What this is
The Pokémon Company Tokyo company’s two dividends since 2017 and Nintendo’s share: ¥2.99bn and ¥8.98bn, each about 18–19% of the prior year’s profit; Nintendo received about ¥3.3–3.8bn in total.
How it’s built
- Find payouts from year-to-year changes in the Tokyo company’s filed retained profits: ¥2.99bn in the year to February 2018, ¥8.98bn in the year to February 2024.
- Divide by the prior year’s profit: 18.8% and 18.4%.
- Nintendo’s 32% share would be ¥3.83bn; its own accounts suggest about ¥3.32bn at the low end.
What we assumed
- Each payout was a dividend on the prior year’s results.Japanese year-end dividends are declared at the meeting after the year closes; the 2018 payout is recorded as a cash dividend.
- Nintendo received exactly its 32% share.Its own affiliate accounts show ¥0.5bn less in 2024, so the low end uses those instead.
Sanity check
All other years show no payout. An earlier version used ¥2.98bn for 2018; this supersedes it.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
Show the working
- Distribution, year to February 2018: 2,989
- Distribution, year to February 2024: 8,977
- Nintendo receipt range: ¥3,319–3,829m
- Roll below pro rata, year to March 2024: 510
- 2,989/15,921 = 18.8%
- 8,977/48,854 = 18.4%
- 0.32×2,989 = 956
- 0.32×8,977 = 2,873
- range 956+2,363 = 3,319 to 3,829
Where it’s used
Related figures
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