Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (4063.T) Stock

About Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. provides infrastructure, electronics, and functional materials in Japan. The company operates through Electronic Materials; Living environment basic materials; Functional materials; and Processing, trading and technical services segments It offers polyvinyl chloride resin, caustic soda, methanol, chloromethanes, and polyvinyl alcohol; and semiconductor silicon, rare earth magnets, semiconductor encapsulating materials, LED packaging materials, photoresists, photomask blanks, and synthetic quartz products. The company also sells silicones, cellulose derivatives, silicon metal, synthetic pheromones, vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer, liquid fluoroelastomers, pellicles, and silicon anode material for lithium-ion batteries. In addition, it is involved in the processed plastics; export of technologies and plants; export and import of products; and engineering activities. The company was formerly known as Shin-Etsu Nitrogen Fertilizer Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. in 1940. Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 1926 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (4063.T) stock trades at $5869.00 with a market capitalization of $10.66T. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 23.24, price-to-book of 2.39, price-to-sales of 4.09. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $4366.00 and $7930.00, and currently trades 26.0% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.94%.

On profitability, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 11.23%, an operating margin of 26.24%, a net profit margin of 18.36%.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05 (debt below half of shareholders' equity), a current ratio of 6.09.

4063.T has an average daily trading volume of 6,969,381 shares, a beta of 1.06, 1.82B shares outstanding.

Official website: www.shinetsu.co.jp

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