Analyzing Dowa (DWMNF) and Its Competitors

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Dowa and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Dowa	N/A	N/A	0.77
Dowa Competitors	$171.24 billion	$268.01 million	-19.67

Dowa’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Dowa. Dowa is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Dividends

Dowa pays an annual dividend of $11.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.3%. Dowa pays out 14.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies pay a dividend yield of 5.3% and pay out 6.6% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

17.8% of Dowa shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.2% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by institutional investors. 17.6% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Dowa and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Dowa	N/A	N/A	N/A
Dowa Competitors	-1,174,432,924,478,955,600.00%	67.38%	-2.69%

Summary

Dowa beats its peers on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

About Dowa

Dowa Holdings Co., Ltd. engages in the environmental management and recycling, nonferrous metals, electronic materials, metal processing, and heat treatment businesses worldwide. The company's Environmental Management & Recycling segment offers intermediate waste treatment, controlled landfilling, and soil remediation services; metal, household appliance, and automobile recycling services; consulting on environmental matters; and environmental logistics services. Its Nonferrous Metals segment produces and sells gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, zinc alloys, indium, platinum, palladium, rhodium, tin, antimony, nickel sulfate, bismuth, tellurium, and sulfuric acid. The company's Electronic Materials segment offers high-purity materials, GaAs substrate wafers, and light-emitting diodes, as well as silver, copper, metal, carrier, and ferrite powders. Its Metal Processing segment provides copper, brass, copper and nickel alloy strips, reflow tin plated strips, brass rods, forged brass products, precious metal plating products, and metal-ceramics substrates. The company's Heat Treatment segment is involved in the design, manufacture, and maintenance of various types of industrial furnaces and ancillary equipment, as well as heat and surface treatment. The company also engages in real estate leasing, plant construction, civil engineering and construction work, office administration, technological development support, and other operations. The company was formerly known as Dowa Mining Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Dowa Holdings Co., Ltd. in October 2006. Dowa Holdings Co., Ltd. was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.