Head-To-Head Survey: Asahi Group (ASBRF) vs. Its Peers

Institutional & Insider Ownership

16.6% of Asahi Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.6% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are held by institutional investors. 19.1% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Asahi Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Asahi Group Competitors	-8.02%	-9.45%	0.18%

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Asahi Group	N/A	N/A	0.07
Asahi Group Competitors	$20.59 billion	$883.52 million	10.46

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

Dividends

Asahi Group pays an annual dividend of $34.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 343.5%. Asahi Group pays out 23.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Beverages” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.0% and pay out 49.1% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Asahi Group is clearly a better dividend stock than its peers, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Asahi Group peers beat Asahi Group on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

About Asahi Group

Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, and food products in Japan, Europe, Oceania, and Southeast Asia. The company offers alcoholic beverage products, including beers, non-alcohol beer, new genre, wines, shochu, whiskey and spirits, ready-to-drink beverages, ciders, and happoshu products. It also provides non-alcoholic beverage products beverages, such as carbonated drinks, coffee, tea, lactic acid drinks, mineral water, and fruit drinks. The company provides its products primarily under the Asahi Super Dry, Clear Asahi, Asahi Beery, Mitsuya Cider, Wilkinson, Wonda, Grolsch, Ursus, Goodday, Victoria Bitter, Calpis, Mintia, Long white vodka, Dear-Natura, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Pilsner Urquell, Pepsi, Dairy Champ, Balter, Schweppes, cool ridge, Great Northern, Kozel, vodka cruiser, EBIOS, Bireley's, BLACK, Alpaca, and Amano Foods brands. The company was formerly known as Asahi Breweries, Ltd. and changed its name to Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. in July 2011. Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. was founded in 1889 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.