Kobe Steel

Shareholders

Foreign ownership · FYE Mar 2025
16.1%
Financial institutions
31.0%
Other corporations
9.3%
Individuals & others
40.6%
Ten largest, combined
31.5%
Shareholders
228,445
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 % 29.7%26.7%30.5%27.8%29.1%27.9%31.0%
Securities firms % 4.1%2.1%1.8%2.7%2.5%4.8%3.0%
Other corporations % 16.4%17.0%14.2%13.4%12.6%12.8%9.3%
Foreign corporations % 24.2%18.4%23.6%22.7%24.4%17.7%16.0%
Foreign individuals % 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.1%
Individuals & others % 25.6%35.7%29.9%33.4%31.4%36.8%40.6%
Shareholders holders 132,231136,675123,792134,893137,024198,643228,445
  • *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 % 24.2%18.5%23.6%22.7%24.4%17.7%16.1%
Change pp —-5.7pp+5.1pp-0.9pp+1.7pp-6.7pp-1.6pp
Foreign corporations % 24.2%18.4%23.6%22.7%24.4%17.7%16.0%
Foreign individuals % 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.1%
Foreign corporate holders holders 545349342341352367355
  • *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 % 20.6%23.6%22.6%23.5%23.1%25.5%30.7%32.7%30.4%31.5%
Change pp —+3.0pp-1.0pp+0.9pp-0.4pp+2.4pp+5.2pp+2.0pp-2.3pp+1.1pp
Largest holder % 3.5%3.9%4.0%5.0%4.9%7.8%14.2%15.8%15.5%16.9%
  • *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 1221111
Financial institutions — holders holders 61625654476277
Securities firms — holders holders 63555062506661
Other corporations — holders holders 1,1461,1631,1041,2211,2361,6631,786
Foreign corporations — holders holders 545349342341352367355
Foreign individuals — holders holders 114162152230216335459
Individuals & others — holders holders 130,301134,882122,086132,984135,122196,149225,706
All holders holders 132,231136,675123,792134,893137,024198,643228,445
Government — shares units 2252122222
Financial institutions — shares units 1,079,275971,6471,109,5281,098,4191,152,5041,103,1431,226,806
Securities firms — shares units 149,75076,43265,601108,04196,861191,765116,776
Other corporations — shares units 594,741617,250514,344530,857496,684504,452367,802
Foreign corporations — shares units 877,867669,752856,605895,576965,166698,202634,091
Foreign individuals — shares units 6321,1409091,3319511,5691,966
Individuals & others — shares units 931,6051,297,6031,087,3151,318,8741,242,3851,454,4171,604,541
All shares units 3,633,8723,634,0763,634,3143,953,1003,954,5533,953,5503,951,984
  • *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 →

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  • 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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