August 8, 2017
Thomson Reuters Analyst Awards 2017: Winners of Japan awards announced
Tokyo – Thomson Reuters today announced the winners of the 2017 Thomson Reuters Analyst Awards for Japan. This is the thirteenth year that the awards have been presented to the top ranking stock analysts and brokerage firms across Japan.
The Awards, based on objective Thomson Reuters StarMine sell-side securities analysts’ ratings, measure the performance of analysts against the industry excess returns of their buy/sell recommendations and the accuracy of their earnings estimates. The 2017 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, 2016 and 30 June, 2017.
Raj Shah, the head of StarMine sell-side research awards at Thomson Reuters, said, “These coveted awards provide a lens by which sell-side analyst excellence and performance are measured across the critical research axis, and ultimately the quality of their research to money managers. My congratulations to all the ranked analysts on providing truly differentiated research and extracting outsized returns from their coverage.”
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 research firms whose analysts win the most awards (“Most Award-Winning Brokers”).
The winners of the Thomson Reuters Analyst Awards 2017 for Japan are:
Most Award-Winning Brokers
| Rank | Broker |
| 1 | Nomura |
| 2 | Daiwa Securities |
| 3 | SMBC Nikko Securities |
Overall Stock Picker
| Rank | Analyst | Broker |
| 1 | Jun Harada | UBS Investment Research |
Overall Earnings Estimator
| Rank | Analyst | Broker |
| 1 | Motoya Kohtani | Nomura |
Industry Stock Pickers
| Rank | Industry | Analyst | Broker |
| 1 | Automobiles | Joshua Bennison | CLSA |
| 1 | Banks | David Threadgold | Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Asia |
| 1 | Chemicals | Shogo Umeda | JP Morgan Securities (Japan) |
| 1 | Energy & Utilities | Takashi Miyazaki | Citi Research |
| 1 | Financial Services | Shinichi Ina | UBS Investment Research |
| 1 | Food & Beverages | Hisae Kawamoto | Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities |
| 1 | Health Care | Atsushi Seki | UBS Investment Research |
| 1 | Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure | Satoshi Sakae | Daiwa Securities |
| 1 | Household Durables | Takanobu Murakami | Okasan Securities |
| 1 | Industrials | Takeshi Tanaka | Mizuho Securities |
| 1 | Machinery | Kosuke Sahara | Marusan Securities |
| 1 | Media | Akitomo Kishimoto | Okasan Securities |
| 1 | Metals & Forest Products | Akiko Kuwahara | BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research |
| 1 | Real Estate | Mark Brown | Haitong International Research |
| 1 | Retail | Kuni Kanamori | SMBC Nikko Securities |
| 1 | Software & IT Services | Ikuo Matsuhashi | Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research |
| 1 | Technology Hardware | Toru Kitani | SMBC Friend Securities |
| 1 | Telecommunication Services | Hideaki Tanaka | Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities |
| 1 | Trading Companies & Distributors | Polina Diyachkina | Macquarie Research |
| 1 | Transportation | Jun Harada | UBS Investment Research |
Industry Earnings Estimators
| Rank | Industry | Analyst | Broker |
| 1 | Automobiles | Masataka Kunugimoto | Nomura |
| 1 | Banks | Shinichiro Nakamura | SMBC Nikko Securities |
| 1 | Chemicals | Shogo Umeda | JP Morgan Securities (Japan) |
| 1 | Energy & Utilities | Shinichi Yamazaki | Okasan Securities |
| 1 | Financial Services | Wataru Otsuka | Nomura |
| 1 | Food & Beverages | Hisae Kawamoto | Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities |
| 1 | Health Care | Motoya Kohtani | Nomura |
| 1 | Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure | Katsumi Hosoi | Tokai Tokyo Research Center |
| 1 | Household Durables | Hiroki Kawashima | SMBC Nikko Securities |
| 1 | Industrials | Hirosuke Tai | Daiwa Securities |
| 1 | Machinery | Asuka Sasao | SMBC Nikko Securities |
| 1 | Media | Akitomo Kishimoto | Okasan Securities |
| 1 | Metals & Forest Products | Takashi Enomoto | BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research |
| 1 | Real Estate | Hideaki Teraoka | Daiwa Securities |
| 1 | Retail | Sho Kawano | Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research |
| 1 | Software & IT Services | Masato Araki | Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities |
| 1 | Technology Hardware | Tetsuya Wadaki | Nomura |
| 1 | Telecommunication Services | Mitsunobu Tsuruo | Citi Research |
| 1 | Trading Companies & Distributors | Kazuhisa Mori | JP Morgan Securities (Japan) |
| 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.
About The Thomson Reuters Analyst Awards
Thomson Reuters Analyst Awards are globally recognized as the gold standard in objective measurement of sell-side analyst performance. The awards recognize the world's top individual sell-side analysts and firms, and are available to buy-side firms to identify the leading analysts at sell-side firms. The Thomson Reuters Analyst Awards, formerly Thomson Reuters StarMine Analyst Awards, measure the performance of sell-side analysts based on the returns of their buy and sell recommendations relative to industry benchmarks; and the accuracy of their earnings estimates in 14 regions across the globe.
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