■Shareholder return policy

1. Dividend policy

DM Solutions (6549) recognizes that return of profits to shareholders is an important management issue. Meanwhile, since the company is still in the process of growth, it is thought that enhancing internal reserve funds to stabilize the management base and further improving corporate value through growth investments for business expansion will lead to maximum return of profits to shareholders, and dividends have not been implemented until now. However, the company's performance has remained steady, and it was determined that it was possible to secure internal reserves while actively making growth investments aimed at improving corporate value as before, and to implement stable and continuous return of profits to shareholders, and the company decided to implement surplus dividends for the first time. The basic policy for dividends is to stably and continuously implement dividends from surplus funds, but if business results expand in the future, raising dividend payout ratio will of course rise. An initial dividend of 12.0 yen per share was implemented for the year-end dividend for the fiscal year ending 2024/3. The dividend for the fiscal year ending 2025/3 is planned to be 15.0 yen per share.

In addition to the initial dividend, shareholder benefits have also been strengthened

2. Shareholder benefits

The company has implemented shareholder benefits until now, but in addition to the initial dividend, it was decided to expand the shareholder benefit system, expand the presentation of preferential products that were once a year to 2 times a year, and increase the distribution category, which was 1 division, to 2 divisions. As a result, shareholders who hold 2 units (200 shares) or more of shares and have held shares continuously for 1 year or more out of shareholders recorded on the shareholder register as of the end of March (year-end reference date) and as of the end of September (interim reference date) are handled by “BeeMe” for shareholders with 200 shares or more and less than 600 shares on the year-end reference date, 1 bottle of Manuka honey equivalent to 4,000 to 5,000 yen (with fluctuations due to market value) for shareholders with 600 shares or more Two bottles of Manuka Honey will be presented, and it is planned to present 3,000 yen worth of Quocard to shareholders holding 200 shares or more and less than 600 shares, and 6,000 yen worth of Quocard to shareholders with 600 shares or more on the interim reference date.

(Written by FISCO Visiting Analyst Miyata Hitomitsu)