Head-To-Head Survey: Toray Industries (TRYIY) and Its Peers

Toray Industries (OTCMKTS:TRYIY) is one of 295 publicly-traded companies in the “Chemicals” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare Toray Industries to similar companies based on the strength of its valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Toray Industries and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Toray Industries	0	1	0	1	3.00
Toray Industries Competitors	3248	12212	14131	519	2.40

As a group, “Chemicals” companies have a potential upside of 8.90%. Given Toray Industries’ rivals higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Toray Industries has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Toray Industries and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Toray Industries	$17.17 billion	$524.84 million	18.41
Toray Industries Competitors	$6.40 billion	$222.31 million	6.28

Toray Industries has higher revenue and earnings than its rivals. Toray Industries is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Volatility and Risk

Toray Industries has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toray Industries’ rivals have a beta of 0.93, suggesting that their average share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Toray Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Toray Industries pays out 17.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Chemicals” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.1% and pay out 104.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

47.4% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are held by institutional investors. 13.7% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Toray Industries and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Toray Industries	3.48%	4.84%	2.66%
Toray Industries Competitors	-59.14%	-0.41%	-1.37%

Summary

Toray Industries beats its rivals on 9 of the 15 factors compared.

About Toray Industries

Toray Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, processes, and sells fibers and textiles, performance chemicals, carbon fiber composite materials, environment and engineering products, and life science products in Japan, China, North America, Europe, and internationally. The company offers filament yarns, staple fibers, and spun yarns, as well as woven and knitted fabrics of nylon, polyester, acrylics, and others; non-woven fabrics; ultra-fine fibers; and apparel products. It also provides nylon, ABS, PBT, PPS, and other resins and molded products; polyolefin foam products; polyester, polyethylene, polypropylene, and other films; processed film products; raw materials for synthetic fibers and other plastics; fine chemicals; electronic and information materials; and graphic materials. In addition, the company offers carbon fibers, carbon fiber composite materials, and molded products; analysis, physical evaluation, research, and other services; and pharmaceuticals, medical devices, etc. Further, it provides engineering services; condominiums; industrial equipment and machinery; IT-related equipment; water treatment membranes and related equipment; and materials for housing, building, and civil engineering applications. The company was formerly known as Toyo Rayon Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Toray Industries, Inc. in 1970. The company was incorporated in 1926 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.