Sodick
Cite as: Japan IR Index, Sodick (6143), 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.
O7 Named English IR contact published 2/5 Quick fix
Link a dedicated IR contact (form, address or e-mail) from the English IR section.
O5 Single page listing all English IR documents by date and type 3/5 Quick fix
Keep one English page that lists every IR document with its date and type.
S7 Progress against the previous plan, including misses, explained in English 3/5 Translation
Set the previous plan's targets against the results in English, and explain the misses.
G1 Corporate governance report available in English 3/5 Translation
Publish the corporate governance report filed with TSE in English.
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) and 1 changed under a rule change 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 (Machinery) | 76.4 | 11 of 39 |
| Same size band (Under ¥100bn) | 51.4 | 1 of 25 |
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, 30 scored 3 or more and 1 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 12 May 2026, H1 7 Aug 2026, FY2025 13 Feb 2026), 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 H1 FY12/2026 tanshin (7 Aug 2026) is 17 pages, as is the Japanese, and follows its contents item for item: summary, qualitative information (results, financial position, forecast), the interim balance sheet, income, comprehensive income and cash-flow statements, and the notes (going concern, shareholders' equity, segment information). The FY2025 tanshin (13 Feb 2026, 26 pp) is whole too. 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 (H1 FY12/2026) carries the full interim statements with notes, including the segment note with reconciliation; the FY2025 tanshin adds changes in equity and 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 form0/5
No annual securities report in English under any name: the English IR Library (Summary of Financial Statements FY2008-FY2026, Integrated Report / Annual Report, Business Report) and IR News carry none; Integrated Report 2025 has no financial statements. The Japanese 有価証券報告書 (27 Mar 2026) has no English version. Re-checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record also found nothing.
F5Segment revenue and profit disclosed in English, consistent definitions5/5
Three reportable segments (machine tools, industrial machinery, food machinery) plus Others. Every English tanshin gives external and intersegment sales and segment profit for each, with the reconciliation (H1 FY2025 machine tools ¥28,075m sales, ¥3,074m profit). The FY2025 tanshin states how segments are defined (business units with stand-alone financial information) and that segment profit is adjusted to operating profit; the Q1 FY2026 reclassification of the linear motor business into machine tools is explained. Every period, with definitions, 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 English5/5
The English Financial Highlights page has 'csv/Excel data' (financial_highlights_data_2512_en.xlsx, opened 23 Oct 2026): three sheets for FY2021-FY2025, five years, with operating results (sales, operating, ordinary and net profit and margins, ROE, ROA, EPS, capex, depreciation, R&D), financial position (total and net assets, equity ratio, debt, D/E, BPS), the four cash-flow lines, dividends and DOE, segment sales and profit, and overseas sales by region with FX rates. Key lines rather than full statements, as Daifuku (6383). So 5. 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 FY2025 tanshin gives the FY2026 forecast with its FX assumptions (¥155/US$, ¥180/€) and a market view. The English 'Notice Concerning Revisions to Full-Year Financial Results Forecasts' (7 Aug 2026, same day as the Japanese) explains the upward revision (strong EDM sales in Greater China, the weaker yen) and gives the second-half FX assumptions. FX, market view and explained revisions, 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 six months to 30 June 2026 published 7 August 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, 'Grow Forward 2029' (FY2026-FY2029), is in English, 30 pages, on 16 Jun 2026, the same day as the Japanese, with its Q&A summary on 23 Jun (also same day). Targets: net sales ¥100bn, operating profit ¥10bn and 10% margin by FY2029, with PBR, ROE (8% or more) and EPS targets, segment sales and profit targets, and the capital allocation. 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 English4/5
An English results deck for every quarter on the Japanese date (FY2026 Q1 and H1, FY2025). The Japanese side also posts a 補足資料 (supplementary data) per period; the English has it for FY2025 but not for Q1 FY2026 (Japanese 260512_meeting_add). A deck every period without all of the supplement, so 4. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
S3English equity-story or investment-highlights page4/5
The English Integrated Report 2025 has an 'At a Glance / Sodick in Numbers' section (p.7): net sales ¥80.5bn, operating margin 5.2%, R&D at 4.3% of sales, 816 patents, sales and headcount by region, production and R&D sites. The site's 'Sodick's Strength' page is qualitative. The section is dedicated and specific, but its figures are company facts (size, margin, R&D, patents) rather than quantified strengths: no market rank or share. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 3 without a note. Set to 4 by the owner on 23 Oct 2026 (a 5 needs quantified strengths, as THK's and SMC's market shares). Source document →
S4Growth drivers identified and quantified in English5/5
The English 'Grow Forward 2029' deck (16 Jun 2026, same day as the Japanese) names the drivers for each segment and attaches numbers: machine tools sales from ¥59.1bn (FY2025) to ¥71.0bn (FY2029), split into machine and after-sales revenue, with the segment margin, and matching sales and profit targets for industrial and food machinery, set against the group targets of ¥100bn sales and ¥10bn operating profit. Named drivers with their contribution to the target, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
S5Results-briefing transcripts or Q&A published in English4/5
English Q&A overviews for each briefing where the Japanese side publishes one: H1 FY2026 (17 Aug 2026, same day as the Japanese 質疑応答概要) and FY2025 (20 Feb 2026, same day), plus the plan briefing (23 Jun 2026). Q1 and Q3 have none in either language. The Japanese side also has a full transcript of the H1 briefing on Logmi Finance, which the English notice of 19 Aug says is 'available in Japanese only'. A Q&A summary where the Japanese has a full transcript, so 4. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 3 without a note. Source document →
S6Integrated or annual report available in English5/5
Integrated Report 2025 in English, 38 pages like the Japanese 統合レポート2025, covering FY2025 (January-December 2025), the latest closed year. Posted 21 Jul 2026, six weeks after the Japanese (5 Jun). Current and complete, so 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
S7Progress against the previous plan, including misses, explained in English3/5
Sodick ran rolling three-year plans until FY2025; none was reconciled at its end. Integrated Report 2025 (pp.12-13) explains why the rolling plans were replaced and gives FY2025 results beside the new FY2029 targets; the plan deck (p.7) narrates the FY2023-2025 structural-reform phase with yearly sales and operating profit. Progress narrated with some numbers, not target against actual, as Fujimi (5310), so 3. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
G1Corporate governance report available in English3/5
No Corporate Governance Report in English: the English Corporate Governance page links the report and marks it 'only available in Japanese'. The English page itself is a full narrative (structure, board, committees, skills, evaluation, compensation, dialogue). A narrative in place of the filing, so 3. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
G2Director biographies in English with tenure, expertise and independence4/5
The English notice of the 50th AGM (6 Mar 2026) profiles the eight director candidates: dated career histories (e.g. Director of Sodick since June 2008), reasons for nomination, outside directors' tenure (eight, six, four and two years) and TSE independent-officer registration. The four Audit & Supervisory Committee members, not up for election, appear on the English governance page with their expertise, attendance and independence, but without tenure. All three elements, tenure for candidates only, so 4. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 3 without a note. Source document →
G3Board skills matrix published in English5/5
The English 50th AGM notice has a 'Skill matrix for Directors after the second proposal is approved' covering all twelve directors, including the four Audit & Supervisory Committee members, against seven fields (corporate management, finance and accounting, legal and risk, manufacturing/technology/R&D, global, marketing) with independence and committee columns; the English governance page repeats it. The September record searched the web pages only. Current, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 0 without a note. Source document →
G4Executive remuneration structure and its performance linkage explained in English4/5
The English governance page sets out the structure (basic pay, short-term performance pay, restricted stock; outside and committee directors basic pay only), the KPIs (bonus on profit attributable to owners of parent; restricted stock on two-year average EBITDA and the employee satisfaction score) and FY2025 amounts by type (directors excluding committee members ¥146m = basic ¥106m, performance ¥30m, stock ¥10m). The stock element has two measures with no weights between them, so 4 under v1.1.1. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
G5AGM notice in English with sufficient lead time to vote4/5
The English notice of the 50th AGM is dated 6 March 2026 (listed that day, as the Japanese) for a meeting on 30 March, 24 days, with the reference documents for every proposal. The voting route is SMTB's Japanese-only site (G5 voting-site sweep, 23 Oct 2026). Three weeks and every proposal, but a Japanese-only voting route, so 4. Checked 23 Oct 2026. Source document →
G6Shareholder vote results disclosed in English5/5
The English 'Filing of Extraordinary Report' (1 Apr 2026) translates the voting results of the 50th AGM: approval, rejection and abstention voting rights and the approval ratio for each proposal and each director (e.g. 97.41% for the dividend). Counts and ratios per resolution, 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 rationale2/5
The only English statement is in Integrated Report 2025's capital allocation (pp.12-13): 'unwinding cross-shareholdings, holdings reduced by half' as a source of cash to FY2029. There is no count, amount or holding rationale in English; the Corporate Governance Report, which holds the policy, is Japanese only, and the AGM notice and governance page have nothing. A reduction aim without policy or numbers, held at 2. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
O1English IR section reachable within two clicks of the English homepage5/5
The English homepage links straight to the IR top (/en/ir/): one click. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
O2English document links resolve to English documents4/5
Sampled 18 English document links: tanshin H1 and Q1 FY2026, FY2025; decks H1 and Q1 FY2026, FY2025; Q&A overviews H1 FY2026 and FY2025; the plan and its Q&A; forecast revision; Logmi notice; AGM notice, resolutions and extraordinary report (50th); Integrated Reports 2025 and 2024; the Excel highlights file. All English. The governance page links the Japanese Corporate Governance Report, labelled 'only available in Japanese'. One labelled Japanese document, so 4. 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 18 links all opened. The FY2026 table carries links for Q3 and full-year files not yet published (e.g. 20261110.pdf, 404), but they sit in HTML comments and are not shown on the rendered page. No visible dead link, 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
The English IR pages are static HTML and rendered fully: IR top, IR News, Summary of Financial Statements, Integrated Report, Financial Highlights, Medium and Long Term Management Policy, Shareholders' Meeting, governance. 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 type3/5
Documents are split by type across pages (Summary of Financial Statements, Integrated Report / Annual Report, Shareholders' Meeting, Management Policy), each dated. IR News is one dated list of all types but covers the current year only, with no archive. Split by type, each dated, so 3. 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
The English archive runs from FY2008 (tanshin) with decks, Q&A and supplements by year, integrated reports 2018-2025 and annual reports 2016-2017, and AGM papers from the 47th. 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 published2/5
The English site's Contact form offers only 'Products and After-sales Service' and 'Other Inquiries'; no IR address or IR form on the English IR pages. The tanshin header names Masato Takagi, Director and Managing Executive Officer, with a phone number. Named only in document headers, so 2. 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 and Japanese IR news give the same dates: H1 FY2026 tanshin and deck 7 Aug 2026; Q1 tanshin and deck 12 May; FY2025 tanshin 13 Feb and deck 17 Feb 2026 in both languages. Same day as the Japanese every period, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
R2Median lag in days between Japanese and English statutory publication5/5
Lags, English against Japanese, from the two IR news lists. H1 FY2026 tanshin 7 Aug / 7 Aug = 0. Q1 tanshin 12 May / 12 May = 0. 50th AGM notice 6 Mar / 6 Mar = 0. Corporate Governance Report: Japanese only (the English governance page says so), over 90. Securities report (27 Mar 2026): no English, over 90. Sorted 0, 0, 0, >90, >90: median 0, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
R3Timely disclosures published in English5/5
Compared the Japanese お知らせ list with the English IR News for 2026 (both lists show the current year only; February to October): buyback decisions and status (13 Feb, 2 Mar, 1 Apr, 16 Apr, 5 Oct, 14 Oct), commemorative dividend, plan and return-policy change, forecast variance (13 Feb), board structure (30 Mar), restricted-stock disposal and payment (17 Apr, 15 May), forecast revision (7 Aug), secondary offering and pricing (5 and 14 Oct), Logmi notice (19 Aug): every one has a same-day English notice. The two Japanese items without English are the public notice (公告) of the restricted-stock board resolution (24 Apr) and the FIEA Article 15-5 duplicate of the pricing notice (14 Oct), both excluded from R3 under the owner's ruling of 23 Oct 2026. All, same day, so 5. Source document →
R4English disclosure free of machine-translation accuracy disclaimers5/5
No machine-translation notice on the rendered English homepage, IR pages, governance page or contact page, and none in the English documents. The September record cited the forecast-revision notice's 'translated ... for reference purposes only ... the original shall prevail', which is human-translation precedence language and belongs to R5. Nothing presented as machine-translated, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 3 without a note. Source document →
R5English version stated as authoritative, not subordinate to Japanese2/5
The 'translated from the Japanese original for reference purposes only ... the original shall prevail' note is on the timely notices (forecast revision, Logmi notice) and the AGM resolution and extraordinary-report notices ('English Translation Originally Issued in the Japanese Language'). The tanshin, decks, Q&A overviews, the plan, the AGM notice and Integrated Report 2025 carry none. Subordinated on some documents, so 2. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 1 without a note. Source document →
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Changes to this record
- Rule change 23 October 2026 · R3: 4 → 5. Every timely disclosure has a same-day English notice; the only gaps are a statutory public notice and a duplicate, now excluded from R3.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · F2: 4 → 5. The English tanshin is a whole translation, page for page, notes included.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · F3: 4 → 5. Full statements with notes are in English for the latest period.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · F5: 4 → 5. Sales and segment profit for each segment every period, with the definitions stated.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · F7: 4 → 5. The forecast comes with FX assumptions and a market view, and the revision is explained in English.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · S3: 3 → 4. The English Integrated Report has a dedicated 'At a Glance' section, with company figures but no market rank.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · S4: 4 → 5. The English plan names the growth drivers by segment with their sales and profit targets.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · S5: 3 → 4. English Q&A overviews match the Japanese, but the full briefing transcript is in Japanese only.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · G2: 3 → 4. Candidates have tenure, career and independence in English; the four committee members lack tenure.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · G3: 0 → 5. The English AGM notice and governance page carry the current skills matrix for all twelve directors.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · R1: 4 → 5. The English tanshin and decks were posted the same day as the Japanese in every period.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · R2: 4 → 5. Lags 0, 0, 0 and two documents never in English: median 0 days.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · R4: 3 → 5. Nothing on the English site is presented as machine-translated; the 'original shall prevail' line belongs to R5.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · R5: 1 → 2. The 'Japanese prevails' note is on the notices only, not on the tanshin, decks, plan or reports.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · G5: 5 → 4. Every proposal is in the English notice, but the voting website shareholders use (Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank) 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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