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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.

MUFG · NYSE

Analyst Consensus

Buy

4 analysts

$21

Current

—

Low

$27

Average

—

High

Average target implies +24.73% versus the current price.

Analyst Ratings Synthesis

The supplied consensus is Buy across four analysts, with a mean price target of $26.53; low and high targets are not reported. Other snapshots diverge: StockAnalysis cites a $21.59 target, Rallies reports a $24.99 average target, and StockAnalysis also relays a two-analyst Hold consensus with a $22.27 average. The most constructive stated view is a Simply Wall St contributor's Buy case for a 32% re-rating to 2.25 times price-to-book; the least constructive supplied target is the $21.59 figure. No dated analyst revisions for the week are provided. The spread reflects disagreement over whether prospective Bank of Japan rate hikes lift net interest income enough to justify current valuation, versus the risk of a rate-hike pause.

Rating Actions

No individual rating actions have been captured for MUFG yet. 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: MUFG
Type: Stock
Sector: Finance
Industry: Commercial Banks
Country: Asia
Exchange: NYSE

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with approximately 2,000 locations in more than 40 countries. The Group has about 150,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. The Group aims to 'be the world's most trusted financial group' through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexible response to all of the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges.

Key Issues

Bullish view

A Simply Wall St contributor expects further upside from potential Bank of Japan rate hikes and says each 0.25-percentage-point rise adds ¥0.18 trillion to annualized net interest income.

Bearish view

The same analysis identifies a rate-hike pause as a valuation risk, which could constrain the expected benefit to net interest income.