Kubota Corporation (KUBTY) Stock

About Kubota Corporation

Kubota Corporation, established in 1890 and headquartered in Osaka, Japan, is a diversified global manufacturer providing machinery and comprehensive solutions for the food, water, and environmental sectors. Its expansive operations span Japan, North America, Europe, Asia, and various international markets. The company's activities are structured across three primary business segments: The Farm & Industrial Machinery division delivers a broad range of products, including agricultural equipment such as tractors, combine harvesters, rice transplanters, power tillers, and turf machinery. It also supplies utility vehicles, implements, post-harvest and vegetable production gear, specialized facilities for drying, seedling, and gardening, alongside rice mill plants. This segment further encompasses weighing and measurement control systems, air purifiers, and engines powering agricultural, construction, and industrial machinery, as well as generators. For construction, it produces mini excavators, wheel and skid steer loaders, and compact track loaders. The Water & Environment segment focuses on infrastructure and resource management. Its offerings comprise ductile iron and plastic pipes, valves, and single stack drain fittings, complemented by related design and construction services. This division also provides industrial components such as reformer and cracking tubes, hearth and steel mill rolls, TXAX friction materials, and spiral welded steel pipes, in addition to air-conditioning systems. Environmental solutions include wastewater treatment plants and equipment, pumps, advanced membrane technologies, flue gas desulfurization apparatus, membrane methane fermentation plants, and bathtubs. Large-scale public utility projects managed by this segment involve water purification, night-soil treatment, and comprehensive waste management facilities for incineration, melting, shredding, and sorting. The Other segment covers logistics services and provides essential building materials like roofing and siding. Beyond its core manufacturing, Kubota extends its activities to include non-life insurance underwriting, financial services such as leasing and factoring, building maintenance, security services, and various aspects of transportation, storage, distribution, and cargo handling. It also manages the import and export of spare parts for its diverse range of machinery. Customer reach is primarily achieved through an extensive global network of authorized dealers.

Kubota Corporation is headquartered in JP.

Kubota Corporation (KUBTY) stock trades at $85.07 with a market capitalization of $19.38B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 14.44, price-to-book of 1.17, price-to-sales of 1.01. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $55.13 and $107.97, and currently trades 21.2% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 4.46%.

On profitability, Kubota Corporation generates a return on equity (ROE) of 8.59%, return on capital employed of 6.95%, an operating margin of 10.04%, a net profit margin of 7.02%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Kubota Corporation reported annual revenue of $3.17T, net profit of $195.7B, revenue has compounded at 11.3% a year over the last five years, profit at 8.8% a year.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.85, a current ratio of 1.70, total assets of $6.21T, $277.1B in cash and equivalents.

KUBTY has an average daily trading volume of 23,801 shares, a beta of 0.82.

Official website: www.kubota.co.jp