Basic Materials
Live Price
Offline$12.32
+0.00% today
1Y Change
-10.72%
Window
Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Coverage: 249 bars · Jun 26, 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 26, 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.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
KBSTF
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
KBSTF Max Drawdown
-31.75%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for KBSTF and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$1.7T
-18.1% YoY
FY Net Income
$23.2B
-61.3% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$21.6B
+74.5% YoY
Revenue Growth
+0.5%
EPS Growth
+9.8%
Gross Margin
16.3%
Net Margin
4.2%
Income statement
JPY
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 2555.0B | 2543.1B | 2472.5B | 2082.6B | 1705.6B |
| Gross Profit | 423.2B | 436.0B | 321.3B | 307.8B | 223.2B |
| Operating Income | 158.7B | 186.6B | 86.4B | 87.6B | 30.4B |
| EBITDA | 277.4B | 296.0B | 198.9B | 192.8B | 131.3B |
| Net Income | 120.2B | 109.6B | 72.6B | 60.1B | 23.2B |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
JPY
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 220.1B | 278.8B | 203.5B | 243.5B | 262.3B |
| Total Assets | 2891.1B | 2919.8B | 2874.8B | 2728.7B | 2582.9B |
| Total Liabilities | 1654.0B | 1792.4B | 1897.1B | 1856.4B | 1813.5B |
| Shareholder Equity | 1161.8B | 1056.6B | 914.0B | 815.3B | 710.4B |
| Total Debt | 886.3B | 863.5B | 907.1B | 959.9B | 1047.8B |
| Net Debt | 666.2B | 584.6B | 703.5B | 716.4B | 785.4B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
194.8B
+15.4% YoY
Capital Expenditures
173.2B
-10.7% YoY
Free Cash Flow
21.6B
+74.5% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
16.3%
Operating Margin
5.3%
Net Margin
4.2%
ROE
8.6%
Debt / Equity
0.69x
Next Step
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