Kuraray

Shareholders

Foreign ownership · FYE Dec 2025: 29.6%
Financial institutions: 40.1%
Other corporations: 3.7%
Individuals & others: 22.0%
Ten largest, combined: 42.8%
Shareholders: 73,208

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 Dec	2020 ^*1 FYE Dec	2021 ^*1 FYE Dec	2022 ^*1 FYE Dec	2023 ^*1 FYE Dec	2024 ^*1 FYE Dec	2025 ^*1 FYE Dec
Government	%	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%
Financial institutions	%	48.5%	47.7%	44.8%	43.8%	43.5%	46.0%	40.1%
Securities firms	%	5.1%	5.4%	6.2%	5.7%	6.8%	6.1%	4.7%
Other corporations	%	3.4%	3.5%	3.7%	3.7%	3.5%	3.6%	3.7%
Foreign corporations	%	26.4%	24.9%	18.8%	17.7%	20.8%	25.6%	29.5%
Foreign individuals	%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Individuals & others	%	16.6%	18.4%	26.5%	29.1%	25.4%	18.7%	22.0%
Shareholders	holders	45,542	52,682	82,756	85,734	76,179	64,862	73,208

*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 Dec	2020 ^*1 FYE Dec	2021 ^*1 FYE Dec	2022 ^*1 FYE Dec	2023 ^*1 FYE Dec	2024 ^*1 FYE Dec	2025 ^*1 FYE Dec
Foreign holders, combined	%	26.5%	25.0%	18.9%	17.8%	20.8%	25.7%	29.6%
Change	pp	—	-1.5pp	-6.1pp	-1.1pp	+3.0pp	+4.9pp	+3.9pp
Foreign corporations	%	26.4%	24.9%	18.8%	17.7%	20.8%	25.6%	29.5%
Foreign individuals	%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Foreign corporate holders	holders	600	576	349	359	377	390	382

*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	2015 ^*1 FYE Dec	2016 ^*1 FYE Dec	2017 ^*1 FYE Dec	2018 ^*1 FYE Dec	2019 ^*1 FYE Dec	2020 ^*1 FYE Dec	2021 ^*1 FYE Dec	2022 ^*1 FYE Dec	2023 ^*1 FYE Dec	2024 ^*1 FYE Dec	2025 ^*1 FYE Dec
Ten largest, combined	%	28.8%	29.4%	30.6%	34.9%	35.1%	35.3%	40.1%	42.8%	43.9%	45.8%	42.8%
Change	pp	—	+0.6pp	+1.2pp	+4.3pp	+0.2pp	+0.2pp	+4.8pp	+2.7pp	+1.1pp	+1.9pp	-3.0pp
Largest holder	%	7.2%	8.2%	9.0%	11.6%	10.8%	12.3%	17.5%	18.3%	19.2%	19.6%	18.1%

*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 Dec	2020 ^*1 FYE Dec	2021 ^*1 FYE Dec	2022 ^*1 FYE Dec	2023 ^*1 FYE Dec	2024 ^*1 FYE Dec	2025 ^*1 FYE Dec
Government — holders	holders	—	—	—	—	—	—	1
Financial institutions — holders	holders	152	133	143	138	118	115	105
Securities firms — holders	holders	47	48	54	39	41	34	41
Other corporations — holders	holders	438	505	672	668	641	537	590
Foreign corporations — holders	holders	600	576	349	359	377	390	382
Foreign individuals — holders	holders	59	74	145	153	157	151	222
Individuals & others — holders	holders	44,246	51,346	81,393	84,377	74,845	63,635	71,867
All holders	holders	45,542	52,682	82,756	85,734	76,179	64,862	73,208
Government — shares	units	—	—	—	—	—	—	20
Financial institutions — shares	units	1,718,825	1,691,731	1,586,705	1,552,326	1,543,028	1,491,685	1,232,353
Securities firms — shares	units	179,890	190,811	219,442	201,473	239,273	196,593	143,378
Other corporations — shares	units	120,173	123,115	131,356	130,921	125,044	115,816	114,233
Foreign corporations — shares	units	936,425	884,289	666,674	627,032	735,998	831,534	908,224
Foreign individuals — shares	units	1,629	1,670	2,456	2,604	1,553	1,316	1,363
Individuals & others — shares	units	588,158	653,416	938,086	1,030,135	899,493	607,551	675,490
All shares	units	3,545,100	3,545,032	3,544,719	3,544,491	3,544,389	3,244,495	3,075,061

*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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