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Daily Brief ESG: Companies that Wish to Distance from Facing Shareholders Are Unlikely to Achieve Management Reform and more

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  • Companies that Wish to Distance from Facing Shareholders Are Unlikely to Achieve Management Reform


Companies that Wish to Distance from Facing Shareholders Are Unlikely to Achieve Management Reform

By Aki Matsumoto

  • The increase in stock splits reflects a shift toward meeting the needs of individual shareholders of listed companies, occurring as cross-shareholdings decline and the presence of overseas investors grows.
  • Companies unwilling to increase foreign ownership further use stock splits to boost individual shareholders. Companies with low stock prices use it to meet as a tool of TSE’s P/B request.
  • It has become clear that increasing the foreign ownership is a higher priority than the increased costs associated with the rise in the number of shareholders resulting from stock split.

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