KU Holdings Co., Ltd.

  • Market Cap: Small Cap
  • Industry: Retailing
  • ISIN: JP3277300004
JPY
1,215.00
22 (1.84%)
  • Price Points
  • Score
  • Mojo Parameters
  • Total Return
  • News and Corporate Actions
  • Key factors
  • Shareholding
  • Financials
  • CompanyCV
stock-recommendationScore
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Strong Sell
Sell
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Comparison

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Why is KU Holdings Co., Ltd. ?

1
High Management Efficiency with a high ROE of 10.11%
2
Company has very low debt and has enough cash to service the debt requirements
3
Healthy long term growth as Net Sales has grown by an annual rate of 9.85%
4
The company has declared Negative results for the last 3 consecutive quarters
  • INTEREST COVERAGE RATIO(Q) Lowest at 13,466.67
  • ROCE(HY) Lowest at 8.52%
  • INTEREST(Q) Highest at JPY 24 MM
5
With ROE of 9.57%, it has a very attractive valuation with a 0.74 Price to Book Value
  • The stock is trading at a premium compared to its peers' average historical valuations
  • Over the past year, while the stock has generated a return of 5.47%, its profits have risen by 2.2% ; the PEG ratio of the company is 3.5
  • At the current price, the company has a high dividend yield of 0
6
Underperformed the market in the last 1 year
  • The stock has generated a return of 5.47% in the last 1 year, much lower than market (Japan Nikkei 225) returns of 36.73%
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Verdict Report

How much should you hold?

  1. Overall Portfolio exposure to KU Holdings Co., Ltd. should be less than 10%
  2. Overall Portfolio exposure to Retailing should be less than 30%

(If sector exposure > 30%, please use optimiser tool to see which are the best stocks to hold in Retailing)

When to exit? - We will constantly monitor the company and suggest at the appropriate time to exit from the stock

Is KU Holdings Co., Ltd. for you?

Low Risk, Low Return

Absolute
Risk Adjusted
Volatility
KU Holdings Co., Ltd.
5.47%
-0.20
20.12%
Japan Nikkei 225
36.73%
1.30
28.24%
stock-recommendationQuality
stock-summaryManagement Risk
stock-summaryGrowth
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Quality grade scale :

Below Average, Average, Good, Excellent

Quality key factors

Factor
Value
Sales Growth (5y)
9.85%
EBIT Growth (5y)
8.13%
EBIT to Interest (avg)
100.00
Debt to EBITDA (avg)
Net Debt is too low
Net Debt to Equity (avg)
-0.06
Sales to Capital Employed (avg)
2.09
Tax Ratio
31.09%
Dividend Payout Ratio
32.06%
Pledged Shares
0
Institutional Holding
0
ROCE (avg)
14.69%
ROE (avg)
10.11%
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Valuation Scorecard stock-summary

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Valuation grade scale :

Very Risky, Risky, Very Expensive, Expensive, Fair, Attractive, Very Attractive

Valuation Key Factors stock-summary

Factor
Value
P/E Ratio
8
Industry P/E
Price to Book Value
0.74
EV to EBIT
5.74
EV to EBITDA
4.06
EV to Capital Employed
0.72
EV to Sales
0.29
PEG Ratio
3.47
Dividend Yield
0.04%
ROCE (Latest)
12.57%
ROE (Latest)
9.57%
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Technical key factors

Indicator
Weekly
Monthly
MACD
Mildly Bearish
Bullish
RSI
No Signal
No Signal
Bollinger Bands
Bearish
Mildly Bullish
Moving Averages
Mildly Bullish (Daily)
KST
Mildly Bearish
Bullish
Dow Theory
Mildly Bearish
Mildly Bullish
OBV
No Trend
Mildly Bullish
stock-recommendation Technical Indicator Scale: Bearish, Mildly Bearish, Sideways, Mildly Bullish, Bullish  Turned 
Technical Movement
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Financial Trend Scorecard stock-summary

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Financial Trend scale:

Very Negative, Negative, Flat, Positive, Very Positive, Outstanding

1What is working for the Company
NET SALES(Q)

Highest at JPY 43,540 MM

-16What is not working for the Company
INTEREST COVERAGE RATIO(Q)

Lowest at 13,466.67

ROCE(HY)

Lowest at 8.52%

INTEREST(Q)

Highest at JPY 24 MM

Here's what is working for KU Holdings Co., Ltd.

Net Sales
Highest at JPY 43,540 MM
in the last five periods
MOJO Watch
Near term sales trend is positive

Net Sales (JPY MM)

Depreciation
Highest at JPY 980 MM
in the last five periods
MOJO Watch
The expenditure on assets done by the company may have gone into operation

Depreciation (JPY MM)

Here's what is not working for KU Holdings Co., Ltd.

Interest Coverage Ratio
Lowest at 13,466.67 and Fallen
In each period in the last five periods
MOJO Watch
The company's ability to manage interest payments is deteriorating

Operating Profit to Interest

Interest
At JPY 24 MM has Grown at 20%
period on period (QoQ)
MOJO Watch
Rising interest cost signifies increased borrowings

Interest Paid (JPY MM)

Interest
Highest at JPY 24 MM
in the last five periods and Increased by 20% (QoQ)
MOJO Watch
Rising interest cost signifies increased borrowings

Interest Paid (JPY MM)