Canon Inc: basic earnings per share

At a glance

Canon reported basic earnings per share of 236.71 JPY/shares for the year ending 2022-12-31, up 15.3% from 205.35 JPY/shares a year earlier. From 2007 to 2022 it fell at a compound 3.1% a year, from 377.59 JPY/shares to 236.71 JPY/shares. Across the last five reported years it ranged from 79.37 JPY/shares (2020-12-31) to 236.71 JPY/shares (2022-12-31).

Computed from the values in the table below, in JPY/shares; each links to the filing it came from.

What this measure means

Reported earnings or loss per basic common share or unit. Inspect attribution, share classes and restatements before comparing periods. This is not a market return.

Exact concept: us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasic. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2007-01-01 to 2022-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

This selected history ends more than two years before capture. Do not treat its final value as a current balance or current annual result. More recent filings may use another accounting tag; inspect the filings before drawing conclusions about the company.

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• Total assets
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• Stockholders equity
• Contract revenue excluding tax
• Operating cash flow

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Entity

CANON INC / CIK 0000016988

Captured

2026-09-19 14:44 UTC

SEC response SHA-256

9e8392c06f647a8d293cceb3554092fc93a05cb37e11a66d07886d62152d3dac

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Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.

Public company accounting reference, not market prices, returns, an investment recommendation, or ALPHAC performance. Validate a separately constructed return series with the validation API; accounting values are not returns.

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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000016988.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))