Press Releases 2025
Notice of Payment of Dividends
May 20, 2025
SoftBank Corp.
SoftBank Corp. (hereinafter the “Company”) announces that the Board of Directors, as of May 20, 2025, pursuant to Article 370 of the Companies Act of Japan and Article 32 of the Articles of Incorporation, resolved the distribution of dividend from surplus with a record date of March 31, 2025 as follows.
1. Details of Dividends
Common shares
| Resolved | Latest forecast (announced on May 9, 2024) |
Results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record date | March 31, 2025 | Same as on the left | March 31, 2024 |
| Dividend per share | JPY 4.30 | Same as on the left | JPY 43.00*1 |
| Total dividend | JPY 204,539 million | - | JPY 202,461 million |
| Effective date | June 12, 2025 | - | June 6, 2024 |
| Dividend resource | Retained earnings | - | Retained earnings |
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- *1The Company conducted a stock split whereby each share of the Company's common shares was split into 10 shares, with the effective date being October 1, 2024. The dividend per share for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024 are actual amounts paid prior to this stock split.
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Series 1 Bond-Type Class Shares
| Resolved | Latest forecast (announced on May 9, 2024) |
Results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record date | March 31, 2025 | Same as on the left | March 31, 2024 |
| Dividend per share | JPY 50.00 | Same as on the left | JPY 41.53 |
| Total dividend | JPY 1,500 million | - | JPY 1,246 million |
| Effective date | June 12, 2025 | - | June 6, 2024 |
| Dividend resource | Retained earnings | - | Retained earnings |
Series 2 Bond-Type Class Shares
| Resolved | Latest forecast (announced on September 13, 2024) |
Results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record date | March 31, 2025 | Same as on the left | - |
| Dividend per share | JPY 126.24*2 | Same as on the left | - |
| Total dividend | JPY 3,156 million | - | - |
| Effective date | June 12, 2025 | - | - |
| Dividend resource | Retained earnings | - | - |
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- *2The year-end dividend per share is calculated by multiplying the issuance price of JPY 8,000 per share by the fixed annual dividend rate of 3.200% and applying daily proration based on a 365-day year.
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2. Reason
The Company considers the return of profits to shareholders to be an important goal for our management along with increasing medium- to long-term corporate value. To increase corporate value, the Company will make capital investments efficiently to further raise the sophistication of 5G, as well as continuing investments in new businesses such as building AI computing infrastructure. Our basic policy is to distribute surplus twice a year as interim and year-end dividends, and to pay attention to the stability and sustainability of dividends while considering factors such as performance trends, financial condition, and cash flow position on a comprehensive basis.
In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, the Company resolved to pay a year-end dividend per share of JPY 4.30 for common shares, JPY 50 for the Series 1 Bond-Type Class Shares, and JPY 126.24*2 for the Series 2 Bond-Type Class Shares. For the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, the annual dividend per share is planned to be JPY 8.60 (of which, the interim and year-end dividends per share are planned to be JPY 4.30 and JPY 4.30, respectively) for common shares, and a prescribed amount of dividend is planned for the Series 1 Bond-Type Class Shares and the Series 2 Bond-Type Class Shares.
(Reference) Breakdown of annual dividend
Common shares
| Record Date | Fiscal year ended March 31, 2024 | Fiscal year ended March 31, 2025*3 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interim | Year-end | Total | Interim | Year-end | Total | |
| Dividend per share (JPY) |
43.00 | 43.00 | 86.00 | 43.00 | 4.30 | - |
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- *3The Company conducted a stock split whereby each share of the Company's common shares was split into 10 shares, with the effective date being October 1, 2024. Regarding the abovementioned amount for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, the interim dividend per share is before the stock split while the year-end dividend per share takes the stock split into account. Total dividends per share is not stated because the amounts cannot be simply combined due to the implementation of the stock split. If the stock split were not conducted, the annual dividends per share would be JPY 86.
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Series 1 Bond-Type Class Shares
| Record Date | Fiscal year ended March 31, 2024 | Fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interim | Year-end | Total | Interim | Year-end | Total | |
| Dividend per share (JPY) |
- | 41.53 | 41.53 | 50.00 | 50.00 | 100.00 |
Series 2 Bond-Type Class Shares
| Record Date | Fiscal year ended March 31, 2024 | Fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interim | Year-end | Total | Interim | Year-end | Total | |
| Dividend per share (JPY) |
- | - | - | - | 126.24 | 126.24 |
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