Basic Materials
Kaneka Corporation(KANKF)
Live Price
Offline$30.28
+0.00% today
1Y Change
+21.59%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 17, 2026
- Market Cap
- $296.37B
- Revenue Growth
- +5.9%
- EPS Growth
- +12.3%
- Dividend Yield
- 3.3%
Coverage: 251 bars · Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 17, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Kaneka Corporation (KANKF) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $296.37B and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $30.27 and up 21.6% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 17, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +5.9%, EPS growth of +12.3%, a dividend yield of 3.3%. What stands out right now is revenue +5.9%, EPS +12.3%, free cash flow -339.0% with operating margin 4.1% and ROIC 3.2%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 3.3%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 11.5 and price/sales 0.4. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a income-oriented value setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines KANKF price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Above sector median
+5.9% vs 0.0% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
+4.1% vs +10.5% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
The operating story is still moving forward
Revenue is running at +5.9% and EPS at +12.3%, with operating margin around 4.1%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 3.3%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Benchmark Edge
KANKF vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
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Company Overview
Kaneka Corporation
Other OTC
Kaneka Corporation manufactures and sells polyvinyl chloride (PVC), crosslinked PVC, PVC-PVAc polymers, paste PVC, acryl grafted-vinyl chloride copolymer, and chlorinated PVC in Japan and internationally. It provides impact modifiers, processing aids, specialty additives, toughener for thermosetting resins, silyl-terminated polyether, acrylic silicon, terminally reactive liquid acrylic, and biodegradable polymer, engineering resin for injection molding, zero birefringence, acrylic film, and isobutylene-based thermoplastic elastomer products. The company also offers polypropylene and kanelite foams, extruded polystyrene foam insulation, polyimide film, transparent film for optical use, high thermal conductive graphite sheets, multi-layer insulation, transparent conductive film, and thermo-resistant, and light-resistant transparent resin products. In addition, it provides photovoltaic power generation systems for residences, public, and industrial installations; eco fur, flame-retardant, hair accessory, and new materials; organic EL lighting panels; and biosurfactant. Further, the company offers intervention, blood purification, gastroenterology intervention, testing equipment, regenerative medicine and cell therapy, and genetic diagnostic products; and low molecular pharmaceutical materials, affinity chromatography resin for purification of a monoclonal antibody, biopharmaceuticals, transdermal medicine, and innerwear with shock-absorbing pad. It also provides dairy products, margarine, fat and oils, whipping cream, filling, baker's yeast/ dough improver, processed fruits, butter, shortening, cacao butter alternatives, cream for kneading and other uses, frozen dough, spices, antifreeze materials; and pharma and supplemental nutrition solutions, including coenzyme, lactic-acid bacteria, and functional foodstuffs, as well as fertilizers. Kaneka Corporation was incorporated in 1949 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Leadership
- Kazuhiko Fujii
- IPO Date
- Dec 16, 2010
- Employees
- 11.5k
- Street Address
- 1-12-32, Akasaka
- Mailing
- Tokyo, 107-6028
- Region
- Tokyo, JP
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 81 3 5574 8000
- Last Updated
- May 1, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 11.5
- EV/EBITDA
- 5.8
- Price/Sales
- 0.4
- Price/Book
- 0.6
Growth
- Revenue
- +5.9%
- EPS
- +12.3%
- Free Cash Flow
- -339.0%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 27.8%
- Operating Margin
- 4.1%
- Net Margin
- 3.2%
- ROE
- 5.5%
- ROIC
- 3.2%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.44
- Current Ratio
- 1.46
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
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