Ajinomoto

Shareholders

Foreign ownership · FYE Mar 2025
38.6%
Financial institutions
39.6%
Other corporations
2.6%
Individuals & others
17.4%
Ten largest, combined
48.1%
Shareholders
120,673
Ownership mix Government 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
Government % 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Financial institutions % 47.3%47.7%48.9%49.6%48.6%41.4%39.6%
Securities firms % 1.4%1.5%1.8%1.4%1.7%1.8%1.8%
Other corporations % 4.3%3.5%3.4%3.3%3.1%3.0%2.6%
Foreign corporations % 25.7%27.1%27.7%29.3%30.6%36.0%38.6%
Foreign individuals % 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Individuals & others % 21.3%20.0%18.3%16.4%15.9%17.8%17.4%
Shareholders holders 142,436139,741131,753112,981109,646118,164120,673
  • *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 % 25.7%27.2%27.7%29.4%30.7%36.0%38.6%
Change pp —+1.5pp+0.5pp+1.7pp+1.3pp+5.3pp+2.6pp
Foreign corporations % 25.7%27.1%27.7%29.3%30.6%36.0%38.6%
Foreign individuals % 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Foreign corporate holders holders 665688755814849845865
  • *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 % 36.6%36.7%36.4%36.2%37.4%39.0%45.0%49.6%50.8%48.1%
Change pp —+0.1pp-0.3pp-0.2pp+1.2pp+1.6pp+6.0pp+4.6pp+1.2pp-2.7pp
Largest holder % 8.7%8.9%9.2%10.5%11.1%12.6%19.1%18.9%17.4%17.3%
  • *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
Government — holders holders 1000000
Financial institutions — holders holders 163163130126112124118
Securities firms — holders holders 56396136325543
Other corporations — holders holders 838781809734724912883
Foreign corporations — holders holders 665688755814849845865
Foreign individuals — holders holders 888911495104135144
Individuals & others — holders holders 140,625137,981129,884111,176107,825116,093118,620
All holders holders 142,436139,741131,753112,981109,646118,164120,673
Government — shares units 110000000
Financial institutions — shares units 2,595,5132,619,3582,680,2242,659,7022,572,3552,157,2341,991,646
Securities firms — shares units 75,36684,22798,22274,79692,29795,97192,048
Other corporations — shares units 237,033194,132187,396176,061166,561155,329128,676
Foreign corporations — shares units 1,408,7011,489,1771,517,4201,573,8261,622,0341,872,7121,937,496
Foreign individuals — shares units 342320357304341426443
Individuals & others — shares units 1,169,2001,099,1061,002,730880,180839,371927,286872,464
All shares units 5,486,2655,486,3205,486,3495,364,8695,292,9595,208,9585,022,773
  • *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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