Basic Materials
Kobe Steel, Ltd.(KBSTF)
Live Price
Offline$12.32
+0.00% today
1Y Change
-10.72%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
- Market Cap
- $764.16B
- Revenue Growth
- +0.5%
- EPS Growth
- +9.8%
- Dividend Yield
- 4.1%
Coverage: 251 bars · Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Kobe Steel, Ltd. (KBSTF) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $764.16B and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $12.32 and down 10.7% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +0.5%, EPS growth of +9.8%, a dividend yield of 4.1%. What stands out right now is revenue +0.5%, EPS +9.8%, free cash flow -68.3% with operating margin 5.3% and ROIC 5.5%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 4.1%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 7.5 and price/sales 0.3. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a income-oriented value setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines KBSTF 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
Near sector median
+0.5% vs 0.0% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
+5.3% 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 +0.5% and EPS at +9.8%, with operating margin around 5.3%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 4.1%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Benchmark Edge
KBSTF 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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Normalized return
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Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
KBSTF Max Drawdown
-31.75%
Trailing 1Y
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Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for KBSTF and SPY.
Company Overview
Kobe Steel, Ltd.
Other OTC
Kobe Steel, Ltd. engages in the materials, machinery, and electric power businesses worldwide. The company offers steel sheet products, including high-tensile strength, hot and cold rolled, electro-galvanized, and hot-dipped galvanized steel sheets; steel wire rods and bars; and aluminum and steel plates. It also provides steel casting and forging products, such as crankshafts, marine parts, chemical processing equipment, and rolls; materials for plastic molding; and titanium products, copper sheets and strips, and steel powders. In addition, the company offers robots and electric power sources, and welding materials; and machinery products, including standard compressors, tire and rubber machinery products, rotating machinery products, plastic processing machinery products, advanced technology equipment, rolling mill products, and ultra-high-pressure equipment, as well as LNG vaporizers, pressure vessels, brazed aluminum heat exchangers, and micro channel heat exchanger and reactors. Further, it provides signaling, communication, power supply, automatic fare collection, and platform screen door systems; hydraulic and mini hydraulic excavators, mini wheel loaders, and road machinery; construction, metal, forestry, and industrial waste recycling machinery; and crawler and wheel cranes. Additionally, the company generates and supplies electric power; offers material and structural analysis, testing, physical analysis, and other services; manufactures and sells target materials and test equipment; sells and rents detached homes; and provides brokerage, renovation, insurance, and other services, as well as operational management services of public facilities. It also provides services in the field of iron units; and water treatment, waste incineration, PCB detoxification, and soil remediation services. The company was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Kobe, Japan.
- Leadership
- Yoshihiko Katsukawa
- IPO Date
- Apr 18, 2012
- Employees
- 38.0k
- Street Address
- 2-4, Wakinohama-Kaigandori 2-chome
- Mailing
- Kobe, 651-8585
- Region
- Kobe, JP
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 81 78 261 5111
- Last Updated
- May 1, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 7.5
- EV/EBITDA
- 5.4
- Price/Sales
- 0.3
- Price/Book
- 0.6
Growth
- Revenue
- +0.5%
- EPS
- +9.8%
- Free Cash Flow
- -68.3%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 16.3%
- Operating Margin
- 5.3%
- Net Margin
- 4.2%
- ROE
- 8.6%
- ROIC
- 5.5%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.69
- Current Ratio
- 1.57
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
Keep the research moving
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