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    Pickup Alliance Altering The Investment Case For Mitsubishi Motors Stock?

    Simply Wall St·10/23/2026 19:37:51
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    • Honda Motor and Mitsubishi Motors signed a memorandum of understanding to co-develop a Triton-based pickup for ASEAN, with production planned at Mitsubishi’s Thai facility and sales targeted for 2028.
    • The project deepens Mitsubishi Motors' role as a manufacturing hub in Thailand, potentially lifting plant utilization while giving Honda quicker access to a regional pickup portfolio.
    • We will look at how Mitsubishi Motors' investment narrative shifts as Thai pickup manufacturing capacity is shared with Honda under this agreement.

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    Mitsubishi Motors Investment Narrative Recap

    Mitsubishi Motors asks you to believe it can turn a low margin, export heavy car business into something more resilient and better balanced. The focus is clear: push a higher margin mix, lean more on ASEAN demand and keep chipping away at costs after a period where operating profit dropped and North America stayed exposed to tariffs.

    The new pickup MoU with Honda looks additive rather than transformational. It supports the existing bet on Thailand as a hub, but it does not change the core near term swing factors. The key upside driver is still execution on mix and model rollouts. The main risk remains margin pressure from intense price competition and incentives.

    The Thai investment plan of Bt16b by 2030 is the clearest reference point for this Honda tie up. Management is already committing capital to use Thailand for pickups and future EVs, while also consolidating production there to cut structural costs. The Honda production supply fits into that same manufacturing logic.

    For you as a shareholder, the question is how these commitments interact with existing headwinds. Retail volumes recently fell 5%, operating profit declined 46% to ¥75.5b and net income slipped to ¥10b, while earnings are still forecast to grow strongly. Execution risk stays high. More plant sharing and platform reuse only matter if Mitsubishi Motors can hold pricing in a tough market and avoid further one off hits.

    Mitsubishi Motors' narrative aligns with analyst expectations for revenues of ¥3,269.1b and earnings of ¥60.7b by 2029, which assumes 4.0% yearly revenue growth and an earnings increase of about ¥50.0b from ¥10.7b today.

    Uncover why Mitsubishi Motors' fair value indicates an 8% potential upside to its current price that could narrow quickly.

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    Exploring Other Perspectives

    Some of the lowest Mitsubishi Motors forecasts lean heavily on pickup risk. Those analysts worry that Thailand focused projects could struggle if EV costs and tariffs continue to have an impact. As a result, they only pencilled in about ¥3,094.5b of revenue and ¥49.9b of earnings by 2029 before this Honda MoU. Use that gap to weigh your own view.

    Explore another Mitsubishi Motors fair value estimate, including one that suggests it could be worth just ¥374.

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