Konica Minolta
Cite as: Japan IR Index, Konica Minolta (4902), methodology GNT-BDS v1.1.1, reviewed 2026-10-23.
Findings and sources as of the review date shown. The company’s English disclosure may have changed since.
Where to start
Chosen from this company's lowest answers, easiest first. A quick fix uses material the company already has; a translation fix is usually met by translating a Japanese document (our note says whether this company has one). Questions that need a budget or a board decision are left out. Suggestions drawn from the research, separate from the scores.
O5 Single page listing all English IR documents by date and type 4/5 Quick fix
Keep one English page that lists every IR document with its date and type.
O7 Named English IR contact published 4/5 Quick fix
Link a dedicated IR contact (form, address or e-mail) from the English IR section.
F6 Multi-year financial data file (Excel or CSV) downloadable in English 4/5 Quick fix
Post the financial figures the company already publishes as an Excel or CSV file with English labels.
S5 Results-briefing transcripts or Q&A published in English 4/5 Translation
Publish the results-briefing Q&A summary in English, on the same day as the Japanese.
English disclosure assessment
All 34 questions reviewed by the editor against the public documents; this is not an independent audit. 14 answers corrected after re-checks (research errors) on 23 Oct 2026. These are changes to our record, not to the company’s disclosure. Changes to this record →
Compared with peers
| Peer group | Median | This company |
|---|---|---|
| Same sector (Electric Appliances) | 80.8 | 2 of 33 |
| Same size band (¥100–500bn) | 77.1 | 2 of 50 |
Compared with the companies covered here, not the whole market. Sector is the TSE 33-sector classification; market cap is from the TSE English-disclosure survey, Aug 2026; it only sets the size band, plays no part in the score, and is refreshed once a quarter. Ties share the higher rank.
Out of 100.
Of the 34 questions reviewed, 33 scored 3 or more and 0 found no qualifying English materials within the stated review scope. Read each score with its source and scope below.
Findings by question
F1Quarterly and full-year results summaries (tanshin) published in English5/5
Every quarter's tanshin is in English on the Japanese date (Q1 FY3/2027 30 Jul 2026, FY3/2026 14 May, Q3 5 Feb 2026, Q2 5 Nov 2025), each a whole translation with notes (see F2). Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
F2English results summary is a full translation, not an excerpt5/5
The English Q1 FY3/2027 tanshin (30 Jul 2026, 26 pp against 22 in Japanese) follows the Japanese contents item for item: summary, overview of results by segment, financial position, forecast explanation, the five condensed statements and the notes (going concern, segment information, discontinued operation). The whole tanshin, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
F3Financial statements including notes available in English5/5
The latest English tanshin (Q1 FY3/2027) has the condensed statements of financial position, profit or loss, comprehensive income, changes in equity and cash flows, with the notes; the year end is covered by the Audited Financial Report 2026 with full notes. Full statements and notes for the latest period, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
F4Annual securities report available in English in any form3/5
No English securities report as such. 'Audited Financial Report 2026' (65 pp, 6 Aug 2026) carries the consolidated statements, full notes and the independent auditor's report for FY3/2026, but none of the securities report's narrative parts (business, risks, MD&A, governance). Financial statements only, the cohort convention for financial-section documents, so 3. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
F5Segment revenue and profit disclosed in English, consistent definitions5/5
Every English tanshin gives revenue and segment profit (business contribution profit) for each reportable segment with the reconciliation. The Q1 note sets out the reportable segments and what each covers, defines segment profit, and explains the FY3/2027 reclassification (video solutions to Digital Workplace, gas monitoring to Industry) with restated prior figures. Every period, definitions stated, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
F6Multi-year financial data file (Excel or CSV) downloadable in English4/5
The English 'Supplementary Material' for each quarter is an Excel workbook (13 sheets): quarterly P&L, segment results, R&D, capex and depreciation by segment, cash flows and per-share data, FY2022 to Q1 FY3/2027. About four years, with the balance sheet in summary only. Excel, but shorter than five years, so 4. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
F7Guidance disclosed in English with the basis explained5/5
The English tanshin's forecast section keeps the FY3/2027 forecast with its FX assumptions (¥150/US$, ¥180/€ from Q2), and the English Q1 deck gives the forecast by segment, the reasons it is unchanged (tariff refunds and the Tempus AI share gain not in the initial forecast) and the results against it. FX, segment forecasts and explained changes, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
F8English financial disclosure current to the latest Japanese filing period5/5
English results for the three months to 30 June 2026 published 30 July 2026, the same period and day as the Japanese. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
S1Medium-term management plan in English with numerical targets5/5
The current plan, 'Corporate Plan 2026-2028', is in English (34 pp), posted 23 Apr 2026 with the Japanese, with its financial targets, business portfolio strategy, capital policy and KPIs. Complete and same day, so 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
S2IR presentations published in English5/5
An English deck for every quarter on the Japanese date, with the English supplementary Excel and a transcript with Q&A (see S5). So 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
S3English equity-story or investment-highlights page5/5
The English IR menu has a 'Why Invest In KONICA MINOLTA' page (qualitative: business domains, history, 'DNA', links to the report and plan). Integrated Report 2025 (English) has an 'At a Glance' section (p.28) giving market positions by business: leading global shares, a share above 50% in one market, the leading share in about 40 countries, and the leading share in the Japanese clinic market. Under the S3 reading applied to the cohort on 21 Oct, a section in an investor document counts and a named market rank is a quantified strength, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 2 without a note. Source document →
S4Growth drivers identified and quantified in English5/5
The English Corporate Plan 2026-2028 names the growth businesses (Industry, Professional Print, optical components for semiconductor equipment) and attaches revenue and profit targets by business and the investment plan. Named drivers with numbers, so 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
S5Results-briefing transcripts or Q&A published in English4/5
Each quarter's briefing has an English transcript with Q&A (SCRIPTS Asia; Q1 FY3/2027, 20 pp), as the Japanese side has. The English file was posted 4 Aug 2026 against the Japanese 31 Jul (server dates). Every period, a few days late, so 4. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
S6Integrated or annual report available in English4/5
The Japanese 統合報告書2026 was posted on 18 Sep 2026; the English IR library still offers Integrated Report 2025 (73 pp, posted 17 Oct 2025), and the English IR News lists no 2026 edition. The complete report, one edition behind the Japanese, so 4. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 5 without a note. Source document →
S7Progress against the previous plan, including misses, explained in English5/5
The English Corporate Plan 2026-2028 opens with 'Review of the Medium-term Business Plan (2023-2025)': results of measures and of the financial targets, with the underachievement of targets in the strengthening businesses named and explained. So 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
G1Corporate governance report available in English5/5
The Corporate Governance Report is in English, 81 pages in the filed report's structure, 'Last Update: June 24, 2026', posted 30 Jun 2026 (Japanese 25 Jun). The filed report, current, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
G2Director biographies in English with tenure, expertise and independence5/5
Konica Minolta has a nominating-committee structure and all nine directors stand each year. The English notice of the 122nd AGM gives, for each, years in office (e.g. 8 years, 6 years), board attendance, committee roles, career history and 'Independent' status for the five outside directors, with the selection policy and a skills matrix. Every director with all three elements, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
G3Board skills matrix published in English5/5
The English 122nd AGM notice has the skills matrix for all nine director candidates (the whole board), with the reasons each skill was selected. Current, so 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
G4Executive remuneration structure and its performance linkage explained in English5/5
The English 122nd AGM notice sets out the structure (base salary, performance-based cash bonus, stock bonus; outside directors base salary only), the KPIs with weights (cash bonus: net profit 70%, key operational targets 30%; performance-based stock bonus: ROE 60%, CO2 reduction and engagement score; TSR-based stock bonus on relative TSR against TOPIX), and FY3/2026 amounts by type (executive officers ¥557m = base ¥292m, cash bonus ¥158m, stock ¥106m; directors ¥132m). Structure, weighted KPIs and amounts, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
G5AGM notice in English with sufficient lead time to vote4/5
The English notice of the 122nd AGM (132 pp, every proposal's reference documents) was posted 28 May 2026 for a meeting on 17 June, 20 days. The voting website it names, evote.tr.mufg.jp, is Japanese-only (G5 voting-site sweep, 23 Oct 2026). About three weeks with every proposal, but a Japanese-only voting route, so 4. Checked 23 Oct 2026. Source document →
G6Shareholder vote results disclosed in English5/5
'The 122nd Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders Results of Voting Rights Exercised' (English, 5 pp, 19 Jun 2026) gives for and against counts and approval ratios per resolution and director. So 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
G7Cross-shareholdings in English with reduction schedule and rationale3/5
The English 'Policy for Cross-shareholdings and Voting Standards' page gives the policy (no listed cross-holdings without significance, yearly review against capital cost, sale of the rest), the voting standard, and the holdings as of 31 March 2025: 25 stocks, ¥8,350m, with a table by issue and holding purpose. No reduction target or schedule, and the figures are a year old. Policy and numbers, no target, so 3. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 2 without a note. Source document →
O1English IR section reachable within two clicks of the English homepage5/5
'Investor Relations' is in the English corporate header, one click to the IR top. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
O2English document links resolve to English documents5/5
Sampled 12 English documents across types: tanshin and deck Q1 FY3/2027, transcript, supplementary Excel, Audited Financial Report 2026, Corporate Governance Report, 122nd AGM notice, voting results and resolutions, Integrated Report 2025, Corporate Plan 2026-2028, subsidiaries list. All English, so 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
O3English IR archive free of dead links5/5
The same 12 links all opened. No dead links, so 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
O4English IR pages render without blank JavaScript failures5/5
Rendered in the browser: IR top, Why Invest, IR library, IR News, shareholders' meeting, governance, cross-shareholdings, Contact and Cautionary pages; every list and table populated. So 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
O5Single page listing all English IR documents by date and type4/5
The English IR News is one dated list per year (2006-2026), typed (Financial Results, IR Materials, Shareholders' meeting, IR event, Release). It does not list the briefing transcripts or the supplementary Excel, which sit only in the IR library. One dated, typed list missing some types, so 4. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
O6English archive genuinely populated, not an unverifiable shell5/5
IR News by year back to 2006, with results, reports and AGM papers archived across years. Several years across types, so 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
O7Named English IR contact published4/5
'Contact to IR' is a dedicated English page in the IR support menu: an IR enquiry form and an IR phone line with hours. Dedicated and obvious, so 4 (O7 is capped at 4). Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
R1Earnings materials published in English simultaneously with Japanese5/5
The English tanshin and deck are posted the same day as the Japanese every period (30 Jul 2026, 14 May, 5 Feb 2026, 5 Nov 2025). So 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
R2Median lag in days between Japanese and English statutory publication4/5
Lags, English against Japanese, from the two IR news lists. Q1 FY3/2027 tanshin 30 Jul / 30 Jul = 0. FY3/2026 tanshin 14 May / 14 May = 0. 122nd AGM notice: Japanese 22 May, English 28 May = 6. Corporate Governance Report: Japanese 25 Jun, English 30 Jun = 5. Securities report: Japanese 12 Jun; the English Audited Financial Report (its financial part) 6 Aug = 55. Sorted 0, 0, 5, 6, 55: median 5 days, so 4. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 5 without a note. Source document →
R3Timely disclosures published in English5/5
Compared the Japanese IR news (Oct 2025-Oct 2026) with the English: the timely disclosures (dividend increase and the bond-type class shares, 14 May; change in major shareholder, 5 Jun) and the other company notices (HQ relocation 30 Oct, contract change on the subsidiary sale 8 Dec 2025, subsidiary share acquisition 24 Feb, board and organisation changes 27 Feb, sustainability-linked bond terms 5 Mar, executive pay revision 26 Mar, the medium-term plan 23 Apr, completion of the share sale 30 Jun 2026) all have a same-day English release. All, same day, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
R4English disclosure free of machine-translation accuracy disclaimers5/5
No machine-translation notice on the rendered English IR pages (IR top, Why Invest, IR library, Cautionary Statement, Contact) or in the English documents; the Cautionary Statement covers forward-looking statements only. The documents' 'translated ... the original shall prevail' lines are R5. Nothing presented as machine-translated, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
R5English version stated as authoritative, not subordinate to Japanese2/5
'Translated from the Japanese original for reference purpose only ... the original shall prevail' is on the Corporate Governance Report, the Audited Financial Report and the AGM notice, results and resolutions; the tanshin, decks, transcript, Integrated Report and Corporate Plan carry none. Subordinated on some documents, so 2. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
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Capital-policy review
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Changes to this record
- Research error 23 October 2026 · F2: 4 → 5. The English tanshin is a whole translation, notes included.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · F3: 4 → 5. Full statements with notes are in English for the latest quarter.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · F5: 4 → 5. Segment revenue and profit every quarter, with the segments and segment profit defined in the notes.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · F7: 4 → 5. The forecast comes with FX assumptions, segment forecasts and explanations in English.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · S3: 2 → 5. Integrated Report 2025's 'At a Glance' quantifies market positions; there is also a 'Why Invest' page.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · S6: 5 → 4. The English site still has Integrated Report 2025; the Japanese 2026 edition came out on 18 September.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · G1: 4 → 5. The Corporate Governance Report is in English, last updated 24 June 2026.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · G2: 4 → 5. All nine directors stand annually; the English AGM notice gives tenure, career and independence for each.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · G4: 4 → 5. The English AGM notice gives the pay structure, the KPIs with their weights and the amounts by type.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · G7: 2 → 3. The English policy page gives the policy and a table of holdings (25 stocks, ¥8.35bn); no reduction target.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · R2: 5 → 4. Lags 0, 0, 5, 6 and 55 days: median 5 days.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · R3: 4 → 5. Every timely disclosure in the past twelve months had a same-day English release.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · R4: 4 → 5. Nothing on the English site is presented as machine-translated; the 'original shall prevail' line belongs to R5.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · G5: 5 → 4. Every proposal is in the English notice, but the voting website shareholders use (Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking) is in Japanese only.
Every change is labelled as a research error, new evidence supplied, improved disclosure or a rule change, with its date and the previous score. Change log →
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