Profits were positive in 10 years (at least 8 needed).
- 10y median
- JPY 211B
- Worst year
- JPY 143B
- Latest · 2026
- JPY 511B
# MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings (8725.JP) Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/8725.JP Analysis as of: 2026-10-15T07:11:48.704Z. Financial observations: FY2016–FY2026. Listing currency: JPY. Reporting currency: JPY. ## Verdict Not a wonderful business Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: pass; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no. Share price: JPY 5,017.00 per share; close as of 2026-10-15. Estimated value: low JPY 2,097.70 per share, central JPY 2,448.31 per share, high JPY 2,939.65 per share. Buy at or below the central value JPY 2,448.31 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-15T07:11:48.704Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals. Expected annual return: 6.9% at the stated quote. About 6.9% 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: 10 - Required profitable years: 8 - Return on common equity variation (informational): 0.17× Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations. - FY2017: JPY 210B - FY2018: JPY 154B - FY2019: JPY 193B - FY2020: JPY 143B - FY2021: JPY 144B - FY2022: JPY 263B - FY2023: JPY 211B - FY2024: JPY 369B - FY2025: JPY 300B - FY2026: JPY 511B ### moat: fail - Common book per share - Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings - Underwriting economics assessed through return on tangible common equity - median return on common equity below threshold - Bank / P&C ROTE, median of available years: 7.6% - Required median return: 12.0% - Return uses tangible common equity: Yes - Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: 6.0% - Years with reported combined ratio: 0 Chart: Return on tangible common equity; fiscal year observations. - FY2017: 9.2% - FY2018: 6.4% - FY2019: 8.7% - FY2020: 7.1% - FY2021: 5.4% - FY2022: 9.3% - FY2023: 8.1% - FY2024: 6.9% - FY2025: 6.0% - FY2026: 8.4% ### economics: pass - Common book per share - Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings - Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 14.6% - Book return interval: 10 years - Starting book value per share: JPY 1K - Ending book value per share: JPY 4K Chart: Annual book + dividend return; fiscal year observations. - FY2017: 4.1% - FY2018: 12.9% - FY2019: -2.8% - FY2020: -6.2% - FY2021: 31.9% - FY2022: 10.7% - FY2023: 0.9% - FY2024: 96.8% - FY2025: -2.7% - FY2026: 28.8% ### management: pass - Common book per share - Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings - Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: -2.0% - Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: -2.5% - Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: -2.0% - Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: -2.5% - Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0 - Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: 7.70× - Book value created per share: JPY 3K - Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: JPY 368.03 Chart: Shares (first year = 100); fiscal year observations. - FY2016: 100 - FY2017: 99 - FY2018: 97 - FY2019: 96 - FY2020: 95 - FY2021: 93 - FY2022: 91 - FY2023: 89 - FY2024: 87 - FY2025: 85 - FY2026: 82 ### accounting: pass - Financial accounting warning count: 0 - Known restatement years: 0 ## Holders ## Price story The price assumes profits grow 7.1% a year forever · net income +70.1% Story as of 2026-10-16T10:00:14.780Z; price observation 2026-10-15. The price assumes profits grow 7.1% a year forever ### Net income · FY2026 net income +70.1%; source https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100YNCJ.pdf; observed 2026-06-30. - FY2017: JPY 210B - FY2018: JPY 154B - FY2019: JPY 193B - FY2020: JPY 143B - FY2021: JPY 144B - FY2022: JPY 263B - FY2023: JPY 211B - FY2024: JPY 369B - FY2025: JPY 300B - FY2026: JPY 511B ## Owner memo Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z. ### How it makes money Operates in insurance property & casualty; annual sales are JPY 6.4 trillion. - Source: https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100YNCJ.pdf (filed 2026-06-30); FY2026: revenue 6436026000000. ### Why customers stay It earns 7.6% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-06-30); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2017,0.09182519410320697],[2018,0.06441560287839572],[2019,0.08739182311301823],[2020,0.07119547470950374],[2021,0.05444007568934193],[2022,0.0933324904491874],[2023,0.08129880197484972],[2024,0.06935677268417581],[2025,0.059951474197426004],[2026,0.08447179814990265]]; median 0.07624713834217672. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity. ### Where the cash goes Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years; bought back JPY 221.5 billion of shares. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-06-30); Dividend observations: [[2017,63151000000],[2018,79887000000],[2019,79286000000],[2020,83861000000],[2021,84928000000],[2022,90264000000],[2023,106753000000],[2024,117133000000],[2025,190510000000],[2026,224862000000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement. - Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/59M.F.json#2026-03-31 (filed 2026-06-30); FY2026: cash repurchases 221499000000 JPY. ### What the price says The price assumes profits grow 7.1% a year forever. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-06-30); Price 5017; FX 1; original perpetual distributable cash 146.48059892343184; discount 0.1; growth 0.07080314950698988. 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 1,183.00 per share - 2016-12: JPY 1,208.00 per share - 2017-01: JPY 1,265.00 per share - 2017-02: JPY 1,266.33 per share - 2017-03: JPY 1,180.00 per share - 2017-04: JPY 1,210.67 per share - 2017-05: JPY 1,295.00 per share - 2017-06: JPY 1,258.00 per share - 2017-07: JPY 1,290.67 per share - 2017-08: JPY 1,209.67 per share - 2017-09: JPY 1,207.67 per share - 2017-10: JPY 1,278.33 per share - 2017-11: JPY 1,218.33 per share - 2017-12: JPY 1,271.33 per share - 2018-01: JPY 1,237.00 per share - 2018-02: JPY 1,110.67 per share - 2018-03: JPY 1,118.33 per share - 2018-04: JPY 1,224.00 per share - 2018-05: JPY 1,154.67 per share - 2018-06: JPY 1,148.00 per share - 2018-07: JPY 1,137.33 per share - 2018-08: JPY 1,138.33 per share - 2018-09: JPY 1,264.67 per share - 2018-10: JPY 1,135.33 per share - 2018-11: JPY 1,148.33 per share - 2018-12: JPY 1,044.00 per share - 2019-01: JPY 1,078.00 per share - 2019-02: JPY 1,114.33 per share - 2019-03: JPY 1,123.33 per share - 2019-04: JPY 1,146.00 per share - 2019-05: JPY 1,148.67 per share - 2019-06: JPY 1,140.00 per share - 2019-07: JPY 1,193.67 per share - 2019-08: JPY 1,125.67 per share - 2019-09: JPY 1,166.67 per share - 2019-10: JPY 1,169.67 per share - 2019-11: JPY 1,180.33 per share - 2019-12: JPY 1,203.67 per share - 2020-01: JPY 1,219.00 per share - 2020-02: JPY 1,161.00 per share - 2020-03: JPY 1,008.33 per share - 2020-04: JPY 1,040.67 per share - 2020-05: JPY 1,055.00 per share - 2020-06: JPY 987.00 per share - 2020-07: JPY 878.67 per share - 2020-08: JPY 980.33 per share - 2020-09: JPY 941.33 per share - 2020-10: JPY 948.17 per share - 2020-11: JPY 1,011.67 per share - 2020-12: JPY 1,047.00 per share - 2021-01: JPY 1,001.33 per share - 2021-02: JPY 1,000.00 per share - 2021-03: JPY 1,083.00 per share - 2021-04: JPY 1,031.67 per share - 2021-05: JPY 1,114.33 per share - 2021-06: JPY 1,069.33 per share - 2021-07: JPY 1,126.67 per share - 2021-08: JPY 1,185.00 per share - 2021-09: JPY 1,252.00 per share - 2021-10: JPY 1,228.67 per share - 2021-11: JPY 1,105.33 per share - 2021-12: JPY 1,183.00 per share - 2022-01: JPY 1,308.67 per share - 2022-02: JPY 1,301.67 per share - 2022-03: JPY 1,326.00 per share - 2022-04: JPY 1,293.67 per share - 2022-05: JPY 1,364.33 per share - 2022-06: JPY 1,386.00 per share - 2022-07: JPY 1,439.00 per share - 2022-08: JPY 1,387.00 per share - 2022-09: JPY 1,278.67 per share - 2022-10: JPY 1,313.67 per share - 2022-11: JPY 1,366.67 per share - 2022-12: JPY 1,408.00 per share - 2023-01: JPY 1,386.33 per share - 2023-02: JPY 1,484.00 per share - 2023-03: JPY 1,368.67 per share - 2023-04: JPY 1,481.67 per share - 2023-05: JPY 1,599.33 per share - 2023-06: JPY 1,698.67 per share - 2023-07: JPY 1,764.00 per share - 2023-08: JPY 1,746.67 per share - 2023-09: JPY 1,831.67 per share - 2023-10: JPY 1,831.00 per share - 2023-11: JPY 1,844.33 per share - 2023-12: JPY 1,848.67 per share - 2024-01: JPY 2,049.33 per share - 2024-02: JPY 2,470.00 per share - 2024-03: JPY 2,706.50 per share - 2024-04: JPY 2,846.50 per share - 2024-05: JPY 3,281.00 per share - 2024-06: JPY 3,575.00 per share - 2024-07: JPY 3,582.00 per share - 2024-08: JPY 3,345.00 per share - 2024-09: JPY 3,330.00 per share - 2024-10: JPY 3,439.00 per share - 2024-11: JPY 3,341.00 per share - 2024-12: JPY 3,449.00 per share - 2025-01: JPY 3,249.00 per share - 2025-02: JPY 3,130.00 per share - 2025-03: JPY 3,225.00 per share - 2025-04: JPY 3,245.00 per share - 2025-05: JPY 3,456.00 per share - 2025-06: JPY 3,230.00 per share - 2025-07: JPY 3,244.00 per share - 2025-08: JPY 3,462.00 per share - 2025-09: JPY 3,356.00 per share - 2025-10: JPY 3,186.00 per share - 2025-11: JPY 3,465.00 per share - 2025-12: JPY 3,683.00 per share - 2026-01: JPY 3,932.00 per share - 2026-02: JPY 4,376.00 per share - 2026-03: JPY 4,032.00 per share - 2026-04: JPY 4,034.00 per share - 2026-05: JPY 4,287.00 per share - 2026-06: JPY 4,240.00 per share - 2026-07: JPY 4,924.00 per share - 2026-08: JPY 5,107.00 per share - 2026-09: JPY 4,902.00 per share - 2026-10: JPY 5,005.00 per share ## Annual estimated value (JPY per share) - FY2018: low JPY 788.00 per share, central JPY 866.80 per share, high JPY 963.11 per share - FY2019: low JPY 508.19 per share, central JPY 608.47 per share, high JPY 758.04 per share - FY2020: low JPY 752.55 per share, central JPY 827.80 per share, high JPY 919.78 per share - FY2021: low JPY 965.38 per share, central JPY 1,061.92 per share, high JPY 1,179.91 per share - FY2022: low JPY 1,096.86 per share, central JPY 1,206.55 per share, high JPY 1,340.61 per share - FY2023: low JPY 1,112.99 per share, central JPY 1,224.29 per share, high JPY 1,360.32 per share - FY2024: low JPY 1,538.37 per share, central JPY 1,831.21 per share, high JPY 2,261.76 per share - FY2025: low JPY 1,641.27 per share, central JPY 1,920.75 per share, high JPY 2,314.94 per share - FY2026: low JPY 2,097.70 per share, central JPY 2,448.31 per share, high JPY 2,939.65 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/S100YNCJ.pdf); period 2026-03-31, filed 2026-06-30. 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.
8725 · JP
Nikkei 225 · TOPIX Large70
Not a wonderful business
1 quality test fails. A lower price would not fix the business.
Profits were positive in 10 years (at least 8 needed).
Earned a median 7.6% on tangible equity (minimum 12%).
Book value plus dividends grew 14.6% a year (minimum 7%).
Ordinary share growth was -2% over the full period and -2.5% over five years (either must be at most 2% a year).
0 accounting warnings were found (none allowed).
Profit record · pass 0 loss years in 10 (at most 2), three-year average earnings per share 256.06 JPY.
| Value range | JPY 2,097.70 – JPY 2,939.65 |
|---|---|
| Buy at or below | Central value JPY 2,448.31 |
| Discount to value | 1 − 5017.00 / 2448.31 = -104.9% |
| Return / year | About 6.9% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%) |
| Cash-flow inputs | Book JPY 4060.29/share; ROE 7.6%; first payout JPY 146.48/share, growing 4.0% perpetually (4× book payout cap applied). |
| Required return | 10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value |