THIRD TEAM
Makio Inui UBS
Makio Inui, who slips one rung to third place, possesses a “wealth of highly detailed knowledge,” insists one buy-side backer. The UBS analyst upgraded Tokyo’s NTT DoCoMo from neutral to buy back in April 2009, at ¥135,100; he subsequently named the mobile phone services provider his top pick, partly on its data-package fee schedule, which encourages users to spend more to extend data capabilities. By the end of February 2011, the stock had surged 13.6 percent, to ¥153,500. Polling and tabulation of data as well as reporting on the sector profiles were completed before the March 11 Tohoku earthquake.