Sumitomo Chemical (4005.T)
Materials · Tokyo · Japan
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Sumitomo Chemical trades at ¥521.90, which is 17% below the ¥610.78 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a DCF is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 40 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 14.5 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About Sumitomo Chemical
Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited engages in Agro & Life Solutions, ICT & Mobility Solutions, Advanced Medical Solutions, Essential & Green Materials, and Sumitomo Pharma. The Agro & Life Solutions segment offers crop protection chemicals, fertilizers, agricultural materials, household insecticides, products for control of infectious diseases, and feed additives, etc. The ICT & Mobility Solutions segment provides optical products, semiconductor processing materials, compound semiconductor materials, touch screen sensor panels, high-purity aluminum and alumina, specialty chemicals, additives, engineering plastics, and battery materials, etc. The Advanced Medical Solutions segment offers contract development and manufacturing organization business for small-molecule active ingredients and intermediates, oligonucleic acid drug substances, and regenerative medicine, and cell therapy products, etc. The Essential & Green Materials segment offers synthetic resins, raw materials for synthetic fibers, various industrial chemicals, methyl methacrylate products, industrial aluminum and alumina, and synthetic rubber, etc. The Sumitomo Pharma segment offers small molecule pharmaceuticals. Additionally, the company engages in the manufacture and sale of positive electrode materials for rechargeable batteries. Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
4005.T passes 6 of our 30 screens today
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Common questions
Is Sumitomo Chemical (4005.T) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of ¥610.78, 4005.T at ¥521.90 is 17% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is 4005.T's P/E ratio?
4005.T trades at 14.5 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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