Contrasting Taisei (TISCF) and Its Rivals

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Taisei and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Taisei	N/A	N/A	4.36
Taisei Competitors	$10.55 billion	$451.97 million	-5,960.58

Taisei’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Taisei. Taisei 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

Taisei pays an annual dividend of $4.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Taisei pays out 15.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Construction & Engineering” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.9% and pay out 23.9% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Taisei is clearly a better dividend stock than its peers, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

13.7% of Taisei shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.9% of shares of all “Construction & Engineering” companies are owned by institutional investors. 20.5% of shares of all “Construction & Engineering” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Taisei	N/A	N/A	N/A
Taisei Competitors	-6.67%	11.38%	4.20%

Summary

Taisei peers beat Taisei on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

Taisei Company Profile

Taisei Corporation engages in the civil engineering, construction, and real estate development businesses in Japan. The company constructs offices, commercial facilities, factories, schools, hospitals, tunnels, bridges, dams, railways, expressways, etc.; and engineers production facilities and development facilities for pharmaceutical and logistics fields. It also involved in the redevelopment, public-private partnership/private finance initiative, property management, in-house development, and condominium sales projects. The company was formerly known as Nippon Doboku Corporation and changed its name to Taisei Corporation in 1946. Taisei Corporation was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.