Consumer Defensive
Japan Tobacco Inc.(JAPAF)
Live Price
Offline$40.34
+6.72% today
1Y Change
+16.99%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 23, 2026
- Market Cap
- $10.45T
- Revenue Growth
- +10.2%
- EPS Growth
- +184.3%
- Dividend Yield
- 4.0%
Coverage: 249 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 23, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Japan Tobacco Inc. (JAPAF) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $10.45T and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $40.34 and up 17.0% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 23, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +10.2%, EPS growth of +184.3%, a dividend yield of 4.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +10.2%, EPS +184.3%, free cash flow -22.6% with operating margin 22.2% and ROIC 7.9%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 4.0%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 20.5 and price/sales 3.0. Stock Foundry combines JAPAF price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Defensive peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Above sector median
+10.2% vs +1.7% peer median
Operating Margin
Above sector median
+22.2% vs +6.6% peer median
P/E
Above sector median
20.5 vs 14.0 peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on May 8, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating story is still moving forward
Revenue is running at +10.2% and EPS at +184.3%, with operating margin around 22.2%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 4.0%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged +1.5% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 2 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 May 8, 2026 | โ | +0.0% | +5.2% | +0.2% |
2026 Feb 12, 2026 | -102.5% | +0.0% | -3.1% | -14.1% |
2025 Oct 30, 2025 | +16.2% | +0.0% | +2.4% | +17.1% |
Benchmark Edge
JAPAF vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
JAPAF
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
JAPAF Max Drawdown
-17.77%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for JAPAF and SPY.
Company Overview
Japan Tobacco Inc.
Other OTC
Japan Tobacco Inc., a tobacco company, manufactures and sells tobacco products, prescription drugs, and processed foods in Japan and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Domestic Tobacco, International Tobacco, Pharmaceutical, and Processed Food. It offers tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, oral tobacco, waterpipe tobacco, kretek, and fine cut products under the Winston, Camel, MEVIUS, and LD brands. The company also provides reduced-risk products, including tobacco-infused vapor and heated tobacco products, E-Vapor products, etc. under the Ploom, Logic, Ploom TECH, Ploom TECH+, and Ploom S brands. In addition, it researches and develops, manufactures, and sells prescription drugs for the therapeutic areas, such as cardiovascular, renal and metabolism, immunology, and neuroscience. Further, the company provides staple food products, such as frozen noodles and okonomiyaki, and frozen and packed cooked rice; ambient processed foods; bakery products; and seasonings, including yeast extracts and oyster sauce. Japan Tobacco Inc. was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Leadership
- Takehiko Tsutsui
- IPO Date
- Jan 17, 2012
- Employees
- 53.6k
- Street Address
- 1-1, Toranomon 4-chome
- Mailing
- Tokyo, 105-6927
- Region
- Tokyo, JP
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 81 3 6636 2914
- Last Updated
- Apr 30, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 20.5
- EV/EBITDA
- 10.9
- Price/Sales
- 3.0
- Price/Book
- 2.6
Growth
- Revenue
- +10.2%
- EPS
- +184.3%
- Free Cash Flow
- -22.6%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 56.2%
- Operating Margin
- 22.2%
- Net Margin
- 14.7%
- ROE
- 12.7%
- ROIC
- 7.9%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.41
- Current Ratio
- 1.93
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
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