Shareholder Returns Through Dividends and Commemorative Dividends
First written in FY2016-Q3. 22 of 38 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: 2026-10-08.
14 other companies' latest entry also says "Advanced".
- 2026-10-08AdvancedEarnings
「2026年12月期(予想) 19.00 37.00」
2026年12月期の期末配当予想19円、年間配当予想37円を示し、前期年間配当36円からの増配予想を維持している。 - FY2026-H1RestatedAnnual report
「Regarding the interim dividend for the 47th fiscal year, from 21 December 2025 to 20 December 2026, the Board of Directors meeting held on 7 July 2026 approved the following interim dividend for shareholders recorded in the shareholder register as of 20 June 2026: ① Total dividend: ¥129.060 million ② Amount per share: ¥18.00」
The interim dividend was ¥18.00 per share, continuing a dividend at the same level as the previous fiscal year's interim dividend. - FY2025Increase in annual and interim dividendsAnnual report
「The year-end dividend for the fiscal year was ¥18.00 per share, bringing the annual dividend to ¥36.00 per share when combined with the interim dividend of ¥18.00 per share.」
The annual dividend increased from ¥35.00 in the previous fiscal year to ¥36.00, while the interim dividend increased from ¥17.00 to ¥18.00. - FY2025-H1Increase in interim dividendAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 7 July 2025, the Company approved the following interim dividend for the fiscal year. (a) Total interim dividend: ¥131.760 million (b) Amount per share: ¥18.00」
The interim dividend was ¥18.00 per share, an increase of ¥1.00 from the previous fiscal year's interim dividend of ¥17.00. - FY2024Increase in annual dividendsAnnual report
「The year-end dividend for the fiscal year was ¥18.00 per share, bringing the annual dividend to ¥35.00 per share when combined with the interim dividend of ¥17.00 per share.」
The annual dividend increased from ¥34.00 in the previous fiscal year to ¥35.00, comprising a year-end dividend of ¥18.00 and an interim dividend of ¥17.00. - FY2024-Q2Increase in interim dividendAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 8 July 2024, the Company approved the following interim dividend for the fiscal year. (a) Total interim dividend: ¥124.440 million (b) Amount per share: ¥17.00」
The interim dividend was ¥17.00 per share, an increase from ¥5.00 in the previous fiscal year's interim dividend. - FY2024-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 24 January 2024, the Company approved the following dividend from retained earnings. (a) Total year-end dividend: ¥209.754 million (b) Amount per share: ¥29.00」
The Company reconfirmed that it paid a year-end dividend of ¥29.00 per share for the fiscal year ended December 2023. - FY2023Significant increase in the annual dividendAnnual report
「The year-end dividend for the fiscal year was ¥29.00 per share, bringing the annual dividend to ¥34.00 per share when combined with the interim dividend of ¥5.00 per share.」
The annual dividend increased from ¥11.70 in the previous fiscal year to ¥34.00, and the year-end dividend was ¥29.00 per share. - FY2023-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 10 July 2023, the Company approved the following interim dividend for the fiscal year. (a) Total interim dividend: ¥36.164 million (b) Amount per share: ¥5.00」
The Company reconfirmed that it paid an interim dividend of ¥36.164 million in total, or ¥5.00 per share. - FY2023-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 10 July 2023, the Company approved the following interim dividend for the fiscal year. (a) Total interim dividend: ¥36.164 million (b) Amount per share: ¥5.00」
The Company reconfirmed its decision to pay an interim dividend of ¥5.00 per share, totaling ¥36.164 million. - FY2023-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 24 January 2023, the Company approved the following dividend from retained earnings. (a) Total year-end dividend: ¥48.460 million (b) Amount per share: ¥6.70」
The Company paid a year-end dividend of ¥6.70 per share, maintaining the level following the increase in the ordinary dividend decided at the end of the previous consolidated fiscal year. - FY2022Increase in the ordinary dividendAnnual report
「The annual dividend is set at whichever is higher: an amount corresponding to a 25% payout ratio or ¥10. The year-end dividend for the fiscal year was ¥6.70 per share, bringing the annual dividend to ¥11.70 per share when combined with the interim dividend of ¥5.00 per share.」
While maintaining the dividend policy of a 25% payout ratio or ¥10, the annual dividend increased from ¥10 in the previous fiscal year to ¥11.70, with a payout ratio of 27.3%. - FY2022-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 8 July 2022, the Company approved the following interim dividend for the fiscal year. (a) Total interim dividend: ¥36.164 million (b) Amount per share: ¥5.00」
The Company approved and paid an interim dividend of ¥36.164 million in total, or ¥5.00 per share, continuing the ordinary dividend level. - FY2022-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 8 July 2022, the Company approved the following interim dividend for the fiscal year. (a) Total interim dividend: ¥36.164 million (b) Amount per share: ¥5.00」
The Company approved an interim dividend of ¥36.164 million in total, or ¥5.00 per share, continuing the ordinary dividend level. - FY2022-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 25 January 2022, the Company approved the following dividend from retained earnings. (a) Total year-end dividend: ¥36.164 million (b) Amount per share: ¥5.00」
The Company approved and paid a year-end dividend of ¥36.164 million in total, or ¥5.00 per share, continuing the ordinary dividend level. - FY2021-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 8 July 2021, the Company approved the following interim dividend for the fiscal year. (a) Total interim dividend: ¥36.164 million (b) Amount per share: ¥5.00」
The Company approved and paid an interim dividend of ¥36.164 million in total, or ¥5.00 per share, reconfirming the ordinary dividend level. - FY2021-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 8 July 2021, the Company approved the following interim dividend for the fiscal year. (a) Total interim dividend: ¥36.164 million (b) Amount per share: ¥5.00」
The Company approved an interim dividend of ¥36.164 million in total, or ¥5.00 per share, reconfirming the ordinary dividend level maintained since the previous fiscal year. - FY2021-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「(b) Amount per share: ¥5.00」
Based on the resolution of the Board of Directors meeting held on 26 January 2021, the Company paid a year-end dividend of ¥5.00 per share for which the record date was 20 December 2020. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 7 July 2020, the Company approved the following interim dividend for the fiscal year. (b) Amount per share: ¥5.00」
The Company approved and paid an interim dividend of ¥5.00 per share, reconfirming the ordinary dividend level maintained since the previous fiscal year. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 7 July 2020, the Company approved the following interim dividend for the fiscal year.」
The Company approved an interim dividend of ¥5.00 per share, totaling ¥36.164 million, reconfirming the ordinary dividend level maintained since the previous fiscal year. - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Board of Directors meeting held on 24 January 2020 Common shares 36,164 5.00」
The Company confirmed that it paid a year-end dividend of ¥5.00 per share for which the record date was 20 December 2019. The shift from the previous year's dividend including a commemorative dividend to the ordinary ¥5 dividend continues. - FY2019ReframedAnnual report
「The annual dividend is set at whichever is higher: an amount corresponding to a 25% payout ratio or ¥10.」
A condition setting an annual dividend floor of ¥10 was added to the previous policy of a 25% payout ratio. For the fiscal year ended December 2019, the interim and year-end dividends were ¥5 each, for a total of ¥10. - FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The dividend of ¥18.40 per share approved at the Board of Directors meeting held on 15 January 2019 included a ¥15.00 commemorative dividend marking the 25th anniversary of the company's incorporation.」
The Company reconfirmed that the year-end dividend of ¥18.40 per share included a ¥15.00 commemorative dividend marking the 25th anniversary of the company's incorporation. The interim dividend for the fiscal year was ¥5.00 per share. - FY2019-Q2ReframedAnnual report
「At the Board of Directors meeting held on 8 July 2019, the Company approved the following interim dividend for the fiscal year. (b) Amount per share: ¥5.00」
In contrast to the previous disclosure of a dividend of ¥18.40 per share including the ¥15.00 commemorative dividend marking the 25th anniversary of the company's incorporation, the current interim dividend was disclosed as ¥5.00 per share, with no note stating that it included a commemorative dividend. - FY2019-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The dividend of ¥18.40 per share included a ¥15.00 commemorative dividend marking the 25th anniversary of the company's incorporation.」
A dividend of ¥18.40 per share was paid, including ¥15.00 as a commemorative dividend marking the 25th anniversary of the company's incorporation. - FY2018RestatedAnnual report
「Because the Company recorded a net loss for the fiscal year, partly due to impairment losses, the ordinary dividend at the end of the fiscal year would have been zero under the aforementioned policy. However, giving the highest priority to returning profits to shareholders, the Company set the dividend at ¥3.40 per share as originally planned.」
The ordinary dividend would have been zero based on the net loss for the fiscal year, but a year-end ordinary dividend of ¥3.40 per share was paid. Including the ¥30.00 commemorative dividend marking the 25th anniversary of the company's incorporation, the annual dividend was ¥34.20. - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The dividend of ¥22.80 per share approved at the Board of Directors meeting held on 15 January 2018 included a ¥15.00 commemorative dividend marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of the comprehensive job-information magazine ARPA, while the dividend of ¥15.80 per share approved at the Board of Directors meeting held on 6 July 2018 included a ¥15.00 commemorative dividend marking the 25th anniversary of the company's incorporation.」
The Company reconfirmed that the year-end dividend of ¥22.80 per share and the interim dividend of ¥15.80 per share included commemorative dividends marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of ARPA and the 25th anniversary of the company's incorporation, respectively. - FY2018-Q2ReframedAnnual report
「The dividend of ¥15.80 per share included a ¥15.00 commemorative dividend marking the 25th anniversary of the company's incorporation.」
The interim dividend was ¥15.80 per share, including ¥15.00 as a commemorative dividend marking the 25th anniversary of the company's incorporation. The subject of the commemorative dividend changed from the previous commemorative dividend marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of ARPA. - FY2018-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The dividend of ¥22.80 per share included a ¥15.00 commemorative dividend marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of the comprehensive job-information magazine ARPA.」
The Company paid a year-end dividend of ¥22.80 per share and made shareholder returns including the ¥15.00 commemorative dividend marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of ARPA. - FY2017RestatedAnnual report
「As a result, the year-end dividend for the fiscal year was set at ¥22.80 per share. Combined with the interim dividend of ¥19.10 per share, the annual dividend was ¥41.90, with a payout ratio of 172.3%.」
The annual dividend, including the commemorative dividend marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of ARPA, was ¥41.90 per share, with a payout ratio of 172.3%. - FY2017-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The dividend of ¥19.10 per share approved at the Board of Directors meeting held on 6 July 2017 included a ¥15.00 commemorative dividend marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of the comprehensive job-information magazine ARPA.」
The disclosure continues to state an interim dividend of ¥19.10 per share, including ¥15.00 as a commemorative dividend marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of ARPA. - FY2017-Q2ReframedAnnual report
「The dividend of ¥19.10 per share included a ¥15.00 commemorative dividend marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of the comprehensive job-information magazine ARPA.」
The interim dividend was approved at ¥19.10 per share, including a ¥15.00 commemorative dividend marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of the comprehensive job-information magazine ARPA. The subject and amount of the commemorative dividend changed from the previous commemorative dividend marking the completion of the printing plant. - FY2017-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The dividend of ¥9.20 per share included a ¥5.00 commemorative dividend marking the 10th anniversary of the completion of the printing plant.」
A dividend of ¥9.20 per share was paid based on the resolution of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on 10 March 2017, including a ¥5.00 commemorative dividend marking the 10th anniversary of the completion of the printing plant. - FY2016ReframedAnnual report
「The Company recognizes the return of profits to shareholders as one of its key management priorities. Its basic policy is to maintain stable dividends in line with business performance, and it has set its near-term payout ratio at 25%.」
In addition to reporting the actual dividends, the Company clearly stated its ongoing dividend policy of performance-linked, stable dividends and a near-term payout ratio of 25%. The full-year dividend was ¥19.40 per share, with a payout ratio of 51.8%. - FY2016-Q3First statedAnnual report
「The dividend of ¥9.20 per share approved at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on 15 March 2016 included a ¥5.00 commemorative dividend for the company's 35th anniversary, while the dividend of ¥10.20 per share approved at the Board of Directors meeting held on 7 July 2016 included a ¥5.00 commemorative dividend marking the 10th anniversary of the completion of the printing plant.」
Dividends of ¥9.20 and ¥10.20 per share were paid during the cumulative period, and both included commemorative dividends.