Shareholders
- Foreign ownership · FYE Mar 2025
- 39.9%
- Financial institutions
- 28.8%
- Other corporations
- 7.3%
- Individuals & others
- 18.2%
- Ten largest, combined
- 34.8%
- Shareholders
- 477,199
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% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Financial institutions | % | 29.6% | 31.1% | 30.9% | 30.8% | 29.7% | 28.9% | 28.8% |
| Securities firms | % | 7.1% | 6.3% | 6.5% | 6.5% | 7.2% | 7.3% | 5.8% |
| Other corporations | % | 8.8% | 8.7% | 9.1% | 9.3% | 8.7% | 8.3% | 7.3% |
| Foreign corporations | % | 42.7% | 40.3% | 37.0% | 34.4% | 34.6% | 36.1% | 39.8% |
| Foreign individuals | % | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Individuals & others | % | 11.7% | 13.6% | 16.4% | 19.0% | 19.7% | 19.3% | 18.2% |
| Shareholders | holders | 273,452 | 285,296 | 331,057 | 380,347 | 385,733 | 392,064 | 477,199 |
- *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 | % | 42.7% | 40.3% | 37.1% | 34.5% | 34.7% | 36.2% | 39.9% |
| Change | pp | — | -2.4pp | -3.2pp | -2.6pp | +0.2pp | +1.5pp | +3.7pp |
| Foreign corporations | % | 42.7% | 40.3% | 37.0% | 34.4% | 34.6% | 36.1% | 39.8% |
| Foreign individuals | % | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Foreign corporate holders | holders | 1,178 | 1,145 | 1,152 | 1,133 | 1,173 | 1,250 | 1,306 |
- *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 | % | 23.7% | 22.8% | 25.4% | 27.8% | 28.5% | 27.4% | 34.1% | 34.4% | 33.3% | 34.8% |
| Change | pp | — | -0.9pp | +2.6pp | +2.4pp | +0.7pp | -1.1pp | +6.7pp | +0.3pp | -1.1pp | +1.5pp |
| Largest holder | % | 5.0% | 5.5% | 5.8% | 5.9% | 7.1% | 8.9% | 17.1% | 16.9% | 16.4% | 16.4% |
- *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 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Financial institutions — holders | holders | 340 | 337 | 327 | 331 | 317 | 311 | 325 |
| Securities firms — holders | holders | 57 | 72 | 70 | 69 | 80 | 78 | 76 |
| Other corporations — holders | holders | 6,697 | 6,724 | 7,235 | 7,614 | 7,643 | 7,755 | 8,499 |
| Foreign corporations — holders | holders | 1,178 | 1,145 | 1,152 | 1,133 | 1,173 | 1,250 | 1,306 |
| Foreign individuals — holders | holders | 374 | 443 | 692 | 908 | 1,015 | 1,317 | 1,971 |
| Individuals & others — holders | holders | 264,799 | 276,567 | 321,573 | 370,285 | 375,498 | 381,346 | 465,015 |
| All holders | holders | 273,452 | 285,296 | 331,057 | 380,347 | 385,733 | 392,064 | 477,199 |
| Government — shares | units | 4,774 | 4,918 | 4,790 | 4,774 | 4,774 | 4,774 | 14,325 |
| Financial institutions — shares | units | 4,134,151 | 4,260,606 | 4,242,832 | 4,222,465 | 4,081,906 | 3,855,752 | 11,172,799 |
| Securities firms — shares | units | 995,174 | 861,523 | 893,515 | 892,680 | 989,287 | 977,006 | 2,240,590 |
| Other corporations — shares | units | 1,232,156 | 1,194,761 | 1,241,610 | 1,268,962 | 1,187,659 | 1,110,832 | 2,820,625 |
| Foreign corporations — shares | units | 5,964,312 | 5,521,779 | 5,081,540 | 4,718,138 | 4,748,201 | 4,816,011 | 15,452,340 |
| Foreign individuals — shares | units | 5,990 | 8,861 | 10,897 | 11,806 | 10,958 | 12,798 | 38,123 |
| Individuals & others — shares | units | 1,638,658 | 1,860,624 | 2,245,515 | 2,602,872 | 2,699,332 | 2,571,249 | 7,059,151 |
| All shares | units | 13,975,215 | 13,713,072 | 13,720,699 | 13,721,697 | 13,722,117 | 13,348,422 | 38,797,953 |
- *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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