Basic Materials
UBE Corporation(UBEOF)
Live Price
Offline$15.29
+0.00% today
1Y Change
-1.70%
Window
Jun 20, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
- Market Cap
- $231.05B
- Revenue Growth
- +4.0%
- EPS Growth
- -116.6%
- Dividend Yield
- 4.6%
Coverage: 256 bars · Jun 20, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
UBE Corporation (UBEOF) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $231.05B and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $15.29 and down 1.7% across the available one-year price window (Jun 20, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +4.0%, EPS growth of -116.6%, a dividend yield of 4.6%. What stands out right now is revenue +4.0%, EPS -116.6%, free cash flow -205.0% with operating margin 5.0% and ROIC 2.6%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 4.6%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 6.5 and price/sales 0.5. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a income-oriented value setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines UBEOF 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
+4.0% vs 0.0% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
+5.0% vs +10.5% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at +4.0% and EPS is at -116.6%, with operating margin around 5.0%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 4.6%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Benchmark Comparison
Normalized Performance vs SPY
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UBEOF Max Drawdown
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Company Overview
UBE Corporation
Other OTC
UBE Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the chemicals, construction materials, and machinery businesses in Japan, North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Thailand, India, Latin America, and internationally. It offers synthetic rubber, engineering plastics, caprolactam, industrial chemicals, liquefied gas, polyethylene, ammonium sulfate, polyimide, battery materials, separation membranes, fine chemicals, ceramics, high purity chemicals, semiconductor gas products, and products for polyurethane resins. The company also provides contract manufacturing services for APIs and intermediates; aromatic SF5 compounds; FLUOLEAD, a novel nucleophilic fluorinating agent; and drug discovery and pipeline services. In addition, it offers cement products, ready mixed concrete, soil stabilizing cement, building materials, limestone, calcia and magnesia, specialty inorganic materials, and resource recycling, as well as sells coal. Further, the company is involved in the supply of electric power. Additionally, it provides die-casting and injection molding machines, and extrusion presses; and UBE vertical mills, kilins, furnaces, dryers, water screening equipment, storage and transportation systems, bridges and steel structures, and steel billets and casting. The company also manufactures and sells nylon, caprolactam, ammonium sulfate, plastic films, polypropylene molded products, fibers, fiber-reinforced plastics, and cast iron and steel products. The company was formerly known as Ube Industries, Ltd. UBE Corporation was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Leadership
- Yuki Nishida
- IPO Date
- Apr 17, 2014
- Employees
- 7.9k
- Street Address
- Seavans North Building
- Mailing
- Tokyo, 105-8449
- Region
- Tokyo, JP
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 81 3 5419 6110
- Last Updated
- May 5, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 6.5
- EV/EBITDA
- 10.6
- Price/Sales
- 0.5
- Price/Book
- 0.5
Growth
- Revenue
- +4.0%
- EPS
- -116.6%
- Free Cash Flow
- -205.0%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 22.7%
- Operating Margin
- 5.0%
- Net Margin
- 7.7%
- ROE
- 8.7%
- ROIC
- 2.6%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.84
- Current Ratio
- 1.64
Earnings Reports
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Official Releases
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