Soken Chemical & Engineering Co., Ltd. (4972.T)
ValueMarkers Composite Index
14% above intrinsic value ($21)
Soken Chemical & Engineering Co., Ltd. (4972.T) — VMCI valuation read
Soken Chemical & Engineering Co., Ltd. sits at VMCI 65/100, with the Basic Materials sector median at 50. That 15-point spread is the first thing to note on 4972.T: it tells the reader the composite is favorable before any single ratio is examined, and the mid-cap tier sets the comparison set.
Form 4 disclosures on 4972.T are blank for the trailing 30 days. With the insider channel offline, the EV/EBITDA delta, free-cash-flow trajectory, and the next earnings print do the talking.
**Investor frame.** The Value read on 4972.T: 4972.T trades at 16.0x earnings, 11% below the Basic Materials median of 18.0x, with EV/EBITDA at 13.0x against 12.0x. The Quality read: ROIC of 12.0% sits 2.0pp above the Basic Materials median (10.0%). The Risk read: net debt to EBITDA of 3.1x is the binding constraint on the bear case, anchoring the bear scenario on a measurable balance-sheet metric.
4972.T fell 0.5% over the trailing 7 days, with a +2.6% read on a 30-day basis.
Soken Chemical & Engineering Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesives, functional polymers, organic fine particles, and adhesive tapes in Japan, China, and internationally. Its pressure-sensitive adhesives are used for a range of applications in industrial fields, including IT devices, automobiles, building materials, and electronics and optical devices, as well as in household products, such as double-sided and packing tapes, and adhesive plasters. The company's functional materials are used in the field of electronic substrate materials, inks, paints, displays, and multipurpose copy machines; and functional fine particles for use in LCD light diffusion agent, paint, toner, anti-blocking film agent, cosmetic, and fiber reinforced plastic applications. It also offers specialty coated products comprising double-sided acrylic foam-based adhesive tapes and sheets; and nanoimprinting molds and films. In addition, the company provides organic conductive materials for antistatic and conductive coating, capacitors, solar cell electrodes, hole transport materials for OPV, and hole injection materials for organic EL devices. Further, it is involved in heating media, thermal boiler, and plant engineering and maintenance businesses. The company was formerly known as Sogo Kako Laboratories, Ltd. and changed its name to Soken Chemical & Engineering Co., Ltd. in 1953. Soken Chemical & Engineering Co., Ltd. was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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