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Toyota repurchased ¥86.5bn of its own shares over twelve trading days in August, using up 8.65% of the ¥1tn value cap set by its board, and separately disposed of ¥3.44bn of treasury stock through a solicitation of takers.
Denso is exiting head-up-display manufacturing in Japan, China, Spain, the US and Mexico, handing its production equipment and related intellectual property to Nippon Seiki in an undisclosed cash deal capped at 1% of the buyer's net assets, with closing targeted for February 2027.
A greenshoe exercise on August 14 completed a scripted reshuffle: Toyota's and Daimler Truck's combined hold in the merged Hino-Mitsubishi Fuso holding company fell from 54.29% to an even 50%, split exactly at 25% apiece.
A greenshoe sale worth 59,089,200 shares brought Daimler Truck's stake in ARCHION down to the 25% ceiling it and Toyota agreed to hit after last year's truck merger, with voting rights still split unevenly at 26.7% versus 19.9%.
Retail buyers of Toyota Finance's ¥1bn security token bond earn a fixed 1.72% a year and a shot at Fuji Speedway tickets, but the bond cannot be resold to anyone except the issuer.
Daimler Truck AG and Toyota Motor Corporation are selling down a combined 787.9 million ARCHION shares at an indicative ¥250 to ¥300 each, a stake sale worth up to roughly ¥236bn before an over-allotment option pushes it higher.
Toyota Motor and Daimler Truck AG are selling down about 788 million ARCHION shares at a preliminary ¥250 to ¥300 each, split almost evenly between Japan and overseas buyers, with the final price capped at 95% of the stock's close on the pricing date set for sometime between July 22 and 27.
Toyota sold 53.68mn KDDI shares back to the company at ¥2,325 each, trimming its stake to 7.73% from 9.07% while keeping the remainder as a policy investment.
Toyota says the June 29 effective date is unchanged for transferring the OneStream logistics-efficiency system business to OneStream Co. What changed is the balance sheet on the other side: the successor company's capital is now expected to be ¥150 million when the split takes effect, and could rise further if a Class A preferred-share allotment approved on May 28 is paid in between June 30 and July 31.