest, combined Largest holder

How much of the company the ten largest shareholders hold between them (%). Japanese filings list trust banks and custodians under their own names, so a single line here often stands for many underlying investors.

Combined stake of the ten largest shareholders, and of the single largest, by fiscal year (%).
Fiscal year	Unit	2016 ^*1 FYE Mar	2017 ^*1 FYE Mar	2018 ^*1 FYE Mar	2019 ^*1 FYE Mar	2020 ^*1 FYE Mar	2021 ^*1 FYE Mar	2022 ^*1 FYE Mar	2023 ^*1 FYE Mar	2024 ^*1 FYE Mar	2025 ^*1 FYE Mar
Ten largest, combined	%	38.6%	39.1%	29.2%	32.9%	33.1%	29.1%	37.8%	35.7%	34.9%	34.7%
Change	pp	—	+0.5pp	-9.9pp	+3.7pp	+0.2pp	-4.0pp	+8.7pp	-2.1pp	-0.8pp	-0.2pp
Largest holder	%	20.0%	20.0%	6.6%	6.6%	6.6%	7.5%	15.2%	14.3%	13.1%	13.1%

*1 Securities report (yuka shoken hokokusho) — ten largest shareholders, as filed

Holders and shares by class

The counts behind the percentages: how many shareholders sit in each class, and how much stock they hold. Shares are in trading units (tan'i) as filed — one unit is usually 100 shares.

Shareholder counts and holdings by class, every year on record. Treasury stock and odd-lot holdings are excluded, so the classes may not sum exactly to the issued total.
Fiscal year	Unit	2019 ^*1 FYE Mar	2020 ^*1 FYE Mar	2021 ^*1 FYE Mar	2022 ^*1 FYE Mar	2023 ^*1 FYE Mar	2024 ^*1 FYE Mar	2025 ^*1 FYE Mar
Financial institutions — holders	holders	89	88	98	76	69	78	73
Securities firms — holders	holders	42	28	46	33	27	51	42
Other corporations — holders	holders	492	512	548	499	464	831	839
Foreign corporations — holders	holders	546	565	601	620	657	591	572
Foreign individuals — holders	holders	17	20	31	23	24	143	229
Individuals & others — holders	holders	21,902	25,924	32,655	28,198	25,830	89,749	117,295
All holders	holders	23,088	27,137	33,979	29,449	27,071	91,443	119,050
Financial institutions — shares	units	464,989	440,844	480,920	495,618	437,476	785,598	786,374
Securities firms — shares	units	8,083	9,700	24,959	24,640	27,166	73,419	45,288
Other corporations — shares	units	470,922	471,490	434,380	422,299	403,135	782,220	739,227
Foreign corporations — shares	units	397,116	412,329	379,469	387,220	447,175	700,608	693,457
Foreign individuals — shares	units	96	99	112	105	126	706	705
Individuals & others — shares	units	368,738	375,460	390,011	379,986	394,715	1,076,144	1,153,048
All shares	units	1,709,944	1,709,922	1,709,851	1,709,868	1,709,793	3,418,695	3,418,099

*1 Securities report (yuka shoken hokokusho) — status of shares by holder category, as filed

日本語版 — the named list of major shareholders → The ten largest holders are filed under their registered Japanese names — trust-bank omnibus accounts and transliterated custodian names that have no English equivalent — so they are not reproduced here. The Japanese edition carries the full name-by-name table, year by year.

Figures are the ownership breakdown as filed in each year's securities report, at that fiscal year's record date. Treasury stock and odd-lot holdings are excluded from the class percentages, so a company that holds much of its own stock will show classes summing to slightly under the whole.

Read the company history → Financial history → 日本語版（詳細）— full shareholder data in Japanese →

Disclaimer

This page is provided for general information only and is not investment advice, nor a recommendation to buy or sell any security.
Figures are compiled independently and include our own estimates, approximations and machine-processed data; we make no warranty as to their accuracy or completeness.
Sources are primarily each company's securities reports and other public filings, but errors and omissions may remain.
Ownership changes continuously; a filed breakdown describes one record date, not the position today.
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