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Notice of payment of dividends from surplus (interim dividend) and revision of year-end dividend forecast for fiscal 2017
November 7, 2017
黑料社 Kasei Corp.
The Board of Directors of 黑料社 Kasei Corp. has today made a resolution as shown below regarding the payment of dividends from surplus (interim dividend) with a date of record of September 30, 2017, and regarding revision of the forecast for the fiscal 2017 year-end dividend.
1．Reason of the resolution regarding dividends from surplus (interim dividend) and revision of year-end dividend
The company’s basic policy is to strive for stable dividends and increased dividends through continuous earnings growth while maintaining an appropriate internal reserve to perform well-balanced investment for growth and return to shareholders.
The interim dividend for fiscal 2017 is now ?14 per share, increased by ?2 from the latest forecast announced on August 3, 2017, in consideration of the above stated policy. The year-end dividend forecast is also increased by ?2 per share to ?14 per share, resulting in an annual dividend forecast of ?28 per share.
2．Substance of dividends from surplus (interim dividend)
| Resolved today | Latest forecast (announced on August 3, 2017) |
Dividends paid at end of Q2 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of record | September 30, 2017 | September 30, 2017 | September 30, 2016 |
| Dividend per share | ?14 | ?12 | ?10 |
| Total dividend amount | ?19,552 million | — | ?13,967 million |
| Payment date | December 1, 2017 | — | December 1, 2016 |
| Source of dividends | Retained earnings | — | Retained earnings |
3．Revision of year-end dividend
| Cash dividend per share (yen) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of record | End of Q2 | Fiscal year end | Total |
| Previous forecast (August 3, 2017) |
?12 | ?12 | ?24 |
| Dividend forecast | ?14 | ?14 | ?28 |
| cf. fiscal 2016 | ?10 | ?14 | ?24 |