November 6, 2024
Company name:
TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION
Representative:
Koji Sato, President
(Code number:7203; TSE
Prime/NSE Premier)
Inquiries:
Yoshihide
Moriyama, General Manager, Capital Strategy &
Affiliated Companies Finance Div.
(Telephone:
0565-28-2121)
Notice Concerning Distribution of Interim
Dividends from Surplus
and
Revision of Dividend Forecast
for FY2025
At a meeting held on November 6,
2024, the Board of Directors of Toyota Motor Corporation ("TMC")
resolved to distribute dividends from surplus, with a record date
of September 30, 2024. TMC also revised the dividend forecast for
FY2025 (April 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025). In relation to the
above, we hereby inform you of the following:
1. Details
of dividends
|
Interim dividend
for FY2025
|
Most recent dividend forecast
|
Interim dividend paid
for FY2024
|
Record
date
|
September
30, 2024
|
September
30, 2024
|
September
30, 2023
|
Dividend
per share
|
40.00 yen
|
-
|
30.00 yen
|
Total
amount of
dividends
|
525,991 million yen
|
-
|
405,416 million yen
|
Effective date
|
November
26, 2024
|
-
|
November
22, 2023
|
Source
of dividends
|
Retained
earnings
|
-
|
Retained
earnings
|
2. Details of the revised
dividend forecast
|
Dividend per share
|
Interim
|
Year-end
|
Total
|
Previous forecast
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Revised forecast
|
-
|
50.00
yen
|
90.00
yen
|
Dividends for
FY2025
|
40.00
yen
|
-
|
-
|
Dividends for
FY2024
|
30.00
yen
|
45.00
yen
|
75.00
yen
|
3.
Reason
TMC deems the benefit of its shareholders an important element of its
management policy, and its basic policy for shareholder returns is
to reward long-term shareholders.
TMC will strive to increase dividends in a stable and continuous
manner.
Moreover, TMC intends to disclose
dividend forecasts beginning in the current fiscal year to create
an environment that is more conducive to investment by our
shareholders.
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(Note)
This notice contains forward-looking
statements that reflect the plans and expectations of TMC and its
consolidated subsidiaries ("Toyota"). These forward-looking statements
are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause
Toyota's actual results, performance, achievements or financial
position to be materially different from any future results,
performance, achievements or financial position expressed or
implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors include,
but are not limited to: (i) changes in economic conditions, market
demand, and the competitive environment affecting the automotive
markets in Japan, North America, Europe, Asia and other markets in
which Toyota operates; (ii) fluctuations in currency exchange
rates, particularly with respect to the value of the Japanese yen,
the U.S. dollar, the euro, the Australian dollar, the Canadian
dollar and the British pound, fluctuations in stock prices, and
interest rates fluctuations; (iii) changes in funding environment
in financial markets and increased competition in the financial
services industry; (iv) Toyota's ability to market and distribute
effectively; (v) Toyota's ability to realize production
efficiencies and to implement capital expenditures at the levels
and times planned by management; (vi) changes in the laws,
regulations and government policies in the markets in which Toyota
operates that affect Toyota's automotive operations, particularly
laws, regulations and government policies relating to vehicle
safety including remedial measures such as recalls, trade,
environmental protection, vehicle emissions and vehicle fuel
economy, as well as changes in laws, regulations and government
policies that affect Toyota's other operations, including the
outcome of current and future litigation and other legal
proceedings, government proceedings and investigations; (vii)
political and economic instability in the markets in which Toyota
operates; (viii) Toyota's ability to timely develop and achieve
market acceptance of new products that meet customer demand; (ix)
any damage to Toyota's brand image; (x) Toyota's reliance on various suppliers for
the provision of supplies; (xi) increases in prices of raw
materials; (xii) Toyota's reliance on various digital and
information technologies, as well as information security; (xiii)
fuel shortages or interruptions in electricity, transportation
systems, labor strikes, work stoppages or other interruptions to,
or difficulties in, the employment of labor in the major markets
where Toyota purchases materials, components and supplies for the
production of its products or where its products are produced,
distributed or sold; (xiv) the impact of natural calamities,
epidemics, political and economic instability, fuel shortages or
interruptions in social infrastructure, wars, terrorism and labor
strikes, including their negative effect on Toyota's vehicle
production and sales; (xv) the impact of climate change and the
transition towards a low-carbon economy; and (xvi) the ability of
Toyota to hire or retain sufficient human resources.
A discussion of these and other
factors which may affect Toyota's actual results, performance,
achievements or financial position is contained in TMC's annual
report on Form 20-F, which is on file with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission.