KYOCERA CORPORATION
6971・Prime Market・Electric Appliances
Governance
Company with a Board of Corporate Auditors (planned transition to a Company with an Audit and Supervisory Committee following approval at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in June 2026). As of June 19, 2026, the Board of Directors comprises 11 directors (including 4 outside directors, all of whom are independent officers), and a Nomination and Compensation Committee (comprising a majority of independent outside directors) is established as an advisory body to the Board of Directors. Following the transition, the company plans to adopt a monitoring board structure consisting of 13 directors, including 7 outside directors.
Risk Management
The Risk Management Committee has been established to determine the Group's risk management policy and to identify corporate risks and assign them to risk owners (met twice during the fiscal year under review). Climate change, human resource acquisition, and human rights risks are positioned as corporate risks, and scenario analysis based on TCFD (1.5°C and 2.6°C scenarios) is also conducted.
Shareholder Returns
For FY2026 (ending March 2026), the annual dividend is ¥52 per share (interim ¥25, year-end ¥27), with total dividends of ¥70,137 million and a payout ratio of 50.6%. From the following fiscal year, the dividend metric will be changed to DOE (targeted at approximately 3.5%), adopting a progressive dividend policy. At the Board of Directors meeting on April 30, 2026, a share buyback with an upper limit of approximately ¥250.0 billion was resolved, and the forecasted dividend for FY2027 (ending March 2027) is ¥56.
Dividend Policy
Through the year-end dividend for the current consolidated fiscal year, the policy is to maintain a consolidated payout ratio of approximately 50%, using "profit for the year attributable to owners of the parent" in the consolidated results as a benchmark. From the following consolidated fiscal year onward, in order to implement more stable and continuous dividends, the company will use DOE (dividend on equity, the ratio of dividends to shareholders' equity) as the dividend metric and adopt a "progressive dividend" policy of maintaining or increasing the dividend per share. For the two years comprising the following consolidated fiscal year and FY2028 (ending March 2028), the DOE level will be set at approximately 3.5%. Note that the "shareholders' equity" used as the basis for DOE is calculated as "equity attributable to owners of the parent" excluding "other components of equity," which is subject to significant fluctuations due to the market value of held shares and foreign exchange effects.
ESG
Under support for TCFD, the company has conducted 1.5°C and 2.6°C scenario analyses, and has obtained SBT certification targeting a 46% reduction in Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions by FY2031 (ending March 2031) (versus FY2020 (ending March 2020)), RE60, and carbon neutrality by FY2051 (ending March 2051). On the human capital front, the company promotes talent development centered on the dissemination and practice of the "Kyocera Philosophy," and discloses that the female manager ratio at the reporting company is 6.3% and the male childcare leave utilization rate is 59.6%. The company also engages in human rights due diligence, RBA membership, and efforts to ensure supply chain transparency.
Last updated: June 19, 2026