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About Kobe Steel, Ltd
Kobe Steel, Ltd. engages in the materials, machinery, and electric power businesses worldwide. The company offers steel sheet products, including high-tensile strength, hot and cold rolled, electro-galvanized, and hot-dipped galvanized steel sheets; steel wire rods and bars; and aluminum and steel plates. It also provides steel casting and forging products, such as crankshafts, marine parts, chemical processing equipment, and rolls; materials for plastic molding; and titanium products, copper sheets and strips, and steel powders. In addition, the company offers robots and electric power sources, and welding materials; and machinery products, including standard compressors, tire and rubber machinery products, rotating machinery products, plastic processing machinery products, advanced technology equipment, rolling mill products, and ultra-high-pressure equipment, as well as LNG vaporizers, pressure vessels, brazed aluminum heat exchangers, and micro channel heat exchangers and reactors. Further, it provides signaling, communication, power supply, automatic fare collection, and platform screen door systems; hydraulic and mini hydraulic excavators, mini wheel loaders, and road machinery; construction, metal, forestry, and industrial waste recycling machinery; and crawler and wheel cranes. Additionally, the company generates and supplies electric power; offers material and structural analysis, testing, physical analysis, and other services; manufactures and sells target materials and test equipment; sells and rents detached homes; and provides brokerage, renovation, insurance, and other services, as well as operational management services of public facilities. It also provides services in the field of iron units; and water treatment, waste incineration, PCB detoxification, and soil remediation services. Kobe Steel, Ltd. has a strategic alliance with Malta Inc. The company was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Kobe, Japan.
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- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Steel
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5 years, 7 months ago
Kobe Steel, Ltd is currently in a long term uptrend where the price is trading 10.6% above its 200 day moving average.
From a valuation standpoint, the stock is 73.5% cheaper than other stocks from the Basic Materials sector with a price to sales ratio of 0.2.
Kobe Steel, Ltd's total revenue sank by 2.2% to $435B since the same quarter in the previous year.
Its net income has increased by 40.9% to $19B since the same quarter in the previous year.
Based on the above factors, Kobe Steel, Ltd gets an overall score of 3/5.