OMRON Announces Fiscal 2014 Interim Dividend and Year-End Dividend Forecast

KYOTO, Japan -- OMRON Corporation (TOKYO: 6645; ADR: OMRNY) today announced the difference between the forecast of consolidated performance for the first two quarters of fiscal 2014 (April 1, 2014 - September 30, 2014) released on July 29 this year, and its actual results.
The consolidated full-year performance forecast for fiscal 2014 (April 1, 2014 - March 31, 2015) has also been revised upward taking into account recent trends in business performance.

1. Details of Interim Dividend

   	FY2014 Interim Dividend (Decided on Oct. 28, 2014)	Previous forecast (Announced on April 24, 2014)	FY2013 Interim Dividend (Actual)
   Dividend Record Date	September 30, 2014	September 30, 2014	September 30, 2013
   Dividend per Share	31.00 yen	27.00 yen	25.00 yen
   Total Dividends	6,823 million yen	-	5,503 million yen
   Effective Date	December 2, 2014	-	December 2, 2013
   Source of Dividends	Retained Earnings	-	Retained Earnings

   
   

2. Details of Dividend Forecast

   	Dividend Per Share
   Term	2nd Quarter	Year-end	Full-year total
   Previous Forecast	27.00 yen	36.00 yen	63.00 yen
   October 28 Forecast	-	40.00 yen	71.00 yen
   Fiscal 2014 Actual	31.00 yen	-	-
   Fiscal 2013 Actual (ended March 31, 2014)	25.00 yen	28.00 yen	53.00 yen

   
   

3. Reason for revision of Interim Dividend and Year-End Dividend Forecast

   OMRON's profit distribution policy is to put priority on securing capital resources for investments to promote growth and in turn increase corporate value, and then provides the return for shareholders, taking the level of free cash flow into consideration. When determining dividends, OMRON aims to maintain a full-year dividend payout ratio at a minimum of 25% with a near-term DOE target of 2%.

   Following the favorable consolidated financial results for the first half of fiscal 2014 and the full year forecast of fiscal 2014 announced today, OMRON decided to make an upward revision to the interim dividend to 31 yen per share, up 4 yen from the previous forecast. OMRON also decided on a revision of the year-end dividend forecast to 40 yen per share in fiscal 2014. Therefore, a total full-year dividend payout for fiscal 2014 is forecasted to be 71 yen per share.