Canon

Shareholders

Foreign ownership · FYE Dec 2025: 18.0%
Financial institutions: 24.5%
Other corporations: 2.1%
Individuals & others: 51.4%
Ten largest, combined: 36.0%
Shareholders: 326,086

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 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
Government	%	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Financial institutions	%	29.3%	27.1%	28.4%	27.8%	26.7%	27.0%	24.5%
Securities firms	%	5.3%	4.3%	4.2%	4.7%	5.4%	4.4%	3.9%
Other corporations	%	3.2%	3.4%	3.3%	3.1%	3.1%	2.9%	2.1%
Foreign corporations	%	18.6%	17.1%	18.7%	17.7%	17.8%	19.5%	18.0%
Foreign individuals	%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Individuals & others	%	43.6%	48.1%	45.4%	46.6%	47.0%	46.1%	51.4%
Shareholders	holders	405,165	447,337	408,934	396,211	373,217	320,620	326,086

*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 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	%	18.7%	17.1%	18.7%	17.7%	17.8%	19.5%	18.0%
Change	pp	—	-1.6pp	+1.6pp	-1.0pp	+0.1pp	+1.7pp	-1.5pp
Foreign corporations	%	18.6%	17.1%	18.7%	17.7%	17.8%	19.5%	18.0%
Foreign individuals	%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Foreign corporate holders	holders	879	862	899	926	945	986	976

*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	2015 ^*1 FYE Dec	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	%	22.0%	21.8%	23.5%	29.1%	28.6%	27.8%	35.8%	38.2%	37.2%	39.2%	36.0%
Change	pp	—	-0.2pp	+1.7pp	+5.6pp	-0.5pp	-0.8pp	+8.0pp	+2.4pp	-1.0pp	+2.0pp	-3.2pp
Largest holder	%	4.7%	5.0%	5.8%	8.5%	8.9%	9.4%	15.9%	17.2%	16.9%	18.2%	17.6%

*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 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
Government — holders	holders	—	—	—	—	1	1	1
Financial institutions — holders	holders	286	214	194	197	189	171	175
Securities firms — holders	holders	68	62	68	45	61	46	51
Other corporations — holders	holders	2,519	2,763	2,466	2,450	2,478	2,081	2,152
Foreign corporations — holders	holders	879	862	899	926	945	986	976
Foreign individuals — holders	holders	346	498	437	431	432	414	464
Individuals & others — holders	holders	401,067	442,938	404,870	392,162	369,111	316,921	322,267
All holders	holders	405,165	447,337	408,934	396,211	373,217	320,620	326,086
Government — shares	units	—	—	—	—	30	30	30
Financial institutions — shares	units	3,905,889	3,612,830	3,787,265	3,710,191	3,555,539	3,601,371	3,268,929
Securities firms — shares	units	705,034	571,825	555,015	628,994	715,182	590,496	524,340
Other corporations — shares	units	422,311	452,319	441,127	419,441	417,025	388,196	283,457
Foreign corporations — shares	units	2,482,637	2,271,202	2,488,120	2,356,534	2,372,095	2,598,749	2,392,937
Foreign individuals — shares	units	3,086	3,920	3,445	3,288	3,549	3,120	3,514
Individuals & others — shares	units	5,804,972	6,411,752	6,049,380	6,205,788	6,260,682	6,142,366	6,850,530
All shares	units	13,323,929	13,323,848	13,324,352	13,324,236	13,324,102	13,324,328	13,323,737

*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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