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Company: Central Japan Railway Company

Bloomberg ticker: 9022 JP

Market cap: US$25,456m

Background: The Central Japan Railway Company is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai. JR Central is Japan’s most profitable and highest throughput high-speed-rail operator, carrying 138 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009, considerably more than the world’s largest airline. Japan recorded a total of 289 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009.
 

World Class Benchmarking of Central Japan Railway

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• Profitable Growth rank of 7 was up compared to the prior period’s 9th rank
• This is below average performance compared to 1,460 large Industrials companies worldwide
• Profitability rank of 7 was worse than its Growth rank of 1
• Profitability rank of 7 was up compared to the prior period’s 9th rank
• This is below average performance compared to peers
• Growth rank of 1 was up compared to the prior period’s 4th rank
• This is World Class performance compared to peers

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