Basic Materials
Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd.(NPKYF)
Live Price
Offline$8.44
+0.00% today
1Y Change
+0.00%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
- Market Cap
- $259.01B
- Revenue Growth
- +10.3%
- EPS Growth
- +332.1%
- Dividend Yield
- 3.5%
Coverage: 253 bars · Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. (NPKYF) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $259.01B and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $8.44 and up 0.0% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +10.3%, EPS growth of +332.1%, a dividend yield of 3.5%. What stands out right now is revenue +10.3%, EPS +332.1%, free cash flow -173.9% with operating margin 8.1% and ROIC 4.3%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 3.5%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 12.1 and price/sales 1.1. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a income-oriented value setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines NPKYF 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
+10.3% vs 0.0% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
+8.1% 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 +10.3% and EPS at +332.1%, with operating margin around 8.1%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 3.5%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Benchmark Edge
NPKYF 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
Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd.
Other OTC
Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells functional chemicals, pharmaceuticals, safety systems, and agrochemicals and other products in Japan and internationally. The company's Functional and Chemical Business segment offers functional materials, such as epoxy resins, UV-curable resins, sealants for LCD and LED, maleimide resins, photoresists and insulating materials for micro electromechanical systems, and cleaning agents and chemicals. This segment also provides color materials, including inkjet colorants, dyes for textiles and papers, and materials for thermal paper; catalysts for the production of acrylic and methacrylic acid; and polarizing films, inorganic polarizers, liquid crystal display components and projector parts, and components for x-ray analysis. Its Pharmaceuticals Business segment offers anti-cancer and cancer-related drugs, biosimilars, generic drugs, interventional radiology products, cardiovascular drugs, bulk drugs and intermediates of pharmaceuticals, and drugs for diagnosing cancer, as well as GlycoMark, a product as a marker of blood sugar control used for diabetes. The company's Safety Systems Business segment provides airbag inflators, micro gas generators for seatbelt pretensioners, and squibs. Its Agrochemicals Business segment offers agricultural insecticides, herbicides, soil fumigants, and insanitary insecticides. The company also engages in real estate leasing services. The company was formerly known as Nihon Kayaku Seizou Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. in 1945. Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 1916 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Leadership
- Shigeyuki Kawamura
- IPO Date
- Jun 28, 2018
- Employees
- 5.9k
- Street Address
- Meiji Yasuda Seimei Building
- Mailing
- Tokyo, 100-0005
- Region
- Tokyo, JP
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 81 3 6731 5200
- Last Updated
- May 2, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 12.1
- EV/EBITDA
- 7.7
- Price/Sales
- 1.1
- Price/Book
- 1.0
Growth
- Revenue
- +10.3%
- EPS
- +332.1%
- Free Cash Flow
- -173.9%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 30.3%
- Operating Margin
- 8.1%
- Net Margin
- 9.4%
- ROE
- 8.0%
- ROIC
- 4.3%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.20
- Current Ratio
- 3.04
Earnings Reports
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Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
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