Mizuho Financial Group - MFG Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mizuho Financial Group in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" MFG shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in MFG, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Mizuho Financial Group's stock was trading at $2.55 at the start of the year. Since then, MFG shares have decreased by 12.9% and is now trading at $2.22.
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Mizuho Financial Group saw a increase in short interest in the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,470,000 shares, an increase of 82.4% from the August 31st total of 806,100 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,620,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.9 days. Approximately 0.0% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, November 11th 2022.
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Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:MFG) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July, 31st. The bank reported $0.11 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.08 by $0.03. The bank had revenue of $8.78 billion for the quarter. Mizuho Financial Group had a net margin of 9.83% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 4.38%.

Mizuho Financial Group (NYSE:MFG) pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.19%. MFG has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The dividend payout ratio is 30.00%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MFG will have a dividend payout ratio of 25.00% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

7 employees have rated Mizuho Financial Group Chief Executive Officer Tatsufumi Sakai on Glassdoor.com. Tatsufumi Sakai has an approval rating of 96% among the company's employees. This puts Tatsufumi Sakai in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Mizuho Financial Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MFG."

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One share of MFG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $2.22.

Mizuho Financial Group (NYSE:MFG) has a market capitalization of $28.18 billion and generates $35.30 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $-932,030,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.30 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 66,439 workers across the globe.

Mizuho Financial Group's mailing address is 1-5-5 OTEMACHI CHIYODA-KU, TOKYO M0, 100-8176. The official website for the company is www.mizuho-fg.co.jp. The bank can be reached via phone at (135) 224-1111 or via fax at 813-5224-1059.