Shareholders
- Foreign ownership · FYE Dec 2025
- 50.4%
- Financial institutions
- 26.8%
- Other corporations
- 14.5%
- Individuals & others
- 6.3%
- Ten largest, combined
- 46.5%
- Shareholders
- 8,848
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 Dec | 2020 *1 FYE Dec | 2021 *1 FYE Dec | 2022 *1 FYE Dec | 2023 *1 FYE Dec | 2024 *1 FYE Dec | 2025 *1 FYE Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial institutions | % | 33.9% | 33.8% | 31.0% | 29.6% | 28.6% | 28.9% | 26.8% |
| Securities firms | % | 0.7% | 2.0% | 3.1% | 2.8% | 1.4% | 2.0% | 2.0% |
| Other corporations | % | 17.1% | 13.3% | 13.5% | 13.6% | 13.8% | 14.0% | 14.5% |
| Foreign corporations | % | 42.3% | 45.4% | 46.6% | 47.8% | 50.5% | 49.6% | 50.4% |
| Foreign individuals | % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Individuals & others | % | 5.9% | 5.4% | 5.8% | 6.2% | 5.6% | 5.4% | 6.3% |
| Shareholders | holders | 4,887 | 4,636 | 5,267 | 7,296 | 6,695 | 5,931 | 8,848 |
- *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 Dec | 2020 *1 FYE Dec | 2021 *1 FYE Dec | 2022 *1 FYE Dec | 2023 *1 FYE Dec | 2024 *1 FYE Dec | 2025 *1 FYE Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foreign holders, combined | % | 42.3% | 45.5% | 46.7% | 47.8% | 50.5% | 49.7% | 50.4% |
| Change | pp | — | +3.2pp | +1.2pp | +1.1pp | +2.7pp | -0.8pp | +0.7pp |
| Foreign corporations | % | 42.3% | 45.4% | 46.6% | 47.8% | 50.5% | 49.6% | 50.4% |
| Foreign individuals | % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Foreign corporate holders | holders | 679 | 816 | 858 | 867 | 845 | 821 | 751 |
- *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 Dec | 2017 *1 FYE Dec | 2018 *1 FYE Dec | 2019 *1 FYE Dec | 2020 *1 FYE Dec | 2021 *1 FYE Dec | 2022 *1 FYE Dec | 2023 *1 FYE Dec | 2024 *1 FYE Dec | 2025 *1 FYE Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ten largest, combined | % | 35.1% | 35.6% | 39.3% | 39.9% | 37.2% | 39.5% | 39.9% | 41.1% | 44.0% | 46.5% |
| Change | pp | — | +0.5pp | +3.7pp | +0.6pp | -2.7pp | +2.3pp | +0.4pp | +1.2pp | +2.9pp | +2.5pp |
| Largest holder | % | 8.2% | 8.3% | 8.3% | 8.3% | 9.2% | 11.8% | 11.4% | 11.8% | 13.2% | 12.9% |
- *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 Dec | 2020 *1 FYE Dec | 2021 *1 FYE Dec | 2022 *1 FYE Dec | 2023 *1 FYE Dec | 2024 *1 FYE Dec | 2025 *1 FYE Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial institutions — holders | holders | 68 | 65 | 65 | 70 | 64 | 60 | 48 |
| Securities firms — holders | holders | 26 | 30 | 38 | 40 | 30 | 33 | 40 |
| Other corporations — holders | holders | 183 | 184 | 205 | 234 | 212 | 197 | 243 |
| Foreign corporations — holders | holders | 679 | 816 | 858 | 867 | 845 | 821 | 751 |
| Foreign individuals — holders | holders | 7 | 8 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 18 | 34 |
| Individuals & others — holders | holders | 3,924 | 3,533 | 4,094 | 6,069 | 5,523 | 4,802 | 7,732 |
| All holders | holders | 4,887 | 4,636 | 5,267 | 7,296 | 6,695 | 5,931 | 8,848 |
| Financial institutions — shares | units | 313,816 | 312,845 | 286,188 | 269,420 | 257,116 | 257,687 | 231,482 |
| Securities firms — shares | units | 6,719 | 18,516 | 28,511 | 25,152 | 13,018 | 17,748 | 17,549 |
| Other corporations — shares | units | 158,872 | 123,701 | 124,436 | 123,770 | 124,269 | 124,927 | 125,129 |
| Foreign corporations — shares | units | 391,979 | 420,976 | 430,332 | 435,375 | 454,200 | 441,939 | 435,618 |
| Foreign individuals — shares | units | 381 | 389 | 386 | 391 | 403 | 234 | 267 |
| Individuals & others — shares | units | 54,816 | 50,148 | 53,374 | 56,732 | 50,420 | 47,910 | 54,225 |
| All shares | units | 926,583 | 926,575 | 923,227 | 910,840 | 899,426 | 890,445 | 864,270 |
- *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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