Addentax Group (NASDAQ:ATXG) & Marubeni (OTCMKTS:MARUY) Financial Survey

Addentax Group (NASDAQ:ATXG) and Marubeni (OTCMKTS:MARUY) are both multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Addentax Group and Marubeni”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Addentax Group	$4.18 million	0.76	-$5.09 million	($0.85)	-0.32
Marubeni	$51.16 billion	1.11	$3.32 billion	$20.78	16.54

Marubeni has higher revenue and earnings than Addentax Group. Addentax Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marubeni, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

10.1% of Addentax Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Marubeni shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Addentax Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Addentax Group and Marubeni, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Addentax Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
Marubeni	0	1	1	0	2.50

Profitability

This table compares Addentax Group and Marubeni’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Addentax Group	-182.28%	-17.86%	-10.90%
Marubeni	6.21%	12.96%	5.46%

Volatility & Risk

Addentax Group has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marubeni has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Marubeni beats Addentax Group on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Addentax Group

Addentax Group Corp., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a logistic service provider in China. It operates through three segments: Garment Manufacturing, Logistics Services, and Property Management and Subleasing. The company manufactures and distributes garments; and provides logistic services, such as storage, transportation, warehousing, handling, packaging, and order processing, as well as customs declaration and tax clearance services. It also offers shop subleasing and property management services for garment wholesalers and retailers in the garment market. In addition, the company engages in the building decoration designing business. Addentax Group Corp. is based in Shenzhen, China.

About Marubeni

Marubeni Corporation engages in various business activities. It manufactures, wholesales, and retails apparel, footwear, home furnishing and sport goods, industrial and textile materials, tire and rubber materials, and household and nursing care products; develops uranium, nuclear fuel cycle, iron ore, coking coal, copper mines, and related equipment and services; smelts and refines aluminum and magnesium; leases temporary steel construction materials; explores for, develops, and produces oil and gas; manages infrastructure funds; and develops and manages real estate. The company also offers insurance, technical, ICT, and logistic services; agri-inputs; fertilizer and crop protection product contracting services; crop protection product formulations; wood chips, biomass fuels, pulp and waste papers, paper, paperboards, sanitary, and building and construction materials; engineering, procurement, and construction services; and operation and maintenance services. It trades in fertilizers, dairy, agricultural, and marine products; sugar, processed food, beverages raw materials, and commercial use food materials; grains, oilseeds, feed ingredients, compound feeds, fresh and processed meat, petrochemicals, plastics, salts, chlor-alkalis, life science products, electronic materials, fertilizer materials, and inorganic mineral resources and chemicals; steelmaking raw materials, ferroalloys, nonferrous metals, and steel products; cement and ingots related materials; and petroleum and LPG. The company engages in infrastructure; water; automotive finance; power generation; power service and retail; natural gas; hydrogen; and fuel ammonia businesses. It owns, purchases, operates, leases, sells, and charters aerospace and ship products; leases refrigerated trailers, commercial vehicles, and freight cars; and sells, trades in, leases, finances, and services construction and industrial machinery, and mobility products. The company was founded in 1858 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.