Reviewing Taisei (TISCF) & Its Competitors

Profitability

This table compares Taisei and its competitors’ 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	-7.57%	11.28%	4.19%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

13.7% of Taisei shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.3% of shares of all “Construction & Engineering” companies are held by institutional investors. 20.8% of shares of all “Construction & Engineering” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Taisei and its competitors revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Taisei	N/A	N/A	4.36
Taisei Competitors	$9.48 billion	$451.89 million	-5,962.09

Taisei’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Taisei. Taisei is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, 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 2.0% and pay out 24.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Taisei is clearly a better dividend stock than its competitors, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

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

About Taisei

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.