Financial Survey: Just Eat (OTCMKTS:JSTTY) & Japan Tobacco (OTCMKTS:JAPAY)

Just Eat (OTCMKTS:JSTTY) and Japan Tobacco (OTCMKTS:JAPAY) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and risk.

Risk and Volatility

Just Eat has a beta of -2.05, suggesting that its stock price is 305% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Japan Tobacco has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Just Eat and Japan Tobacco’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Just Eat	N/A	N/A	N/A
Japan Tobacco	14.74%	11.11%	6.35%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Just Eat and Japan Tobacco, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Just Eat	0	0	0	0	0.00
Japan Tobacco	0	0	0	1	4.00

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Just Eat and Japan Tobacco”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Just Eat	$1.04 billion	7.25	$110.39 million	N/A	N/A
Japan Tobacco	$20.83 billion	2.55	$3.06 billion	$0.87	17.17

Japan Tobacco has higher revenue and earnings than Just Eat.

Summary

Japan Tobacco beats Just Eat on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Just Eat

Just Eat plc, together with its subsidiaries, operates a hybrid marketplace for online food delivery. The company enables consumers to order and pay for food from its restaurant partners. It serves approximately 26 million customers and 100,000 restaurant partners in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and Brazil. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

About Japan Tobacco

Japan Tobacco Inc., a tobacco company, manufactures and sells tobacco products, pharmaceuticals, and processed foods in Japan and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Tobacco Business, Pharmaceutical, and Processed Food. It offers tobacco products, such as cigarettes, heat-not-burn tobacco products, E-vapor products, fine cut tobacco products, cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco products, and hookah and kretek products. The company also provides reduced-risk products, including infused tobacco capsules and heated tobacco sticks. In addition, it researches and develops, manufactures, and sells prescription drugs for the therapeutic areas, such as cardiovascular, kidney and metabolism, immunity/inflammation, and central nervous system. Further, the company provides frozen and room-temperature products, such as frozen udon noodles, packed rice, and frozen okonomiyaki; bakery products; and seasonings, including yeast extracts, assembled, kelp and bonito extracts, and oyster sauces. It offers its products under the Winston, Camel, MEVIUS, and LD brands. Japan Tobacco Inc. was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.