SoftBank Group

Shareholders

Foreign ownership · FYE Mar 2025: 27.1%
Financial institutions: 25.8%
Other corporations: 5.6%
Individuals & others: 39.7%
Ten largest, combined: 64.1%
Shareholders: 183,702

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%	—	—	—
Financial institutions	%	23.4%	23.7%	23.2%	25.5%	27.8%	26.1%	25.8%
Securities firms	%	1.3%	2.1%	1.4%	2.2%	2.8%	1.9%	1.9%
Other corporations	%	5.1%	5.1%	3.5%	3.7%	5.3%	5.3%	5.6%
Foreign corporations	%	37.2%	38.2%	26.4%	26.9%	23.6%	28.8%	27.1%
Foreign individuals	%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
Individuals & others	%	32.8%	30.4%	45.1%	41.4%	40.2%	37.9%	39.7%
Shareholders	holders	159,476	218,820	156,019	258,668	222,698	166,248	183,702

*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	%	37.4%	38.7%	26.7%	27.3%	24.0%	28.9%	27.1%
Change	pp	—	+1.3pp	-12.0pp	+0.6pp	-3.3pp	+4.9pp	-1.8pp
Foreign corporations	%	37.2%	38.2%	26.4%	26.9%	23.6%	28.8%	27.1%
Foreign individuals	%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
Foreign corporate holders	holders	1,211	1,167	1,105	1,082	1,001	1,070	1,102

*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	%	44.4%	45.5%	47.0%	48.5%	49.0%	55.8%	60.5%	63.4%	62.5%	64.1%
Change	pp	—	+1.1pp	+1.5pp	+1.5pp	+0.5pp	+6.8pp	+4.7pp	+2.9pp	-0.9pp	+1.6pp
Largest holder	%	19.3%	21.0%	21.2%	21.9%	21.3%	26.5%	27.9%	29.2%	29.1%	29.7%

*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	—	—	—	1	—	—	—
Financial institutions — holders	holders	60	63	58	54	54	53	57
Securities firms — holders	holders	60	71	76	87	73	65	81
Other corporations — holders	holders	1,226	1,576	1,376	2,789	2,307	1,814	2,021
Foreign corporations — holders	holders	1,211	1,167	1,105	1,082	1,001	1,070	1,102
Foreign individuals — holders	holders	265	504	373	851	766	467	632
Individuals & others — holders	holders	156,654	215,439	153,031	253,804	218,497	162,779	179,809
All holders	holders	159,476	218,820	156,019	258,668	222,698	166,248	183,702
Government — shares	units	—	—	—	2	—	—	—
Financial institutions — shares	units	2,568,227	4,945,175	4,855,389	4,391,356	4,083,059	3,829,130	3,785,588
Securities firms — shares	units	146,539	443,840	282,452	374,462	405,340	273,499	274,331
Other corporations — shares	units	557,342	1,057,276	740,918	635,136	780,180	774,211	827,419
Foreign corporations — shares	units	4,094,025	7,984,507	5,516,914	4,633,613	3,473,135	4,228,973	3,973,365
Foreign individuals — shares	units	25,816	99,453	63,222	64,945	48,219	24,184	4,064
Individuals & others — shares	units	3,607,762	6,359,296	9,431,568	7,120,269	5,901,192	5,561,978	5,825,807
All shares	units	10,999,711	20,889,547	20,890,463	17,219,783	14,691,125	14,691,975	14,690,574

*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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