JAC Recruitment regards the return of profits to be an important management issue, to allow us to build a long-term relationship of trust with our shareholders. Our basic principle on dividend policy is to continue to pay stable dividends while securing the internal reserves required to expand business in the future and to strengthen our business platform.
Our basic policy is to pay dividends from surplus once a year as year-end dividends, and the body that determines these dividends is the General Meeting of Shareholders.
Note that the Articles of Incorporation state that, subject to the approval of the Board of Directors, a dividend from surplus as stipulated in Article 454, Paragraph 5 of the Companies Act (i.e. an interim dividend) may be distributed to those shareholders or registered pledgees of shares who are listed or recorded in the latest Register of Shareholders as of June 30 each year.
- Regarding the dividend of surplus in fiscal year 2024, the year-end dividend of JPY26 per share, the same amount of the initial dividend forecast, was resolved at the 38th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on 27 March, 2025.The total amount of dividends is JPY4.151 billion.The total amount of dividends includes JPY39 million of dividends paid on the Company's own shares held in trust.
| 2020/12 | 2021/12 | 2022/12 | 2023/12 | 2024/12 | 2025/12 （Expected） |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dividend Per Share(yen) | 1Q | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2Q | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 3Q | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| FY-End | 20.00 | 18.25 | 20.00 | 22.50 | 26.00 | 32.00 | |
| Total | 20.00 | 18.25 | 20.00 | 22.50 | 26.00 | 32.00 | |
| Amount of Dividends(million yen) | 3,303 | 2,990 | 3,278 | 3,635 | 4,151 | - | |
| Payout Ratio(%) | 180.0 | 76.8 | 65.2 | 60.9 | 74.6 | 73.0 | |
| Ratio of Total Amount of Dividends to Net Assets(%) | 21.6 | 20.8 | 21.2 | 21.1 | 22.7 | - | |
| Implementation Date (effective date) | Split Ratio | Number of Shares after Split (100 shares at IPO) |
| Jan. 1, 2013 | 1:10 | 1,000 shares |
| Jan. 1, 2014 | 1:3 | 3,000 shares |
| Jan. 1, 2015 | 1:2 | 6,000 shares |
| Jan. 1, 2024 | 1:4 | 24,000 shares |
| Period | treasury Shares as of Jan. 1 |
Increased Number during the Period |
Decreased Number during the Period |
treasury Shares as of Dec. 31 |
| FY2020 | 723 Shares | 52 Shares | - | 775 Sharess |
| FY2021 | 775 Shares | 423,883 Sharess | - | 424,658 Shares |
| FY2022 | 424,658 Shares | - | 18,867 shares | 405,791 Shares |
| FY2023 | 405,791 Shares | 593,611Shares | - | 999,402 Shares |
| FY2024 | 3,997,608 Shares | 1,898,492 Shares | - | 5,896,100 Shares |
(Note)The Company conducted a four-for-one stock split effective January 1, 2024. The Company's shares held as trust assets in the stock-granting ESOP Trust are not included in the number of treasury shares above.
