Stock Information

Basic
Stock Information
Dividends/
Shareholder Returns
Shareholder
Composition
Administrative Formalities
for Shareholders

Basic Stock Information

Fiscal year end	March 31
Record date of year-end dividend	March 31
Record date of interim dividend	September 30
Notice of Shareholders General Meeting	June (record date of voting rights at the meeting: March 31)
Share unit number	100 shares
Method of public announcement	Public announcements are made electronically. In the event that it is impossible to do so due to an accident or any other unavoidable reason, announcements will be published in The Nihon Keizai Shimbun. (Nippon Shinyaku’s official website: https://www/nippon-shinyaku.co.jp/)
Shareholder registry administrator Special account management institution	Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation
Contact information of the above	Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation Osaka Corporate Agency Division 3-6-3 Fushimimachi, Chuo-ku, Osaka 541-8502 Japan Inquiries by phone: 0120-094-777 (accessible only within Japan)
Stock exchange of listing	Tokyo Stock Exchange (First Section)
Code	4516

Dividends/Shareholder Returns

Dividend policy

To ensure stable returns to its shareholders, Nippon Shinyaku aims to keep its consolidated dividend payout ratio at around 35% and to increase dividend per share by raising earnings per share (EPS). Note that in some cases the dividend payout ratio is calculated without taking into account extraordinary profit or loss.

Evolution of dividend per share

	154th term (ending March 2017)	155th term (ending March 2018)	156th term (ending March 2019)	157th term (ending March 2020)	158th term (ending March 2021)
2nd quarter end	18.00	26.00	29.00	43.00	49.00
Term-end	30.00	26.00	41.00	43.00	50.00
Annual	48.00	52.00	70.00	86.00	99.00

Expected dividends

（As of May 14, 2021）

Expected dividends based on business performance projected for the term ending March 2022 (April 1, 2021-March 31, 2022)

Dividend per share (yen)	For the term ending March 2022
	2nd quarter end	Term end	Annual
	51.00	52.00	103.00

Shareholder Incentives

No incentives are offered at the moment.

Shareholder Composition

Distribution of shares issued by shareholder category

As of March 31, 2021

Financial institutions	50.39
Securities corporations	0.82
Other corporations	7.79
Non-Japanese investors	28.77
Individual and other shareholders	12.23
Total	100.00

Financial institutions
Securities corporations
Other corporations
Non-Japanese investors
Individual and other shareholders

Note: Shareholding ratio is rounded off to two decimal places.

Major Shareholders

As of March 31, 2021

Shareholder name	Number of shares owned (in 1,000 shares)	Percentage (%)
The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (trust account)	6,523	9.69
Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company	6,486	9.63
Custody Bank of Japan（trust account）	4,486	6.66
MUFG Bank, Ltd.	3,315	4.92
The Bank of Kyoto, Ltd.	3,090	4.59
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Nippon Life Insurance Company	2,082	3.09
ＧＯＶＥＲＮＭＥＮＴ?。希啤。危希遥祝粒?	982	1.46
Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.	979	1.45
Custody Bank of Japan（trust account９）	928	1.38

Note 1: Each rate of shareholding was calculated after deducting the number of treasury shares (2,898,183 thousand) from the number of shares outstanding.

Note 2: Shareholding ratio is rounded off to two decimal places.

Administrative Formalities for Shareholders

For the notification of an address change, a request for purchase of shares not constituting a unit, and other formalities, shareholders are requested to direct their inquiries to the points of contact below.

	Shareholders with an account at a securities corporation	Shareholders with a special account
Point of contact	Your securities corporation	Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation Osaka Corporate Agency Division Formalities may be processed at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation’s branches across Japan.

Point of contact

Shareholders with an account at a securities corporation
Your securities corporation

Shareholders with a special account
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation Osaka Corporate Agency Division Formalities may be processed at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation’s branches across Japan.

(NB) In all cases, dividends not received will be paid at the Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation head office.