Status of Engagement with Shareholders, Investors, etc.
We aim to fairly disclose timely and appropriate information. We engage closely with investors and draw on their feedback to improve corporate value. We accordingly provide extensive opportunities for investors to speak directly with the president and CEO and other members of the management team.
1. Key investor relations activities in fiscal 2025
| Main representatives | Times held | |
|---|---|---|
| Management overview briefing | President and CEO | 1 (After the announcement of financial results for the fiscal year) |
| Earnings briefings | CFO | 4 (Quarterly) |
| Overseas road shows | President and CEO | 3 (Individual visits to institutional investors in Europe, the United States, and Asia) |
| Domestic road shows | CFO | 1 (Individual visits to institutional investors in Japan) |
| Business briefings | General managers of business unit (relevant executive officers) | 1 (For analysts and institutional investors) |
| Briefings for individual investors |
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2 (one onsite meeting and one online meeting) |
| One-on-one meetings with people in charge of exercising the proxy voting rights of institutional investors (shareholder relations meetings) | President and CEO | 1 (Meetings with 9 companies) |
| Small meetings with the President and CEO | President and CEO | 2 (one for sell-side analysts and one for buy-side analysts) |
| Small meeting with outside directors |
|
1 (For buy-side analysts) |
| Individual meetings with institutional investors and securities analysts | Corporate Communications Dept. | Around 140 (including about 40 with non-Japanese institutional investors) |
| Of which, accounted for by ESG meetings | About 5 |
2. Key topics and areas of interest
- Specialty business growth strategies
- Acquisition of the Urethane Systems business (acquired in April 2025)
- Structural reform of ammonia, caprolactam, and nylon polymers
- Preparations for the listing of Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corporation and UBE Machinery Corporation on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
- Measures aimed at enhancing the Price-to-Book Ratio (PBR)
- Efforts to address global environmental issues
- Initiatives to advance human resources strategy
3. Feedback to management
- Reporting insights gained through IR activities and perspectives from analysts and investors to the Board of Directors on a quarterly basis
- Sharing securities firm analyst reports
4. Outcomes from engaging with shareholders, investors, etc.
- Request for the opportunity to engage with outside directors
- Held a meeting between outside directors and institutional investors for the first time in two years
- Request for more information on the Urethane Systems business acquired through M&A
- Held a business briefing on the Urethane Systems business
- Request for disclosure on succession planning
- Explained the succession plan in the Integrated Report 2025