There are 132,017 shareholders of Daiwa Securities Group Inc. as of September 30, 2011.

Financial institutions such as banks, life insurance companies, trust banks and investment trust company are large shareholders of the Group, and percentage of the share held by oversea institutional investors and individual investors have recently increased.

Annual shareholders' meeting is held in the late June every year.

Dividends are paid to shareholders on the shareholders' list as of March 31 and September 30. The Company has transferred to the committee system since June 2004, which allows it to pay out dividends as soon as a resolution is made by the board of directors. The dividend payment was 3 yen per share for 2H FY2010, making it a total of 6 yen per share for the full year, and the dividend payment for the 1H FY2011 was 3 yen per share.