HOYA Corporation Revises Year-End Dividend Forecast for the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2024

Hoya Corporation specialises in the manufacture and commercialisation of optical products. Net sales break down by business segment as follows: - health (66%): manufacturing of health care products (75.4% of sales; eyeglass lenses and contact lenses) and medical products (24.6%; endoscopes, medical accessories, intraocular lenses, artificial bones and metal implants for orthopedics); - information technology (33.1%): manufacturing of electronic products (78.2% of sales; photomasks for semiconductors, masks and devices for LCD screens and hard disks) and imaging products (21.8%; optical lenses, optical glasses and laser equipment); - other (0.9%). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (28.9%), China (8.2%), Asia (24.7%), Europe (19.3%), the United States (15.1%), the Americas (2.4%) and others (1.4%).