Shareholders
- Foreign ownership · FYE Mar 2025
- 30.3%
- Financial institutions
- 37.5%
- Other corporations
- 8.7%
- Individuals & others
- 21.0%
- Ten largest, combined
- 43.4%
- Shareholders
- 6,865
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government | % | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0% |
| Financial institutions | % | 38.1% | 36.5% | 39.1% | 35.5% | 36.8% | 37.0% | 37.5% |
| Securities firms | % | 0.6% | 1.3% | 1.7% | 3.5% | 2.2% | 2.3% | 2.4% |
| Other corporations | % | 12.7% | 12.3% | 8.7% | 8.7% | 8.5% | 8.5% | 8.7% |
| Foreign corporations | % | 25.9% | 26.0% | 30.0% | 31.2% | 32.5% | 31.7% | 30.1% |
| Foreign individuals | % | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Individuals & others | % | 22.5% | 23.8% | 20.3% | 20.9% | 19.8% | 20.3% | 21.0% |
| Shareholders | holders | 4,348 | 4,143 | 4,800 | 6,074 | 5,978 | 6,484 | 6,865 |
- *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 | % | 26.1% | 26.2% | 30.2% | 31.4% | 32.7% | 31.9% | 30.3% |
| Change | pp | — | +0.1pp | +4.0pp | +1.2pp | +1.3pp | -0.8pp | -1.6pp |
| Foreign corporations | % | 25.9% | 26.0% | 30.0% | 31.2% | 32.5% | 31.7% | 30.1% |
| Foreign individuals | % | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Foreign corporate holders | holders | 204 | 170 | 220 | 240 | 255 | 262 | 227 |
- *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 | % | 28.2% | 29.2% | 34.7% | 37.5% | 36.8% | 38.0% | 40.9% | 45.6% | 41.6% | 43.4% |
| Change | pp | — | +1.0pp | +5.5pp | +2.8pp | -0.7pp | +1.2pp | +2.9pp | +4.7pp | -4.0pp | +1.8pp |
| Largest holder | % | 5.6% | 3.8% | 5.5% | 7.1% | 12.2% | 12.4% | 16.2% | 16.9% | 16.9% | 18.0% |
- *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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government — holders | holders | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| Financial institutions — holders | holders | 49 | 56 | 47 | 29 | 33 | 35 | 35 |
| Securities firms — holders | holders | 25 | 21 | 23 | 31 | 30 | 28 | 25 |
| Other corporations — holders | holders | 154 | 152 | 152 | 158 | 146 | 144 | 155 |
| Foreign corporations — holders | holders | 204 | 170 | 220 | 240 | 255 | 262 | 227 |
| Foreign individuals — holders | holders | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 12 |
| Individuals & others — holders | holders | 3,913 | 3,740 | 4,354 | 5,609 | 5,507 | 6,004 | 6,411 |
| All holders | holders | 4,348 | 4,143 | 4,800 | 6,074 | 5,978 | 6,484 | 6,865 |
| Government — shares | units | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| Financial institutions — shares | units | 163,499 | 152,260 | 157,066 | 420,700 | 429,135 | 426,508 | 423,105 |
| Securities firms — shares | units | 2,579 | 5,268 | 6,727 | 41,498 | 25,660 | 26,056 | 27,479 |
| Other corporations — shares | units | 54,394 | 51,141 | 35,054 | 103,072 | 98,782 | 98,003 | 98,117 |
| Foreign corporations — shares | units | 111,307 | 108,300 | 120,556 | 370,263 | 378,504 | 365,267 | 339,505 |
| Foreign individuals — shares | units | 763 | 765 | 765 | 2,301 | 2,310 | 2,303 | 2,370 |
| Individuals & others — shares | units | 96,560 | 99,380 | 81,198 | 247,640 | 231,073 | 234,459 | 237,021 |
| All shares | units | 429,102 | 417,114 | 401,366 | 1,185,474 | 1,165,464 | 1,152,596 | 1,127,597 |
- *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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