A wake-up call from the TSE to Japanese management: Yes, you have a control in lifting your share price.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange (the “TSE”) on 3/31/23 urged companies with low price-to-book (PB) ratios to start focusing on using capital more efficiently and to increase their PB ratios to be higher than 1. Low than 1 PB ratio indicates that investors’ view that a company is worth less than its book value, which is to say, …