LAWSON INC.
stock DE:LAW (FRANKFURT)

Alternative ID: JP3982100004

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Exchange: FRANKFURT
Sector: Services
Industry: Discount Stores
Market Cap: Mid (3.54B)
Data in EUR

EPS: 0.66
Current PE: 11.67
BVPS: 21.57
Price/BVPS: 0.38
Dividend: 150.00 / 441.2%

Hist Grade: F (11.36)
YOY Grade: E (21.18)
Debt/FCF: 1.60
ROIC: 2.8%
PEG: -1.00
PEGY: -1.00

Value Price: 0.09
MOS Price: 0.05
MOS %: -98.8%
Graham Number: 17.90
Graham MOS %: 121.2%
IRT: 11.28

Market Price

8.09

0.16 2.0%

as of Jun 06 '23

52 Week Range:

5.27 34.80

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Growth Grade and Financial Ratios

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Price Charts

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General Info

Exchange: FRANKFURT
Sector: Services
Industry: Discount Stores
Market Cap: Mid (3.54B)
Inst. Ownership: 14.82%
Insider Ownership: 56.75%
Full Time Employees: 10362

Lawson, Inc. operates and franchises convenience stores under the Lawson, Lawson Store 100, and Natural Lawson names in Japan, China, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Hawaii. It operates through Domestic Convenience Store Business, Seijo Ishii Business, Entertainment-Related Business, Financial Services Business, and Overseas Business segments. The company's stores provide ready-made dishes, including bento lunchboxes, rice balls, deep-fried items, and salads, as well as coffee and sweets; and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, prescription drugs, cosmetics, and daily necessities. It also sells tickets for events; and music CD and DVD products, and books through its stores, as well as online. In addition, the company engages in the operation of a chain of supermarkets; management of HMV stores; and operation of United Cinemas movie theaters and MACHI café, as well as ATM at LAWSON stores. Further, the company engages in the banking related business. It operates 14,640 Lawson, Lawson Store 100, and Natural Lawson stores in Japan; 389 United Cinema movie theater screens; 57 HMV stores; 24 nursing care consultation stores; 13,458 LAWSON ATMs; 154 Seijo Ishii supermarket stores; and 335 Lawson hospitals. The company was formerly known as Daiei Convenience Systems, Co. Ltd. and changed its name to Lawson, Inc. in June 1996. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Tokyo Japan. Lawson, Inc. is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation.

Financial Statements

The charts below show selected Annual and Quarterly Financial Data.

The purpose of these charts is to discover long and short term change dynamics. When numbers are growing year after year in the annual statements chart, the business become stronger and stronger and this is a good sign.

Quarterly Data Chart can be used to do a short term analysis. It makes sense to pay attention to the quarterly dynamics and do not wait for the next yearly statement. We should be alerted if we see that quarterly numbers are going down.

You can check "Annual Financial Statements" and "Quarterly Financial Statements" sections for exact numbers and growth rates.

Annual Statements

On a charts below the Line shows absolute values and the Bar chart shows Year-Over-Year Growth Rate for selected financial statement item. A consistent GROWTH is generally considered necessary to fund future growth from within a business.
NOTE: Growth Rate is not provided if either the latest period or the year-ago period contains a net loss. (source: WSJ Digest of Earnings)
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Financial Statements

Income Statement

Cash Flow Statement

Balance Sheet

Liquidity Ratios

Current Ratio

Current Ratio measures the ability to meet short term obligations. Generally accepted standard is 2 (current assets should be 2 times or 200% of current liabilities).

Quick Ratio

Measures immediate liquidity or the cash available to cover immediate liabilities. A safe margin would be at least 1 (100%).

Financial Leverage

Defined as total assets divided by total shareholders' equity. The higher the ratio, the more debt a company uses in its capital structure.

Profitability Ratios

ROA

Return on Assets (ROA) measures the income (profit) that is generated by the use of the assets of the business.

ROE

Return on Equity (ROE) is a measure of profitability that calculates how many dollars of profit a company generates with each dollar of shareholders equity. ROE is sometimes called "return on net worth."

ROIC

The Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) measure gives a sense of how well a company is using its money to generate returns. Some investors use this figure as a final evaluation to determine whether or not to invest in a company.

Annual Statements

Item Name	Feb '12	Feb '13	Feb '14	Feb '15	Feb '16	Feb '17	Feb '18	Feb '19	Feb '20	Feb '21	Feb '22
Equity (BVPS)	19.52	18.15	16.98	19.12	21.31	22.73	21.38	22.02	22.99	20.98	21.57
growth rate		-7.0%	-6.5%	12.6%	11.5%	6.7%	-5.9%	3.0%	4.4%	-8.7%	2.8%
Earnings BIT			68,127.00	70,482.00	72,542.00	73,773.00	65,821.00	60,782.00	62,943.00	40,877.00	47,096.00
growth rate				3.5%	2.9%	1.7%	-10.8%	-7.7%	3.6%	-35.1%	15.2%
Avg.PE					21.83	18.18	21.29	23.17	27.68	27.68	27.68
growth rate						-16.7%	17.1%	8.8%	19.5%	0.0%	0.0%
ROA	4.94	5.97	6.32	4.72	4.00	4.36	3.04	2.28	1.49	0.64	1.32
growth rate		20.9%	5.9%	-25.3%	-15.3%	9.0%	-30.3%	-25.0%	-34.7%	-57.1%	106.3%
ROE	11.98	15.13	16.06	13.02	12.05	13.48	9.74	9.26	7.34	3.22	6.61
growth rate		26.3%	6.2%	-18.9%	-7.5%	11.9%	-27.7%	-4.9%	-20.7%	-56.1%	105.3%
ROIC	10.05	12.16	12.44	8.98	7.57	8.00	5.49	3.85	2.65	1.42	2.84
growth rate		21.0%	2.3%	-27.8%	-15.7%	5.7%	-31.4%	-29.9%	-31.2%	-46.4%	100.0%
Cur. Ratio	0.73	0.75	0.79	0.74	0.70	0.70	0.61	1.04	1.13	0.90	0.95
growth rate		2.7%	5.3%	-6.3%	-5.4%	0.0%	-12.9%	70.5%	8.7%	-20.4%	5.6%
Quick Ratio	0.63	0.65	0.66	0.57	0.53	0.52	0.42	0.87	0.98	0.79	0.82
growth rate		3.2%	1.5%	-13.6%	-7.0%	-1.9%	-19.2%	107.1%	12.6%	-19.4%	3.8%
Leverage	2.51	2.56	2.53	2.98	3.03	3.15	3.26	4.85	5.01	5.10	4.89
growth rate		2.0%	-1.2%	17.8%	1.7%	4.0%	3.5%	48.8%	3.3%	1.8%	-4.1%
Balance Sheet	Feb '12	Feb '13	Feb '14	Feb '15	Feb '16	Feb '17	Feb '18	Feb '19	Feb '20	Feb '21	Feb '22
Acct.Receivable		70,102.00	83,986.00	93,140.00	98,275.00	130,631.00	145,630.00	187,144.00	224,322.00	228,000.00	213,691.00
growth rate			19.8%	10.9%	5.5%	32.9%	11.5%	28.5%	19.9%	1.6%	-6.3%
Acct.Payable		115,674.00	90,575.00	104,964.00	112,225.00	110,834.00	118,174.00	123,408.00	129,397.00	219,525.00	217,752.00
growth rate			-21.7%	15.9%	6.9%	-1.2%	6.6%	4.4%	4.9%	69.7%	-0.8%
Cur.Assets		180,297.00	195,784.00	223,642.00	224,209.00	249,278.00	231,860.00	623,998.00	636,697.00	690,812.00	667,628.00
growth rate			8.6%	14.2%	0.3%	11.2%	-7.0%	169.1%	2.0%	8.5%	-3.4%
Total Assets		579,810.00	620,992.00	764,614.00	803,212.00	866,577.00	900,256.00	1,342,490.00	1,357,732.00	1,365,430.00	1,337,246.00
growth rate			7.1%	23.1%	5.1%	7.9%	3.9%	49.1%	1.1%	0.6%	-2.1%
Cash		72,766.00	76,763.00	76,758.00	69,797.00	68,115.00	30,124.00	354,240.00	343,587.00	401,137.00	388,445.00
growth rate			5.5%	0.0%	-9.1%	-2.4%	-55.8%	1,075.9%	-3.0%	16.8%	-3.2%
Inventory		8,964.00	9,596.00	17,044.00	17,976.00	18,130.00	18,913.00	20,862.00	20,985.00	20,658.00	22,129.00
growth rate			7.1%	77.6%	5.5%	0.9%	4.3%	10.3%	0.6%	-1.6%	7.1%
Cur.Liabilities		239,794.00	246,706.00	301,069.00	319,607.00	356,783.00	379,222.00	598,522.00	561,963.00	767,755.00	704,691.00
growth rate			2.9%	22.0%	6.2%	11.6%	6.3%	57.8%	-6.1%	36.6%	-8.2%
Liabilities		349,628.00	370,497.00	500,818.00	530,217.00	580,584.00	618,811.00	1,060,510.00	1,082,387.00	1,092,498.00	1,058,772.00
growth rate			6.0%	35.2%	5.9%	9.5%	6.6%	71.4%	2.1%	0.9%	-3.1%
LT Debt		47,356.00		58,425.00	57,562.00	56,703.00	55,469.00	260,000.00	310,000.00	251,492.00	154,909.00
growth rate				11.1%	-1.5%	-1.5%	-2.2%	368.7%	19.2%	-18.9%	-38.4%
Equity			245,845.00	256,344.00	264,699.00	275,193.00	275,852.00	276,729.00	271,131.00	267,966.00	273,260.00
growth rate				4.3%	3.3%	4.0%	0.2%	0.3%	-2.0%	-1.2%	2.0%
Common Shares	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	58,506.00	58,506.00	58,507.00	58,507.00
growth rate		0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	58,406.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Cash Flow Statement	Feb '12	Feb '13	Feb '14	Feb '15	Feb '16	Feb '17	Feb '18	Feb '19	Feb '20	Feb '21	Feb '22
Capital Expenditures		37,263.00	34,857.00	41,052.00	40,883.00	42,063.00	41,536.00	43,284.00	33,851.00	26,294.00	39,038.00
growth rate			-6.5%	17.8%	-0.4%	2.9%	-1.3%	4.2%	-21.8%	-22.3%	48.5%
Cash Dividends			20,978.00	22,979.00	24,249.00	24,751.00	25,258.00	25,514.00	20,262.00	15,010.00	15,010.00
growth rate				9.5%	5.5%	2.1%	2.1%	1.0%	-20.6%	-25.9%	0.0%
Cash From OA		85,189.00	81,503.00	110,567.00	112,205.00	99,864.00	113,938.00	128,594.00	202,703.00	227,955.00	146,645.00
growth rate			-4.3%	35.7%	1.5%	-11.0%	14.1%	12.9%	57.6%	12.5%	-35.7%
FCF per Share	4.61	2.42	3.87	5.20	4.64	4.73	4.83	1.50	10.13	11.24	9.27
growth rate		-47.5%	59.9%	34.4%	-10.8%	1.9%	2.1%	-68.9%	575.3%	11.0%	-17.5%
FCF	50,041.00	42,267.00	41,147.00	61,614.00	55,713.00	38,909.00	53,869.00	67,250.00	157,921.00	193,190.00	99,875.00
growth rate		-15.5%	-2.7%	49.7%	-9.6%	-30.2%	38.5%	24.8%	134.8%	22.3%	-48.3%
Income Statement	Feb '12	Feb '13	Feb '14	Feb '15	Feb '16	Feb '17	Feb '18	Feb '19	Feb '20	Feb '21	Feb '22
Sales		487,445.00	485,247.00	497,913.00	583,452.00	631,288.00	657,324.00	700,647.00	730,236.00	666,002.00	698,371.00
growth rate			-0.5%	2.6%	17.2%	8.2%	4.1%	6.6%	4.2%	-8.8%	4.9%
Op.Income		33,494.00	68,127.00	70,482.00	72,542.00	73,773.00	65,821.00	60,782.00	62,943.00	40,877.00	47,096.00
growth rate			103.4%	3.5%	2.9%	1.7%	-10.8%	-7.7%	3.6%	-35.1%	15.2%
IBT			59,784.00	58,369.00	55,401.00	58,455.00	43,589.00	39,876.00	30,319.00	18,230.00	28,098.00
growth rate				-2.4%	-5.1%	5.5%	-25.4%	-8.5%	-24.0%	-39.9%	54.1%
Net Income		33,494.00	37,965.00	32,686.00	31,381.00	36,400.00	26,828.00	25,585.00	20,108.00	8,690.00	17,900.00
growth rate			13.4%	-13.9%	-4.0%	16.0%	-26.3%	-4.6%	-21.4%	-56.8%	106.0%
EPS	248.80	331.69	379.35	326.65	313.57	363.70	268.02	255.59	200.84	86.78	178.71
growth rate		33.3%	14.4%	-13.9%	-4.0%	16.0%	-26.3%	-4.6%	-21.4%	-56.8%	105.9%
Gross Profit		342,560.00	358,610.00	369,797.00	427,503.00	457,033.00	475,950.00	502,607.00	524,490.00	477,560.00	498,633.00
growth rate			4.7%	3.1%	15.6%	6.9%	4.1%	5.6%	4.4%	-9.0%	4.4%

Quarterly Statements

Item Name	Aug '21	Nov '21	Feb '22	May '22	Aug '22
Earnings BIT	16,089.00	11,944.00	8,446.00	13,279.00	15,715.00
growth rate		-25.8%	-29.3%	57.2%	18.3%
Balance Sheet	Aug '21	Nov '21	Feb '22	May '22	Aug '22
Acct.Receivable	221,472.00	227,437.00	213,691.00	236,866.00	246,403.00
growth rate		2.7%	-6.0%	10.9%	4.0%
Acct.Payable	141,613.00	139,289.00	217,752.00	172,848.00	191,148.00
growth rate		-1.6%	56.3%	-20.6%	10.6%
Cur.Assets	655,752.00	665,243.00	667,628.00	801,923.00	704,882.00
growth rate		1.5%	0.4%	20.1%	-12.1%
Total Assets	1,320,872.00	1,328,043.00	1,337,246.00	1,476,891.00	1,377,128.00
growth rate		0.5%	0.7%	10.4%	-6.8%
Cash	370,897.00	363,852.00	388,445.00	499,553.00	392,671.00
growth rate		-1.9%	6.8%	28.6%	-21.4%
Inventory	21,535.00	23,631.00	22,129.00	23,931.00	24,924.00
growth rate		9.7%	-6.4%	8.1%	4.2%
Cur.Liabilities	714,258.00	693,101.00	704,691.00	836,494.00	729,294.00
growth rate		-3.0%	1.7%	18.7%	-12.8%
Liabilities	1,036,558.00	1,043,951.00	1,058,772.00	1,196,941.00	1,088,527.00
growth rate		0.7%	1.4%	13.1%	-9.1%
LT Debt	130,000.00	160,000.00	154,909.00	160,000.00	160,000.00
growth rate		23.1%	-3.2%	3.3%	0.0%
Equity	279,283.00	278,958.00	273,260.00	274,654.00	283,215.00
growth rate		-0.1%	-2.0%	0.5%	3.1%
Common Shares	58,506.00	58,506.00	58,507.00	58,506.00	58,506.00
growth rate		0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Cash Flow Statement	Aug '21	Nov '21	Feb '22	May '22	Aug '22
Capital Expenditures
growth rate
Cash From OA
growth rate
FCF
growth rate
Income Statement	Aug '21	Nov '21	Feb '22	May '22	Aug '22
Sales	179,504.00	173,721.00	175,883.00	237,756.00	245,747.00
growth rate		-3.2%	1.2%	35.2%	3.4%
Op.Income	16,089.00	11,944.00	8,446.00	13,279.00	15,715.00
growth rate		-25.8%	-29.3%	57.2%	18.3%
IBT	17,293.00	10,194.00	-8,148.00	12,758.00	13,351.00
growth rate		-41.1%	-100.0%	100.0%	4.7%
Net Income	11,768.00	6,973.00	-6,478.00	8,029.00	7,380.00
growth rate		-40.8%	-100.0%	100.0%	-8.1%
Gross Profit	128,940.00	124,557.00	124,543.00	123,450.00	127,846.00
growth rate		-3.4%	0.0%	-0.9%	3.6%

Growth Grade & Financial Ratios

All financial ratios below are calculated based on latest annual statements available and present the most up to date snapshot of a company finances.

Growth Grade

Historical Growth Grade:

F (11.36)

YOY Growth Grade:

E (21.18)

Click on buttons above for detailed yearly growth rates.

Market Ratios

Dividend Yield: 441.2%
Beta: 0.03
Beta of 0.0252 suggests that the asset is less volatile than the rest of the market.
PE: 11.67
EY: 8.6%
PEG: -1.00
PEG Ratio of -1.00 suggests that annual EPS growth is negative, which is a bad sign.
PEGY: -1.00
PEGY Ratio of -1.00 suggests that annual EPS growth is negative, which is a bad sign.
Price/BVPS: 0.38
Price to BVPS Ratio of 0.38 suggests that stock is undervalued.

Profitability Ratios

ROE: 6.6%
Return on Equity (ROE) of 6.6% suggests that a company may not be able to fund future growth from within.
ROS: 6.7%
The value of Return on Sales depends on the business and/or industry. Usually the higher ratio the better.
ROA: 2.1%
Return on Assets (ROA). Low ratio usually means poor performance, or ineffective use of assets by management. High ratio usually means good performance.
ROI: 10.3%
Return on Investment (ROI) of 10.3% suggests that management is inefficient or it could reflect a highly capitalized, conservatively operated business with little long term debt.
ROIC: 2.8%
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) of 2.8% suggests that a company may not be able to fund future growth from within.

Liquidity Ratios

Current Ratio: 0.95
Current Ratio of 0.95 suggests that a company may not be able to pay off bills as rapidly as it should.
Quick Ratio: 0.85
Quick Ratio of 0.85 suggests that a company may not be able to pay off bills as rapidly as it should.
Cash Turnover: -18.84
Turnover Of Cash Ratio of -18.84 suggests that a company may have funds tied up in short-term low-yielding assets or may have a cash surplus, which is not invested in the business.
Equity Ratio: 20.4%
Equity Ratio of 20.4% suggests that a company has high financing and debt service costs, not very attractive to investors.
Debt/Equity: 387.5%
Debt to Equity Ratio of 387.5% suggests that greater risk assumed by creditors, hence greater interest by them in the way the company is being managed.
Debt/FCF: 1.60
Debt/FCF of 1.60 suggests that a company is doing well and can pay off its long term debt within three years.

Efficiency Ratios

Avg Collection Period: 111.68
Average Collection Period of 111.68 days suggests a slow turnover, which may be the result of a number of bad accounts, or a tax collection policy or perhaps credit is being used to generate sales.
Inventory Turnover: 9.03
Inventory Turnover Ratio of 9.03 suggests that a company is doing well.
Cash Flow Ratio: 1.08
Cash Flow Ratio of 1.08 suggests a large inventory, a never-out-of-stock situation, perhaps some obsolete items, or slow cash flow in general - could indicate poor liquidity.
Profit Margin: 2.6%

Value Price

PE and EPS

	Historical	Current	Forward
PE	51.82	12.26
EPS / Growth		0.66

Value Price & Investment Recovery Time

Read more about Stock2Own value price in Stock Market: Fundamental Analysis.

Equity Growth Rate: 0.5%

Estimates	Pessimistic	Moderate	Optimistic
Rate of Return	15.0%
MOS Price %	50 %
Future EPS Growth	0.5%	0.5%	0.5%
Future PE	0.01	0.55	0.55
Future EPS	0.70	0.70	0.70
Value Price MOS %	0.00 -100.0%	0.09 -98.8%	0.09 -98.8%
MOS Price	0.00	0.05	0.05
IRT	11.84	11.84	11.84

Graham Number:

NOTE: The Graham Number applies only to certain types of stocks in combination with a number of other criteria.

Read more about Graham Number in Stock Market: Fundamental Analysis.

Graham Number: 17.90
Graham MOS: 121.2%

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