Morgan Stanley (MS) 10% Owner Mitsubishi UFJ Sells 1.34M Shares

What Happened Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., listed as a 10% owner (and a deputized director by right to appoint board members), disposed of 1,340,519 Morgan Stanley (MS) shares to the issuer on 2026-09-22. The shares were sold at $212.57 per share for a total transaction value of approximately $284,950,638. This was a sale back to the company (disposition), not a market purchase.

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-09-22; Price: $212.57 per share; Total: ~$284.95M.
• Transaction type: Disposition to issuer (sale to Morgan Stanley) under a pre-existing sales plan.
• Sales plan: Adopted April 18, 2018 and described as intended to comply with Rule 10b5-1(c). Sales were approved by Morgan Stanley under Rule 16b-3(e). (Footnotes F1, F2)
• Shares owned after transaction: Not disclosed in the filing.
• Filing: Form 4 filed 2026-09-24 (appears timely for a Section 16 filing).

Context This was an institutional sale by a large shareholder under a prearranged 10b5-1 plan and approved under corporate procedures — common for large holders and not the same signal as an individual executive's discretionary sale. The filing is informational; it does not explain the seller’s motives.