Financial Comparison: Sekisui House (SKHSY) & Its Peers

Sekisui House (OTCMKTS:SKHSY) is one of 23 public companies in the “BLDG – RSDNT/COMR” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Sekisui House to similar businesses based on the strength of its valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.

Volatility and Risk

Sekisui House has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sekisui House’s peers have a beta of 0.95, indicating that their average share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Sekisui House pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Sekisui House pays out 43.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “BLDG – RSDNT/COMR” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.6% and pay out 12.7% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Sekisui House and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sekisui House	0	1	0	0	2.00
Sekisui House Competitors	378	1821	2061	66	2.42

As a group, “BLDG – RSDNT/COMR” companies have a potential upside of 18.99%. Given Sekisui House’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sekisui House has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Sekisui House and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sekisui House	$26.67 billion	$1.44 billion	10.99
Sekisui House Competitors	$11.16 billion	$1.27 billion	5.50

Sekisui House has higher revenue and earnings than its peers. Sekisui House is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Sekisui House and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sekisui House	4.78%	9.88%	4.10%
Sekisui House Competitors	11.42%	18.05%	10.97%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.0% of Sekisui House shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of shares of all “BLDG – RSDNT/COMR” companies are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of shares of all “BLDG – RSDNT/COMR” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Sekisui House peers beat Sekisui House on 11 of the 15 factors compared.

About Sekisui House

Sekisui House, Ltd. designs, constructs, and contracts built-to-order detached houses in Japan and internationally. The company operates through Custom Detached Houses, Rental Housing, Architectural/Civil Engineering, Remodeling, Real Estate Management Fees, Houses For Sale, Condominiums, Urban Redevelopment, and Overseas segments. It also engages in contracting of design and construction of custom detached houses, rental housing, office building, commercial buildings, and other properties; construction of reinforced concrete rental housing and commercial buildings; contracting of design and construction of civil engineering works; remodeling and renovation of houses; subleasing, management, operation, and brokerage of real estate; sale of houses and residential land; and sales of condominiums. Sekisui House, Ltd. was incorporated in 1929 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.