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GO Inc.581A.TCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

Japan · JPY·Information Technology›Packaged Software

Operator of Japan's leading taxi-hailing app, GO, connecting riders with licensed taxis nationwide.

≈ Japan's Uber, but working with licensed taxi fleets rather than private drivers
Mkt cap
$1.45B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
49%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$49.1M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
21.9×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
n/a
WACC 19.5%
Hurdle
+3 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
89 days
3 Feb 2027
Close · JPY¥2,790
1D-9.3%
1W-13.3%
1M-24.6%
3M-3.3%
6Mn/a
YTDn/a
1Yn/a
ATR %6.9%
52w lowhigh39.1% off high

What GO Inc. does

Operator of Japan's leading taxi-hailing app, GO, connecting riders with licensed taxis nationwide.

Takes a fee from taxi operators on rides booked through the app, so growth depends on rides booked and on how many taxi firms join. Advertising on in-taxi screens and fleet software sold to taxi firms add revenue.

In one line: Japan's Uber, but working with licensed taxi fleets rather than private drivers.

Products and services

  • GO taxi-hailing app
  • Taxi dispatch/fleet technology
  • Advertising on taxi displays

Customers

  • Riders in major Japanese cities
  • Taxi operators/drivers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Information technology
  • Ride-hailing platforms
  • Taxi-hailing app, dispatch technology

What could go right

  • Inbound tourism boosting taxi demand
  • Cashless/app-based taxi adoption

What could go wrong

  • Japan's ban on private-driver ride-hailing limiting growth model

Moat: narrow (network effects, brand, data). Leading rider/driver network scale in Japan's tightly regulated taxi-only ride-hailing market.

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan · Founded: 2011 · Employees: 606

Named competitors

  • DiDi Mobility Japan private or unlisted
  • Uber Japan (taxi-hailing) private or unlisted

GO Inc. at a glance

Size GO Inc. (581A.T) is a Japan Information Technology company (Packaged Software) with a market value of $1.45B, the 583rd largest of 1,379 Japan companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ¥2,790 on 6 Nov 2026.

Growth Revenue grew 31.9% over the last twelve months (peer median +9.2%); the operating margin is 17.0% (peer median 2.8%).

Valuation It trades at 21.9× forward earnings against a peer median of 16.6× (8th most expensive of 18).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 35% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +32%, so the hurdle is +3 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Next results Next results expected around 3 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

GO Inc. financials

Reported figures in JPY; fiscal year ends 2026-05-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023
Revenuen/a¥41.4B¥31.4B¥24.0B
Revenue growth—+32%+31%—
Gross profitn/a¥22.4B¥16.2B¥10.6B
EBITDAn/a¥7.50B¥2.98B-¥1.64B
Net incomen/a¥8.84B¥2.00B-¥3.31B
Free cash flown/a¥10.5B¥5.44B-¥2.90B
Capital expendituren/a¥791M¥782M¥1.08B
Total debt¥3.01B¥3.34B¥3.65B¥4.11B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

GO Inc. 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.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+100%+200%+300%0×50×100×150×EVCM6214263750XZOPGY6682FRACTAL600446300031PTEC300674581A.TRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. GO Inc. is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+20%+40%+60%0%25%50%75%EVCM6214XZOPGYALKTFRACTAL300031BL002063300682PTECLSPD581A.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. GO Inc. is the large dot.

GO Inc. competitors and peer comparison

How GO Inc. 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.

GO Inc. against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
Measure581A.TPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-24.6%+0.8%2nd lowest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-39.1%-45.2%8th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+31.9%+9.2%5th highest of 21
Operating margin17.0%2.8%4th highest of 21
Forward P/E21.9×16.6×8th most expensive of 18
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)34.7%12.6%2nd most demanding of 14
Growth delivered (Del g)+31.9%+13.1%4th highest of 14
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+2.8 pp-0.2 pp6th most demanding of 14
EV / EBITDA25.5×12.1×most expensive of 8
Net debt / EBITDA-5.4×-0.9×3rd 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
GO Inc. 581A.TJapan$1.45Bn/a+32%17%21.9×34.7%+31.9%
NextNav NNUnited States$1.45B-56%-36%-1,900%n/an/an/a
EverCommerce EVCMUnited States$1.45B-31%-7%13%11.7×11.6%+11.8%
Systex 6214.TWTaiwan$1.46B+54%+34%3%16.6×-12.4%+13.1%
PearlAbyss 263750.KSSouth Korea$1.47B-44%+114%40%7.1×n/an/a
Exzeo XZOUnited States$1.47B+21%+329%49%14.8×-8.4%+59.0%
Pagaya Technologies PGYUnited States$1.47B+15%+11%22%7.8×4.1%+68.9%
Alkami Technology ALKTUnited States$1.44B-25%+24%-5%13.1×12.6%+31.7%
Phancy 6682.HKHong Kong$1.48B-45%+42%-5%88.0×n/an/a
Fractal Analytics FRACTAL.NSIndia$1.49B-27%+19%12%41.5×31.4%+18.5%
Shenzhen Kingdom Sci-tech 600446.SSChina$1.41B-27%-22%-6%177.0×n/an/a
Wuxi Boton Technology 300031.SZChina$1.50B+8%+22%2%32.5×30.2%+5.6%
BlackLine BLUnited States$1.50B-15%+9%7%10.0×12.1%+14.8%
YGsoft 002063.SZChina$1.51B-16%+5%13%31.0×16.3%+8.9%
Longshine Technology 300682.SZChina$1.39B-35%+7%-9%25.9×49.4%+6.0%
Playtech PTEC.LUnited Kingdom$1.39B+7%-54%0%11.4×-6.0%-7.4%
Wondershare Technology 300624.SZChina$1.38B-25%-8%-12%n/an/an/a
Lightspeed Commerce LSPD.TOCanada$1.38B+9%+11%-9%14.4×13.5%+42.0%
Yusys Technologies 300674.SZChina$1.53B-23%-11%8%20.8×15.6%+4.0%
Digiwin 300378.SZChina$1.54B-2%+10%9%32.5×n/an/a
CloudWalk Technology 688327.SSChina$1.54B-28%-47%-165%n/an/an/a

Questions

Who are GO Inc.'s main competitors?
Named competitors: DiDi Mobility Japan (private or unlisted), Uber Japan (taxi-hailing) (private or unlisted). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes NextNav (NN), EverCommerce (EVCM), Systex (6214.TW), PearlAbyss (263750.KS), Exzeo (XZO), Pagaya Technologies (PGY).
Is GO Inc. expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 21.9× against a peer median of 16.6×, 8th most expensive of 18 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 35% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +32%, so the hurdle is +3 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

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.