Nomura Holdings Inc vs Zscaler Inc — how do they compare? Nomura Holdings Inc trades at $9.4 (market cap $27.46B), while Zscaler Inc trades at $148.64 (market cap $24.23B). The key difference: Nomura Holdings Inc and Zscaler Inc are close in size by market cap, and Nomura Holdings Inc pays a 3.45% dividend while Zscaler Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| NMR | ZS | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $27.46B | $24.23B |
Sector | Financials | Technology |
52-Week High | $10.04 | $336.27 |
52-Week Low | $6.39 | $118.05 |
Dividend Yield | 3.45% | — |
Enterprise Value | — | $22.55B |
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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.
Read more on NMR →Zscaler is a security-as-a-service firm that offers its customers cloud-delivered solutions for protecting user devices and data. The firm leverages its position in 150 colocation data centers to deliver traditionally appliance-based security functionality, such as firewalls and sandboxes, as a completely cloud-native platform. The firm focuses on large enterprise customers and offers two primary product suites: Zscaler Internet Access, which securely connects users to externally managed application and websites (such as Salesforce and Google), and Zscaler Private Access, which securely connects users to internally managed applications. Both product suites encompass a broad gamut of capabilities situated across the traditional security stack.
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