Report
Mari Kumagai
EUR 98.48 For Business Accounts Only

Management's achievement ahead of 2020 goals suggests an improving earning structure at Nomura.

No-moat-rated Nomura’s fourth-quarter results were slightly above our estimates while structural weakness remains in domestic retail brokerage. Earnings upside was mostly due to a 12% year-on-year cost containment as the firm managed to spend wisely through more performance-based compensation and less spending on IT infrastructure beating both our and the company's own assumptions. Cost/income ratio fell to 74.64% versus the seven-year average of 85.21% and moved a few steps closer to a historic...
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Nomura Holdings Inc. ADS

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Morningstar
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Mari Kumagai

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