Recruit Holdings

Shareholders

Foreign ownership · FYE Mar 2025
46.0%
Financial institutions
34.0%
Other corporations
5.8%
Individuals & others
12.8%
Ten largest, combined
44.1%
Shareholders
51,310
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 % 27.6%26.7%28.1%29.9%32.4%32.5%34.0%
Securities firms % 1.0%0.9%0.8%1.1%1.4%0.9%1.3%
Other corporations % 27.7%21.5%15.5%12.8%10.9%8.8%5.8%
Foreign corporations % 26.4%33.6%38.8%39.0%38.8%43.6%46.0%
Foreign individuals % 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Individuals & others % 17.3%17.3%16.7%17.2%16.4%14.1%12.8%
Shareholders holders 56,10555,19844,12566,69195,83753,46151,310
  • *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 % 26.4%33.7%38.9%39.0%38.8%43.7%46.0%
Change pp —+7.3pp+5.2pp+0.1pp-0.2pp+4.9pp+2.3pp
Foreign corporations % 26.4%33.6%38.8%39.0%38.8%43.6%46.0%
Foreign individuals % 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Foreign corporate holders holders 9219821,0211,1391,0641,1251,210
  • *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 % 36.2%32.9%35.9%36.7%37.8%34.1%39.7%41.9%40.2%44.1%
Change pp —-3.3pp+3.0pp+0.8pp+1.1pp-3.7pp+5.6pp+2.2pp-1.7pp+3.9pp
Largest holder % 6.7%6.7%6.8%8.0%8.8%10.3%18.2%17.7%17.6%19.3%
  • *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
Financial institutions — holders holders 13312411812812599105
Securities firms — holders holders 57494575664064
Other corporations — holders holders 6717136051,0041,315793759
Foreign corporations — holders holders 9219821,0211,1391,0641,1251,210
Foreign individuals — holders holders 638183277513411489
Individuals & others — holders holders 54,26053,24942,25364,06892,75450,99348,683
All holders holders 56,10555,19844,12566,69195,83753,46151,310
Financial institutions — shares units 4,678,4624,522,5434,772,0695,064,5795,497,0275,360,0575,318,981
Securities firms — shares units 165,651149,677138,561184,210235,194143,405210,517
Other corporations — shares units 4,696,5413,640,6872,629,2642,171,1621,854,9621,458,674903,543
Foreign corporations — shares units 4,478,8365,705,1046,586,6306,613,5306,577,3147,201,2427,190,821
Foreign individuals — shares units 5,7595,8193,9734,4635,5215,3896,421
Individuals & others — shares units 2,933,8782,935,2912,828,5832,920,4402,787,6662,327,9892,006,857
All shares units 16,959,12716,959,12116,959,08016,958,38416,957,68416,496,75615,637,140
  • *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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