Cover Corp's own stock page dates its listing to March 2023

The setup

Cover Corp, the company behind the Hololive talent brand, is a Japanese public company. Its own stock information page states the company's shares trade on the Growth Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange under securities code 5253, with a listing date of 27 March 2023. That single line converts a company that had operated privately since 2016 into one bound by ongoing disclosure law: quarterly results, an annual securities report, and public risk factors.

What the documents show

The stock information page is a living record, current as retrieved on 16 September 2026, and it names the market segment and listing date without elaboration. Cover Corp's own Annual Securities Report for the 8th Fiscal Year, an English translation of the Japanese filing published 1 July 2024, corroborates the date directly: it states that the company listed its shares on the Growth Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on 27 March 2023. That report also records that Cover Corp's shares were unlisted for the four fiscal years before that, meaning no public share-price history exists before spring 2023. A reader relying on a rounded shorthand about a '2022 Hololive IPO' would misdate the filing obligation by roughly a year.

The craft

For a maker or channel operator tracking an agency's health, the listing date is the hinge between two very different information regimes. Before 27 March 2023, Cover Corp's finances were private; after it, the securities report is filed annually and covers a fixed fiscal year, 1 April to 31 March, per the same stock information page. Anyone citing a Cover Corp revenue figure should first check which side of that date the figure sits on, since pre-listing numbers rest on voluntary disclosure rather than a filed report.

Keeping the creator in control

A listing does not change who performs behind a Hololive character, but it does change what the public can verify about the company managing that performer's channel. Editorially, a talent or fan judging an agency's stability is better served by the dated filing than by an unsourced listing year, because the filing is the document a regulator, not a fan community, holds Cover Corp to.

• Does a cited figure come from before or after 27 March 2023?
• Is the market segment named, Growth Market, still current, or has it since changed?
• Does the source distinguish a living stock-information page from a dated securities filing?

Cover Corp's own documents settle the date without ambiguity: 27 March 2023, Growth Market, code 5253. That specificity is worth preserving whenever a shorthand year gets attached to a company's public-market debut.