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Largest Social Networks Public Companies in Japan
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
LY Corporation, DeNA, mixi, IBJ Inc. and Wantedly.
 | LY is a leading Japanese internet services conglomerate. Its main services are Yahoo Japan, the oldest portal site in Japan that offers a wide variety of services, such as news, e-commerce, financial information, and Line, a national messenger application. In 2019, the company acquired Zozo, a leading online apparel retailer, to grow its e-commerce business. In 2022, LY consolidated with its wholly owned subsidiary PayPay, the most popular QR code payment service in Japan. | $3 | -22% | $18B | $23B | 1.9x | 8.6x | ||
| DeNA Co Ltd is a social media service provider in Japan. It generates majority of the portion of its revenue by providing social media and Internet marketing-related services through its Social Media segment. The E-commerce segment offers E-Commerce related services, including the operation of auction shopping and cellular phone websites under the names DeNA shopping and Mobaoku, respectively. The Others segment is engaged in travel agency and insurance agency services, and professional baseball related business. The company has its primary market in North America. | $17 | -1% | $2B | $1B | 1.2x | 5.1x | ||
| mixi Inc is a Japanese company which provides social networking services. The company conducts its business activities mainly including the operation of websites and provision of native smartphone games on the Internet. It business segments include, Entertainment Business and Media Platform Business. mixi provides games mainly including native smartphone games through Entertainment Business, and operates business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer services utilizing the Internet and invests in operating companies of these services through Media Platform Business. | $17 | -20% | $1B | $459M | 0.5x | 2.3x | ||
| IBJ Inc operates marriage consultation business in Japan. | $5 | +4% | $191M | $211M | 1.6x | 8.1x | ||
| Wantedly Inc develops a social-networking service for business professionals. | $6 | -22% | $60M | $21M | 0.7x | 2.0x | ||
| Cookpad Inc is a Japanese Internet company that specializes in the sharing of user-created food recipes. The company operates Cookpad, Japan's largest recipe-sharing site, which allows users to upload and browse recipes. While the Cookpad site is the company's largest segment, it also offers various services to its online users, such as professional recipes, discussion boards, cooking lessons, weight-loss advice, and home food-delivery services. In 2014, the company expanded outside of Japan, where it still generates the majority of its revenue. Cookpad now also operates in Indonesia, the Philippines, South America, the United States, and the United Kingdom. | $1 | -33% | $56M | ($11M) | (0.3x) | (1.5x) | ||
| Median | $6 | -21% | $643M | $335M | 0.9x | 3.7x |
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