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Marubeni raised its three-year shareholder-return target by ¥200bn to ¥900bn and approved a ¥100bn buyback after first-quarter net profit rose 20.7% to ¥186.4bn, already a third of the way to its full-year goal.
Twelve Tokyo-listed companies disclosed June share-repurchase activity on the same day, and the contrast is stark: Mitani Sekisan bought no stock at all while Kyocera spent ¥29.6bn in a single session.
The trading house finished an existing buyback after repurchasing 11,766,800 shares for just under ¥60bn by June 23. That falls short of the 20mn-share ceiling but effectively uses the cash cap, which makes this an execution scorecard on shareholder returns rather than a fresh promise of more.