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Wondering if Kyocera at ¥2,997 is offering fair value or if you are paying too much for growth expectations right now? This article breaks down what that price could mean for you as a shareholder or a potential buyer.
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Kyocera's share price has delivered returns of 3.9% over 7 days, 10.6% over 30 days and 34.3% year to date. Over longer periods, the stock has returned 79.0% over 1 year, 70.5% over 3 years and 101.6% over 5 years.
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Recent coverage has focused on Kyocera as a major Japanese electronics and components supplier, with ongoing interest in how its diversified product lines position the company across multiple industrial and technology markets. This backdrop helps explain why investors are paying close attention to the stock's current pricing and what it suggests about expectations.
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On Simply Wall St's valuation checks, Kyocera scores 1 out of 6, so the stock screens as undervalued on only one measure. The rest of this article will walk through those valuation approaches and then point to an even more complete way to think about value at the end.
Kyocera scores just 1/6 on our valuation checks. See what other red flags we found in the full valuation breakdown .
Approach 1: Kyocera Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis
The Discounted Cash Flow model estimates what a stock could be worth by projecting future cash flows and discounting them back to today, so you can compare that value with the current share price.
For Kyocera, the model used is a 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity approach, based on cash flows in ¥. The latest twelve month Free Cash Flow is ¥56,022.42m. Analysts and extrapolations then project Free Cash Flow up to 2035, with a forecast of ¥180,258m in the year ending 31 March 2029 and further estimated figures out to 2035.
When these projected cash flows are discounted back, the implied intrinsic value from the DCF model is ¥2,934.64 per share. Compared with the current share price of ¥2,997, the model suggests Kyocera is about 2.1% above this estimate. On this measure, the stock screens as slightly overvalued, but only by a small margin.
Result: ABOUT RIGHT
Kyocera is fairly valued according to our Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) , but this can change at a moment's notice. Track the value in your watchlist or portfolio and be alerted on when to act.
Approach 2: Kyocera Price vs Earnings
Approach 2: Kyocera Price vs Earnings
For a profitable company like Kyocera, the P/E ratio is a useful way to think about what you are paying for each unit of current earnings. Investors generally accept a higher P/E when they expect stronger earnings growth or see lower risk, and a lower P/E when growth expectations are more modest or risks feel higher.
Kyocera trades on a P/E of 28.0x, compared with the Electronic industry average of 15.8x and a peer group average of 62.4x. At first glance, that puts the stock above the broader industry but below peers, which can be hard to interpret on its own.
Simply Wall St's Fair Ratio for Kyocera is 21.7x. This is a proprietary estimate of what a reasonable P/E might be given the company's earnings profile, industry, profit margins, market cap and risk factors. It aims to be more tailored than a simple comparison with industry or peer averages, which do not adjust for these differences.
Comparing Kyocera's actual P/E of 28.0x with the Fair Ratio of 21.7x suggests the shares are trading at a premium to what this framework would consider fair.
Result: OVERVALUED
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Upgrade Your Decision Making: Choose your Kyocera Narrative
Earlier it was mentioned that there is an even better way to understand valuation, so Narratives are introduced here as a simple story that you create about Kyocera, linking your view on its business, future revenue, earnings and margins to a financial forecast, a fair value and a clear buy or sell decision on Simply Wall St's Community page. The platform updates that Narrative as new news or earnings come in. One investor might focus on Kyocera as a critical supplier of High Temperature Co fired Ceramic packages to AI chips and set a fair value closer to ¥4,800, while another might focus on risks in areas like Document Solutions and set a much lower fair value such as ¥3,760. You can compare any of these fair values with today's price of ¥2,997 to see how closely each story lines up with the current market view.
Do you think there's more to the story for Kyocera? Head over to our Community to see what others are saying!
This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned.
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