Canon Releases Notice Regarding Retained Earnings Dividend
From Canon:
June 26, 2013 - At a Board of Directors meeting held on June 26, 2013, Canon Inc. (the “Company”) passed a resolution regarding distribution of a retained earnings dividend, record date June 30, 2013, as follows.
1. Dividend Details
| Determined amount | Most recent dividend forecast (Announced April 24, 2013) | Previous period result (First half of fiscal year 2012) | |
| Record date | June 30, 2013 | June 30, 2013 | June 30, 2012 |
| Dividend per share | 65 yen | Undetermined | 70,270 million yen |
| Total dividend amount | 74,932 million yen | 60 yen | |
| Effective date | August 27, 2013 | August 27, 2012 | |
| Dividend resource | Retained earnings | Retained earnings |
2. Reason
The Company works to provide a stable return and actively return profits to shareholders, mainly in the form of a dividend, taking into consideration medium-term profit forecasts along with planned future investments, cash flow and other factors. The Company plans to distribute an interim dividend of ¥65 per share for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2013 (the 113th Business Term), half the amount of the annual dividend paid out in fiscal year 2012 (includes commemorative dividend), to provide a stable return to shareholders. The year-end dividend, however, has yet to be decided.
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