Notice Concerning Cash Dividends (Year-End Dividend for the Fiscal Year Ended March 2026 and Interim Dividend for the Fiscal Year Ending March 2027) [PDF:147630]

May 1, 2026

Notice Concerning Cash Dividends (Year-End Dividend for the Fiscal Year Ended March 2026 and Interim Dividend for the Fiscal Year Ending March 2027)

Sojitz Corporation ("Sojitz") announces that, at a meeting of its Board of Directors held on May 1, 2026, it has decided to pay the following dividends to shareholders (the proposed year-end dividend for the fiscal year ended March 2026 and interim dividend for the fiscal year ending March 2027) as follows.

1. Details of Year-end Dividend Proposal for the Fiscal year Ended March 2026

   1. Dividend Policy

      The Medium-term Management Plan 2026 sets a progressive dividend policy based on a DOE of 4.5% (*) for stable and continuous dividends.

      (*) Shareholder Equity after deducting other components of equity (Foreign Currency Translation Reserve, Other Valuation difference, Deferred gains or losses on hedges) from total equity at the end of the previous fiscal year.

      (*) Shareholder Equity DOE: Dividend /Shareholders Equity

   2. Details of Year-end Dividend

      The Company has resolved to distribute year-end dividends for the fiscal year ended March 2026 as follows. The year-end dividend per share is unchanged from the dividend forecast announced on February 3, 2026.

      	Year-end Dividend	Recent Forecast (Announced on February 3, 2026)	Previous year (Fiscal year ended March 31, 2025)
      Record date	March 31, 2026	March 31, 2026	March 31, 2025
      Dividend per share	JPY 82.50	JPY 82.50	JPY 75.00
      Total dividends	JPY 17.271 billion	-	JPY 15.911 billion
      Effective date	June 10, 2026	-	June 2, 2025
      Source of dividends	Retained earnings	-	Retained earnings

2. Dividend Forecast and Interim Dividend for the Fiscal Year Ending March 2027

   1. Details of interim dividend

      The Company has resolved to distribute interim dividends as follows based on the basic policy and the financial results for the fiscal year ended March 2026 disclosed today. The Company plans to announce the dividend surplus at the end of the current fiscal year and the interim dividend surplus for the following fiscal year on the same day.

      	Amount	Recent Forecast	Previous year (Fiscal year ended March 31, 2026)
      Record date	September 30, 2026	-	September 30, 2025
      Dividend per share	JPY 90.00	-	JPY 82.50
      Total dividend	JPY 18.841 billion	-	JPY 17.271 billion
      Effective date	December 1, 2026	-	December 1, 2025
      Source of dividend	Retained earnings	-	Retained earnings

      This amount is based on the number of shares as of April 30, 2026, and the final total dividend amount will be the number of shares as of the record date multiplied by JPY 90.00 per share.

   2. Details of dividend forecast

In the year ending March 31, 2027, Sojitz plans to pay an annual dividend of JPY 180 per share (interim dividend of JPY 90.00 plus year-end dividend of JPY 90.00 ) based on its basic policy and earnings forecast.