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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc (SMFG) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for SMFG, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
How it trades on rate days beta 0.33 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How SMFG has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.33 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc moved 0.33% on average · correlation 0.10 · higher than 32% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months −0.02 less rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.95% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −1.32% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Banks - Diversified · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Banks - Diversified · US

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against SMFG on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc

SMFG in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
SMFG is the holding company for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, running four units — wholesale, retail, global, and global markets — that cover corporate lending, deposits, leasing, securities trading, wealth management and cash management. It operates across Japan, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania, serving corporate, institutional and retail clients. It is headquartered in Tokyo and trades in the US under its own ticker.
Where it sits in the stack
SMFG holds no seat in our index and sits outside the AI build-out stack the diary tracks layer by layer; it belongs to the diary's broader Financial Services sleeve, followed for sector context rather than for any constraint or customer role in the build-out.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group groups it with other Financial Services names listed in the US, including Mizuho Financial Group, Brookfield Asset Management, Credicorp and Piraeus Bank; the market also names Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group as a comparable Japanese banking group.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
SMFG carries a Closelooknet score with no index seat attached; momentum is its strongest module and quality its weakest, and it has not drawn a quote in the diary's editions.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the weaker balance-sheet reading feeds through into the quality module, and whether the recent run of down sessions holds against the longer uptrend against the 200-day line.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc (SMFG) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.15%, annual · last 0.30 USD on 2026-03-31

Dividends and capital return

What SMFG pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.30 USD per share · a 1.15% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year −43.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.52 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.30 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-03-31
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.52 USD (partial) · 2026: 0.30 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-31

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc (SMFG)?

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc trades as SMFG on the US exchange (US) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is SMFG in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-10-07.

Where does SMFG trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -0.4% vs the 50-day and +13.1% vs the 200-day average, 6.5% below the 52-week high and +72.9% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Banks - Diversified · US), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc (SMFG) sits 6.5% below its 52-week high, 0.4% below its 50-day average; Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc ADR (MUFG) is 4.4% below, ING Group NV ADR (ING) is 7.0% below, Citigroup Inc. (C) is 13.1% below. Put any of them next to SMFG in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc had a beta of 0.33 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 32% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.95% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc do?

SMFG is the holding company for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, running four units — wholesale, retail, global, and global markets — that cover corporate lending, deposits, leasing, securities trading, wealth management and cash management. It operates across Japan, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania, serving corporate, institutional and retail clients. It is headquartered in Tokyo and trades in the US under its own ticker. Closelooknet's peer group groups it with other Financial Services names listed in the US, including Mizuho Financial Group, Brookfield Asset Management, Credicorp and Piraeus Bank; the market also names Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group as a comparable Japanese banking group.

Where does Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc sit in the AI build-out?

SMFG holds no seat in our index and sits outside the AI build-out stack the diary tracks layer by layer; it belongs to the diary's broader Financial Services sleeve, followed for sector context rather than for any constraint or customer role in the build-out. SMFG carries a Closelooknet score with no index seat attached; momentum is its strongest module and quality its weakest, and it has not drawn a quote in the diary's editions.

Does Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc pay a dividend?

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc has paid 0.30 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 1.15% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.30 USD on 2026-03-31. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for SMFG, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Banks - Diversified. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.