Resona Holdings announces share buyback, dividend hike, boosting shareholder returns

Resona Holdings, Inc. resolved today to acquire up to 35,000,000 common shares, representing 1.54% of its outstanding shares (excluding treasury shares), with a maximum acquisition cost of JPY35.0 billion. The acquisition period is from November 12, 2025, to February 13, 2026, executed via market buying on the Tokyo Stock Exchange through a discretionary purchase agreement. This initiative aims to improve capital efficiency and facilitate flexible capital policies.

The company concurrently announced a JPY4 increase in its annual dividend forecast per share to JPY29.00 for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026. This, combined with the new share buyback, brings the total shareholder return ratio (prospect) to 54.6%. As of September 30, 2025, Resona Holdings held 33,259,711 treasury shares against a total of 2,307,136,666 issued shares.

For the first half of fiscal year 2025 (ended September 30, 2025), Resona Holdings reported a 25.0% increase in net income attributable to owners of parent to JPY142.8 billion and a 31.9% rise in core net operating profit (excluding net gains on cancellation of investment trusts) to JPY171.8 billion. The company's ROE (TSE standard) improved to 10.2%, up 1.9 percentage points year-over-year.