Sumitomo Rubber Industries : Notice Regarding Dividends from Surplus (Year-end Dividend)

February 12, 2026

To whom it may concern,

Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. (the "Company") hereby announces that it has resolved, at a meeting of the Board of Directors held today, to distribute dividends form surplus with the record date of December 31, 2025 as follows.

1. Details of Year-end Dividend

   	Amount determined	Previous dividend forecast (announced on November 12, 2025)	Result of the previous fiscal year ended December 31, 2024
   Record date	December 31, 2025	December 31, 2025	December 31, 2024
   Dividend per share	Yen 42.00	Yen 35.00	Yen 29.00
   Total dividends	Millions of yen 11,039	-	Millions of yen 7,628
   Effective date	March 27, 2026	-	March 28, 2025
   Dividend resource	Retained earnings	-	Retained earnings

2. Reasons for Dividends from Surplus

The Company considers the return of gains to shareholders to be a matter deserving of the utmost priority. Accordingly, our basic policy is to ensure a long-term, stable shareholder returns based on comprehensive consideration of dividend payout ratios, business outlook, retained earnings levels, and other such indicators on a consolidated basis. We will upwardly revise the dividend forecast announced on November 12, 2025 by

¥7 and pay a year-end dividend of ¥42 per share, since the consolidated financial actual results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 exceeded previous result forecast. We will submit this matter to the annual general meeting of shareholders scheduled to be held on March 26, 2026.