Stock dividends
The Sangetsu Group regards the increase of capital efficiency and the expansion of shareholder returns as important management matters, and its basic policy is to stably increase dividends. The Group works to implement a flexible capital policy through the acquisition of treasury shares, etc.
The annual dividend for the fiscal year ending March 2024, including the interim and year-end dividends, was ¥140 per share, marking the 10 consecutive annual dividend increases. The annual dividend for the fiscal year ending March 2025 is expected to be ¥150 per share.
Acquisition of Treasury Shares
| Acquisition period | Total number of shares acquired (shares) | Total amount of acquisition (yen) | Acquisition method |
| 2021/10/11～2022/1/13 | 695,000 | 1,103,973,100 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2021/8/11～2021/10/7 | 500,000 | 798,802,300 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2021/5/13～2021/8/10 | 500,000 | 784,809,700 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2020/12/14～2021/3/16 | 279,600 | 432,912,700 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2019/8/5～2019/12/23 | 491,400 | 970,311,700 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2019/2/6～2019/6/21 | 632,100 | 1,302,173,379 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2018/9/18～2019/1/21 | 1,000,000 | 2,093,308,880 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2018/5/14～2018/8/20 | 1,000,000 | 2,195,488,500 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2018/1/15～2018/4/27 | 1,258,000 | 2,780,589,800 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2017/9/11～2017/12/22 | 951,000 | 1,911,762,578 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2017/7/3～2017/9/5 | 1,000,000 | 1,973,517,777 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2017/2/13～2017/4/28 | 662,600 | 1,276,012,296 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2016/7/11～2016/8/30 | 500,000 | 939,611,100 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2016/2/5～2016/4/26 | 1,500,000 | 3,018,278,579 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2015/11/10～2015/12/16 | 2,500,000 | 5,686,828,991 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company and off-auction treasury share repurchase trading system |
| 2015/6/11～2015/9/16 | 760,900 | 1,499,906,480 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2015/2/13～2015/4/27 | 1,653,700 | 2,999,862,768 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
| 2014/11/10～2015/2/10 | 2,114,600 | 2,999,907,879 | Purchase through discretionary trading by securities company |
* On April 1, 2015, the Company conducted a share split at a ratio of 2 shares for every 1 share of common shares. Per-share data have been adjusted to reflect the current standard.
Retirement of Treasury Shares
| Date of retirement | Total number of shares retired (shares) | Ratio of total issued shares before the retirement | Total number of issued shares after retirement (shares) |
| 2022/3/31 | 700,000 | 1.16% | 59,200,000 |
| 2021/10/29 | 500,000 | 0.82% | 59,900,000 |
| 2021/8/31 | 500,000 | 0.82% | 60,400,000 |
| 2021/5/31 | 250,000 | 0.40% | 60,900,000 |
| 2020/6/30 | 600,000 | 0.97% | 61,150,000 |
| 2020/1/31 | 500,000 | 0.80% | 61,750,000 |
| 2019/7/31 | 600,000 | 0.95% | 62,250,000 |
| 2019/2/28 | 1,000,000 | 1.56% | 62,850,000 |
| 2018/9/28 | 1,000,000 | 1.54% | 63,850,000 |
| 2018/5/31 | 1,200,000 | 1.81% | 64,850,000 |
| 2018/1/31 | 950,000 | 1.41% | 66,050,000 |
| 2017/9/29 | 400,000 | 0.59% | 67,000,000 |
| 2017/5/31 | 670,000 | 0.98% | 67,400,000 |
| 2016/9/30 | 500,000 | 0.72% | 68,070,000 |
| 2016/6/3 | 600,000 | 0.86% | 68,570,000 |
| 2016/1/29 | 2,500,000 | 3.48% | 69,170,000 |
| 2015/11/16 | 830,000 | 1.14% | 71,670,000 |
| 2015/5/29 | 1,600,000 | 2.15% | 72,500,000 |
| 2015/3/6 | 2,098,480 | 2.75% | 74,100,000 |
| 2014/12/12 | 4,178,000 | 5.48% | 76,198,480 |
* On April 1, 2015, the Company conducted a share split at a ratio of 2 shares for every 1 share of common shares. Per-share data have been adjusted to reflect the current standard.
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