CVS Health Corp vs Nomura Holdings Inc — how do they compare? CVS Health Corp trades at $93.65 (market cap $119.58B), while Nomura Holdings Inc trades at $9.8 (market cap $28.46B). The key difference: CVS Health Corp is far larger — about 4.2× Nomura Holdings Inc's market cap, and Nomura Holdings Inc pays the higher dividend (3.31%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| CVS | NMR | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $119.58B | $28.46B |
Sector | Health | Financials |
52-Week High | $110.60 | $10.04 |
52-Week Low | $65.51 | $6.73 |
Enterprise Value | $181.93B | — |
Dividend Yield | 2.84% | 3.31% |
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Following its acquisition of Aetna in late 2018, CVS Health now provides an even more integrated healthcare-services offering for its members. Legacy CVS combined both the largest pharmacy benefit manager, processing over 2 billion adjusted claims annually, and a sizable pharmacy operation, including nearly 10,000 retail pharmacy locations primarily in the U.S. Adding a managed-care organization with 24 million medical members gives the company a strong position in the insurance industry and should help CVS better control overall healthcare costs for its clients.
Read more on CVS →Nomura is Japan's largest broker, about twice the size of rival Daiwa Securities and roughly three times the size of the securities units of the three megabanks. It is also the largest asset-management company in Japan, with a similar size differential compared with its rivals. Despite its topnotch brand name in retail broking and asset management in Japan, Nomura has struggled to compete effectively in the institutional securities business against larger global rivals. In 2008, Nomura bought European and Asian assets of the failed Lehman Brothers, which led to a sharply higher cost base but did not provide commensurate revenue. Nomura has reduced the scale of these businesses but maintains its ambition to compete globally with the top players.
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