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Nichicon shareholders approve ¥19 year-end dividend, ¥1.28bn total

Nichicon's annual meeting cleared a ¥19 per-share year-end dividend worth ¥1.28bn in total, with the distribution effective from June 29 and no broader capital-allocation update in the excerpt.

Jun 29, 20261 min read
Editorial illustration of electronic components on a factory inspection line with an abstract cash-distribution graphic.

Nichicon has confirmed a year-end dividend of ¥19 per common share after shareholders approved the proposal at the company's 91st annual general meeting on June 26. The extraordinary report says the total distribution is ¥1.28bn, and it became effective on June 29.

Dividend at a glance
Source total in the report: ¥1,276,014,217.
FeatureDetail
Year-end dividend per common share¥19
Total distribution¥1.28bn
Effective dateJune 29, 2026
AGM dateJune 26, 2026

For readers outside Japan, this kind of AGM-linked extraordinary report can look procedural. Here, the procedure is the business signal. It confirms that the year-end cash return has cleared shareholder approval and fixes the effective date for the distribution.

The packeted excerpt identifies the resolution as an appropriation of surplus, specifically the year-end dividend, and it does not add any new operating guidance, buyback terms or wider capital-allocation measures beyond that item.

One caveat: the excerpt shows that the original report included a vote-result table, but the numerical vote counts are not visible in the packet provided to Tokyo Brief. That means the approval margin cannot be verified here. So the takeaway is narrow but clear, Nichicon has finalised this year-end shareholder payout, and not much more than that can be safely claimed from this disclosure alone.