Dividend Information
Dividend Policy
The Company strives to increase its corporate value and to ensure continuous growth of earnings per share by strengthening its operation basis, improving Company quality and by carrying out its operation from a global perspective, while recognizing that improvement of profit distribution to shareholders is one of our most important management issues.
Our basic policy regarding shareholder return is that, based on our management policy of growing together with our stakeholders, we will maintain the stability of our managerial and financial foundations, undertake strategic investments for sustainable growth, and provide stable shareholder returns in a well-balanced manner and that we also aim to achieve an “optimal level of equity capital” and an “optimal balance sheet” that reflect our cost of capital. In addition, our policy regarding dividend is to maintain DOE (dividend on equity) of 3% or higher* with a focus on stable dividend payment.*Based on the equity capital excluding foreign currency translation adjustments.Our dividend is determinate by resolution in the regular shareholders meeting, and shall be paid to our shareholders once a year as a year-end dividend.
Record date for dividend
March 31, annually
Annual dividend per share
