Financial Contrast: YASKAWA Electric (YASKF) versus Its Rivals

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares YASKAWA Electric and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
YASKAWA Electric	N/A	N/A	0.40
YASKAWA Electric Competitors	$2.45 billion	$140.13 million	28.72

YASKAWA Electric’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than YASKAWA Electric. YASKAWA 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.

Profitability

This table compares YASKAWA Electric and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
YASKAWA Electric	N/A	N/A	N/A
YASKAWA Electric Competitors	-1,641.04%	-198.41%	-8.75%

Dividends

YASKAWA Electric pays an annual dividend of $11.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 33.2%. YASKAWA Electric pays out 13.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Electrical Equipment” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.4% and pay out 31.0% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. YASKAWA Electric is clearly a better dividend stock than its rivals, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

26.8% of YASKAWA Electric shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.2% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are owned by institutional investors. 15.2% 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 company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

YASKAWA Electric beats its rivals on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

About YASKAWA Electric

YASKAWA Electric Corporation engages in motion control, robotics, system engineering, and other businesses worldwide. It manufactures and sells various AC drives, including general purpose AC drives, specific purpose AC drives, AC Drive for systems, regenerative energy saving units, and PM motors for use in household appliances, such as air conditioners and refrigerators; social infrastructures comprising elevators, escalators, trains, cranes, fans, and pumps; and factories that manufacture printing machinery, textile machinery, rubber machinery, and other materials. The company also offers rotary servo motors, direct drive servo motors, linear motors/linear sliders, machine controllers, positioning sensor encoders, and servo amplifiers for use in industrial robots, semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, machine tools, flat panel display manufacturing equipment, and metal working machines; and arc and spot welding, handling/assembling, collaborative, biomedical, palletizing, press handling, sealing/cutting/laser machining, deburring, painting, glass substrates transfer, and semiconductor wafer transfer robots for use in semiconductor wafer conveyance, arc welding, spot welding, handling, assembly, and palletizing applications. In addition, it provides industrial system electrical products, such as medium-voltage AC drives, system use AC drives, and system controllers for use in iron and steel systems, water and wastewater treatment, crane, and paper-making/film/port cargo handling/fiber/printing applications. Further, the company offers equipment for energy saving and creation comprising PV inverters, systems for large wind turbines, control equipment for small-scale power generation, and motor drive systems for use in photovoltaic power generation, large-scale wind power generation, small-scale power generation, and electric vehicles. The company was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Kitakyushu, Japan.