AArtner Co., Ltd. (“the Company”) hereby notifies that on March 14, 2025, the Board of Directors resolved to distribute dividends of surplus with a record date of January 31, 2025, as follows: We plan to submit this matter at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled to be held on April 24, 2025.
1. Details of dividends
| Decided amount | Latest dividend forecast (announced on March 14, 2025) |
Previous result (FY2024) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Record date | January 31, 2025 | Same as left | January 31, 2024 |
| Dividend per share | ¥42.00 | ¥40.00 | ¥37.50 |
| Total amount of dividends | ¥446 million | － | ¥398 million |
| Effective date | April 25, 2025 | － | April 26, 2024 |
| Source of funds for dividends | Retained earnings | － | Retained earnings |
2. Reason
The Company comprehensively considers future business developments, earnings, the management environment, as well as the strengthening of its management foundations, and positions the supply of stable dividends to its shareholders as a top-priority management task. Moreover, with our policy to maintain a 50% payout ratio, we have set as our basic approach to continue to grow our profit this year to distribute dividends that are at least at the same amount as the previous year and continue to increase.
Based on the above policy and after comprehensively considering our performance and other factors, the yearend dividend will be ¥42 per share. By doing so, we expect that annual dividends per share for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, will be ¥82 per share.
Reference: Breakdown of annual dividends
| Dividend per share | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Record date | Second quarter-end | Fiscal year-end | Annual |
| Results (FY2025) |
¥40.00 | ¥42.00 | ¥82.00 |
| Results in previous period (FY2024) |
¥37.50 | ¥37.50 | ¥75.00 |
