Japan Tobacco Inc. (OTCMKTS:JAPAY – Get Rating) – Equities research analysts at Jefferies Financial Group raised their FY2022 earnings estimates for shares of Japan Tobacco in a note issued to investors on Thursday, August 18th. Jefferies Financial Group analyst O. Bennett now expects that the company will post earnings of $0.81 per share for the year, up from their previous forecast of $0.76. The consensus estimate for Japan Tobacco's current full-year earnings is $0.86 per share. Jefferies Financial Group also issued estimates for Japan Tobacco's FY2023 earnings at $0.78 EPS, FY2024 earnings at $0.87 EPS and FY2025 earnings at $0.94 EPS.

Japan Tobacco Price Performance

Japan Tobacco stock opened at $8.59 on Friday. The company's 50 day simple moving average is $8.67 and its 200 day simple moving average is $8.85. Japan Tobacco has a fifty-two week low of $8.27 and a fifty-two week high of $10.63. The firm has a market capitalization of $30.48 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.65 and a beta of 0.38. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27, a current ratio of 1.55 and a quick ratio of 1.17.

About Japan Tobacco

Japan Tobacco Inc, a tobacco company, manufactures and sells tobacco products, prescription drugs, and processed foods in Japan and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Domestic Tobacco, International Tobacco, Pharmaceutical, and Processed Food. It offers tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, oral tobacco, waterpipe tobacco, kretek, and fine cut products under the Winston, Camel, MEVIUS, and LD brands.

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