Swire Pacific (OTCMKTS:SWRAY – Get Free Report) and Marubeni (OTCMKTS:MARUY – Get Free Report) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation and earnings.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
0.1% of Marubeni shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Dividends
Swire Pacific pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Marubeni pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Marubeni pays out 24.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Swire Pacific | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Marubeni | 6.62% | 13.16% | 5.66% |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Swire Pacific and Marubeni”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Swire Pacific | $11.60 billion | 4.20 | $376.95 million | N/A | N/A |
| Marubeni | $54.91 billion | 0.92 | $3.59 billion | $2.28 | 13.41 |
Marubeni has higher revenue and earnings than Swire Pacific.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Swire Pacific and Marubeni, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Swire Pacific | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Marubeni | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
Risk and Volatility
Swire Pacific has a beta of 0.07, indicating that its stock price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marubeni has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Marubeni beats Swire Pacific on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Swire Pacific
Swire Pacific Limited engages in property, aviation, beverages, marine, and trading and industrial businesses in Hong Kong, Mainland China, rest of Asia, the United States, and internationally. The company's Property division develops, owns, and operates mixed-use properties. This division's property investment portfolio comprises office and retail premises, serviced apartments, and other luxury residential accommodations; and trading portfolio consists of residential properties. It also owns and manages hotels in Hong Kong and hotels in Mainland China, as well as owns interests in the Mandarin Oriental hotel in the United States. The company's Aviation division provides flight catering and ramp, passenger and cargo services, and aircraft maintenance and modification services. As of December 31, 2022, it had a fleet of 222 aircraft. Its Beverages division owns rights to manufacture, market, and distribute beverages to consumers. The company's Trading & Industrial division markets, retails, and distributes footwear, apparel, and accessories through its retail outlets; sells passenger cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles, and scooters; operates a chain of bakery stores; packages and sells sugar products under the Taikoo Sugar brand; and offers waste management, business consultancy, and financial services. The company was founded in 1816 and is based in Central, Hong Kong. Swire Pacific Limited operates as a subsidiary of John Swire & Sons (H.K.) Limited
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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