Canon Marketing Japan Inc. markets and sells Canon products and related solutions in Japan. The company operates through four segments: Consumers, Enterprise, Area, and Professional. The Consumers segment provides digital cameras and inkjet printers to individual and corporate consumers. The Enterprise segment sells input and output devices and solutions to solve business problems in each industry primarily for large corporations, quasi-major, and upper medium-sized enterprises. The Area segment supplies input and output devices and solutions to help customers solve business problems primarily for small and medium-sized enterprises. The Professional segment provides feed and cut sheet printers to the printing industry; semiconductor manufacturing systems, and inspection and measurement devices to semiconductor manufacturers and other electronics device manufacturers; and IT solutions, system development, network construction, and hardware services for the medical and healthcare fields. The company was incorporated in 1950 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Canon Marketing Japan Inc. is a subsidiary of Canon Inc.
Strategy: Japan Tech Titans
Return at exit: Live
Strong Growth with Increasing Profitability
• Canon Marketing Japan shows exceptional performance across our model’s key selection criteria: market performance, profitability, and growth.
• Impressive market performance with 35.8% 1-year return and 23.6% 6-month return, demonstrating strong momentum while still trading below analyst fair value estimates of 7,800 JPY.
• Solid profitability metrics with operating margin of 8.2% and return on assets of 7.6%, supported by five consecutive years of both revenue and profit increases.
• Compelling growth story with EBITDA increasing 11.2% and revenues up 4%, while strategic shift toward higher-margin IT solutions is bearing fruit earlier than expected.
• Shareholder-friendly policies evidenced by 21.4% dividend growth, with additional value creation through recent stock split and share buyback program.