SNE Sony Corporation

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

	SONY GROUP CORPORATION
	(Registrant)
	By:  /s/  Hiroki Totoki
	(Signature)
	Hiroki Totoki
	Executive Deputy President and
	Chief Financial Officer

 

Date: June 14, 2022

List of materials

Documents attached hereto:

 

i) Press release: Translation of the Share Buyback Report for the period from May 1, 2022 to May 31, 2022, filed with the Director General of the Kanto Finance Bureau by SONY GROUP CORPORATION on June 14, 2022

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[This is a translation of the Share Buyback Report for the period from May 1, 2022 to May 31, 2022, filed with the Director General of the Kanto Finance Bureau by SONY GROUP CORPORATION on June 14, 2022]

Class of Shares: Common Stock

1.	Status of Repurchase

(1) Status of a repurchase pursuant to a resolution approved at a General Meeting of Shareholders

Not applicable

(2) Status of a repurchase pursuant to a resolution approved at a meeting of the Board of Directors

(as of May 31, 2022)

	Number of Shares		Total Amount (Yen)
Resolution approved at the meeting of the Board of Directors held on May 10, 2022 (Period of Repurchase: May 11, 2022 to May 10, 2023）	25,000,000 (Maximum)		200,000,000,000 (Maximum)
Repurchases during the reporting month	(Date of repurchase)   May 11 May 12 May 13	146,100 107,200 53,900	1,566,911,000 1,158,306,000 590,537,500
Total	―	307,200	3,315,754,500
Total number of shares repurchased as of the end of the reporting month	307,200		3,315,754,500
Progress of the repurchase (%)	1.23		1.66

Note 1:  The dates identified above for the “Period of Repurchase” as well as the individual dates of repurchase are trade dates and the numbers of shares repurchased are the number of shares repurchased on such trade dates.

Note 2:  It was resolved at the meeting of the Board of Directors held on May 10, 2022 that the method of repurchase is expected to be an open market purchase through the Tokyo Stock Exchange based on a discretionary trading contract.

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2.	Status of Disposition

(as of May 31, 2022)

	Number of Shares Disposed during the Reporting Month		Total Amount of Disposition (Yen)
Acquired treasury stock offered to subscribers	―	―	―
Total	―	―	―
Acquired treasury stock which was canceled	―	―	―
Total	―	―	―
Acquired treasury stock transferred as a result of a merger, share exchange, partial share exchange or company split	―	―	―
Total	―	―	―
Other (Exercise of stock acquisition rights (including the exercise of stock acquisition rights of the 130% callable unsecured convertible bonds with stock acquisition rights (6th series)))	(Date of disposition)   May 2 May 6 May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 13 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 23 May 24 May 25 May 26 May 27 May 30	6,037 2,002 201 6,401 1,702 100 33,501 14,889 300 3,001 16,299 200 500 201 4,701 1,200	46,128,355 15,297,162 1,535,829 48,909,657 13,004,880 764,094 255,979,131 113,765,956 2,292,282 22,930,461 124,539,681 1,528,188 3,820,470 1,535,829 35,920,059 9,169,127
Total	―	91,235	697,121,161
Other (Treasury stock sold due to requests for sale from shareholders holding fractional shares)	(Date of disposition)   May 24	80	611,275
Total	―	80	611,275
Total amount	91,315		697,732,436

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3.	Status of Shares Held in Treasury

(as of May 31, 2022)

Status as of the end of the reporting month	Number of Shares
Total number of shares issued	1,261,081,781
Number of treasury stock	24,788,084