SoftBank : Dividend Payout (Interim Dividend)

Press Releases 2019

October 16, 2019
SoftBank Group Corp.

SoftBank Group Corp. ('SBG') announced that on October 16, 2019 its Board of Directors resolved the distribution of interim dividend from surplus with a record date of September 30, 2019 as follows. The amount of dividend per share is in line with the forecast of dividend announced in 'Consolidated Financial Report for the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2019,' dated May 9, 2019.

1. Details of Dividend

Dividend to be distributed	Latest forecast (as of May 9, 2019)	Reference: Fiscal year ended March 2019
		Interim	Year-end
Record date	September 30, 2019	Same as on the left	September 30, 2018	March 31, 2019
Dividend per share	JPY 22.00	Same as on the left	JPY 22.00	JPY 22.00
Total cash dividend	JPY 45,567 million	-	JPY 23,982 million	JPY 23,184 million
Payable date	December 9, 2019	-	December 10, 2018	June 20, 2019
Dividend resource	Retained earnings	-	Retained earnings

[Notes]

• *1

  The amounts of total cash dividend are rounded off to the nearest unit.

• *2

  SBG conducted a share split at a ratio of two-for-one effective from June 28, 2019. The dividend per share for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019 is the amount before the share split.

2. Breakdown of Annual Dividend

Dividend per share
Record date	Interim	Year-end	Total
Fiscal year ending March 2020 (forecast)	-	JPY 22.00	JPY 44.00
Fiscal year ending March 2020	JPY 22.00	-	-
Fiscal year ended March 2019	JPY 22.00	JPY 22.00	JPY 44.00

[Notes]

• *

  SBG conducted a share split at a ratio of two-for-one effective from June 28, 2019. The cash dividend per share for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019 is the amount before the share split.

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