LEIFRAS Co., Ltd. American Depositary Shares

LFS

Education & Training Services · Consumer Defensive

Price

$2.07

-0.06 (-2.82%)

Market Cap

$54.2M

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is serious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count falling — buybacks

−5.0% over 3y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 26.5M (2022) → 25.2M (2025)

A sports and social business company in Japan. It operates children’s sports schools and organizes sports events, and also has social business activities in community engagement.

Winston Score History

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Quality

Gross Margin

32.2%

Modest — 32.2% gross margin

Operating Margin

5.6%

Thin — 5.6% operating margin

ROCE

6.8%

Weak — 6.8% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales YoY

-20.9%

Shrinking sales (-20.9% YoY)

EPS YoY

-31.2%

Earnings shrinking (-31.2% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

EPS Consistency

4/8 quarters

Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

59%

Weak — only 59% of profit becomes cash

FCF Margin

2.0%

Thin free cash flow (2.0%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.24

Conservative — low debt load (0.24)

Interest Cover

34.24x

Comfortably covers interest (34.2x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

0.1x

Attractive valuation — P/E 0.1

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

P/E vs Forward

N/A

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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