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Valuation & Risks ( 6113 ) Disclosure / Price Chart(s) / Valuation & Risk
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Rather than any profit-based metric, given the inherent volatility of earnings and the over-capitalized balance sheet, we set our target price with reference to Amada's PBR. Amada’s forward FY Bloomberg consensus forecast basis PBR has largely ranged from 0.7x to 1.3x since 2014. We set our target price on a FY3/27E PBR of 0.9x. In addition to the outlook for RoE improvement, we also consider prospects for the bottoming and recovery of the order cycle and the firm’s increasingly active shareholder returns (buybacks). Our target price corresponds to a FY3/27E PER of c14x with a dividend yield of 3%.


Downside risks to our target price include: a global manufacturing recession; a reduction in the Japanese government's various subsidy schemes to promote equipment purchases by local SMEs; yen strength (particularly against the euro) hurting price competitiveness relative to competitors in Europe; weaker-than-expected growth of demand for fiber lasers in Japan, North America, and other markets; and more aggressive discounting by Chinese OEMs in global markets. On the upside, any additional share buyback announcements could boost the shares, as could higher-than-expected spending on hardware and IoT by SMEs in Japan. Yen appreciation could also lift the shares. If these or other factors manifest themselves to a greater extent than we have anticipated, the share price may differ from our target price.

 

 

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