Daio Paper Corporation operates within the Paper mills sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Daio Paper with three other paper and pulp mills in Asia: Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Limited of China (2017 sales of 29.85 billion Chinese Renmimbi [US$4.75 billion] of which 91% was Machine-made Paper), YFY Inc of Taiwan (66.77 billion Taiwanese Dollars [US$2.27 billion] of which 38% was Paper Feeder), and Shandong Huatai Paper Co., Ltd. which is based in China (13.66 billion Chinese Renmimbi [US$2.17 billion] of which 83% was Manufatcuring).

Sales Analysis. During the year ended March of 2017, sales at Daio Paper were ¥477.14 billion (US$4.46 billion). This is a very small increase of 0.6% versus 2016, when the company's sales were ¥474.08 billion. This was the fourth straight year of sales growth at Daio Paper. Sales of Other saw an increase that was more than double the company's growth rate: sales were up 7.6% in 2017, from ¥15.21 billion to ¥16.37 billion. Daio Paper also saw significant increases in sales in Home and Personal Care Business (up 6.2% to ¥168.82 billion) . Not all segments of Daio Paper experienced an increase in sales in 2017: sales of Paper and Paperboard fell 2.7% to ¥291.95 billion.