Shareholders
- Foreign ownership · FYE Mar 2025
- 26.6%
- Financial institutions
- 37.9%
- Other corporations
- 7.0%
- Individuals & others
- 26.3%
- Ten largest, combined
- 45.9%
- Shareholders
- 172,143
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 | 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 | % | 39.2% | 37.0% | 36.9% | 37.7% | 38.8% | 37.5% | 37.9% |
| Securities firms | % | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.9% | 1.1% | 1.6% | 2.3% | 2.3% |
| Other corporations | % | 6.8% | 6.7% | 6.7% | 6.4% | 6.6% | 6.9% | 7.0% |
| Foreign corporations | % | 33.9% | 35.7% | 35.8% | 33.1% | 28.0% | 26.5% | 26.5% |
| Foreign individuals | % | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Individuals & others | % | 19.4% | 19.9% | 19.8% | 21.7% | 24.8% | 26.7% | 26.3% |
| Shareholders | holders | 59,161 | 59,048 | 88,424 | 109,246 | 139,049 | 156,936 | 172,143 |
- *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 | 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 | % | 33.9% | 35.8% | 35.8% | 33.2% | 28.1% | 26.6% | 26.6% |
| Change | pp | — | +1.9pp | 0.0pp | -2.6pp | -5.1pp | -1.5pp | 0.0pp |
| Foreign corporations | % | 33.9% | 35.7% | 35.8% | 33.1% | 28.0% | 26.5% | 26.5% |
| Foreign individuals | % | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Foreign corporate holders | holders | 872 | 881 | 1,006 | 959 | 905 | 857 | 885 |
- *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 | 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 | % | 38.5% | 38.4% | 38.5% | 39.4% | 39.1% | 40.4% | 46.8% | 47.5% | 45.7% | 45.9% |
| Change | pp | — | -0.1pp | +0.1pp | +0.9pp | -0.3pp | +1.3pp | +6.4pp | +0.7pp | -1.8pp | +0.2pp |
| Largest holder | % | 8.3% | 8.3% | 8.3% | 8.4% | 8.4% | 8.4% | 13.6% | 14.7% | 13.4% | 13.6% |
- *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 | 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 | 199 | 186 | 188 | 182 | 155 | 141 | 131 |
| Securities firms — holders | holders | 71 | 39 | 72 | 76 | 73 | 72 | 80 |
| Other corporations — holders | holders | 1,091 | 1,069 | 1,507 | 1,846 | 2,297 | 2,527 | 2,447 |
| Foreign corporations — holders | holders | 872 | 881 | 1,006 | 959 | 905 | 857 | 885 |
| Foreign individuals — holders | holders | 66 | 77 | 142 | 222 | 383 | 597 | 869 |
| Individuals & others — holders | holders | 56,862 | 56,796 | 85,509 | 105,961 | 135,236 | 152,742 | 167,731 |
| All holders | holders | 59,161 | 59,048 | 88,424 | 109,246 | 139,049 | 156,936 | 172,143 |
| Financial institutions — shares | units | 1,167,171 | 1,103,012 | 2,195,967 | 2,245,286 | 2,312,298 | 2,230,482 | 4,513,335 |
| Securities firms — shares | units | 20,550 | 17,936 | 53,101 | 65,049 | 96,505 | 139,459 | 271,139 |
| Other corporations — shares | units | 200,902 | 199,433 | 395,972 | 379,276 | 395,176 | 412,835 | 832,937 |
| Foreign corporations — shares | units | 1,008,256 | 1,062,393 | 2,130,978 | 1,974,015 | 1,669,877 | 1,575,922 | 3,152,490 |
| Foreign individuals — shares | units | 1,775 | 1,994 | 1,398 | 1,166 | 1,950 | 6,148 | 11,510 |
| Individuals & others — shares | units | 578,108 | 592,204 | 1,179,693 | 1,292,148 | 1,479,401 | 1,590,174 | 3,134,845 |
| All shares | units | 2,976,762 | 2,976,972 | 5,957,109 | 5,956,940 | 5,955,207 | 5,955,020 | 11,916,256 |
- *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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