Smithers Says Japanese Stocks Trading Below Value

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Japanese stocks are a better value than U.S. equities and will extend gains even without further weakness in the yen, according to advisory firm Smithers & Co.

Company profits in the financial year starting in April will be “sharply higher,” Andrew Smithers, chairman of London-based Smithers & Co., which provides advice on international asset allocation, wrote in a research note dated yesterday.