SHIFT

Shareholders

Foreign ownership · FYE Aug 2025: 30.2%
Financial institutions: 22.4%
Other corporations: 0.2%
Individuals & others: 44.8%
Ten largest, combined: 65.1%
Shareholders: 18,644

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 Aug	2020 ^*1 FYE Aug	2021 ^*1 FYE Aug	2022 ^*1 FYE Aug	2023 ^*1 FYE Aug	2024 ^*1 FYE Aug	2025 ^*1 FYE Aug
Financial institutions	%	30.4%	23.7%	19.8%	23.8%	22.7%	24.4%	22.4%
Securities firms	%	2.2%	0.7%	0.8%	0.8%	1.3%	1.4%	2.3%
Other corporations	%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.9%	0.2%
Foreign corporations	%	19.3%	30.4%	37.1%	32.9%	35.1%	24.5%	30.1%
Foreign individuals	%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
Individuals & others	%	47.9%	45.0%	42.0%	42.3%	40.8%	48.6%	44.8%
Shareholders	holders	3,003	3,025	2,602	3,876	2,838	7,867	18,644

*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 Aug	2020 ^*1 FYE Aug	2021 ^*1 FYE Aug	2022 ^*1 FYE Aug	2023 ^*1 FYE Aug	2024 ^*1 FYE Aug	2025 ^*1 FYE Aug
Foreign holders, combined	%	19.3%	30.4%	37.1%	32.9%	35.1%	24.6%	30.2%
Change	pp	—	+11.1pp	+6.7pp	-4.2pp	+2.2pp	-10.5pp	+5.6pp
Foreign corporations	%	19.3%	30.4%	37.1%	32.9%	35.1%	24.5%	30.1%
Foreign individuals	%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
Foreign corporate holders	holders	118	170	212	268	293	241	307

*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 Aug	2017 ^*1 FYE Aug	2018 ^*1 FYE Aug	2019 ^*1 FYE Aug	2020 ^*1 FYE Aug	2021 ^*1 FYE Aug	2022 ^*1 FYE Aug	2023 ^*1 FYE Aug	2024 ^*1 FYE Aug	2025 ^*1 FYE Aug
Ten largest, combined	%	76.6%	80.0%	73.0%	74.6%	70.5%	64.1%	64.4%	66.3%	65.0%	65.1%
Change	pp	—	+3.4pp	-7.0pp	+1.6pp	-4.1pp	-6.4pp	+0.3pp	+1.9pp	-1.3pp	+0.1pp
Largest holder	%	47.3%	46.6%	40.4%	37.3%	36.3%	32.8%	31.5%	31.4%	31.4%	30.6%

*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 Aug	2020 ^*1 FYE Aug	2021 ^*1 FYE Aug	2022 ^*1 FYE Aug	2023 ^*1 FYE Aug	2024 ^*1 FYE Aug	2025 ^*1 FYE Aug
Financial institutions — holders	holders	12	28	26	26	23	17	18
Securities firms — holders	holders	31	22	17	21	17	37	50
Other corporations — holders	holders	32	47	38	63	48	145	154
Foreign corporations — holders	holders	118	170	212	268	293	241	307
Foreign individuals — holders	holders	2	3	6	10	3	34	83
Individuals & others — holders	holders	2,808	2,755	2,303	3,488	2,454	7,393	18,032
All holders	holders	3,003	3,025	2,602	3,876	2,838	7,867	18,644
Financial institutions — shares	units	47,832	37,793	34,986	42,307	40,385	43,467	599,263
Securities firms — shares	units	3,419	1,049	1,452	1,488	2,268	2,495	62,415
Other corporations — shares	units	395	343	484	260	286	1,675	6,309
Foreign corporations — shares	units	30,339	48,364	65,408	58,609	62,416	43,654	806,448
Foreign individuals — shares	units	4	5	8	15	4	134	1,346
Individuals & others — shares	units	75,341	71,790	74,086	75,298	72,673	86,407	1,198,036
All shares	units	157,330	159,344	176,424	177,977	178,032	177,832	2,673,817

*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.
Company names, logos and other marks belong to their respective owners.

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