To whom it may concern:
Company name: Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
Representative: Tatsufumi Sakai, President and Group CEO
Head Office: 1–5–5 Otemachi, Chiyoda–ku, Tokyo
Code Number: 8411 (Tokyo Stock Exchange 1st Section)
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (the "Company") hereby announces that the Company has decided that it is appropriate to record additional Reserves for Possible Losses on Loans from a forward–looking perspective, reflecting the potential impact of COVID–19 on our financials for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020 ("fiscal 2019").
The Company also resolved at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today to revise the previously announced consolidated earnings estimates for fiscal 2019, as follows.
Please note that the estimate for annual cash dividends per share for shareholders of common stock remains unchanged.
- Revision to consolidated earnings estimates for fiscal 2019
Profit Attributable to Owners of Parent (in millions of yen)
Net Income per Share of Common Stock Latest announced estimate (A)
470,000
18.53 yen Current revised estimate (B)
445,000
17.54 yen Amount of change (B － A)
－25,000
－0.99 yen Rate of change (%)
－5.3%
－5.3% (Reference) Results for the previous fiscal year
96,566
3.80 yen
- Reason for the revisionIn
light of the principles set forth in the report entitled "JFSA's supervisory approaches to lending business and loan loss provisioning" published by the Japan Financial Services Agency in December 2019, the Company has decided that it is appropriate to record additional Reserves for Possible Losses on Loans (approximately 80 billion yen) for some credit from a forward–looking perspective based on future projections, reflecting the potential impact of COVID–19 on our financials for fiscal 2019.
In total, Consolidated Credit–related Costs for the fiscal 2019 are expected to be approximately 170 billion yen. - Scheduled date of announcement of financial results
Friday, May 15, 2020
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