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Communication with Shareholders and Investors
We strives to achieve sustainable growth and enhance corporate value in the medium to long term through highly transparent and reliable disclosure as well as sincere communication.
Disclosure of Corporate Information
For the Company, timely and appropriate disclosure to shareholders and investors serves to ensure transparent and fair decision making as well as effective corporate governance functions. We also believe that it contributes to increasing corporate value by promoting public understanding and an appropriate market assessment of the Company. Therefore, we not only undertake disclosure required by laws and regulations, but also publish information proactively through our website and other channels, working in this way to create a system for highly transparent and reliable disclosure.
To ensure that our disclosed information can be easily understood and serve as a useful basis for investment decisions, we adopt reader-friendly language and formats in our materials, and we are improving both financial and non-financial information. We also provide an English language version where the information is considered likely to be of particular importance to non-Japanese shareholders and investors.
Promotion of Engagement
In the dialogue, we appoint responders in accordance with the policies and characteristics of investors and the nature of the dialogue, and the president, executive officers in charge of investor relations, and other senior executives will have the opportunity to communicate directly with investors and shareholders in Japan and overseas. We create opportunities for our executive officers, including the President and the officer in charge of investor relations, to engage in direct dialogue with investors and shareholders both in Japan and overseas.
In 2023, we have worked to create opportunities for dialogue between members of the Board of Directors, including outside directors, and institutional shareholders on the topic of how the Company is viewed by the stock market. We also held interviews between outside directors and institutional shareholders.
We are actively committed to these engagement activities as a way to improve our medium- to long-term corporate value and achieve sustainable growth. For example, we endeavor to build understanding through our communication with investors by thoroughly explaining our thoughts, while any feedback from investors is discussed by members of the Board of Directors.
Profit Return
We consider return of profits to shareholders as one of the most important management issues. Based on the recognition that enhancement of corporate value through investments for growth is in the common interest of our shareholders, while prioritizing business investment that will lead to sustainable enhancement of corporate value, our basic policy is to distribute profit to shareholders according to profit growth, with a target total payout ratio to Profit attributable to owners of parent before amortization of goodwill 40%.
Shareholder Returns / Dividends
General Meeting of Shareholders
When holding the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, we provide a wide and fair range of information to shareholders, such as requesting individual shareholders to exercise their voting rights in advance from the Internet voting site and institutional investors to exercise their voting rights on the electronic voting platform, as well as sending convocation notices early, enhancing information, and posting related materials on the website in advance. We strive to ensure that you have sufficient information and time to exercise your rights.
IR Activities
The status of fiscal 2022 investor relations activities is as follows.
For the convenience of analysts and investors, we are enhancing our communications by using the Internet for interviews and briefings.
We will continue to use opinions and requests from shareholders and investors as references to improve our investor relations activities, and will aim to enhance our corporate value in the medium to long term.
Activity | Times | Details |
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Financial results briefings for analysts and institutional investors | Four |
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Interviews with analysts and institutional investors (interviews hosted by the President and other executive officers) | 262 (39) |
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Corporate briefings for individual investors | Two |
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Showroom tours for shareholders | One |
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Internal Dissemination of Feedback
Opinions and evaluations from shareholders and investors are widely reported within the Company, including the senior executives. This process allows us to utilize knowledge obtained from capital markets in our management and business activities.
We aim to enhance our corporate value through sustainable growth by utilizing this internal feedback.
Activity | Target audience | Frequency | Details |
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IR activity report to the Board of Executive Officers | All executive officers | Monthly | Sharing of insights relating to the improvement of management processes and corporate value based on knowledge gained from capital markets, including insights from analysts, investor feedback, and trends in stock prices and valuations |
Analyst report summary | All executive officers Relevant divisions |
As required | Sharing of summaries of analyst reports via email, etc. |
Financial results announcement and briefing report | All employees | After announcement of financial results | Sharing of summaries of financial results, investor points of interest, and evaluations of Dexerials via email |
Enhancing the Integrated Report through Dialogue with Institutional Investors
We are continually enhancing the content of our Integrated Report by holding individual meetings with institutional investors, both in Japan and overseas, to discuss the issues and aspects of the report that require improvement.
We will continue our efforts to enhance our disclosure activities and improve our corporate value through constructive dialogue with our shareholders and investors.