profit from every ¥100 of sales.
¥0¥100
Mitsui
¥5,100.00+0.20% today
+18.4% in 1 year
1-year low ¥4,308.001-year high ¥6,659.00
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay ¥16.02 for every ¥1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Mitsui sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from ¥11.8 trillion in 2022 to ¥14.7 trillion in 2025, with ¥900 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Mitsui handed back 41% of the cash it generated last year.
¥274.2B
Free cash flow 2025¥671.4B
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends¥274.2B
Cash vs. debt¥977.4B vs. ¥4.84T
Mitsui vs. similar companies
Mitsui grows the fastest of these 5 and is the cheapest for its profits.
| Company | Profit from ¥100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per ¥1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mitsui | 16.0× · Fair price | ||
 Hitachi | 35.8× · Expensive | ||
 Mitsubishi | 20.8× · Fair price | ||
 Itochu | 18.9× · Fair price | ||
 3M | 29.2× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Mitsui's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of JPY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11,757,559 | 14,306,402 | 13,324,942 | 14,662,620 | |
| 1,141,371 | 1,396,228 | 1,319,715 | 1,288,366 | |
| 545,060 | 693,419 | 525,424 | 400,654 | |
| 1,508,200 | 1,782,566 | 1,764,030 | 1,654,993 | |
| 914,722 | 1,130,630 | 1,063,684 | 900,342 | |
| – | 360.71 | 352.57 | 306.47 | |
| 9.7% | 9.8% | 9.9% | 8.8% | |
| 4.6% | 4.8% | 3.9% | 2.7% | |
| 7.8% | 7.9% | 8.0% | 6.1% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of JPY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 14,923,290 | 15,380,916 | 16,899,502 | 16,811,509 |
| Cash | 1,127,868 | 1,390,130 | 898,204 | 977,356 |
| Total debt | 4,877,463 | 5,040,560 | 4,776,056 | 4,841,260 |
| Total liabilities | 9,127,874 | 8,815,768 | 9,129,559 | 9,048,877 |
| 5,605,205 | 6,367,750 | 7,541,848 | 7,546,615 | |
| – | 3,134 | 3,017 | 2,938 | |
| 8.1% | 9.3% | 8.4% | 7.6% | |
| 16.3% | 17.8% | 14.1% | 11.9% |
Cash flow
| In millions of JPY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 806,896 | 1,047,537 | 864,419 | 1,017,518 | |
| 185,525 | 190,043 | 294,771 | 346,147 | |
| 621,371 | 857,494 | 569,648 | 671,371 | |
| Dividends paid | 148,206 | 198,082 | 242,368 | 274,157 |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 16.0×
- –
- –
- 1.5×
- 1.0×
- 21.5×
- 11.0×
- 4.7%
- 6.2%
- 1.9%
Profitability
- 8.8%
- 2.7%
- 6.1%
- –
- 6.2%
- 7.8%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +7.6%
- –
- –
- –
- −2.9%
Financial health
- 2.9×
- 0.65
- –
- 6.7×
- 1.41
- –
- –
How it ranks in Industrials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 35%of 982
Bottom 13%of 991
Top 30%of 875
Top 45%of 988
Top 43%of 988
1.9%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$19a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
30.5% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 40.8%
News
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial GAAP EPS of ¥232.59, total operating income of ¥1.43BSeeking Alpha · Nov 13, 2026Mitsui Chemicals to buy chip materials maker JSR with Development Bank of Japan in $8.8B dealSeeking Alpha · Nov 9, 2026Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
1/7Passes 1 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
40No pass
Benjamin Graham
69Pass
Philip Fisher
34No pass
Peter Lynch
48No pass
Joel Greenblatt
36No pass
Charlie Munger
26No pass
Terry Smith
19No pass
Questions about Mitsui
Is Mitsui a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers at a fair price. 1 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Mitsui AI analysis
What does Mitsui do?
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. operates as trading company in Japan and internationally. It operates through Energy; Mobility, Digital & Infrastructure; Chemicals; Iron & Steel Products, Wellness Ecosystem; Innovation & Corporate Development; and All Other segments. It is in Conglomerates, based in Chiyoda, Japan.
Does Mitsui pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 1.9% a year, about 30% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out ¥274 billion in dividends.
Is Mitsui stock halal?
No. Mitsui does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 34% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Mitsui stock done over the past year?
Up 18.4% over the past twelve months, to ¥5,100.00. It traded between ¥4,308.00 and ¥6,659.00 and is 23.4% below its high.
Who are Mitsui's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Itochu and 3M. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Mitsui's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.