[Company analysis] Matsui Securities Co., Ltd. (松井証券)

「Matsui Securities Co., Ltd. (松井証券)」is the first internet securities company which introduced Internet trading, indefinite margin trading, and night futures trading in Japan. As a independent company, they do not have affiliated companies. In the past, they were Japan's best internet securities brokerage company. The total number of employees is approximately 142.

 

1. Company Profile

2. Summary and Features

3. Major Business

4. Financial Information

 

 

 

1. Company Profile

 

※Unit is JPY million, as of 2019

Company name	Matsui Securities Co., Ltd.
Company name (Japanese)	松井証券
Date of establishment	May 1918
Headquarters location	〒102-0083 東京都千代田区麹町一丁目4番地
Capital	11,945
Consolidated sales	27,313
Consolidated operating profit	9,562
Consolidated total assets	695,993
Consolidated capital	96,579
Capital adequacy ratio	13.9%
Consolidated number of employees	142

 

 

 

2. Summary and Features

 
「Matsui Securities」was founded in 1918, under the name of「Matsui Fusakichi Shoten(松井房吉商店)」. In 1931,「Matsui Fusakichi Shoten」had conducted corporatization and began securities business. this company has long been a general medium-sized securities company. However, its third president, Matsui Michio(松井道夫) decided to enter internet securities market, even though there was opposition inside the company, he bulldozed his way and that deicision led them have significant growth.

 

And as of August 2001, 「Matsui Securities」became listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange as a first Internet securities company. At that time, this company was the best online securities trading companies in Japan.

Currently, the total number of securities trading accounts is over 1 million, and the monthly stock trading value is over 3 trillion yen.「Matsui Securities」provides stock transaction account without opening fee and maintenance fee. Despite this company is a completely independent company, they also handle various financial products such as domestic equity margin trading, Exchange Traded Fund(ETF), Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), FX transaction and futures trading.

Also, if you trade less than 100,000 yen within 1 day, there will be no transaction fee, and this is the the lowest level in the security industry. Margin transaction fees are also the lowest in Japan. Most of all, the winning possibility of IPO(Initial Public Offering) does not depend on the financial power but is decided by lottery system with perfect equality. This is quite considerable appeal point for private investors. Instead, they do not handle foreign stocks at all.

 

 

 

3. Major Business

 

■ Internet securities business

 

 

 

4. Financial information

 

※Unit is JPY million

	2016	2017	2018
Consolidate operating revenue	27,727	32,210	27,313
consolidate net income	10,697	12,908	9,562
Consolidated total assets	770,716	836,318	695,993
Consolidated net assets	94,820	98,751	96,579