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Company snapshot — UBS Group AG

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

What it does
UBS is a Swiss bank and wealth manager that advises private and institutional clients, runs Swiss retail and corporate banking, manages funds, and operates a trading and advisory arm for institutions. It also holds a run-off book of non-core and legacy positions left from past restructuring. It is headquartered in Zurich and serves clients worldwide through these five business lines.
Where it sits in the stack
UBS carries no seat in Rubin or Halo, the diary's build-out indices; it sits in our broader Financial Services sleeve as a bank whose research and trading desks comment on the AI trade rather than build any part of the stack.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with financial-services names scored in the same sector and country, including Sumitomo Mitsui, Mizuho, Brookfield Asset Management and Credicorp; the market also compares it with Morgan Stanley.
Why Closelook tracks it
UBS is not an index constituent but carries a Closelook score, strongest on valuation and weakest on quality. The diary has quoted its analysts three times: on an HBM4 share estimate for Nvidia's Rubin platform, on a Micron price target built on contract economics rather than revenue growth, and on a buy-list basket that reached past chips into storage, custom silicon and the application layer.
What the diary watches
Whether UBS's own AI-related calls, on memory share, chip valuations and sector baskets, keep matching how the build-out actually unfolds.

UBS Group AG (UBS) trades on US exchanges, classified under Financial Services.

The Closelook company score reads 58/100 composite (momentum 72, quality 54, valuation 70) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’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.

Signals for this name

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

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

Peer group

Banks - Diversified · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

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

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.17%, annual · buybacks 4.11 bn USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 1.10 USD per share · a 2.17% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year −18.9% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.35 USD per share
  • Last distribution 1.10 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-04-22
  • By calendar year 2025: 1.35 USD (partial) · 2026: 1.10 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-04-15
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 2.27 bn USD 32% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 4.11 bn USD 2.6% of today's market value
  • Share count −1.3% in FY2025
  • Capital returned 6.38 bn USD · 41% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

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.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

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 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Financials in US: −2.4% week · −2.8% month · +4.6% quarter · +9.4% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLF.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is UBS Group AG (UBS)?

UBS Group AG trades as UBS on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Financial Services in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is UBS in a Closelook index?

Not currently — UBS Group AG is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is UBS Group AG's Closelook composite score?

58 out of 100, with momentum 72, quality 54 and valuation 70 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does UBS trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -4.9% vs the 50-day and +9.9% vs the 200-day average, 9.5% below the 52-week high and +43.3% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does UBS Group AG do?

UBS is a Swiss bank and wealth manager that advises private and institutional clients, runs Swiss retail and corporate banking, manages funds, and operates a trading and advisory arm for institutions. It also holds a run-off book of non-core and legacy positions left from past restructuring. It is headquartered in Zurich and serves clients worldwide through these five business lines. Closelook's peer group places it with financial-services names scored in the same sector and country, including Sumitomo Mitsui, Mizuho, Brookfield Asset Management and Credicorp; the market also compares it with Morgan Stanley.

Where does UBS Group AG sit in the AI build-out?

UBS carries no seat in Rubin or Halo, the diary's build-out indices; it sits in our broader Financial Services sleeve as a bank whose research and trading desks comment on the AI trade rather than build any part of the stack. UBS is not an index constituent but carries a Closelook score, strongest on valuation and weakest on quality. The diary has quoted its analysts three times: on an HBM4 share estimate for Nvidia's Rubin platform, on a Micron price target built on contract economics rather than revenue growth, and on a buy-list basket that reached past chips into storage, custom silicon and the application layer.

Does UBS Group AG pay a dividend?

UBS Group AG has paid 1.10 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 2.17% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.10 USD on 2026-04-22. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 2.27 bn USD in dividends and bought back 4.11 bn USD of its own shares, 41% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 1.3% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelook written about UBS Group AG?

UBS Group AG appears in 3 Closelook pieces, most recently Daily Pulse: The Buy Lists Arrive — One Week After K3, the Street Reaches Past Semis (2026-07-21); Heresy: Memory Chips — Memory Is the New Compute · Closelook Heresy VIII (2026-06-25); Report: Micron: The Print That Now Prices the AI Trade (2026-06-23). What Closelook said most recently: One week after Kimi K3, the first institutional buy lists are out — and UBS's own basket quietly confirms the shape we mapped: the names reach past semiconductors into storage, custom silicon, AI opex and the application layer. (Daily Pulse, 2026-07-21). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

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

Mentioned on Closelook 3 pieces · newest: Daily Pulse, “The Buy Lists Arrive — One Week After K3, the Street Reaches Past Semis” (2026-07-21)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where UBS appears in the diary — 3 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

  • Memory Chips — Memory Is the New Compute · Closelook Heresy VIIIHeresy · 25 Jun 2026SK hynix’s own outlook cited a UBS estimate of ~70% HBM4 share for NVIDIA’s Rubin platform in 2026 — an analyst figure, not confirmed procurement, but it suggests the lead isn’t purely backward-looking.
  • Micron: The Print That Now Prices the AI TradeReport · 23 Jun 2026UBS's Timothy Arcuri, whose $1,625 target is the highest on Wall Street, does not get there with a higher revenue estimate — he gets there by arguing the long-term, partially fixed contracts justify roughly fifteen times forward earnings…

Dailies

Related in the Closelook universe

then Banks - Diversified, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelook 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.