With Our Shareholders and Investors

Our Basic Stance

Based on the statement "We strive to continuously increase our corporate value" in the Corporate Values of the Fujitsu Way, in order to raise corporate value and meet the expectations of shareholders and investors, we aim to achieve long-term sustainable expansion of profit, and pursue strategic business expansion and focused management, while maintaining a sound financial standing.

We also provide timely and accurate disclosure of our corporate activities and financial information, improving management transparency so that shareholders and investors can better understand how well we perform in increasing corporate value.

Basic Policy on Information Disclosure

Fujitsu emphasizes fairness and continuity in disclosure of information, in accordance with the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act and other laws and regulations, as well as the rules of the exchanges on which its shares are listed.

Moreover, our policy is to be proactive in disclosing any information that we judge to be effective for helping shareholders, investors and other stakeholders to deepen their understanding of Fujitsu, even if such disclosure is not required by laws, regulations or other rules.

Policy on Dividends and Dividends Forecast

Article 40 of Fujitsu Limited's Articles of Incorporation grants the Board of Directors the authority to distribute retained earnings. As part of Fujitsu's basic policy on the exercise of this authority, a portion of retained earnings is paid to shareholders to provide a stable return, and a portion is retained by the Company to strengthen its financial base and support new business development opportunities that will result in improved long-term performance. In addition, while taking into consideration its level of profit, when a sufficient volume of internal reserves is secured, including through the acquisition of its own shares, Fujitsu aims to more proactively distribute profits to shareholders.

Our consolidated results in FY2016 yielded an increase in profits relative to the previous fiscal year due to several factors, including the effects of the business model transformations that we implemented in FY2015 and the solid performance of our service business in Japan. Having considered our performance levels, financial standing, and projections of business environment conditions from a comprehensive standpoint, we will raise our year-end dividends from 4 yen per share to 5 yen per share and set the annual dividend value to 9 yen per share. As we look ahead to FY2017, we aim to reap the benefits of our business model transformations over the last two years, make a major shift toward growth, and put ourselves on track to reach our Management Direction goal: achieving a consolidated operating profit margin of at least 10%. In terms of dividends for FY2017, we plan to increase our interim dividends from 4 yen per share to 5 yen per share, raise our year-end dividends from 5 yen per share to 6 yen per share, and set our annual dividend value to 11 yen per share.

Communicating with Shareholders and Investors

We are actively involved in IR activities in Japan and abroad, including holding briefing sessions for institutional investors and securities analysts, responding to requests for one-on-one meetings from investors, meeting with Japanese and international institutional investors, and posting information on the Fujitsu website as part of our efforts to improve communications with all investors.

We also disseminate press releases, providing information through the media to individual investors and the public at large as part of our active efforts to ensure fair disclosure policy.

For the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, we try to create an environment in which all shareholders feel comfortable asking questions. Moreover, the company president directly explains the company's management direction in his own words to all the shareholders. At the meeting, Fujitsu products are on display and expert staffs are on hand to explain Fujitsu's technologies and services. In addition, shareholders in other regions of Japan can observe the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, where it is relayed to four regional meeting places throughout Japan with approximately 1,000 shareholders participating. The video-streaming of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting is made publicly available on the Fujitsu website a couple of days after the meeting.

A Variety of Meetings for the Investment Community, both in and outside Japan

Fujitsu provides a variety of briefing meetings on financial results, management direction, and business with institutional investors and securities analysts in Japan.

For institutional investors outside Japan, we hold IR road shows by management regularly in Europe, North America, and Asia, and IR staff members in overseas locations also have meetings with institutional investors individually. In FY2016, we held 899 meetings for institutional investors and securities analysts (642 of them from foreign investors and 257 from domestic investors).

Communicating with Individual Shareholders and Investors

In addition to sending out interim and year-end financial reports for individual shareholders and investors, we promptly disclose financial results documents and presentation materials used at briefing sessions for investors and analysts and publish video on website related to presentations of financial results.

Publication on IR websites

Fujitsu publishes information that we would like our shareholders and investors to know on our Japanese and global IR websites. English versions of presentations and financial results reports used at briefings held in Japan are posted on our global IR site.

We also have been striving to utilize our IR websites for information disclosure and communication to deepen people's understanding of Fujitsu through IR activities, such as early public release of proposals submitted at shareholders' meetings.