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Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. Sponosred ADR (Japan)

MFG · NYSE

Analyst Consensus

Buy

4 analysts

$11

Current

—

Low

$12

Average

—

High

Average target implies +13.89% versus the current price.

Analyst Ratings Synthesis

Consensus is Buy across four analysts, but the evidence does not identify the individual firms or analysts, so the most and least bullish views cannot be attributed. The stated mean target is $12.05; consensus low and high targets are unavailable, preventing a reliable assessment of clustering or the full spread. Investing.com provides a separate two-analyst range from $8.90 to $12.05893, while Fintel reports an average target of $10.11 after a 18.97% reduction from $12.48. No rating or target action is explicitly dated within the past week. The substantive disagreement is therefore visible in the broader target range and conflicting target levels, not in documented analyst rationales.

Rating Actions

No individual rating actions have been captured for MFGyet. Consensus figures above come from Nasdaq's aggregate feed.

Rating actions are extracted from published reporting. Each row links to its source.

Research Reports

Links to freely available third-party research. Outlook labels are our classification of each article's stance, not a rating of our own.

Covering Firms

B OF A GLBL RES

DAIWA AMERICA

GOLDMAN SACHS

JEFFERIES & CO.

Symbol: MFG
Type: Stock
Sector: Finance
Industry: Major Banks
Exchange: NYSE

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is one of the largest financial institutions in the world as measured by total assets of ~$2 trillion, according to S&P Global 2024. Mizuho's 65,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in 36 countries and 850 offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, and Asia. Mizuho Americas is a leading Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB) that provides a full spectrum of client-driven solutions across strategic advisory, capital markets, corporate banking, and fixed income and equities sales & trading to corporate, government, and institutional clients in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Through its acquisition of Greenhill, Mizuho enhanced its M&A, restructuring, and private capital advisory capabilities across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Mizuho Americas employs approximately 4,000 professionals.

Key Issues

Bullish view

Morningstar says Mizuho has significantly improved its previously inferior capital position, allowing it to return more capital to shareholders and invest in growth.

Bearish view

The available evidence does not quantify the capital improvement, planned distributions, or growth investments, leaving the scale and durability of that benefit unconfirmed.