KADOKAWA

Shareholders

Foreign ownership · FYE Mar 2026: 42.6%
Financial institutions: 18.9%
Other corporations: 24.3%
Individuals & others: 12.8%
Ten largest, combined: 58.5%
Shareholders: 31,869

Ownership mix 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 (%), 2016–2026. Scroll sideways for earlier years.
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	2026 ^*1 FYE Mar
Financial institutions	%	28.5%	26.3%	23.0%	23.5%	26.2%	24.0%	25.0%	25.9%	24.3%	22.1%	18.9%
Securities firms	%	1.2%	1.2%	1.2%	0.9%	1.9%	1.6%	0.9%	1.6%	1.4%	1.9%	1.4%
Other corporations	%	18.4%	18.4%	18.4%	15.2%	13.3%	16.8%	16.9%	16.9%	17.4%	24.1%	24.3%
Foreign corporations	%	21.1%	25.0%	22.8%	22.9%	22.4%	31.3%	38.8%	37.0%	36.8%	37.3%	42.6%
Foreign individuals	%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Individuals & others	%	30.7%	29.1%	34.6%	37.4%	36.1%	26.4%	18.5%	18.6%	20.1%	14.6%	12.8%
Shareholders	holders	26,885	28,026	33,028	31,870	32,076	24,499	25,364	30,222	30,586	30,184	31,869

*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	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	2026 ^*1 FYE Mar
Foreign holders, combined	%	21.2%	25.1%	22.8%	23.0%	22.5%	31.3%	38.8%	37.1%	36.8%	37.3%	42.6%
Change	pp	—	+3.9pp	-2.3pp	+0.2pp	-0.5pp	+8.8pp	+7.5pp	-1.7pp	-0.3pp	+0.5pp	+5.3pp
Foreign corporations	%	21.1%	25.0%	22.8%	22.9%	22.4%	31.3%	38.8%	37.0%	36.8%	37.3%	42.6%
Foreign individuals	%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Foreign corporate holders	holders	173	172	172	170	178	203	272	252	246	268	241

*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	2026 ^*1 FYE Mar
Ten largest, combined	%	34.7%	33.3%	32.6%	34.0%	35.2%	41.8%	51.4%	52.3%	54.7%	59.1%	58.5%
Change	pp	—	-1.4pp	-0.7pp	+1.4pp	+1.2pp	+6.6pp	+9.6pp	+0.9pp	+2.4pp	+4.4pp	-0.6pp
Largest holder	%	8.0%	8.0%	8.3%	8.8%	7.2%	8.9%	12.0%	11.9%	11.4%	10.4%	11.0%

*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	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	2026 ^*1 FYE Mar
Financial institutions — holders	holders	32	39	34	30	34	32	30	25	23	21	19
Securities firms — holders	holders	34	31	25	28	32	26	27	28	31	36	27
Other corporations — holders	holders	225	225	223	205	208	164	174	189	177	198	197
Foreign corporations — holders	holders	173	172	172	170	178	203	272	252	246	268	241
Foreign individuals — holders	holders	35	36	49	44	55	22	36	47	56	66	75
Individuals & others — holders	holders	26,386	27,523	32,525	31,393	31,569	24,052	24,825	29,681	30,053	29,595	31,310
All holders	holders	26,885	28,026	33,028	31,870	32,076	24,499	25,364	30,222	30,586	30,184	31,869
Financial institutions — shares	units	201,216	185,240	162,534	166,108	185,324	169,522	353,044	366,756	344,111	329,300	281,557
Securities firms — shares	units	8,770	8,327	8,482	6,615	13,314	10,978	12,537	21,879	20,303	27,810	20,820
Other corporations — shares	units	129,470	130,187	129,551	106,952	93,671	118,408	239,098	238,645	246,583	358,598	360,727
Foreign corporations — shares	units	149,053	176,648	160,662	161,880	158,294	220,997	548,656	524,185	520,026	554,446	633,777
Foreign individuals — shares	units	346	282	360	267	335	97	160	202	234	225	267
Individuals & others — shares	units	216,691	205,079	244,385	264,229	255,305	186,630	261,152	263,062	283,719	216,748	189,922
All shares	units	705,546	705,763	705,974	706,051	706,243	706,632	1,414,647	1,414,729	1,414,976	1,487,127	1,487,070

*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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