Investor Relations
To Our Shareholders and Investors
Dialogue with Shareholders and Investors
Overview of Dialogue with Shareholders in FY2024
Primary Representatives in Dialogue
President and Representative Director; Managing Executive Officer and Director; Directors and Full-time Audit and Supervisory Committee Members; Division Manager of Corporate Strategy Division; Division Manager of Administration Division; Division Manager of Sales Division; Division Manager of Production Engineering Division; Division Manager of Research and Development Division; Sustainability Committee Chair; General Manager of Corporate Strategy Department; IR officers in the Corporate Strategy Department; and others
Format and Overview of Dialogue
| Category | Number of times | Overview of Participants |
|---|---|---|
| Financial results briefings | 1 | Analysts, institutional investors, financial institutions |
| SR Interviews | 10 | Analysts, institutional investors |
| Individual interviews | 107 | Analysts, institutional investors |
Key Themes and Shareholder Interests Discussed
- Business Strategy and Performance
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- Relationship between capital expenditures and growth strategy
- Optimization of the business portfolio
- Demand trends in each business segment and underlying market trends
- Capital Policy and Capital Efficiency
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- Swift measures to improve return on equity (ROE)
- Reduction of cross-shareholdings
- Measures to achieve management that is conscious of the cost of capital and stock price
- Measures to address a price-to-book ratio (PBR) below 1.0
- Dividend policy and shareholder returns
- Governance
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- How the skills matrix should support growth strategy
- Discussions at the Nomination and Remuneration Committee
- Review of executive compensation (fixed compensation ratio and performance-linked evaluation metrics)
- Sustainability
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- Impact of environmental contribution products on financial performance
- Expansion and progress disclosure for materiality key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Employee engagement
- Human resources strategy
Feedback
Opinions and concerns received from shareholders through dialogue are shared with management through monthly minutes, and important matters are reported to the Corporate Management Committee.
Matters Incorporated into Management (Including Ongoing Initiatives)
- Review of materiality and resetting of KPIs
- Efforts to reduce cross-shareholdings
- Additional certification of environmental contribution products and resetting of KPIs
- Measures to achieve management that is conscious of the cost of capital and stock price
- Strengthening shareholder returns
- Enhanced disclosure of policies and initiatives related to human capital management (including descriptions in the integrated report)
