This table compares Asahi Group and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Asahi Group pays an annual dividend of $34.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 337.5%. Asahi Group pays out 23.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Beverages” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.0% and pay out 49.0% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Asahi Group is clearly a better dividend stock than its competitors, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

This table compares Asahi Group and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Asahi Group’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Asahi Group. Asahi Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

16.6% of Asahi Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.7% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are held by institutional investors. 19.1% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Asahi Group competitors beat Asahi Group on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

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Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, and food products in Japan, Europe, Oceania, and Southeast Asia. The company offers alcoholic beverage products, including beers, non-alcohol beer, new genre, wines, shochu, whiskey and spirits, ready-to-drink beverages, ciders, and happoshu products. It also provides non-alcoholic beverage products beverages, such as carbonated drinks, coffee, tea, lactic acid drinks, mineral water, and fruit drinks. The company provides its products primarily under the Asahi Super Dry, Clear Asahi, Asahi Beery, Mitsuya Cider, Wilkinson, Wonda, Grolsch, Ursus, Goodday, Victoria Bitter, Calpis, Mintia, Long white vodka, Dear-Natura, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Pilsner Urquell, Pepsi, Dairy Champ, Balter, Schweppes, cool ridge, Great Northern, Kozel, vodka cruiser, EBIOS, Bireley's, BLACK, Alpaca, and Amano Foods brands. The company was formerly known as Asahi Breweries, Ltd. and changed its name to Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. in July 2011. Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. was founded in 1889 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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