Fundamental Approach
We strive to ensure appropriate and timely disclosure of information, and actively conduct briefing sessions on financial results as well as meeting with domestic and foreign Institutional investors. These represent our efforts to achieve diverse forms of mutual communication.
Information Disclosure Policy
In accordance with the Disclosure Policy, we are aiming at fair, timely and accurate information disclosure for shareholders and investors in order for them to make investment decisions.
Not only to comply with relevant laws and regulations, we actively disclose management strategies and financial information, etc. so that investors are able to understand more of our business activities. We also promptly disclose information which we believe to be helpful for the investors to make investment decisions on the Company’s website, although they are not applicable to the timely disclosure rules and relevant laws, etc.
Shareholders Return
We consider appropriately returning to our shareholders as a management matter. Our basic policy is to provide stable dividends payment based on our business performance trend. We are targeting a dividend payout ratio 40% or higher during the New Medium-Term Management Plan (2023-2025).
Shareholder Incentives
To show our appreciation to shareholders for their continued support, we annually present the gift of a gourmet catalog to shareholders with 300 shares or more from which they can choose an item equivalent to JPY3,000. In addition, with the same shareholder number and more than three years holding form the base date, we double the gift to two items worth JPY6,000 in total from a catalog.
Enhancement of Various IR Tools
In addition to correspondences to shareholders issued semiannually, we post the latest topics through the Investor Relations site of our website in a timely manner. E-mails are also sent to allow investors to receive information in more timely manner. Every time news about the Company is released, we send registrants by E-mail. (Only in Japanese) In the financial results briefing session, we make efforts to provide easy-to-understand presentations by using PowerPoint visual materials. These briefing sessions (in Japanese and English) are also available either live or on recordings on our website.
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Approaches at General Shareholders’ Meetings
The 94th ordinary general meeting of shareholders was held at Hulic Head Office on March 26, 2024 with attendance of a lot of shareholders. In an effort to enliven the general meeting of shareholders, invitations to the meeting were sent out early, and we set up an electromagnetic voting method. In this meeting, we tried to explain about our business activities in an easy-to-understand way, using image materials, etc. We will strive to have shareholders more understand Hulic through communication with them.
Briefing Sessions for Institutional Investors and Analysts
Briefing sessions on financial results (at the end of the 2nd quarter and fiscal year) are held semiannually by Hulic's top management mainly for institutional investors. We also conduct many one-on-one meetings. We are actively rolled out IR activities, such as many one-on-one meetings with institutional investors in Japan and overseas.
Briefing Session for Private Investors
We are proactively working on IR activities to make ourselves better understood by individual investors. We participate in seminars and fairs, etc. for individual investors to create opportunities for more individual investors to learn about us. We will promote IR activities that provide us with opportunities to communicate directly with individual investors.
Selected as Indices on ESG Efforts
Hulic has continuously been selected in six indices as a company who took excellent initiatives on environment, social and governance (ESG). The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) uses these six indices as benchmarks of ESG investments.
External Evaluation of IR Activities
Hulic's website discloses timely and detailed information on our various activities. In 2023, our website was selected as the “excellent website in all markets ranking” in Nikko Investor Relations Co., Ltd.'s All Japanese Listed Company Website Ranking 2023. In addition, our website won the silver prize in Gómez IR Site Ranking.