At today's closing of the Tokyo Stock Exchange Capcom has seen their share price surge to ¥7200 over the last month as Monster Hunter Rise is about to release tomorrow.
Their market cap is currently at ¥975B and is expected to increase even further this year once the two-for-one stock split occurs on April 1st 2021.
Here is how Capcom compares to other Japanese third party publishers by market cap (List is sorted by publisher name, share price as of 25th of March 2021, market cap):
Bandai Namco @ ¥7823, market cap of ¥1.74T
Capcom @ ¥7200, market cap of ¥975.21B
Konami @ ¥6500, market cap of ¥932.75B
CyberAgent @ ¥7170, market cap of ¥906.48B
Koei Tecmo @ ¥6580, market cap of ¥850.58B
Square Enix @ ¥6350, market cap of ¥778.08B
Sega Sammy @ ¥1752, market cap of ¥446.43B
Kodokawa Corp @ ¥4195, market cap of ¥297.39B
GungHo Online Entertainment @ ¥2182, market cap of ¥207.75B
Marvelous Inc @ ¥903, market cap of ¥56.18B yen
Nihon Falcom @ ¥1599, market cap of ¥16.44B
Nippon Ichi Software @ ¥1162, market cap of ¥5.94B
Considering that this is a gaming enthusiast forum, you'd probably have some knowledge of gaming companies that could have lead you to invest in one of the companies above on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. For some of these companies on the list above, if you had invested in the following companies one year ago on March 26th 2020, your investment would have increased in market value by at least two times: Capcom by 2.2 times, Kadokawa Corp by 3.25 times, Konami by 2.01 times and Koei Tecmo by 2.58 times.
For the rest that increased: Bandai Namco by 1.46 times, CyberAgent by 1.91 times, GungHo by 1.44 times, Marvelous by 1.59 times, Nihon Falcom by 1.56 times, NIS by 1.48 times, Sega by 1.34 times and Square Enix by 1.38 times.
So every company in the above list has been up year over year but you'd still have to do your research for how you expect them to perform financially in the future considering that companies like Sega Sammy were significantly impacted by COVID-19.
What can also help is if you look at the history of the company, Capcom for example makes it easy to view their financial data and you would learn that their Operating Income has hit record highs over the last few years and that when you learn from Capcom's current planning that they want to focus on selling games at a higher digital ratio it means they would end up with higher operating margins that they could possibly continue increasing their net income year on year. A company with growing income year on year usually leads to the share price increasing which has occurred for Capcom if you look at its share price for the last few years.
Still, you have to understand what you are investing in that you could reasonably explain to someone else why you invested in that company. It also helps to understand the balance sheet of a company so that you know a company isn't running into financial trouble if they were having more current debt than cash available.
Their market cap is currently at ¥975B and is expected to increase even further this year once the two-for-one stock split occurs on April 1st 2021.
Here is how Capcom compares to other Japanese third party publishers by market cap (List is sorted by publisher name, share price as of 25th of March 2021, market cap):
Bandai Namco @ ¥7823, market cap of ¥1.74T
Capcom @ ¥7200, market cap of ¥975.21B
Konami @ ¥6500, market cap of ¥932.75B
CyberAgent @ ¥7170, market cap of ¥906.48B
Koei Tecmo @ ¥6580, market cap of ¥850.58B
Square Enix @ ¥6350, market cap of ¥778.08B
Sega Sammy @ ¥1752, market cap of ¥446.43B
Kodokawa Corp @ ¥4195, market cap of ¥297.39B
GungHo Online Entertainment @ ¥2182, market cap of ¥207.75B
Marvelous Inc @ ¥903, market cap of ¥56.18B yen
Nihon Falcom @ ¥1599, market cap of ¥16.44B
Nippon Ichi Software @ ¥1162, market cap of ¥5.94B
Considering that this is a gaming enthusiast forum, you'd probably have some knowledge of gaming companies that could have lead you to invest in one of the companies above on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. For some of these companies on the list above, if you had invested in the following companies one year ago on March 26th 2020, your investment would have increased in market value by at least two times: Capcom by 2.2 times, Kadokawa Corp by 3.25 times, Konami by 2.01 times and Koei Tecmo by 2.58 times.
For the rest that increased: Bandai Namco by 1.46 times, CyberAgent by 1.91 times, GungHo by 1.44 times, Marvelous by 1.59 times, Nihon Falcom by 1.56 times, NIS by 1.48 times, Sega by 1.34 times and Square Enix by 1.38 times.
So every company in the above list has been up year over year but you'd still have to do your research for how you expect them to perform financially in the future considering that companies like Sega Sammy were significantly impacted by COVID-19.
What can also help is if you look at the history of the company, Capcom for example makes it easy to view their financial data and you would learn that their Operating Income has hit record highs over the last few years and that when you learn from Capcom's current planning that they want to focus on selling games at a higher digital ratio it means they would end up with higher operating margins that they could possibly continue increasing their net income year on year. A company with growing income year on year usually leads to the share price increasing which has occurred for Capcom if you look at its share price for the last few years.
Still, you have to understand what you are investing in that you could reasonably explain to someone else why you invested in that company. It also helps to understand the balance sheet of a company so that you know a company isn't running into financial trouble if they were having more current debt than cash available.
