Splits and Stock History
1998
- March 18
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Establishment of the Company
2000
- March 24
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Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers
- September 20
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4-for-1 Stock split
2001
- November 20
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2-for-1 Stock split
2002
- February 27 - September 17
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Repurchase 1.5 billion yen of own shares
- Nobember 20
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2-for-1 Stock split
2003
- November 20
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2-for-1 Stock split
2004
- June 2
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Retirement of own shares at a value of 1.19 billion yen(7.72%*
- November 19
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2-for-1 Stock split
2005
- November 18
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2-for-1 Stock split
2006
- November 19
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Selected for loanable stock.
2007
- November 14 - 15
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Repurchase 0.99 billion yen of own shares.
2008
- September 30
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Retirement of own shares at a value of 0.99 billion yen (1.99％*).
2011
- October 28 - 31
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Repurchase 1.99 billion yen of own shares.
2013
- February 1 - 7
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Repurchase 4.99 billion yen of own shares.
- February 28
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Retirement of own shares at a value of 1.99 billion yen(3.12％*).
- October 1
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100-for-1 stock split and adopted a Share Unit System which defines 100 shares as one trading unit.
2014
- January 6
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Selected for "JPX Nikkei Index 400".
- September 5
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Moved to the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
2015
- March 20
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Selected for "FTSE All World Index***"
2016
- October 1
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2-for-1 Stock split
2017
- July 3
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Included in ESG indexes that GPIF selected
"MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index"****
"MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index"*****
2018
- May 15
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Selected for "MSCI Japan Index"******
- September 5
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Selected for "Nikkei Stock Average (Nikkei 225)"
*Percentage of number of the outstanding shares before retirement.
**JPX-Nikkei Index 400 means 400 issues with high appeal. These are calculated using ROE (Return on equity) ,the total of operating profits for the past 3 years and market capitalization by Japan Exchange Group, Inc., Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. and Nikkei Inc.
***Global benchmark index for the global investors provided by FTSE, subsidiary of the London stock exchange, defined once in half year regarding market caps or liquidity.
****MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index: the index comprises companies that have high Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance in the top 500 Japanese companies by market capitalization.
*****MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index: the index comprises companies that have higher rates of female managers and employees among their workforce in the top 500 Japanese companies by market capitalization.
******MSCI Japan Index：one of the components of "MSCI Global Standard Indexes" provided by MSCI Inc, which constituents are 321 large and mid cap companies of the Japanese market as of April 2018.