Shareholders
- Foreign ownership · FYE Mar 2025
- 51.5%
- Financial institutions
- 30.8%
- Other corporations
- 1.3%
- Individuals & others
- 14.9%
- Ten largest, combined
- 39.6%
- Shareholders
- 319,904
Share of the company held by each class of owner, as filed each year (%). The seven classes add up to the whole company.
| Fiscal year | Unit | 2019 *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% |
| Financial institutions | % | 32.4% | 33.1% | 35.3% | 34.1% | 31.5% | 30.8% |
| Securities firms | % | 2.9% | 4.5% | 2.5% | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1.6% |
| Other corporations | % | 1.6% | 1.5% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% |
| Foreign corporations | % | 43.3% | 44.5% | 44.4% | 46.2% | 51.1% | 51.5% |
| Foreign individuals | % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Individuals & others | % | 19.8% | 16.3% | 16.4% | 15.8% | 14.5% | 14.9% |
| Shareholders | holders | 267,311 | 226,169 | 238,967 | 217,678 | 201,834 | 319,904 |
- *1 Securities report (yuka shoken hokokusho) — status of shares by holder category, as filed
How much of the company sits with holders outside Japan (%). Almost all of it is institutional: overseas individuals rarely hold Japanese stock directly.
| Fiscal year | Unit | 2019 *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 | % | 43.4% | 44.5% | 44.4% | 46.2% | 51.1% | 51.5% |
| Change | pp | — | — | -0.1pp | +1.8pp | +4.9pp | +0.4pp |
| Foreign corporations | % | 43.3% | 44.5% | 44.4% | 46.2% | 51.1% | 51.5% |
| Foreign individuals | % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Foreign corporate holders | holders | 1,050 | 1,087 | 1,112 | 1,139 | 1,300 | 1,434 |
- *1 Securities report (yuka shoken hokokusho) — status of shares by holder category, as filed
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.
| Fiscal year | Unit | 2016 *1 FYE Mar | 2017 *1 FYE Mar | 2018 *1 FYE Mar | 2019 *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 | % | 24.8% | 24.8% | 26.6% | 28.1% | 30.6% | 40.3% | 41.7% | 39.8% | 39.6% |
| Change | pp | — | 0.0pp | +1.8pp | +1.5pp | — | +9.7pp | +1.4pp | -1.9pp | -0.2pp |
| Largest holder | % | 6.1% | 5.9% | 6.5% | 7.3% | 9.4% | 18.8% | 18.2% | 16.8% | 17.2% |
- *1 Securities report (yuka shoken hokokusho) — ten largest shareholders, as filed
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.
| Fiscal year | Unit | 2019 *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 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Financial institutions — holders | holders | 232 | 205 | 205 | 179 | 162 | 194 |
| Securities firms — holders | holders | 73 | 62 | 76 | 66 | 62 | 98 |
| Other corporations — holders | holders | 2,544 | 2,308 | 2,426 | 2,234 | 2,144 | 3,058 |
| Foreign corporations — holders | holders | 1,050 | 1,087 | 1,112 | 1,139 | 1,300 | 1,434 |
| Foreign individuals — holders | holders | 148 | 125 | 157 | 151 | 147 | 507 |
| Individuals & others — holders | holders | 263,261 | 222,379 | 234,989 | 213,906 | 198,017 | 314,611 |
| All holders | holders | 267,311 | 226,169 | 238,967 | 217,678 | 201,834 | 319,904 |
| Government — shares | units | 152 | 95 | 92 | 110 | 92 | 464 |
| Financial institutions — shares | units | 3,121,158 | 3,200,291 | 3,407,137 | 3,186,976 | 2,912,162 | 14,075,695 |
| Securities firms — shares | units | 275,417 | 434,021 | 246,473 | 250,814 | 147,230 | 747,698 |
| Other corporations — shares | units | 152,649 | 144,379 | 129,714 | 117,951 | 122,176 | 571,693 |
| Foreign corporations — shares | units | 4,178,075 | 4,298,023 | 4,291,973 | 4,324,784 | 4,724,150 | 23,548,427 |
| Foreign individuals — shares | units | 1,025 | 763 | 1,413 | 1,570 | 1,232 | 7,888 |
| Individuals & others — shares | units | 1,912,566 | 1,577,468 | 1,582,410 | 1,476,105 | 1,342,859 | 6,816,100 |
| All shares | units | 9,641,042 | 9,655,040 | 9,659,212 | 9,358,310 | 9,249,901 | 45,767,965 |
- *1 Securities report (yuka shoken hokokusho) — status of shares by holder category, as filed
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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