First Pacific (OTCMKTS:FPAFY – Get Free Report) and Marubeni (OTCMKTS:MARUY – Get Free Report) are both multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Profitability
This table compares First Pacific and Marubeni’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| First Pacific | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Marubeni | 6.60% | 13.11% | 5.58% |
Dividends
First Pacific pays an annual dividend of $0.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Marubeni pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Marubeni pays out 2.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| First Pacific | $10.23 billion | 0.27 | $661.00 million | N/A | N/A |
| Marubeni | $54.91 billion | 0.92 | $3.59 billion | $22.03 | 1.39 |
Marubeni has higher revenue and earnings than First Pacific.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for First Pacific and Marubeni, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| First Pacific | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Marubeni | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
Risk and Volatility
First Pacific has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marubeni has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
0.0% of First Pacific shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Marubeni shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Marubeni beats First Pacific on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About First Pacific
First Pacific Company Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the consumer food products, telecommunications, infrastructure, and natural resources businesses in the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. The company offers a range of telecommunications and digital services, including fiber optic backbone, and fixed line and cellular networks. It also manufactures and distributes a range of food products, including noodles, dairy products, snack foods, food seasonings, nutrition and special foods, beverages, wheat flour, and pasta; breeds seeds; cultivates oil palm, rubber, sugar cane, and other crops; and offers cooking oils, margarines, and shortenings. In addition, the company explores for, mines, and produces gold, copper, and silver; and produces sugar and bioethanol. Further, it is involved in the operation of gas-fired power plant; provision of water distribution, sewerage, and sanitation services; and operation of toll roads and rails, as well as distribution of electricity. First Pacific Company Limited was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Central, Hong Kong.
About Marubeni
Marubeni Corporation engages in various business activities. It manufactures, wholesales, and retails apparel, footwear, home furnishing and sport goods, industrial and textile materials, tire and rubber materials, and household and nursing care products; develops uranium, nuclear fuel cycle, iron ore, coking coal, copper mines, and related equipment and services; smelts and refines aluminum and magnesium; leases temporary steel construction materials; explores for, develops, and produces oil and gas; manages infrastructure funds; and develops and manages real estate. The company also offers insurance, technical, ICT, and logistic services; agri-inputs; fertilizer and crop protection product contracting services; crop protection product formulations; wood chips, biomass fuels, pulp and waste papers, paper, paperboards, sanitary, and building and construction materials; engineering, procurement, and construction services; and operation and maintenance services. It trades in fertilizers, dairy, agricultural, and marine products; sugar, processed food, beverages raw materials, and commercial use food materials; grains, oilseeds, feed ingredients, compound feeds, fresh and processed meat, petrochemicals, plastics, salts, chlor-alkalis, life science products, electronic materials, fertilizer materials, and inorganic mineral resources and chemicals; steelmaking raw materials, ferroalloys, nonferrous metals, and steel products; cement and ingots related materials; and petroleum and LPG. The company engages in infrastructure; water; automotive finance; power generation; power service and retail; natural gas; hydrogen; and fuel ammonia businesses. It owns, purchases, operates, leases, sells, and charters aerospace and ship products; leases refrigerated trailers, commercial vehicles, and freight cars; and sells, trades in, leases, finances, and services construction and industrial machinery, and mobility products. The company was founded in 1858 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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