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TIER IV

ティアフォー

TSE Growth ・ Ticker 593A Listed

Result on listing day

-7.0%

Offer price

1,085 yen

First traded price

1,009 yen

Selling 100 shares at the first traded price would have produced a loss of 7,600 yen, before fees and tax. 100 shares is the minimum trading unit in Japan.

Application period (book building)
2026-07-06 — 2026-07-10
Lottery result
2026-07-13
Listing date
2026-07-22
Cash needed to apply for one lot (100 shares)
about 108,500 yen
Offering size (at the offer price)
27 billion yen ・ 24,630,700 shares
Market capitalisation at listing
69 billion yen
Lock-up
Not translated — this is the wording from the Japanese offering documents, kept verbatim so it matches what your broker shows: 既存株主のほぼ全てに180日間
Company website
https://tier4.co.jp/

Closing prices after listing

Compared with the first traded price of 1,009 yen.

2026-07-221,015 yen+0.6%
2026-07-231,240 yen+22.9%
2026-07-241,102 yen+9.2%
2026-07-271,057 yen+4.8%
2026-07-281,009 yen+0.0%

Brokers you can apply through

You can only enter this lottery through a broker underwriting it. The joint lead underwriters are SMBC Nikko Securities, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, which receive the largest allocations.

Broker pages are in Japanese. A comparison in English is on the brokers page.

What stands out

  • Leads development of Autoware, a home-grown open-source self-driving software, with trials and deployments across 127 areas in 39 of Japan's prefectures
  • Mass-production development support for carmakers is expanding, reaching 13 development project clients as of the half-year to March 2026
  • Shareholders include corporate backers such as SOMPO Holdings, Yamaha Motor, Isuzu Motors and KDDI

What could go wrong

  • Research and development spending exceeds revenue and losses continue. The company expects its operating loss to widen to 11.23 billion yen in the year to September 2026
  • The self-driving market is still at an early stage, and the company competes with large overseas players
  • The company has never paid a dividend since it was founded

About the company

Develops Autoware, an open-source self-driving software, and also handles the rollout and day-to-day operation of self-driving systems such as autonomous buses.

How it makes money

Revenue comes from three businesses. Mobility Service puts self-driving buses and similar vehicles into local public transport and facility operations. Development Service takes on contract development of self-driving systems for carmakers' mass-production vehicles. Solution Service covers technology and data provision, licensing and government-commissioned projects. Of consolidated revenue of 6.41 billion yen in the year to September 2025, Solution was 43.9%, Mobility 35.4% and Development 20.8%.

Where growth is meant to come from

The growth engine it points to is mass-production development support for carmakers. The number of development project clients rose from 7 in the year to September 2024 to 9 in the year to September 2025, and reached 13 at the half-year mark in March 2026. For the year to September 2026 the company forecasts that this business will grow 86.8% and that total revenue will reach 8.48 billion yen, up 32.4%.

Read about this company in Japanese →

Figures are taken from the offering documents and public sources, and are checked against two independent sources before publication. Nothing here is investment advice. Shares can and do open below their offer price.