# Aozora Bank (8304.JP)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/8304.JP

Analysis as of: 2026-10-15T07:11:44.177Z. Financial observations: FY2016–FY2026.

Listing currency: JPY. Reporting currency: JPY.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: fail; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: JPY 3,165.00 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low JPY 1,410.26 per share, central JPY 1,617.98 per share, high JPY 1,897.47 per share. Buy at or below the central value JPY 1,617.98 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-15T07:11:44.177Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 6.7% at the stated quote. About 6.7% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; JP 10-year bond 2.9% + 4 points).

## Checklist

### understandable: pass

- Financial history: 10 years

- Profitable years in the last ten: 9

- Required profitable years: 9

- Return on common equity variation (informational): 1.35×

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: JPY 44B

- FY2018: JPY 43B

- FY2019: JPY 36B

- FY2020: JPY 28B

- FY2021: JPY 29B

- FY2022: JPY 35B

- FY2023: JPY 8.7B

- FY2024: JPY -50B

- FY2025: JPY 21B

- FY2026: JPY 26B

### moat: fail

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- median return on common equity below threshold

- return on tangible common equity below 5% in more than one year

- Bank / P&C ROTE, median of available years: 6.5%

- Required median return: 12.0%

- Return uses tangible common equity: Yes

- Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: 2.1%

- Years with reported combined ratio: 0

Chart: Return on tangible common equity; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: 10.8%

- FY2018: 10.3%

- FY2019: 8.4%

- FY2020: 6.9%

- FY2021: 6.1%

- FY2022: 7.4%

- FY2023: 2.1%

- FY2024: -13.7%

- FY2025: 4.8%

- FY2026: 5.6%

### economics: fail

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- book value per share plus dividends compounded below 7% annually

- Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 3.7%

- Book return interval: 10 years

- Starting book value per share: JPY 3K

- Ending book value per share: JPY 3K

Chart: Annual book + dividend return; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: 8.4%

- FY2018: 8.9%

- FY2019: 7.5%

- FY2020: -1.1%

- FY2021: 19.9%

- FY2022: 3.1%

- FY2023: -7.5%

- FY2024: -9.7%

- FY2025: 5.7%

- FY2026: 5.4%

### management: fail

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- book per share gain below retained common earnings per share

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 1.7%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 3.5%

- Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 1.7%

- Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 3.5%

- Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0

- Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: -0.09×

- Book value created per share: JPY -38.58

- Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: JPY 447.31

Chart: Shares (first year = 100); fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 100

- FY2017: 100

- FY2018: 100

- FY2019: 100

- FY2020: 100

- FY2021: 100

- FY2022: 100

- FY2023: 100

- FY2024: 100

- FY2025: 114

- FY2026: 119

### accounting: pass

- Financial accounting warning count: 0

- Loans, annualized growth: 6.0%

- Deposits, annualized growth: 8.3%

- Known restatement years: 0

- Years loan growth exceeded twice deposit growth: 1

## Holders

## Price story

The price assumes profits grow 6.5% a year forever · net income +25.3%

Story as of 2026-10-16T10:00:14.737Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

The price assumes profits grow 6.5% a year forever

### Net income · FY2026

net income +25.3%; source https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100YCRO.pdf; observed 2026-06-17.

- FY2017: JPY 44B 

- FY2018: JPY 43B 

- FY2019: JPY 36B 

- FY2020: JPY 28B 

- FY2021: JPY 29B 

- FY2022: JPY 35B 

- FY2023: JPY 8.7B 

- FY2024: JPY -50B 

- FY2025: JPY 21B 

- FY2026: JPY 26B 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Operates in regional banking; annual sales are JPY 123.7 billion.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/AON.F.json#2026-03-31 (filed 2026-06-17); FY2026: revenue 123658000000.

### Why customers stay

It earns 6.5% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-06-17); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2017,0.10835233969789147],[2018,0.10282393335450428],[2019,0.08403361344537816],[2020,0.06900288840176737],[2021,0.06113113273634192],[2022,0.07400986121565278],[2023,0.020820746719520496],[2024,-0.1367566338093398],[2025,0.047512747717915346],[2026,0.055732017995555314]]; median 0.06506701056905465. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-06-17); Dividend observations: [[2017,21694000000],[2018,21813000000],[2019,20300000000],[2020,17618000000],[2021,15053000000],[2022,16109000000],[2023,18567000000],[2024,13548000000],[2025,7478000000],[2026,12177000000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

### What the price says

The price assumes profits grow 6.5% a year forever.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-06-17); Price 3165; FX 1; original perpetual distributable cash 109.84642832714945; discount 0.1; growth 0.06529338757436037. Same book-value model and 4× ceiling; no ten-year operating fade applies. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (JPY per share)

- 2016-11: JPY 3,930.00 per share

- 2016-12: JPY 4,130.00 per share

- 2017-01: JPY 4,120.00 per share

- 2017-02: JPY 4,210.00 per share

- 2017-03: JPY 4,100.00 per share

- 2017-04: JPY 4,060.00 per share

- 2017-05: JPY 4,070.00 per share

- 2017-06: JPY 4,280.00 per share

- 2017-07: JPY 4,240.00 per share

- 2017-08: JPY 4,160.00 per share

- 2017-09: JPY 4,280.00 per share

- 2017-10: JPY 4,425.00 per share

- 2017-11: JPY 4,355.00 per share

- 2017-12: JPY 4,385.00 per share

- 2018-01: JPY 4,420.00 per share

- 2018-02: JPY 4,395.00 per share

- 2018-03: JPY 4,235.00 per share

- 2018-04: JPY 4,425.00 per share

- 2018-05: JPY 4,310.00 per share

- 2018-06: JPY 4,215.00 per share

- 2018-07: JPY 4,175.00 per share

- 2018-08: JPY 3,925.00 per share

- 2018-09: JPY 4,060.00 per share

- 2018-10: JPY 3,895.00 per share

- 2018-11: JPY 3,730.00 per share

- 2018-12: JPY 3,275.00 per share

- 2019-01: JPY 3,350.00 per share

- 2019-02: JPY 3,210.00 per share

- 2019-03: JPY 2,736.00 per share

- 2019-04: JPY 2,709.00 per share

- 2019-05: JPY 2,639.00 per share

- 2019-06: JPY 2,586.00 per share

- 2019-07: JPY 2,498.00 per share

- 2019-08: JPY 2,455.00 per share

- 2019-09: JPY 2,702.00 per share

- 2019-10: JPY 2,791.00 per share

- 2019-11: JPY 2,788.00 per share

- 2019-12: JPY 2,891.00 per share

- 2020-01: JPY 2,962.00 per share

- 2020-02: JPY 2,702.00 per share

- 2020-03: JPY 2,062.00 per share

- 2020-04: JPY 1,933.00 per share

- 2020-05: JPY 2,002.00 per share

- 2020-06: JPY 1,876.00 per share

- 2020-07: JPY 1,687.00 per share

- 2020-08: JPY 1,905.00 per share

- 2020-09: JPY 1,743.00 per share

- 2020-10: JPY 1,708.00 per share

- 2020-11: JPY 1,895.00 per share

- 2020-12: JPY 1,903.00 per share

- 2021-01: JPY 1,926.00 per share

- 2021-02: JPY 2,250.00 per share

- 2021-03: JPY 2,534.00 per share

- 2021-04: JPY 2,350.00 per share

- 2021-05: JPY 2,473.00 per share

- 2021-06: JPY 2,485.00 per share

- 2021-07: JPY 2,462.00 per share

- 2021-08: JPY 2,581.00 per share

- 2021-09: JPY 2,739.00 per share

- 2021-10: JPY 2,606.00 per share

- 2021-11: JPY 2,472.00 per share

- 2021-12: JPY 2,518.00 per share

- 2022-01: JPY 2,574.00 per share

- 2022-02: JPY 2,602.00 per share

- 2022-03: JPY 2,589.00 per share

- 2022-04: JPY 2,604.00 per share

- 2022-05: JPY 2,656.00 per share

- 2022-06: JPY 2,637.00 per share

- 2022-07: JPY 2,775.00 per share

- 2022-08: JPY 2,689.00 per share

- 2022-09: JPY 2,582.00 per share

- 2022-10: JPY 2,557.00 per share

- 2022-11: JPY 2,595.00 per share

- 2022-12: JPY 2,595.00 per share

- 2023-01: JPY 2,594.00 per share

- 2023-02: JPY 2,637.00 per share

- 2023-03: JPY 2,399.00 per share

- 2023-04: JPY 2,432.00 per share

- 2023-05: JPY 2,542.00 per share

- 2023-06: JPY 2,674.50 per share

- 2023-07: JPY 2,921.50 per share

- 2023-08: JPY 2,862.00 per share

- 2023-09: JPY 3,055.00 per share

- 2023-10: JPY 3,066.00 per share

- 2023-11: JPY 3,040.00 per share

- 2023-12: JPY 3,063.00 per share

- 2024-01: JPY 3,257.00 per share

- 2024-02: JPY 2,748.50 per share

- 2024-03: JPY 2,470.50 per share

- 2024-04: JPY 2,454.00 per share

- 2024-05: JPY 2,365.50 per share

- 2024-06: JPY 2,627.50 per share

- 2024-07: JPY 2,507.50 per share

- 2024-08: JPY 2,687.00 per share

- 2024-09: JPY 2,664.00 per share

- 2024-10: JPY 2,642.50 per share

- 2024-11: JPY 2,398.00 per share

- 2024-12: JPY 2,484.00 per share

- 2025-01: JPY 2,400.00 per share

- 2025-02: JPY 2,244.50 per share

- 2025-03: JPY 2,058.50 per share

- 2025-04: JPY 1,965.00 per share

- 2025-05: JPY 2,096.00 per share

- 2025-06: JPY 2,162.00 per share

- 2025-07: JPY 2,217.50 per share

- 2025-08: JPY 2,291.00 per share

- 2025-09: JPY 2,315.00 per share

- 2025-10: JPY 2,205.50 per share

- 2025-11: JPY 2,415.00 per share

- 2025-12: JPY 2,509.00 per share

- 2026-01: JPY 2,502.00 per share

- 2026-02: JPY 2,825.00 per share

- 2026-03: JPY 2,494.00 per share

- 2026-04: JPY 2,518.50 per share

- 2026-05: JPY 2,670.50 per share

- 2026-06: JPY 2,714.00 per share

- 2026-07: JPY 3,038.00 per share

- 2026-08: JPY 3,408.00 per share

- 2026-09: JPY 3,492.00 per share

- 2026-10: JPY 3,246.00 per share

## Annual estimated value (JPY per share)

- FY2018: low JPY 3,356.00 per share, central JPY 3,691.60 per share, high JPY 4,101.78 per share

- FY2019: low JPY 2,961.81 per share, central JPY 3,359.73 per share, high JPY 3,881.18 per share

- FY2020: low JPY 2,340.16 per share, central JPY 2,681.42 per share, high JPY 3,139.20 per share

- FY2021: low JPY 2,638.68 per share, central JPY 3,037.47 per share, high JPY 3,578.25 per share

- FY2022: low JPY 2,547.41 per share, central JPY 2,946.65 per share, high JPY 3,494.28 per share

- FY2023: low JPY 2,618.14 per share, central JPY 2,879.95 per share, high JPY 3,199.95 per share

- FY2024: low JPY 2,158.52 per share, central JPY 2,374.37 per share, high JPY 2,638.19 per share

- FY2025: low JPY 2,110.55 per share, central JPY 2,321.60 per share, high JPY 2,579.56 per share

- FY2026: low JPY 1,410.26 per share, central JPY 1,617.98 per share, high JPY 1,897.47 per share

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

## Sources

[Original EDINET filing](https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100YCRO.pdf); period 2026-03-31, filed 2026-06-17.

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.
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Aozora Bank

8304 · JP

Nikkei 225

Not a wonderful business

4 quality tests fail. A lower price would not fix the business.

Share price
JPY 3,165.00
Buy up to
JPY 1,617.98
Expected / yr
6.7% at today's price (10.0% at central value)

The business

How it makes money
Why customers stay
Where the cash goes
What the price says

1. Is this a good business?

Evidence only; not required for Buy

Profits were positive in 9 years (at least 9 needed).

10y median
JPY 29B
Worst year
JPY -50B
Latest · 2026
JPY 26B

Earned a median 6.5% on tangible equity (minimum 12%), and the second-worst year 2.1% (minimum 5%).

10y median
6.5%
Worst year
-13.7%
Latest · 2026
5.6%

Book value plus dividends grew 3.7% a year (minimum 7%).

10y median
5.5%
Worst year
-9.7%
Latest · 2026
5.4%

Book value gained -38.58 per share against 447.31 kept (must cover the amount kept).

11y median
100
Worst year
119
Latest · 2026
119

0 accounting warnings were found (none allowed).

accounting warnings
0
Passing bar
≤ 0

Profit record · fail 1 loss year in 10 (at most 2), three-year average earnings per share -29.07 JPY. Three-year average earnings per share is not positive.

2. Is the price low enough?

Price & return math
Value rangeJPY 1,410.26 – JPY 1,897.47
Buy at or belowCentral value JPY 1,617.98
Discount to value1 − 3165.00 / 1617.98 = -95.6%
Return / yearAbout 6.7% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%)
Cash-flow inputsBook JPY 3332.91/share; ROE 6.5%; first payout JPY 109.85/share, growing 3.2% perpetually (4× book payout cap applied).
Required return10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value
Net incomeJPY 26B
44B-50B20172026
FY2017 · Net income: JPY 44B; FY2018 · Net income: JPY 43B; FY2019 · Net income: JPY 36B; FY2020 · Net income: JPY 28B; FY2021 · Net income: JPY 29B; FY2022 · Net income: JPY 35B; FY2023 · Net income: JPY 8.7B; FY2024 · Net income: JPY -50B; FY2025 · Net income: JPY 21B; FY2026 · Net income: JPY 26B
Net income
Book / shareJPY 3K
4K020172026
FY2017 · Book / share: JPY 3K; FY2018 · Book / share: JPY 4K; FY2019 · Book / share: JPY 4K; FY2020 · Book / share: JPY 3K; FY2021 · Book / share: JPY 4K; FY2022 · Book / share: JPY 4K; FY2023 · Book / share: JPY 4K; FY2024 · Book / share: JPY 3K; FY2025 · Book / share: JPY 3K; FY2026 · Book / share: JPY 3K
Book / share
Dividend / shareJPY 87.99
186.99020172026
FY2017 · Dividend / share: JPY 185.99; FY2018 · Dividend / share: JPY 186.99; FY2019 · Dividend / share: JPY 173.99; FY2020 · Dividend / share: JPY 150.99; FY2021 · Dividend / share: JPY 128.99; FY2022 · Dividend / share: JPY 137.97; FY2023 · Dividend / share: JPY 159.01; FY2024 · Dividend / share: JPY 115.98; FY2025 · Dividend / share: JPY 56.22; FY2026 · Dividend / share: JPY 87.99
Dividend / share
Return on tangible equity5.6%
10.8%-13.7%20172026
FY2017 · Return on tangible equity: 10.8%; FY2018 · Return on tangible equity: 10.3%; FY2019 · Return on tangible equity: 8.4%; FY2020 · Return on tangible equity: 6.9%; FY2021 · Return on tangible equity: 6.1%; FY2022 · Return on tangible equity: 7.4%; FY2023 · Return on tangible equity: 2.1%; FY2024 · Return on tangible equity: -13.7%; FY2025 · Return on tangible equity: 4.8%; FY2026 · Return on tangible equity: 5.6%
Return on tangible equity
Diluted shares138M
138M020172026
FY2017 · Diluted shares: 117M; FY2018 · Diluted shares: 117M; FY2019 · Diluted shares: 117M; FY2020 · Diluted shares: 117M; FY2021 · Diluted shares: 117M; FY2022 · Diluted shares: 117M; FY2023 · Diluted shares: 117M; FY2024 · Diluted shares: 117M; FY2025 · Diluted shares: 133M; FY2026 · Diluted shares: 138M
Diluted shares
Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2026Original filing ↗ ·