East Japan Railway (JR East)

Shareholders

Foreign ownership · FYE Mar 2025
31.4%
Financial institutions
38.3%
Other corporations
6.7%
Individuals & others
21.9%
Ten largest, combined
35.9%
Shareholders
284,275
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 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%0.1%0.3%
Financial institutions % 43.1%44.0%43.1%40.7%39.0%38.0%38.3%
Securities firms % 0.9%0.9%1.2%1.5%1.8%1.8%1.5%
Other corporations % 7.2%7.8%7.5%7.4%7.5%6.9%6.7%
Foreign corporations % 33.4%30.1%27.4%26.9%27.6%31.0%31.4%
Foreign individuals % 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Individuals & others % 15.4%17.3%20.7%23.5%24.1%22.2%21.9%
Shareholders holders 201,782218,624259,809286,167286,905268,864284,275
  • *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 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 % 33.4%30.1%27.4%26.9%27.7%31.0%31.4%
Change pp —-3.3pp-2.7pp-0.5pp+0.8pp+3.3pp+0.4pp
Foreign corporations % 33.4%30.1%27.4%26.9%27.6%31.0%31.4%
Foreign individuals % 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Foreign corporate holders holders 955940873842846849852
  • *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 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 % 26.9%26.9%27.5%28.9%29.8%30.1%35.2%34.7%34.7%35.9%
Change pp —0.0pp+0.6pp+1.4pp+0.9pp+0.3pp+5.1pp-0.5pp0.0pp+1.2pp
Largest holder % 4.9%4.6%4.3%5.3%6.8%8.0%14.0%13.3%13.5%14.5%
  • *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 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 1121146
Financial institutions — holders holders 251266239240233219217
Securities firms — holders holders 35485957604238
Other corporations — holders holders 1,3941,5311,9602,2132,1642,0362,013
Foreign corporations — holders holders 955940873842846849852
Foreign individuals — holders holders 6086229292333288381
Individuals & others — holders holders 199,086215,752256,447282,522283,268265,426280,768
All holders holders 201,782218,624259,809286,167286,905268,864284,275
Government — shares units 112113,69228,717
Financial institutions — shares units 1,643,6151,660,5591,627,0351,535,2391,471,3481,434,8644,347,294
Securities firms — shares units 32,70132,38546,78256,03967,80769,171168,795
Other corporations — shares units 275,637294,214284,265280,311281,257259,799754,438
Foreign corporations — shares units 1,274,8021,138,1551,035,7481,014,7851,043,7851,169,8973,558,985
Foreign individuals — shares units 881343856166336111,640
Individuals & others — shares units 589,520651,685782,005888,515910,362838,8602,478,311
All shares units 3,816,3643,777,1333,776,2223,775,5063,775,1933,776,89411,338,180
  • *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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