West Japan Railway (JR West)

Shareholders

Foreign ownership · FYE Mar 2025
29.9%
Financial institutions
33.3%
Other corporations
5.6%
Individuals & others
29.1%
Ten largest, combined
33.3%
Shareholders
252,114
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%0.0%0.0%
Financial institutions % 41.7%42.2%41.3%35.6%35.4%32.3%33.3%
Securities firms % 1.8%1.7%2.1%2.5%2.8%1.9%2.0%
Other corporations % 5.9%6.6%6.8%6.3%5.9%5.4%5.6%
Foreign corporations % 30.9%29.9%24.9%26.4%26.6%33.7%29.8%
Foreign individuals % 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%
Individuals & others % 19.7%19.5%25.0%29.1%29.2%26.6%29.1%
Shareholders holders 137,198135,167171,490228,009227,742216,386252,114
  • *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 % 30.9%29.9%24.9%26.5%26.7%33.8%29.9%
Change pp —-1.0pp-5.0pp+1.6pp+0.2pp+7.1pp-3.9pp
Foreign corporations % 30.9%29.9%24.9%26.4%26.6%33.7%29.8%
Foreign individuals % 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%
Foreign corporate holders holders 707755692682686728712
  • *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 % 24.8%26.9%26.9%28.3%29.8%29.9%32.8%33.3%31.2%33.3%
Change pp —+2.1pp0.0pp+1.4pp+1.5pp+0.1pp+2.9pp+0.5pp-2.1pp+2.1pp
Largest holder % 4.0%4.7%4.8%6.3%7.1%8.4%16.3%16.1%14.3%15.2%
  • *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 1221113
Financial institutions — holders holders 172169147160154146147
Securities firms — holders holders 29284655463431
Other corporations — holders holders 9068931,2222,3032,0811,8341,931
Foreign corporations — holders holders 707755692682686728712
Foreign individuals — holders holders 5966262551555530748
Individuals & others — holders holders 135,324133,254169,119224,257224,219213,113248,542
All holders holders 137,198135,167171,490228,009227,742216,386252,114
Government — shares units 122111692
Financial institutions — shares units 802,209808,103790,201868,393862,665786,7211,568,665
Securities firms — shares units 34,85833,35239,67562,14368,94747,31695,581
Other corporations — shares units 113,197126,019129,198153,163143,312132,442262,219
Foreign corporations — shares units 594,776571,608475,529644,610649,772822,0461,404,682
Foreign individuals — shares units 2162336842,0591,9951,9694,134
Individuals & others — shares units 379,280373,690477,315708,501712,161648,1341,372,367
All shares units 1,924,5371,913,0071,912,6042,438,8702,438,8532,438,6294,708,340
  • *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.
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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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