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Dena Co Ltd2432.TCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

Japan · JPY·Industrials›Packaged Software

Japanese internet company in mobile gaming, e-commerce and sports, including ownership of a pro baseball team.

≈ A Japanese mashup of Zynga and a regional sports/media companyMomentum strong 72
Mkt cap
$1.54B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
47%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$16.7M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
5.5×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+4.5 pp
WACC 5.0%
Hurdle
-12 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
4 days
10 Nov 2026
Close · JPY¥2,627
1D-2.8%
1W+3.7%
1M+5.5%
3M+4.5%
6M+3.5%
YTD+6.3%
1Y+7.3%
ATR %2.1%
52w lowhigh6.5% off high

What Dena does

Japanese internet company in mobile gaming, e-commerce and sports, including ownership of a pro baseball team.

Earns mostly from in-game purchases in mobile games it develops or runs, many built on other companies' characters such as Nintendo's and Pokemon, so a slice of revenue goes to the owners. Nintendo has been a shareholder since a 2015 alliance. The baseball team is a separate, smaller business.

In one line: A Japanese mashup of Zynga and a regional sports/media company.

Products and services

  • Mobile/online games
  • E-commerce marketplace
  • Sports (Yokohama DeNA BayStars baseball team)
  • Healthcare/auto internet services

Customers

  • Mobile gamers
  • E-commerce shoppers
  • Baseball fans

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Communication services
  • Mobile games and internet services
  • Mobile games, e-commerce, sports team…

What could go right

  • Mobile gaming growth
  • Baseball team value appreciation

What could go wrong

  • Hit-driven game development cyclicality

Moat: narrow (brand, IP / patents). Established gaming brand and a sports franchise asset, but gaming hits are unpredictable.

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan · Founded: 1999 · Employees: 2,483

Named competitors

Dena at a glance

Size Dena (2432.T) is a Japan Industrials company (Packaged Software) with a market value of $1.54B, the 564th largest of 1,379 Japan companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ¥2,627 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 3.5%, against +2.0% for the median peer and +1.8% for the Japan market (cap-weighted) — 9th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue fell 16.6% over the last twelve months (peer median +7.6%); the operating margin is 15.8% (peer median 11.1%).

Valuation It trades at 5.5× forward earnings against a peer median of 11.5× (cheapest of 19).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -10% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +2%, so the hurdle is -12 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 4.5 points above its cost of capital (5.0% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 10 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

9010011011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 1022432.T 102
Six months, rebased to 100: Dena against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Dena financials

Reported figures in JPY; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue¥143B¥148B¥164B¥137B¥135B
Revenue growth—-10%+20%+1%—
Gross profit¥73.9B¥77.2B¥91.3B¥59.2B¥62.1B
EBITDA¥29.8B¥34.7B¥37.6B¥7.20B¥9.89B
Net income¥41.3B¥19.0B¥24.2B-¥28.7B¥8.86B
Free cash flow¥14.6B¥25.3B¥34.7B-¥14.4B¥10.2B
Capital expenditure¥13.3B¥14.7B¥10.4B¥10.6B¥7.58B
Total debt¥13.6B¥15.5B¥48.4B¥44.5B¥45.2B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Dena competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-40%-20%0%+20%+40%-40%-20%0%6407900365079302610397449075911014177947784670148066654466226371194123842432.T6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Dena is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-10%0%+10%+20%10×20×30×640790036507930261039744907514177947654463715805141423842432.TRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Dena is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-10%0%+10%+20%-10%0%10%20%64076507930297449075911014177846701480666544637119415805141423842432.TGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Dena is the large dot.

Dena competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (2432.T vs 2121.T vs 3765.T vs 4751.T)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Dena 2432.T$1.54B+4%-17%16%5.5×-10.3%
MIXI 2121.T$1.56B+51%+30%14%10.7×-18.1%
Gungho Online Entertainment 3765.T$798M-3%-6%7%31.5×n/a
Cyber Agent 4751.T$4.13B+3%+14%10%15.4×-11.3%

How Dena compares with its peers

Peer set: Sector in the same market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Dena against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
Measure2432.TPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+5.5%-1.6%2nd highest of 21
6-month return+3.5%+2.0%9th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-6.5%-23.2%4th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)-16.6%+7.6%lowest of 21
Operating margin15.8%11.1%4th highest of 21
Forward P/E5.5×11.5×cheapest of 19
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)-10.3%-3.1%2nd least demanding of 18
Growth delivered (Del g)+1.5%+7.7%2nd lowest of 18
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-11.8 pp-9.7 pp7th least demanding of 18
ROIC minus cost of capital+4.5 pp+2.3 pp8th highest of 20
EV / EBITDA6.1×8.2×6th cheapest of 19
Net debt / EBITDA-2.4×0.2×3rd least indebted of 19

Peer table

Peer set: Sector in the same market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Dena 2432.TJapan$1.54B+4%-17%16%5.5×-10.3%+1.5%
CKD 6407.TJapan$1.54B-40%+11%14%10.8×12.4%+8.1%
Sotetsu 9003.TJapan$1.55B-4%+9%13%10.1×n/an/a
Sinfonia Technology 6507.TJapan$1.56B-39%+9%15%14.2×15.4%+8.0%
MITSUI-SOKO 9302.TJapan$1.52B-22%+6%7%17.8×-1.6%+3.4%
Okuma 6103.TJapan$1.56B-16%+15%9%10.4×n/an/a
MEITEC 9744.TJapan$1.57B+3%+2%14%18.7×-4.6%+7.3%
Fukuyama Transporting 9075.TJapan$1.51B+18%+6%4%11.6×12.0%+2.2%
NS United Kaiun Kaisha,Ltd 9110.TJapan$1.58B+39%+11%11%n/a-5.0%+10.7%
MIRAIT ONE 1417.TJapan$1.60B-24%+5%6%10.4×-5.7%+5.4%
FP Corporation 7947.TJapan$1.61B+35%+4%9%15.5×-1.0%+5.1%
PILOT 7846.TJapan$1.62B+33%+7%14%14.6×-3.8%+7.7%
Namura Shipbuilding 7014.TJapan$1.62B-9%+7%19%9.9×-3.1%+10.1%
Mitani 8066.TJapan$1.45B+4%+1%10%n/a-12.2%-3.1%
Japan Elevator Service 6544.TJapan$1.65B-9%+17%19%29.3×4.0%+18.6%
Daihen 6622.TJapan$1.43B+5%+5%8%11.4×n/an/a
Tsubakimoto Chain 6371.TJapan$1.68B+7%+20%8%10.3×2.0%+8.9%
Chudenko 1941.TJapan$1.71B+3%+9%12%11.0×-8.6%+4.3%
SWCC 5805.TJapan$1.71B+1%+21%11%11.1×6.4%+11.4%
SHO BOND 1414.TJapan$1.71B-6%-2%23%16.3×-7.5%+2.2%
SBS 2384.TJapan$1.38B+32%+22%6%14.1×-8.2%+13.8%

Questions

Who are Dena's main competitors?
Named competitors: MIXI Inc (2121.T), GungHo Online Entertainment (3765.T), CyberAgent (4751.T). The cockpit's measured peer set (sector in the same market, nearest in size) also includes CKD (6407.T), Sotetsu (9003.T), Sinfonia Technology (6507.T), MITSUI-SOKO (9302.T), Okuma (6103.T), MEITEC (9744.T).
Is Dena expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 5.5× against a peer median of 11.5×, cheapest of 19 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -10% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +2%, so the hurdle is -12 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
How has Dena stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +3.5% against +2.0% for the median peer; over one year +7.3%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.