Nomura Holdings Management

Management criteria checks 3/4

Nomura Holdings' CEO is Kentaro Okuda, appointed in Apr 2020, has a tenure of 5.08 years. total yearly compensation is ¥506.00M, comprised of 23.6% salary and 76.4% bonuses, including company stock and options. directly owns 0.015% of the company’s shares, worth $2.62M. The average tenure of the management team and the board of directors is 3.8 years and 3.9 years respectively.

Key information

Kentaro Okuda

Chief executive officer

JP¥506.0m

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage23.60%
CEO tenure5.1yrs
CEO ownership0.01%
Management average tenure3.8yrs
Board average tenure3.9yrs

Recent management updates

Recent updates

Nomura: Wealth Management Business And Overseas Markets Are Key Growth Engines

Jul 03

Nomura: Positive On Americas Growth Plans And Potential Results Beat

Apr 21

Nomura: Above-Expectations Results And New Buyback Plan Were Positive Surprises (Rating Upgrade)

Feb 01

Nomura Holdings: Too Early To Be Bullish

Nov 16

Nomura Holdings: ROE Improvement Is Still A Work-In-Progress

Sep 05

Nomura: Investment Banking Relatively Resilient, But Sours The Picture

Jun 07

Nomura's crypto unit takes stake in DeFi protocol Infinity Exchange

Feb 15

Nomura Loses On Low BoJ Rates In Retail, But Not In Investment Banking

Jan 20

Nomura Holdings GAAP EPS of ¥5.41, revenue of ¥317.96B

Nov 02

Sixteen Wall Street firms agree to pay $1.1B to settle SEC's texting/email probe

Sep 27

Nomura Holdings: Focus On Performance, Valuations And ROE Target

Aug 17

Nomura Holdings GAAP EPS of ¥0.52, revenue of ¥299B

Aug 03

Nomura Holdings: Volatile Shareholder Returns To Continue

Mar 29

CEO Compensation Analysis

How has Kentaro Okuda's remuneration changed compared to Nomura Holdings's earnings?
DateTotal CompensationSalaryCompany Earnings
Mar 31 2025n/an/a

JP¥341b

Dec 31 2024n/an/a

JP¥326b

Sep 30 2024n/an/a

JP¥275b

Jun 30 2024n/an/a

JP¥211b

Mar 31 2024JP¥506mJP¥119m

JP¥166b

Dec 31 2023n/an/a

JP¥116b

Sep 30 2023n/an/a

JP¥133b

Jun 30 2023n/an/a

JP¥114b

Mar 31 2023JP¥385mJP¥119m

JP¥93b

Dec 31 2022n/an/a

JP¥116b

Sep 30 2022n/an/a

JP¥110b

Jun 30 2022n/an/a

JP¥96b

Mar 31 2022JP¥352mJP¥119m

JP¥143b

Dec 31 2021n/an/a

-JP¥43b

Sep 30 2021n/an/a

-JP¥5b

Jun 30 2021n/an/a

JP¥59b

Mar 31 2021JP¥320mJP¥119m

JP¥153b

Dec 31 2020n/an/a

JP¥274b

Sep 30 2020n/an/a

JP¥233b

Jun 30 2020n/an/a

JP¥304b

Mar 31 2020JP¥278mJP¥97m

JP¥217b

Compensation vs Market: Kentaro's total compensation ($USD3.50M) is below average for companies of similar size in the US market ($USD14.07M).

Compensation vs Earnings: Kentaro's compensation has increased by more than 20% in the past year.


CEO

Kentaro Okuda (61 yo)

5.1yrs
Tenure
JP¥506,000,000
Compensation

Mr. Kentaro Okuda has been the President, Group Chief Executive Officer at Nomura Holdings Inc. since April 1, 2020 and has been its Director since June 23, 2020 and has been its Representative Executive O...


Leadership Team

NamePositionTenureCompensationOwnership
Kentaro Okuda
President5.1yrsJP¥506.00m0.015%
$ 2.6m
Takumi Kitamura
CFO, Executive Officer & Chief Transformation Officer9.1yrsJP¥165.00m0.0040%
$ 715.5k
Toshiyasu Iiyama
Chief of Staff8.1yrsJP¥256.60m0.0063%
$ 1.1m
Yutaka Nakajima
Representative Executive Officer and Deputy President & Head of Global Markets and Directorno dataJP¥302.60m0.022%
$ 3.9m
Yosuke Inaida
Executive Officer & Head of Content Company and Global Regulatory Affairsless than a yearJP¥135.00m0.0064%
$ 1.1m
Christopher Paul Willcox
Executive Officer & Head of Wholesale2.6yrsJP¥1.73b0.00016%
$ 28.6k
Gareth Nicholson
Executive Director3.8yrsno datano data
Patrick Eltridge
Senior MD & Chief Information Officer3.3yrsno datano data
Akihiro Koseki
MD, Head of Investor Relations & Co-Head of Investment Banking - Asia ex-Japanno datano datano data
Takako Mori
Senior MD of General Counsel & Joint Chief Compliance Officer4.3yrsno datano data
Yukiko Ozaki
Senior MD2.3yrsno datano data
Tomoyuki Teraguchi
Vice Chairmanno dataJP¥236.20mno data
3.8yrs
Average Tenure
59yo
Average Age

Experienced Management: NMR's management team is considered experienced (3.8 years average tenure).


Board Members

NamePositionTenureCompensationOwnership
Kentaro Okuda
President4.9yrsJP¥506.00m0.015%
$ 2.6m
Yutaka Nakajima
Representative Executive Officer and Deputy President & Head of Global Markets and Director1.9yrsJP¥302.60m0.022%
$ 3.9m
Lap Lik Chu
Independent Outside Director3.9yrsno datano data
Laura Simone Unger
Independent Outside Director6.9yrsno data0.000030%
$ 5.4k
Chartsiri Sophonpanich
Advisory Board Member5.7yrsno datano data
Takahisa Takahara
Independent Outside Director3.9yrsno data0.000030%
$ 5.4k
Koji Nagai
Chairman of the Board11.9yrsJP¥323.20m0.017%
$ 3.1m
J. Giancarlo
Independent Outside Director3.9yrsno datano data
Taku Oshima
Independent Outside Directorless than a yearno datano data
Philip Hammond
Advisory Board Member4.8yrsno datano data
Shoji Ogawa
Non-Executive Director3.9yrsno data0.0017%
$ 307.7k
Masahiro Ishizuka
Independent Outside Director1.9yrsno data0.00012%
$ 21.5k
3.9yrs
Average Tenure
64.5yo
Average Age

Experienced Board: NMR's board of directors are considered experienced (3.9 years average tenure).


Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2025/05/20 04:27
End of Day Share Price 2025/05/20 00:00
Earnings2025/03/31
Annual Earnings2025/03/31

Data Sources

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PackageDataTimeframeExample US Source *
Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

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Analyst Sources

Nomura Holdings, Inc. is covered by 26 analysts. 7 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Azuma OhnoBarclays
Natsumu TsujinoBofA Global Research
Siti Bte SalikinCFRA Equity Research