MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP INC vs ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, two Banks—Regional stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Mitsubishi UFJ is a Japanese universal bank priced as a rate-normalization call; Royal Bank of Canada is an oligopoly franchise priced as itself, and the models produce opposite income statements: RBC earns 15% on equity and a 31% net margin today, MUFG 6.6% and 11.7% while waiting for spreads to widen. The multiples run backwards from the delivery: 28 times for the waiting, 18.9 for the earning. Returns on assets, 0.9% against 0.31%, restate it. MUFG pays 1.5% meanwhile. The pair prices patience against possession as starkly as banking allows: nine turns of premium for earnings that require a central bank's cooperation to exist.
Comparison updated 2026-07-10.
| Metric | MUFG | RY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $20.16 | $202.84 |
| Market cap | $235.0B | $283.7B |
| Sector | Financial Services | Financial Services |
| Stage | Growth | Growth |
| P/E | 27.9 | 18.9 |
| P/B | 1.83 | 2.76 |
| P/S | 3.25 | 5.69 |
| EV/EBITDA | 20.1 | 113.4 |
| Revenue growth | +22.9% | +12.1% |
| Operating margin | 14.4% | — |
| Net margin | 11.7% | 31.0% |
| Return on equity | 6.6% | 15.0% |
| Return on assets | 0.3% | 0.9% |
| Dividend yield | 1.5% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 9 / 9 |
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