The timing appears opportune to go long in shares of Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. as we anticipate another pick-up in the underlying trend.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
● Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.
Strengths
● The company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.
● The company is in a robust financial situation considering its net cash and margin position.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● For the last 4 months, the company has been enjoying highly positive EPS revisions, which were frequently and significantly raised.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
● Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised upwards significantly.
● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.
Weaknesses
● The company is highly valued given the cash flows generated by its activity.
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
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Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of electronic components. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- ceramic capacitor (64.9%);
- modules (15.6%);
- ferrites for inductors (13.8%);
- other (5.7%): primarily ceramic microchips.
Net sales break down by market between communication equipment (32%; mobile phones, etc.), IT infrastructure and industrial equipment (24%), automotive (19%), IT equipment (15%; computers and peripherals) and consumer electronics (10%; TV-sets, digital cameras, game consoles, etc.).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (9.7%), China (35.8%), Hong Kong (16%) and other (35.8%).