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At the Board of Directors meeting on March 31, 2026, a treasury stock acquisition program was resolved with an upper limit of 64,000,000 shares and 350 billion yen. The acquisition period is from April 1, 2026 to November 30, 2026.

The capital of the subsidiary RGF International Recruitment Holdings Limited was corrected from HKD 836,224 thousand to HKD 661,224 thousand, and the number of shares transferred was also revised from 836,224,386 shares to 661,224,386 shares.

Scheduled to receive a total of 31.21 billion yen in dividends from consolidated subsidiaries in the fiscal year ending March 2026, expected to be recorded as operating revenue in the individual financial statements.

Plans to cancel 91,408,000 shares of treasury stock, acquired between March 4, 2025 and February 4, 2026 (5.84% of issued shares), on March 23, 2026.

For the third quarter of FY2026, revenue was JPY 2,736,780 million (1.5% YoY increase), operating income was JPY 495,680 million (21.1% YoY increase), net income attributable to owners of parent was JPY 394,918 million (15.6% YoY increase). Share buyback amounted to 25,265,000 shares, totaling JPY 208,496 million.

Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. has decided the candidates for directors and auditors to be proposed for resolution at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled for June 2026.

Decided executive structure effective from April 1, 2026. President & CEO is Hisayuki Dekiba. Executive structure of major subsidiaries is also clarified.

Executed a share buyback of 30,427,000 shares at a purchase price of 249,998,987,500 yen from October 17, 2025 to February 4, 2026, with the buyback completed as of February 4, 2026.

Acquired 2,000,000 shares of treasury stock (0.14% of total issued shares) on February 3, 2026, for 16,516,000,000 yen.

In January 2026, 8,622,800 common shares were acquired with a total acquisition value of 75,165,038,700 yen. Since October 2025, the cumulative acquisition is 26,937,800 shares with a total acquisition value of 222,130,678,400 yen.

Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. has decided to transfer all shares of its subsidiary RGF International Recruitment Holdings Limited to Fullcast Holdings Co., Ltd. for 609 million yen.

From October 17, 2025 to December 31, 2025, 18,315,000 treasury shares were acquired at a purchase price of 146,965,639,700 yen, reaching 48.20% of the upper limit of 38,000,000 shares and 58.79% of the upper limit of 250 billion yen.