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Thomson Reuters today announced the winners of the 2015 StarMine Analyst Awards for Japan. This is the eleventh year that StarMine has presented its awards to the top stock analysts and brokerage firms in Japan.
StarMine, a leading provider of objective ratings of sell-side securities analysts, measures the performance of analysts based on the industry excess returns of their buy/sell recommendations and the accuracy of their earnings estimates. The 2015 awards recognise the sell-side analysts who have shown outstanding performance either as stock pickers and/or earnings estimators based on the period between 1 July, 2014 and 30 June, 2015.
Raj Shah, head of StarMine sell-side research at Thomson Reuters, added, “The sell-side research environment remained as challenging. Market forces played a dominant influence on the direction and volatility of markets, making the analysts’ job as tough as ever. Analysts had to be responsive to the changes in the sorts of research and analysis requested by fund managers. Winning analysts were those that had the courage to go against market consensus. They had to differentiate their research compared to their peers and offer portfolio managers insight on the best places to invest. Congratulations to all of this year’s ranked analysts.”
Analysts are awarded prizes in three main categories: stock recommendation performance relative to specific industry benchmarks (“Stock Pickers”), accuracy in forecasting earnings as compared with peers (“Earnings Estimators”) and brokerage firms whose analysts win the most awards (“Most Award-Winning Brokers”).
The winners of the Thomson Reuters StarMine Analysts Awards 2015 Japan are:
Most Award-Winning Brokers
|
Rank |
Broker |
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1 |
Nomura |
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2 |
Daiwa Securities |
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3 |
Morgan Stanley MUFG Research |
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Overall Stock Picker
|
Rank |
Analyst |
Broker |
|
1 |
Manabu Akizuki |
Nomura |
Overall Earnings Estimator
|
Rank |
Analyst |
Broker |
|
1 |
Shiro Sakamaki |
Daiwa Securities |
Industry Stock Pickers
|
Rank |
Industry |
Analyst |
Broker |
|
1 |
Automobiles |
Dean Enjo |
CLSA |
|
1 |
Banks |
David Threadgold |
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Europe |
|
1 |
Chemicals |
Yuji Nishiyama |
JP Morgan Securities Japan |
|
1 |
Energy & Utilities |
Polina Diyachkina |
Macquarie Research |
|
1 |
Financial Services |
David Threadgold |
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Europe |
|
1 |
Food & Beverages |
Jun Kato |
CLSA |
|
1 |
Health Care |
Kiyokazu Yamazaki |
Ichiyoshi Research Institute |
|
1 |
Household Durables |
Kota Ezawa |
Citi Research |
|
1 |
Industrials |
Masanori Minami |
Ichiyoshi Research Institute |
|
1 |
Machinery |
Morten Paulsen |
CLSA |
|
1 |
Media |
Yosihiko Sakata |
Tachibana Securities |
|
1 |
Metals & Forest Products |
Yoshiyuki Takano |
Tokai Tokyo Research Center |
|
1 |
Real Estate |
Atsuro Takemura |
Barclays Research |
|
1 |
Retail |
Takashi Yanahira |
Ichiyoshi Research Institute |
|
1 |
Software & IT Services |
Chikai Tanaka |
Nomura |
|
1 |
Technology Hardware |
Amit Garg |
CLSA |
|
1 |
Telecommunication Services |
Kei Takahashi |
Mizuho Securities |
|
1 |
Trading Companies & Distributors |
Thanh Ha Pham |
Jefferies (Japan) |
|
1 |
Transportation |
Masashi Yazaki |
Tokai Tokyo Research Center |
Industry Earnings Estimators:
|
Rank |
Industry |
Analyst |
Broker |
|
1 |
Automobiles |
Shiro Sakamaki |
Daiwa Securities |
|
1 |
Banks |
Takaaki Nishino |
Morgan Stanley MUFG Research |
|
1 |
Chemicals |
Shigeki Okazaki |
Nomura |
|
1 |
Energy & Utilities |
Shuhei Nakamura |
Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research |
|
1 |
Financial Services |
Makarim Salman |
Jefferies (Japan) |
|
1 |
Food & Beverages |
Katsuro Hirozumi |
Daiwa Securities |
|
1 |
Health Care |
Masayuki Onozuka |
JP Morgan Securities Japan |
|
1 |
Household Durables |
Yoshihiro Ujihara |
Mizuho Securities |
|
1 |
Industrials |
Akira Iwasaki |
IwaiCosmo Securities |
|
1 |
Machinery |
Hideyuki Mizuno |
BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research |
|
1 |
Media |
Shinsuke Iwasa |
Mizuho Securities |
|
1 |
Metals & Forest Products |
Tatsuro Ochi |
Citi Research |
|
1 |
Real Estate |
Hiroki Kawashima |
SMBC Nikko Securities |
|
1 |
Retail |
Takahiro Kazahaya |
Deutsche Securities |
|
1 |
Software & IT Services |
Masato Araki |
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities |
|
1 |
Technology Hardware |
Tetsuya Wadaki |
Nomura |
|
1 |
Telecommunication Services |
Yoshio Ando |
Daiwa Securities |
|
1 |
Trading Companies & Distributors |
Jiro Iokibe |
Daiwa Securities |
|
1 |
Transportation |
Kenya Moriuchi |
Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research |
Please click here for the complete winners’ list, including industry sector winners, and the awards methodology.
