Our basic principle is to increase our corporate value in a sustainable way as we drive investments in the growth areas and enhancing our operating base in an aggressive yet proper manner, while keeping a right balance of returning profits to our shareholders. Therefore, shareholder returns shall be as follows. The Company will aim to pursue enhanced total shareholder return*1.

1. The Company pays the minimum annual dividend of 30 yen per share.
2. In addition, if 50% of profit attributable to owners of the Company per share exceeds the minimum amount stated in 1. above, then the minimum dividend payment shall be 50% of profit attributable to owners of the Company per share.
3. The Company conducts share buyback in response to circumstances.

 

*1 Total shareholder return = (total capital gain + total dividends paid) /invested amount.

The Company implement a benefit program for shareholders for the purpose of showing its gratitude to all its shareholders for their support, increasing the number of owners of its shares together with the number of the shares owned by each shareholder by making its shares more attractive for shareholders to hold, and promoting a further understanding of the business of the Company among non-shareholders as well as shareholders. The following benefit program will be implemented for the reference date on September 30, 2020.

 

As a shareholder benefit program, we have been granting Monex Points to the shareholders who hold our shares in their securities accounts at our group company Monex, Inc. (hereinafter “Monex”), in accordance with the number of our shares held and the trading fees of domestic stock transactions at Monex within a certain period. In February 2025, we have decided to modify the program to award Monex Points based solely on the number of shares held, in order to further enhance our shareholder benefits.

 

Eligible shareholders

Shareholders who own 1 shares or more which are under custody in the brokerage accounts of Monex, Inc., a group company of the Company, as of September 30 or March 31 each year.

 

Feature of the shareholder benefit program

Eligible shareholders receive Monex Points* according to the amount of brokerage commission paid for cash trading of any symbols (including the amount of consumption tax, etc.) during a defined period in each shareholder’s brokerage account of Monex, Inc. The points to be provided are determined depending on the number of shares held at the reference date as per the table below.

Monex Points will be awarded to shareholders who are eligible for the shareholder benefit program (Notes 1, 2, 3). The number of points awarded will be determined according to the number of shares of the Company held in the brokerage account at Monex, Inc. on the record date, as shown in the table below. Please note that one Monex Point is equivalent to one yen.

The number of shares at the reference date	Providing points
	(half-year period)
1~99	50 points
100~999	100 points
1,000~1,999	500 points
2,000~19,999	1,000 points
20,000~	2,000 points

*   From September 27, 2024 (Friday), it has become possible to link Monex Securities' general trading account with NTT DOCOMO's d ACCOUNT. In line with this, for shareholders who have linked their accounts, the Monex Points granted as a shareholder benefit will be automatically exchanged for d POINTs.
 

** The above does not apply to shareholders who close the brokerage account at the timing of providing points. Also it does not count the brokerage commissions traded with the Monex point held by each shareholder.