Month: May 2024

The Champion of Change Japan Award (CCJA) was established in 2017 to honor women leaders who tirelessly address the most pressing needs in their communities in Japan. Selected from 200 nominations annually and announced at an award ceremony in the fall, a grand champion received 1,000,000 yen and four awardees receive 250,000 yen each.

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Deadline (extended): Sunday, May 19 – Japan Time

I would like to examine which companies have experienced an increase in stock valuations over the past year, and have analyzed the characteristics of the 1,755 companies in the comparable Metrical universe whose Tobin’s Q increased between the end of December 2022 and the end of December 2023. The table below shows the median value of the change in Tobin’s Q for each of the six groups.

April’s stock market returned to values toward the end of the month, although the swing was large throughout the month.
The CG Top 20 stock market outperformed both the TOPIX and JPX400 in April by a wide margin.

Weakness in the U.S. stock market due to concerns about the risk of prolonged inflation and selling of semiconductor sector stocks caused Japanese stock prices to fall from mid-month, but the yen continued to weaken due to the Bank of Japan’s ongoing monetary easing, leading to a buying bounce toward the end of the month.

The TOPIX and JPX400 indexes gained -0.77% and -0.30%, respectively, in April, while the CG Top 20 index underperformed both indices by 1.30%.

The composites of CG Top 20 stocks has been replaced as of July 1.
Wacom (6727), K’s Holdings (8282), Eisai (4523), NSD (9757), and Trend Micro (4704) were new additions, while Ebara Corporation (6361), Orix (8591), United Arrows (7606), Tokyo Gas (9531) and Hoosiers Holdings (3284) were removed. Details of the component stocks are shown in the table below.