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Zozo Inc3092.TCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

Japan · JPY·Consumer Discretionary›Internet Retail

Operates Japan's largest fashion e-commerce marketplace, ZOZOTOWN, for apparel brands and shoppers.

≈ Japan's ASOS/Revolve marketplaceMomentum strong 68
Mkt cap
$6.41B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
45%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$27.9M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
19.6×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+57.6 pp
WACC 5.0%
Hurdle
-14 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
84 days
29 Jan 2027
Close · JPY¥1,137
1D-6.0%
1W-3.1%
1M+2.5%
3M-0.2%
6M+7.9%
YTD-10.3%
1Y-14.7%
ATR %3.2%
52w lowhigh15.7% off high

What Zozo does

Operates Japan's largest fashion e-commerce marketplace, ZOZOTOWN, for apparel brands and shoppers.

Takes a commission on each sale of brands' clothes, with the stock held in ZOZO's own warehouses and shipped by it, so brands pay for fulfilment as part of the fee. Founder Yusaku Maezawa sold control to Yahoo Japan, now part of LY Corp, in 2019.

In one line: Japan's ASOS/Revolve marketplace.

Products and services

  • ZOZOTOWN marketplace
  • Private brand (private-label apparel)
  • ZOZOSUIT/sizing technology

Customers

  • Japanese fashion shoppers
  • Apparel brands/retailers listing on the platform

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Internet retail
  • Fashion e-commerce marketplace
  • ZOZOTOWN platform, private-label…

What could go right

  • Online apparel penetration growth in Japan

What could go wrong

  • Competition from Amazon/Rakuten fashion
  • Brand disintermediation via own DTC sites

Moat: narrow (network effects, brand, installed base). Largest fashion marketplace brand in Japan, aggregating many apparel labels shoppers already trust.

Headquarters: Chiba, Japan · Founded: 1998 · Employees: 1,894

Named competitors

Zozo at a glance

Size Zozo (3092.T) is a Japan Consumer Discretionary company (Internet Retail) with a market value of $6.41B, the 196th largest of 1,379 Japan companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ¥1,137 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 7.9%, against +27.8% for the median peer and +1.8% for the Japan market (cap-weighted) — 6th lowest of 13 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 6.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +14.7%); the operating margin is 30.4% (peer median 7.6%).

Valuation It trades at 19.6× forward earnings against a peer median of 21.0× (4th cheapest of 11).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -5% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +9%, so the hurdle is -14 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 57.6 points above its cost of capital (5.0% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 29 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10011012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 1193092.T 111
Six months, rebased to 100: Zozo against the median of its 12 peers (local-currency closes).

Zozo financials

Reported figures in JPY; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue¥234B¥228B¥213B¥197B¥183B
Revenue growth—+7%+8%+7%—
Gross profit¥209B¥205B¥194B¥179B¥169B
EBITDA¥79.9B¥77.0B¥69.5B¥64.0B¥59.1B
Net income¥48.7B¥47.9B¥45.3B¥44.3B¥39.5B
Free cash flown/a¥47.7B¥55.3B¥34.6B¥27.7B
Capital expendituren/a¥7.05B¥6.29B¥9.36B¥9.27B
Total debt¥20.0B¥20.0B¥20.0B¥20.0B¥20.4B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Zozo 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

-20%0%+20%+40%+60%-20%0%+20%VIPSGLBEZAL4732ETSY4755CHWYNYKAA4385300209GICREAL3092.T6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Zozo is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+10%+20%+30%0×100×200×VIPSGLBEZAL4732ETSYCHWYNYKAA4385GICREAL3092.TRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Zozo is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-20%0%+20%+40%-20%0%20%40%VIPSGLBEZAL4732ETSY4755CHWYGIC3092.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. Zozo is the large dot.

Zozo competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (3092.T vs 4755.T vs AMZN vs 4385.T)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Zozo 3092.T$6.41B+8%+6%30%19.6×-5.0%
Rakuten 4755.T$8.59B-18%+11%6%n/a-2.0%
Amazon AMZN$2.80T-5%+15%13%26.3×n/a
Mercari 4385.T$3.76B-5%+19%19%15.6×n/a
Fast Retailing 9983.T$155B+6%+17%18%41.2×23.8%

How Zozo compares with its peers

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.

Zozo against its 12 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
Measure3092.TPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+2.5%+8.0%5th lowest of 13
6-month return+7.9%+27.8%6th lowest of 13
Distance from 52-week high-15.7%-20.2%7th highest of 13
Revenue growth (TTM)+6.5%+14.7%4th lowest of 13
Operating margin30.4%7.6%2nd highest of 13
Forward P/E19.6×21.0×4th cheapest of 11
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)-5.0%4.4%2nd least demanding of 9
Growth delivered (Del g)+9.2%+10.0%5th highest of 9
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-14.2 pp-7.1 pp3rd least demanding of 9
ROIC minus cost of capital+57.6 pp+9.3 pphighest of 11
EV / EBITDA12.5×13.9×4th cheapest of 9
Net debt / EBITDA-0.2×0.9×4th least indebted of 11

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Zozo 3092.TJapan$6.41B+8%+6%30%19.6×-5.0%+9.2%
Vipshop Holdings Ltd Sponsored ADR VIPSUnited States$6.55B-4%+2%7%5.4×-20.3%0.0%
Global-e Online GLBEUnited States$7.22B+44%+31%14%30.9×23.4%+47.8%
Zalando ZAL.DEGermany$7.64B+42%+18%4%19.6×7.6%+9.1%
USS 4732.TJapan$5.34B+8%+11%52%18.7×-0.8%+8.7%
Etsy ETSYUnited States$7.75B+40%+1%18%19.7×12.8%+10.8%
Rakuten 4755.TJapan$8.59B-18%+11%6%n/a-2.0%+11.4%
Chewy CHWYUnited States$9.07B-2%+6%3%24.1×16.8%+12.0%
FSN E-Commerce Ventures NYKAA.NSIndia$10.7B+31%+28%5%209.2×n/an/a
Mercari 4385.TJapan$3.76B-5%+19%19%15.6×n/an/a
Xingyun Technology 300209.SZChina$3.15B+30%+978%23%n/an/an/a
Global Industrial GICUnited States$1.77B+59%+10%8%22.4×1.3%+6.0%
RealReal REALUnited States$1.61B+25%+18%0%47.8×n/an/a

Questions

Who are Zozo's main competitors?
Named competitors: Rakuten Fashion (4755.T), Amazon Fashion (AMZN), Mercari (4385.T), Fast Retailing (own DTC) (9983.T). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Vipshop Holdings Ltd Sponsored ADR (VIPS), Global-e Online (GLBE), Zalando (ZAL.DE), USS (4732.T), Etsy (ETSY), Rakuten (4755.T).
Is Zozo expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 19.6× against a peer median of 21.0×, 4th cheapest of 11 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -5% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +9%, so the hurdle is -14 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
How has Zozo stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +7.9% against +27.8% for the median peer; over one year -14.7%.

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.