Reviewing Furukawa Electric (FUWAY) and Its Competitors

Dividends

Furukawa Electric pays an annual dividend of $30.31 per share and has a dividend yield of 240.4%. Furukawa Electric pays out 48.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Electrical Equipment” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.3% and pay out 28.5% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

38.1% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are owned by institutional investors. 15.3% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are owned 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 Furukawa Electric and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Furukawa Electric	N/A	N/A	N/A
Furukawa Electric Competitors	-222.58%	-206.70%	-8.34%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Furukawa Electric and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Furukawa Electric	N/A	N/A	0.20
Furukawa Electric Competitors	$2.34 billion	$132.29 million	27.87

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

Summary

Furukawa Electric rivals beat Furukawa Electric on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

Furukawa Electric Company Profile

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells telecommunications, energy, automobile, electronic, and construction products worldwide. It operates through Infrastructure, Electronics & Automotive Systems, Functional Products, and Service and Developments segments. The company offers telecommunications products, such as broadband systems, routers/network equipment, and wireless products; and optical fiber cables and identifiers, optical closures/termination boxes, optical connectors/cords, fusion splicers/optical connecting tools, optical fiber line monitoring/management systems, optical active component, and metal communication cables, as well as wiring materials. It also offers energy products, including power cables, cable-related equipment/connection and terminal products, industrial machine-related equipment, fire-prevention products, electrical conductors, power distribution products, and cable conduit materials; and automobile products comprising wire harnesses, connectors, functional products and materials, and interior finishing materials. In addition, the company provides electronics parts materials, fluorescent lamps, LED reflectors, and tapes, as well as healthcare products, such as shape memory/super-elastic alloys; construction products, including water distribution piping and fluid transport piping products, heat insulators, and cable-related equipment/connection and terminal products, as well as power distribution and fire-prevention products; superconducting cables, industrial lasers, flow cytometers, and fluorescent silica nanoparticles; and maintenance/inspection solutions. Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Chiyoda, Japan.