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Japan Eyewear Holdings Co.,Ltd.5889.TCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

Japan · JPY·Health Care›Medical Specialties
Momentum weak 30
Mkt cap
$321M
US dollars, full cap
Free float
50%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$2.16M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
10.7×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+9.2 pp
WACC 5.0%
Hurdle
-29 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
34 days
10 Dec 2026
Close · JPY¥2,081
1D-3.7%
1W+2.7%
1M-3.5%
3M-16.2%
6M-6.8%
YTD+2.5%
1Y-7.9%
ATR %3.5%
52w lowhigh23.9% off high

What Japan Eyewear does

Employees: 637

Japan Eyewear at a glance

Size Japan Eyewear (5889.T) is a Japan Health Care company (Medical Specialties) with a market value of $321M, the 1325th largest of 1,379 Japan companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ¥2,081 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 6.8%, against -10.4% for the median peer and +1.8% for the Japan market (cap-weighted) — 10th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 15.4% over the last twelve months (peer median +5.3%); the operating margin is 32.4% (peer median 4.9%).

Valuation It trades at 10.7× forward earnings against a peer median of 16.0× (2nd cheapest of 9).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -9% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +20%, so the hurdle is -29 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 9.2 points above its cost of capital (5.0% WACC).

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

Relative performance

9010011012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 20265889.T 93Peer median 89
Six months, rebased to 100: Japan Eyewear against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Japan Eyewear financials

Reported figures in JPY; fiscal year ends 2026-01-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue¥20.0B¥18.6B¥16.7B¥13.5B¥10.7B
Revenue growth—+12%+23%+26%—
Gross profit¥15.7B¥14.7B¥13.1B¥10.5B¥8.21B
EBITDA¥8.46B¥7.86B¥7.00B¥5.28B¥3.62B
Net income¥4.28B¥3.78B¥3.99B¥2.22B¥293M
Free cash flow¥5.50B¥4.64B¥3.08B¥2.67B¥2.62B
Capital expenditure¥353M¥721M¥2.18B¥773M¥320M
Total debt¥15.8B¥15.6B¥16.6B¥16.5B¥17.1B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Japan Eyewear competitor charts

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Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%0%+50%-20%0%SUS688314OFIX300030197A603880CV9996SBSOBIO6884683777406748EMBC214430CLTN16095889.T6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Japan Eyewear is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-20%0%+20%0×100×200×300×SUS197A9996SBS377740EMBC688576CLTN5889.TRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Japan Eyewear is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-20%0%+20%+40%+60%-25%0%25%50%SUS688314300030603880688468377740EMBCCLTNVBSN16095889.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. Japan Eyewear is the large dot.

Japan Eyewear competitors and peer comparison

How Japan Eyewear 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.

Japan Eyewear against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
Measure5889.TPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-3.5%-7.5%9th highest of 21
6-month return-6.8%-10.4%10th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-23.9%-36.3%7th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+15.4%+5.3%5th highest of 21
Operating margin32.4%4.9%2nd highest of 21
Forward P/E10.7×16.0×2nd cheapest of 9
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)-9.0%2.2%5th least demanding of 11
Growth delivered (Del g)+20.2%-1.0%3rd highest of 11
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-29.2 pp-4.7 pp3rd least demanding of 11
ROIC minus cost of capital+9.2 pp-3.9 pp4th highest of 19
EV / EBITDA7.4×12.6×4th cheapest of 12
Net debt / EBITDA1.4×-2.4×5th most indebted of 13

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
Japan Eyewear 5889.TJapan$321M-7%+15%32%10.7×-9.0%+20.2%
Surgical Science Sweden SUS.STSweden$321M+86%+8%16%27.8×4.3%+56.8%
Kontour (Xi'an) Medical Technology 688314.SSChina$321M-39%+4%27%n/a6.1%+16.4%
Orthofix Medical OFIXUnited States$321M-32%+3%-4%n/an/an/a
Improve Medical Instruments 300030.SZChina$320M-17%-2%4%n/a26.0%-11.9%
Tauns Laboratories 197A.TJapan$322M-2%-23%29%15.5×n/an/a
Jiangsu Nanfang Medical 603880.SSChina$336M+4%-7%-15%n/a22.5%-10.9%
CapsoVision CVUnited States$336M-11%+15%-217%n/an/an/a
Peijia Medical 9996.HKHong Kong$340M-34%+21%-13%335.5×n/an/a
Stratec SBS.DEGermany$341M+41%-3%3%16.4×n/an/a
Orchestra BioMed OBIOUnited States$341M+41%+986%-181%n/an/an/a
Chemclin Diagnostics 688468.SSChina$342M-23%-14%6%n/a31.9%-4.5%
BioNote 377740.KSSouth Korea$343M-10%+13%16%15.0×-19.8%-28.5%
ACRO Biomedical 6748.TWOTaiwan$347M+129%+45%-178%n/an/an/a
Embecta EMBCUnited States$351M+70%-8%26%3.9×-19.9%-0.1%
Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology 300942.SZChina$352M-27%+12%-2%n/an/an/a
Chongqing Xishan Science and Technology 688576.SSChina$356M-26%-23%-29%15.2×n/an/a
i3system 214430.KSSouth Korea$287M-48%+8%13%n/an/an/a
COLTENE CLTN.SWSwitzerland$361M+3%-2%8%25.9×0.1%-0.7%
IVF HARTMANN VBSN.SWSwitzerland$364M-5%+7%14%n/a-12.7%-1.3%
Star Sports Medicine 1609.HKHong Kong$367M-76%+23%37%n/a-13.2%+36.8%

Questions

Which companies are Japan Eyewear's closest peers?
The cockpit's peer set: Surgical Science Sweden (SUS.ST), Kontour (Xi'an) Medical Technology (688314.SS), Orthofix Medical (OFIX), Improve Medical Instruments (300030.SZ), Tauns Laboratories (197A.T), Jiangsu Nanfang Medical (603880.SS), CapsoVision (CV), Peijia Medical (9996.HK).
Is Japan Eyewear expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 10.7× against a peer median of 16.0×, 2nd cheapest of 9 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -9% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +20%, so the hurdle is -29 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
How has Japan Eyewear stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -6.8% against -10.4% for the median peer; over one year -7.9%.

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.