CJPRF Central Japan Railway Company — dividend yield, history & ex-dividend dates
Central Japan Railway Company is a Japanese enterprise with core operations in railway transportation and a diverse portfolio of related ventures. Structured into various divisions including Transportation, Merchandise, Real Estate, and Other, the company's primary asset is the Tokaido Shinkansen, a critical high-speed rail artery connecting Japan's metropolitan hubs of Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka. It also oversees a network of twelve conventional train lines concentrated in the Nagoya and Shizuoka areas. Beyond its extensive rail services, the company offers a broad spectrum of ancillary operations such as bus services, logistics, travel agency functions, advertising, linen supply, track maintenance, construction and consulting, and financial management, alongside the manufacturing and upkeep of railway rolling stock and machinery. Its business interests further extend into non-transportation sectors, encompassing retail (including department stores, wholesale, and food/beverage sales), real estate development and leasing, hospitality (hotels), and the management and enhancement of computer systems. Founded in 1987, Central Japan Railway Company maintains its headquarters in Nagoya, Japan.
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Research Scores
Scores describe this security's published financial data on a 0–100 scale using the formulas on our methodology pages. They are the same for every reader, are not a probability or a forecast, and are not a recommendation. Past dividend growth does not guarantee future increases. Report a data error.
Not Rated
How the Dividend Safety Score is built for CJPRF
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings payout ratio | Earnings payout ratio 6% (FY2026) | 100 | 20% |
| FCF payout ratio | FCF payout ratio 12% (FY2026) | 100 | 25% |
| Net debt / EBITDA | Net debt / EBITDA 3.0x (FY2026) | 60 | 15% |
| Interest coverage | Interest coverage 10.5x (FY2026) | 90 | 10% |
| Dividend record | 29 years of uninterrupted regular payments; last cut Sep 29, 2022 (-22.6%), within 10 years: capped at 50 | 50 | 20% |
| Earnings stability | Net income positive in 4 of the last 5 fiscal years (FY2022–FY2026) | 70 | 10% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: ordinary company. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
How the Dividend Growth Score is built for CJPRF
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-year dividend growth | 5-year dividend CAGR -3.9% (2020–2025) | 6 | 25% |
| Consecutive annual increases | 0 consecutive annual increases (through 2025) | 10 | 20% |
| Payout headroom | Headroom from the earnings payout ratio 6% (FY2026) | 100 | 20% |
| Earnings per share growth (3 years) | EPS CAGR 37.1% (FY2023–FY2026) | 100 | 15% |
| Revenue growth (3 years) | Revenue CAGR 13.0% (FY2023–FY2026) | 100 | 10% |
| 10-year dividend growth | 10-year dividend CAGR 0.7% (2015–2025) | 32 | 10% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: ordinary company. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
Key Metrics
Current Yield
0.89%
At the Oct 29, 2026 price
The annual dividend as a percentage of the share price. A 3% yield is about $3 of dividends a year for every $100 invested at today's price.Annualized Dividend
$0.2023
Declared Apr 28, 2026
The latest declared regular dividend scaled to a full year by how often it's paid (for semi-annual payers, the latest two payments), adjusted for stock splits. A $0.25 quarterly dividend annualizes to $1.00. Special dividends are excluded.Frequency
S Semi-Annual
How often the dividend is paid, read from the dates of recent payments: Q = quarterly (4x a year), M = monthly, S = semi-annual, A = annual.RSI (14)
37
As of Oct 29, 2026
Relative Strength Index (0-100), a price-momentum gauge. Above 70 is often called 'overbought', below 30 'oversold'. A technical signal, not a dividend metric.52-Week Range
$22.40 – $30.98
Closes through Oct 22, 2026
The lowest and highest price over the past year, showing where today's price sits in its recent range.Payout Ratio
-
The share of earnings paid out as dividends over the trailing twelve months (TTM): dividends paid divided by net income across the company's four most recent reported quarters, dated by the latest quarter end. A fiscal-year tag such as FY2025 means only annual figures were available. Lower leaves more cushion; above 100% means paying out more than the company earned. It shows n/a for funds and when net income over the period was negative; for REITs and BDCs it is marked EPS-based, since they are judged on FFO/AFFO or net investment income instead.Years Paying
30
How many years of payments we have on record. This can understate very long histories where our data doesn't reach far enough back.Price / Book (TTM)
0.72
Price as of Oct 25, 2026; latest reported book value
Price-to-book ratio: the share price on the date shown divided by the latest reported book value per share. A rough valuation gauge, most useful for asset-heavy sectors like REITs, banks and insurers.S.A.F.E. Dividend Read
Quote & Key Data
Dividend Growth
How often a record like this ends in a cut
CJPRF has raised its annual dividend in 18 separate years since March 1997, which ranks 554 among the 2,430 payers with a comparable record in our dataset. In 1 year the annual total fell by more than a fifth.
Of the 878 companies we track with 10 to 24 years of increases, 661 — 75 per cent — also have at least one year in which the dividend fell by more than 20 per cent. Across every company with twenty years of comparable history, only 277 of 1078 (26 per cent) have never cut. A long record of increases is common; a record with no cut anywhere in it is not.
Measured from annual totals using split-adjusted amounts, comparing only consecutive years with the same number of payments — a stock split and a payment shifting across a year boundary both look like cuts otherwise. The current year is excluded as incomplete. How we measure a cut, and what the corrections change. Figures are for information only, not a view on any security.
Why the Yield Moved (90 Days)
CJPRF's dividend yield fell from 0.90% to 0.89% over the past ~90 days (-0.01 pp). Of that move, +0.00 pp came from changes in the dividend rate and -0.01 pp from the share price ($22.50 on Aug 03, 2026 → $22.69 on Oct 29, 2026). A yield that rises because the price fell is not an improvement in the payout itself.
Yield vs Its Own History
Across 271 daily observations over the past 13 months (through Oct 22, 2026), CJPRF's current yield is higher than approximately 73% of them. Our stored price history for CJPRF covers the past 13 months; 3- and 5-year averages are not yet computable from it and are deliberately not shown.
Adjusted Price History
Dividend History
Dividend Payment History
Ex-dividend calendar →| Amount | Type | Declared | Ex-Date | Record | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.1017 S | Regular | Apr 28, 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | N/A |
| $0.1017 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 29, 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| $0.1006 S | Regular | Apr 30, 2025 | Mar 31, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 |
| $0.1081 S | Regular | Apr 30, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | Dec 01, 2025 |
| $0.1067 S | Regular | Apr 30, 2024 | Mar 31, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 |
| $0.1047 S | Regular | Apr 30, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | Dec 02, 2024 |
| $0.0991 S | Regular | Apr 26, 2023 | Mar 28, 2024 | Mar 31, 2024 | Jun 24, 2024 |
| $0.4684 S | Regular | Apr 26, 2023 | Sep 28, 2023 | Sep 30, 2023 | Dec 01, 2023 |
| $0.5275 S | Regular | Apr 26, 2022 | Mar 30, 2023 | Mar 31, 2023 | Jun 26, 2023 |
| $0.4500 S | Regular | Apr 26, 2022 | Sep 29, 2022 | Sep 30, 2022 | Dec 01, 2022 |
| $0.5330 S | Regular | Apr 27, 2021 | Mar 30, 2022 | Mar 31, 2022 | Jun 24, 2022 |
| $0.5812 S | Regular | Apr 27, 2021 | Sep 29, 2021 | Sep 30, 2021 | Dec 01, 2021 |
| $0.5899 S | Regular | Apr 27, 2020 | Mar 30, 2021 | Mar 31, 2021 | Jun 24, 2021 |
| $0.6150 S | Regular | Apr 27, 2020 | Sep 29, 2020 | Sep 30, 2020 | Dec 01, 2020 |
| $0.6940 S | Regular | Apr 25, 2019 | Mar 30, 2020 | Mar 31, 2020 | Jun 24, 2020 |
| $0.6941 S | Regular | Apr 25, 2019 | Sep 27, 2019 | Sep 30, 2019 | Dec 02, 2019 |
| $0.6794 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 27, 2019 | Mar 31, 2019 | Jun 24, 2019 |
| $0.6198 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 26, 2018 | Sep 30, 2018 | Dec 03, 2018 |
| $0.6585 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 28, 2018 | Mar 31, 2018 | Jun 25, 2018 |
| $0.6208 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 27, 2017 | Sep 30, 2017 | Dec 01, 2017 |
| $0.6303 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 29, 2017 | Mar 31, 2017 | Jun 26, 2017 |
| $0.6463 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 28, 2016 | Sep 30, 2016 | Dec 01, 2016 |
| $0.5735 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 29, 2016 | Mar 31, 2016 | Jun 24, 2016 |
| $0.5007 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 28, 2015 | Sep 30, 2015 | Dec 01, 2015 |
| $0.5035 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 27, 2015 | Mar 31, 2015 | Jun 24, 2015 |
| $0.5489 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 26, 2014 | Sep 30, 2014 | Dec 01, 2014 |
| $0.5875 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 27, 2014 | Mar 31, 2014 | Jun 25, 2014 |
| $0.5558 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 26, 2013 | Sep 30, 2013 | Dec 02, 2013 |
| $0.5828 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 27, 2013 | Mar 31, 2013 | Jun 24, 2013 |
| $64.2815 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 26, 2012 | Sep 30, 2012 | Dec 03, 2012 |
| $60.4255 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 28, 2012 | Mar 31, 2012 | Jun 25, 2012 |
| $58.8132 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 28, 2011 | Sep 30, 2011 | Dec 01, 2011 |
| $54.6178 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 29, 2011 | Mar 31, 2011 | Jun 24, 2011 |
| $53.6832 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 28, 2010 | Sep 30, 2010 | Dec 01, 2010 |
| $48.5672 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 29, 2010 | Mar 31, 2010 | Jun 23, 2010 |
| $50.0891 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 25, 2009 | Sep 30, 2009 | Dec 01, 2009 |
| $45.5350 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 26, 2009 | Mar 31, 2009 | Jun 24, 2009 |
| $42.3211 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 25, 2008 | Sep 30, 2008 | Dec 01, 2008 |
| $45.4640 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 26, 2008 | Mar 31, 2008 | Jun 25, 2008 |
| $34.8782 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 25, 2007 | Sep 30, 2007 | Dec 03, 2007 |
| $33.8768 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 27, 2007 | Mar 31, 2007 | Jun 25, 2007 |
| $29.9892 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 26, 2006 | Sep 30, 2006 | Dec 04, 2006 |
| $29.9721 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 28, 2006 | Mar 31, 2006 | Jun 26, 2006 |
| $26.5427 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 27, 2005 | Sep 30, 2005 | Dec 09, 2005 |
| $28.0451 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 28, 2005 | Mar 31, 2005 | Jun 24, 2005 |
| $22.6150 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 27, 2004 | Sep 30, 2004 | Dec 10, 2004 |
| $23.5450 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 26, 2004 | Mar 31, 2004 | Jun 24, 2004 |
| $22.4375 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 25, 2003 | Sep 30, 2003 | Dec 10, 2003 |
| $20.8100 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 26, 2003 | Mar 31, 2003 | Jun 26, 2003 |
| $20.2700 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 25, 2002 | Sep 30, 2002 | Dec 10, 2002 |
| $18.7450 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 26, 2002 | Mar 31, 2002 | Jun 27, 2002 |
| $21.2650 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 25, 2001 | Sep 30, 2001 | Dec 11, 2001 |
| $20.3725 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 27, 2001 | Mar 31, 2001 | Jun 28, 2001 |
| $23.2175 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 26, 2000 | Sep 30, 2000 | Dec 12, 2000 |
| $23.4275 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 28, 2000 | Mar 31, 2000 | Jun 29, 2000 |
| $2,500.0000 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 27, 1999 | Sep 30, 1999 | Dec 10, 1999 |
| $2,500.0000 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 26, 1999 | Mar 31, 1999 | Jun 28, 1999 |
| $2,500.0000 A | Regular | N/A | Mar 26, 1998 | Mar 31, 1998 | Jun 29, 1998 |
| $2,500.0000 A | Regular | N/A | Mar 26, 1997 | Sep 30, 1997 | Dec 10, 1997 |
1 future payment listed by our data provider without a declaration is a projection, so it is not listed here or shown as a last or next dividend.
Peer Comparison
Selected Railroads dividend payers we cover, strongest DividendRank first — for context, not a recommendation.
| Ticker | Name | Yield | 5-Yr Growth | Streak | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CNR.TO | Canadian National Railway Company | 2.10% | 9.1% | 28 yrs | 79 |
| CNI | Canadian National Railway Company | 2.14% | 8.1% | 29 yrs | 75 |
| TRN | Trinity Industries, Inc. | 4.85% | 9.6% | 15 yrs | 74 |
| UNP | Union Pacific Corporation | 1.91% | 7.0% | 19 yrs | 73 |
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CJPRF dividend — frequently asked questions
Does Central Japan Railway Company pay a dividend?
Yes. Central Japan Railway Company (CJPRF) currently pays a dividend. The annualized dividend is about $0.20 per share, a yield of approximately 0.89%.
What is Central Japan Railway Company's dividend yield?
Central Japan Railway Company's dividend yield is approximately 0.89%, based on the most recent regular payment annualized against the current share price. Yields move as the share price changes.
How often does Central Japan Railway Company pay dividends?
Central Japan Railway Company pays dividends semi-annually — 2 times per year.
How long has Central Japan Railway Company paid dividends?
Central Japan Railway Company has 30 years of dividend payments on record.
Data updated Oct 29, 2026. This research page is generated from Dividendly's structured market and dividend dataset using the approach described on our methodology and data sources pages. Data is automatically validated using defined rules and may also be periodically reviewed. Research only, not investment advice. Spotted a data error? Report it.