Press Releases 2025
Notice of Payment of Dividends (Interim Dividends)
October 23, 2025
SoftBank Corp.
SoftBank Corp. (hereinafter the "Company") announces that at the meeting of the Board of Directors held on October 23, 2025, its Board of Directors resolved the distribution of dividends from retained earnings with a record date of September 30, 2025 as follows. The amount of dividends per share for common shares, the Series 1 Bond-Type Class Shares and the Series 2 Bond-Type Class Shares is in line with the forecast of dividends announced in "Consolidated Financial Report for the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2025," dated May 8, 2025.
1. Details of Dividends
Common shares
| Resolved | Latest forecast (announced on May 8, 2025) |
Interim dividends for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Record date | September 30, 2025 | Same as on the left | September 30, 2024 |
| Dividend per share | JPY 4.30 | Same as on the left | JPY 43.00*1 |
| Total dividend | JPY 205,270 million | - | JPY 203,687 million |
| Effective date | December 5, 2025 | - | December 6, 2024 |
| Dividend resource | Retained earnings | - | Retained earnings |
- [Note]
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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, 2025 is the actual amount paid prior to this stock split.
- *1
Series 1 Bond-Type Class Shares
| Resolved | Latest forecast (announced on May 8, 2025) |
Interim dividends for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Record date | September 30, 2025 | Same as on the left | September 30, 2024 |
| Dividend per share | JPY 50.00 | Same as on the left | JPY 50.00 |
| Total dividend | JPY 1,500 million | - | JPY 1,500 million |
| Effective date | December 5, 2025 | - | December 6, 2024 |
| Dividend resource | Retained earnings | - | Retained earnings |
Series 2 Bond-Type Class Shares
| Resolved | Latest forecast (announced on May 8, 2025) |
Interim dividends for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Record date | September 30, 2025 | Same as on the left | - |
| Dividend per share | JPY 128.00 | Same as on the left | - |
| Total dividend | JPY 3,200 million | - | - |
| Effective date | December 5, 2025 | - | - |
| Dividend resource | Retained earnings | - | - |
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 continue 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.
The Company resolved to pay dividends of JPY 4.30 per common share, JPY 50 per Series 1 Bond-Type Class Share and JPY 128 per Series 2 Bond-Type Class Share at the end of second quarter, as originally planned. The year-end dividends are planned to be JPY 4.30 per common share 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, 2025*2 | Fiscal year ending March 31, 2026 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interim | Year-end | Total | Interim | Year-end | Total | |
| Dividend per share (JPY) |
43.00 (Actual) |
4.30 (Actual) |
- | 4.30 (Actual) |
4.30 (Forecast) |
8.60 (Forecast) |
- [Note]
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- *2The 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. The total dividend per share is not stated because the amount cannot be simply combined due to the implementation of the stock split. If the stock split was not conducted, the annual dividend per share would be JPY 86.
- *2
Series 1 Bond-Type Class Shares
| Record date | Fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 | Fiscal year ending March 31, 2026 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interim | Year-end | Total | Interim | Year-end | Total | |
| Dividend per share (JPY) |
50.00 (Actual) |
50.00 (Actual) |
100.00 (Actual) |
50.00 (Actual) |
50.00 (Forecast) |
100.00 (Forecast) |
Series 2 Bond-Type Class Shares
| Record date | Fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 | Fiscal year ending March 31, 2026 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interim | Year-end | Total | Interim | Year-end | Total | |
| Dividend per share (JPY) |
- | 126.24 (Actual) |
126.24 (Actual) |
128.00 (Actual) |
128.00 (Forecast) |
256.00 (Forecast) |
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