Hiroshima Electric Railway Co Ltd operates within the Local and suburban transit sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Hiroshima Electric Railway Co Ltd with three other companies in this sector in Japan: Shin-Keisei Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (2019 sales of 21.45 billion Japanese Yen [US$197.09 million] of which 75% was Transportation Business), Hokkaido Chuo Bus Company Limited (38.77 billion Japanese Yen [US$356.31 million] of which 56% was Automobile Passenger Transportation Busi), and Niigata Kotsu Co., Ltd. (19.82 billion Japanese Yen [US$182.13 million] ).

Sales Analysis. During the year ended March of 2019, sales at Hiroshima Electric Railway Co Ltd were ¥36.55 billion (US$335.85 million). This is a decrease of 9.2% versus 2018, when the company's sales were ¥40.25 billion. The sales level in 2019 was fairly close to the level five years ago: in 2014, Hiroshima Electric Railway Co Ltd had sales of ¥39.72 billion. Contributing to the drop in overall sales was the 39.6% decline in Distribution Business, from ¥8.93 billion to ¥5.40 billion. There were also decreases in sales in Transportation Business (down 0.5% to ¥22.08 billion) and Construction Industry (down 10.7% to ¥3.08 billion) and Leisure and Services (down 0.5% to ¥1.88 billion) . However, these declines were partially offset by the increase in sales of Real Estate Industry (up 8.3% to ¥4.11 billion) .