Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. ADR (MUFG): Not A Time To Panic Nor Freeze

Natixis Advisors LLC has recently announced that it has increased stake in Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. ADR (NYSE:MUFG) by 7.52%. After grabbing 11.06 million shares, the institutional investor is now in possession of 0.77 million shares of the Financial Company. The new investment brought the stake of investor firm to 0.09% having worth around $95.23 million. Moreover, Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP increased its share by 0.57 million to have a control over 10.86 million shares. And Northern Trust Investments, Inc. raised its holdings to 4410.0 shares by acquiring 6.52 million shares or 0.05% of the stake.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. ADR (MUFG) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $9.41, with 3.67 million shares of worth about $34.53 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 25.30% during that period and On Wednesday, January 24 the price saw a gain of about 5.49%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 12.01B shares, out of which, 11.67B shares are available for trading.

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Vanguard Windsor Funds – Vanguard, Harbor Large Cap Value Fund, and Aristotle Value Equity Collective are the top 3 mutual funds which are holding stakes in Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. ADR Vanguard Windsor Funds – Vanguard is currently holding 19.94 million shares of worth totaling $171.66 million. The company recently came buying 0.0 shares which brought its stake up to 0.16% of the company’s outstanding shares. Harbor Large Cap Value Fund sold -0.47 million shares, after which its hold over company’s outstanding shares shrunk to 0.03%, leaving 3.23 million shares with the mutual fund that have a worth of about $27.85 million. Aristotle Value Equity Collective, after buying 2.82 million shares, have now control over 0.02% of the stake in the company. It holds 0.17 million shares of worth $24.29 million.

However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 9.44, or with a gain of 5.49%. Stock saw a price change of 8.04% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 12.69%. Year-to-date (YTD), MUFG shares are showing a performance of 9.29% which increased to 29.79% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $5.99 but also hit the highest price of $9.04 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. ADR shares is 3.38 million. The stock is currently trading 8.06% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 9.51% for SMA50 and it goes to 20.72% higher than SMA200.

Natixis Advisors LLC acquired 11.06 million shares of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. ADR having value of about $95.23 million. Data submitted at the U.S SEC by Natixis Advisors LLC revealed that the firm now holds 0.77 million shares in the company valued at close to $7281740.3, or have control over 7.52% stake in the company. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. ADR (NYSE: MUFG) currently have 12.01B outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 1.78% of that. Holding of mutual funds in the company is about 0.35% while other institutional holders and individual stake holders have control over 1.31% and — of the stake respectively.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $109.87B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.63. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 8.64, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.09 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.15 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 5.10. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for MUFG, volatility over the week remained 0.91% while standing at 0.95% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. ADR (MUFG) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.18 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.16 and it is $0.89 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.18 which is $0.18 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $0.06 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 20.10% while it is estimated to increase by 4.44% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 7.50% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -0.09% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

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