Formerly Maruha Nichiro; a global seafood and fisheries company selling frozen/processed marine foods and canned goods.
Formerly Maruha Nichiro; a global seafood and fisheries company selling frozen/processed marine foods and canned goods.
Spans the seafood chain: it catches and farms fish, trades imported and domestic seafood, and processes it into frozen and canned foods for supermarkets and restaurants. Trading and processed foods make up most of the business, with fishing and aquaculture the smaller, more volatile part.
In one line: Japan's answer to a diversified US seafood company.
Moat: narrow (scale, distribution). Global fishing/processing scale and distribution network built over a century.
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan · Founded: 2007 · Employees: 12,479
Size Umios (1333.T) is a Japan Consumer Staples company (Food: Meat/Fish/Dairy) with a market value of $1.14B, the 681st largest of 1,379 Japan companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ¥1,190 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares fell 10.3%, against -7.0% for the median peer and +1.8% for the Japan market (cap-weighted) — 8th lowest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 2.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +0.4%); the operating margin is 2.8% (peer median 1.9%).
Valuation It trades at 0.2× enterprise value to sales against a peer median of 1.1× (cheapest of 21).
Capital Return on invested capital runs 2.4 points above its cost of capital (5.0% WACC).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ¥1.11T | ¥1.11T | ¥1.08T | ¥1.03T | ¥1.02T |
| Revenue growth | — | +3% | +5% | +1% | — |
| Gross profit | ¥154B | ¥154B | ¥146B | ¥134B | ¥135B |
| EBITDA | ¥51.2B | ¥51.2B | ¥49.4B | ¥44.4B | ¥45.8B |
| Net income | ¥22.2B | ¥22.2B | ¥23.3B | ¥20.9B | ¥18.6B |
| Free cash flow | n/a | -¥2.88B | ¥18.7B | ¥35.4B | -¥20.9B |
| Capital expenditure | n/a | ¥26.5B | ¥20.3B | ¥18.4B | ¥29.7B |
| Total debt | n/a | ¥311B | ¥276B | ¥286B | ¥303B |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | EV / Sales | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umios 1333.T | $1.14B | -10% | +3% | 3% | 0.2× | n/a |
| Nissui 1332.T | $1.97B | -16% | +8% | 4% | 0.6× | 0.9% |
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | 1333.T | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | -1.5% | +1.0% | 6th lowest of 21 |
| 6-month return | -10.3% | -7.0% | 8th lowest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -25.1% | -23.2% | 9th lowest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +2.5% | +0.4% | 10th highest of 20 |
| Operating margin | 2.8% | 1.9% | 7th highest of 21 |
| EV / Sales | 0.2× | 1.1× | cheapest of 21 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | +2.4 pp | -2.5 pp | 4th highest of 21 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 5.0× | 1.8× | most indebted of 12 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | EV / Sales | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umios 1333.T | Japan | $1.14B | -10% | +3% | 3% | 0.2× | n/a | n/a |
| NewPrinces NWL.MI | Italy | $1.16B | +40% | +81% | 1% | 0.3× | 0.6% | +44.5% |
| Shandong Oriental Ocean Sci-Tech 002086.SZ | China | $1.17B | +94% | +6% | -35% | 21.3× | n/a | n/a |
| Jinzi Ham 002515.SZ | China | $1.06B | -15% | -2% | -11% | 19.7× | n/a | n/a |
| HUANLEJIA Food 300997.SZ | China | $1.06B | -17% | +4% | 7% | 4.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Zhejiang Yiming Food 605179.SS | China | $1.27B | +22% | 0% | 2% | 3.1× | n/a | n/a |
| Beijing Sanyuan Foods 600429.SS | China | $973M | -29% | 0% | -1% | 1.2× | 24.8% | -2.8% |
| Scandi Standard SCST.ST | Sweden | $1.35B | +38% | +8% | 5% | 1.0× | 1.8% | +7.2% |
| MEGMILK SNOW BRAND 2270.T | Japan | $1.36B | +12% | 0% | 3% | 0.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Bega Cheese BGA.AX | Australia | $1.36B | +23% | +7% | 3% | 0.6× | 18.4% | +12.7% |
| Zhejiang Huatong Meat Products 002840.SZ | China | $957M | -37% | -16% | -10% | 1.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Kwality Walls (India) KWIL.NS | India | $950M | +32% | n/a | -13% | 4.7× | n/a | n/a |
| Bright Dairy & Food 600597.SS | China | $1.43B | -6% | -3% | 0% | 0.4× | 18.8% | -1.1% |
| Hunan New Wellful 600975.SS | China | $902M | -14% | -14% | -33% | 2.1× | n/a | n/a |
| Hilton Food HFG.L | United Kingdom | $889M | +39% | +7% | 1% | 0.2× | 18.5% | +8.7% |
| Savencia SAVE.PA | France | $871M | -11% | -2% | 3% | 0.3× | -3.8% | +6.2% |
| Fraser & Neave F99.SI | Singapore | $1.53B | -8% | -3% | 10% | 1.6× | 0.1% | +4.8% |
| Itoham Yonekyu 2296.T | Japan | $1.53B | -13% | +3% | 3% | 0.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Shanghai Milkground Food Tech 600882.SS | China | $1.55B | -1% | +26% | 4% | 1.6× | 11.1% | +14.7% |
| Austevoll Seafood AUSS.OL | Norway | $1.79B | -8% | -1% | 7% | 1.0× | 2.5% | +11.9% |
| Prima Meat Packers,Ltd 2281.T | Japan | $724M | -9% | +5% | 2% | 0.3× | -1.2% | +1.9% |