Dividends

9434SoftBank Corp.

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+4.1% today · +16.9% over a year

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Stability: among the best of its peers. Dividend yield 3.58%.

SoftBank Corp. (9434) dividends: trailing yield 3.58%, not lowered for 7 years, 5-year growth 0.2% a year.

Trailing 12-month yieldA high yield can signal risk rather than safety: payouts may be cut, and part of a fund's distribution may be your own capital returned.
3.58%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
3.62%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
¥8.70
Payments per year
2

Yield after tax (estimate)

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Next payment

No upcoming payment has been announced yet.

Dividend profile

5-year dividend growth (per year)
+0.2%
Years without a lower dividend
7
Years without a cut of over 10 %
7

Dividends per share by year

Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.

Dividends per share by year: 2019 ¥8.00, 2020 ¥8.55, 2021 ¥8.60, 2022 ¥8.60, 2023 ¥8.60, 2024 ¥8.60, 2025 ¥8.602019: ¥8.002020: ¥8.552021: ¥8.602022: ¥8.602023: ¥8.602024: ¥8.602025: ¥8.60

Payment history

Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.

Status
29 Sep 2026—¥4.40RegularSingle source1
30 Mar 2026—¥4.30RegularSingle source1
29 Sep 2025—¥4.30RegularSingle source1
28 Mar 2025—¥4.30RegularSingle source1

Each payment is checked against 1 data feed. Verified needs two independent ones. Verified: two or more sources agree. Single source: not cross-checked yet. Sources disagree: the median is shown. Announced: declared, may still change.

What dividend safety is made of

0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.

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