profit from every ¥100 of sales.
¥0¥100
Japan Tobacco
¥5,500.00+4.38% today
-4.2% in 1 year
1-year low ¥5,269.001-year high ¥7,769.00
Trading close to its lowest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay ¥19.14 for every ¥1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Japan Tobacco sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from ¥2.66 trillion in 2022 to ¥3.47 trillion in 2025, with ¥510 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Japan Tobacco handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
¥356.9B
Free cash flow 2025¥351.7B
Bought back its own shares¥1.6B
Paid as dividends¥356.9B
Cash vs. debt¥831.1B vs. ¥1.68T
Japan Tobacco vs. similar companies
Japan Tobacco grows the fastest of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from ¥100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per ¥1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan Tobacco | 19.1× · Fair price | ||
 Philip Morris International | 26.7× · Fair price | ||
 British American Tobacco p.l.c. | 12.6× · Cheap | ||
 Altria Group | 18.3× · Fair price | ||
 ITC | 16.9× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Japan Tobacco's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of JPY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,657,832 | 2,841,077 | 3,056,709 | 3,467,675 | |
| 1,566,843 | 1,615,103 | 1,677,425 | 1,948,585 | |
| 645,567 | 664,078 | 301,337 | 853,707 | |
| 884,373 | 894,232 | 563,065 | 1,130,879 | |
| 442,716 | 482,289 | 179,240 | 510,175 | |
| 249.36 | 271.63 | 100.94 | 287.33 | |
| 59.0% | 56.8% | 54.9% | 56.2% | |
| 24.3% | 23.4% | 9.9% | 24.6% | |
| 16.7% | 17.0% | 5.9% | 14.7% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of JPY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 6,548,078 | 7,282,097 | 8,370,732 | 8,419,240 |
| Cash | 866,885 | 1,040,206 | 1,084,567 | 831,135 |
| Total debt | 958,311 | 1,142,259 | 1,726,788 | 1,678,688 |
| Total liabilities | 2,931,317 | 3,369,605 | 4,522,005 | 4,303,851 |
| 3,540,435 | 3,830,156 | 3,766,623 | 4,086,933 | |
| 1,775 | 1,776 | 1,776 | 1,776 | |
| 10.7% | 10.1% | 4.9% | 11.4% | |
| 12.5% | 12.6% | 4.8% | 12.5% |
Cash flow
| In millions of JPY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 483,799 | 566,317 | 630,011 | 514,056 | |
| 99,408 | 116,568 | 150,367 | 162,386 | |
| 384,391 | 449,749 | 479,644 | 351,670 | |
| Dividends paid | 266,175 | 367,331 | 349,645 | 356,853 |
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 1,622 | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 19.1×
- –
- 3.96
- 3.2×
- 2.8×
- 27.8×
- 9.4×
- 3.6%
- 5.2%
- 3.7%
Profitability
- 56.2%
- 24.6%
- 14.7%
- –
- 11.4%
- 9.2%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +9.3%
- +4.8%
- –
- –
- +0.0%
Financial health
- 0.7×
- 0.41
- –
- 4.8×
- 1.93
- –
- –
How it ranks in Consumer Staples
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 39%of 670
Top 10%of 674
Bottom 49%of 624
Top 29%of 673
Bottom 38%of 668
3.7%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$37a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
69.9% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 101.5%
News
Webtoon expects Q4 2026 revenue of $371M-$381M driven by advertising momentum and Japan initiativesSeeking Alpha · Nov 10, 2026Mitsui Chemicals to buy chip materials maker JSR with Development Bank of Japan in $8.8B dealSeeking Alpha · Nov 9, 2026Asia stocks tumble as AI rout batters Japan, S. KoreaYahoo Finance · Nov 6, 2026Japan services PMI rises to 51.7 in October; composite growth slows to 5-month lowSeeking Alpha · Nov 5, 2026Japan’s trade gap widens despite 13-month export growth streakSeeking Alpha · Oct 21, 2026Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
2/7Passes 2 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
57No pass
Benjamin Graham
60Pass
Philip Fisher
63Pass
Peter Lynch
31No pass
Joel Greenblatt
47No pass
Charlie Munger
56No pass
Terry Smith
46No pass
Questions about Japan Tobacco
Is Japan Tobacco a good stock to buy?
A solid business at a fair price. 2 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Japan Tobacco AI analysis
What does Japan Tobacco do?
Japan Tobacco Inc., a tobacco company, engages in the manufacture and sale of tobacco products in Japan and internationally. It operates through two segments: Tobacco Business and Processed Food Business. It is in Tobacco, based in Tokyo, Japan, with 52,867 employees.
Does Japan Tobacco pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 3.7% a year, about 70% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out ¥357 billion in dividends.
Is Japan Tobacco stock halal?
No. Japan Tobacco does not pass our halal screen: its main business, tobacco, is not permitted. How we check
How has Japan Tobacco stock done over the past year?
Down 4.2% over the past twelve months, to ¥5,500.00. It traded between ¥5,269.00 and ¥7,769.00 and is 29.2% below its high.
Who are Japan Tobacco's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco p.l.c., Altria Group and ITC. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Japan Tobacco's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 10, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.