Morinaga & Co Ltd operates in the Candy & other confectionery products sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Morinaga & Co Ltd with three other companies in this sector in JAPAN : Kotobuki Spirits Co Ltd (2020 sales of 45.18 billion Japanese Yen [US$426.96 million] of which 35% was Sucrey), Ezaki Glico Company Limited (344.05 billion Japanese Yen [US$3.25 billion] ), and Fujiya Co Ltd (99.09 billion Japanese Yen [US$936.35 million] ).

Sales Analysis. Morinaga & Co Ltd reported sales of ¥208.88 billion (US$1.97 billion) for the fiscal year ending March of 2020. This represents a very small increase of 1.7% versus 2019, when the company's sales were ¥205.37 billion. Sales at Morinaga & Co Ltd have increased during each of the previous five years (and since 2015, sales have increased a total of 17%). Sales of Other saw an increase that was more than double the company's growth rate: sales were up 8.0% in 2020, from ¥578.00 million to ¥624.00 million. Not all segments of Morinaga & Co Ltd experienced an increase in sales in 2020: sales of Wholesale Food and Restaurant fell 6.5% to ¥6.23 billion. (However, this segment's sales were only a very small portion of the company's overall sales). Morinaga & Co Ltd also experienced decreases in sales in Real Estate and Services (down 0.4% to ¥1.90 billion) .