Mitsubishi UFJ Financial : Notice regarding Status and Completion of Repurchase of Own Shares
December 26, 2016 at 01:37 am EST
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.
Notice regarding Status and Completion of Repurchase of Own Shares
(Repurchase of own shares pursuant to the provision of Article 156, Paragraph 1 of the Company Law, in accordance with the provision of Article 459, Paragraph 1, Item 1 of the Company Law
and its Articles of Incorporation)
Tokyo, December 26, 2016 --- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) hereby announces the status of repurchase of own shares pursuant to the provision of Article 156, Paragraph 1 of the Company Law of Japan, in accordance with the provision of Article 459, Paragraph 1, Item 1 of the Company Law and Article 44 of the Articles of Incorporation of MUFG, as set forth below.
The repurchase of own shares pursuant to the resolution of the meeting of the Board of Directors held on November 14, 2016 has completed as a result of the following repurchase.
Type of shares that were repurchased: Ordinary shares of MUFG
Aggregate number of shares that were repurchased: 71,031,700 shares
Aggregate amount of repurchase price: JPY 52,363,999,452
Repurchase period: From December 1, 2016
to December 22, 2016 (on a contract basis)
Repurchase method: Market purchases based on the discretionary dealing contract regarding repurchase of own shares
(Reference)
Contents of the resolution of the meeting of the Board of Directors held on November 14, 2016
Type of shares to be repurchased: Ordinary shares of MUFG
Aggregate number of shares to be repurchased: Up to 230,000,000 shares
(Equivalent to 1.69% of the total number of issued shares (excluding own shares))
Aggregate amount of repurchase price: Up to JPY 100,000,000,000
Repurchase period: From November 15, 2016 to December 31, 2016
Repurchase method: Market purchases based on the discretionary dealing contract regarding repurchase of own shares
Cumulative aggregate number of, and aggregate amount of repurchase price, of shares that were repurchased pursuant to the above resolution of the meeting of the Board of Directors
Aggregate number of shares that were repurchased: 142,238,800 shares
Aggregate amount of repurchase price: JPY 99,999,993,960
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This notice is published in order to publicly announce MUFG's repurchase of its own shares and has not been prepared for the purpose of soliciting investment or any similar act inside or outside of Japan.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is one of the Japanese largest banking groups. Income breaks down by activity as follows:
- retail and commercial banking (51.9%);
- corporate and investment banking (28.3%);
- market banking (10.5%);
- financial asset management (8.6%);
- other (0.7%).
At the end of March 2022, the group managed JPY 215,427.3 billion of current deposits and JPY 110,426.2 billion of current loans.
Income breaks down geographically as follows: Japan (55%), Asia/Pacific (24.8%), the United States (12.8%), Europe (1.7%) and other (5.7%).