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Capital Research and Capital International Report Combined 5.20% Nintendo Stake

Two Los Angeles-based advisers, Capital Research and Management Company and Capital International, Inc., jointly hold 66.9mn Nintendo shares, just above the threshold that triggers Japan's large-shareholding disclosure rule, with 8.29mn American depositary receipts in the mix converting into only 2.07mn of those shares.

Sep 7, 20262 min readNintendo Co., Ltd.7974
Abstract diagram of two stacked ownership blocks crossing a percentage threshold line, with icons showing depositary receipts converting into a smaller number of share certificates.

Capital Research and Management Company and Capital International, Inc., two Los Angeles-based investment advisers, told Japan's Kanto Local Finance Bureau on September 7, 2026 that they jointly hold 66,922,549.75 Nintendo shares, equal to 5.20% of the console maker's stock as of August 31, 2026. The filing cites Article 27-26, Paragraph 1 of Japan's Financial Instruments and Exchange Act as its legal basis.

Capital Research and Management Company, the larger of the two advisers, holds 65,270,425.75 shares, or 5.07% of Nintendo's outstanding stock. That total includes 8,292,591 American depositary receipts, which the filing converts into 2,073,147.75 common shares at a stated ratio of one ADR to 0.25 shares. Capital International, Inc. holds a smaller 1,652,124 shares, or 0.13%.

Combined Nintendo Holdings (as of August 31, 2026)
Figures reflect the joint large shareholding report filed with Japan's Kanto Local Finance Bureau on September 7, 2026.
FilerShares Held% of Nintendo Stock
Capital Research and Management Company65,270,425.755.07%
Capital International, Inc.1,652,1240.13%
Combined total66,922,549.755.20%

Both filers describe their purpose as pure investment on behalf of clients: Capital Research and Management Company for investment trusts domiciled outside Japan, Capital International for institutional clients as part of its ordinary advisory business. Neither filer reports pledge agreements or other material contracts tied to the shares, and Nintendo's total outstanding stock stood at 1,287,260,000 shares as of the same date.

The report was filed through Clifford Chance's foreign-law joint enterprise office in Tokyo, acting on behalf of both advisers, a common arrangement for foreign institutional filers working through Japan's disclosure system. The document itself is titled a large shareholding report for special-report securities, the category printed on its cover page.

That places two client-driven asset managers just over the 5% mark on Nintendo's share register, not a change in strategic control. The supplied filing excerpt does not include a prior holding ratio, so it does not show whether the combined stake rose or fell from an earlier report.