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Japanese fabless chip designer making custom SoCs (ASICs) for automotive, imaging, networking and industrial customers.
Japanese fabless chip designer making custom SoCs (ASICs) for automotive, imaging, networking and industrial customers.
Customers hire it to design a chip for their product, paying engineering fees upfront, then buy the chips in volume once the product ships; outside foundries make them, as it owns no factories. Formed in 2015 by combining the system-chip arms of Fujitsu and Panasonic, it listed in 2022.
In one line: A Japanese fabless ASIC house, akin to Broadcom's custom-silicon business.
Moat: narrow (customer qualification, process know-how). Design-in relationships and multi-year automotive qualification cycles are costly for customers to switch.
Headquarters: Yokohama, Japan · Founded: 2015 · Employees: 2,469
Size Socionext (6526.T) is a Japan Industrials company (Semiconductors) with a market value of $1.78B, the 520th largest of 1,379 Japan companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ¥1,556 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares fell 16.3%, against -0.4% for the median peer and +1.8% for the Japan market (cap-weighted) — 4th lowest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 20.7% over the last twelve months (peer median +7.8%); the operating margin is 4.8% (peer median 8.6%).
Valuation It trades at 21.1× forward earnings against a peer median of 11.1× (2nd most expensive of 20).
Capital Return on invested capital runs 9.9 points below its cost of capital (16.0% WACC).
Next results Next results expected around 29 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ¥213B | ¥201B | ¥189B | ¥221B | ¥193B |
| Revenue growth | — | +7% | -15% | +15% | — |
| Gross profit | ¥93.0B | ¥89.8B | ¥104B | ¥110B | ¥88.8B |
| EBITDA | ¥29.3B | ¥29.3B | ¥41.2B | ¥48.9B | ¥33.8B |
| Net income | ¥8.20B | ¥8.73B | ¥19.6B | ¥26.1B | ¥19.8B |
| Free cash flow | -¥14.4B | -¥7.16B | ¥19.1B | ¥41.0B | ¥5.39B |
| Capital expenditure | ¥32.5B | ¥22.9B | ¥16.6B | ¥23.1B | ¥19.8B |
| Total debt | ¥8.10B | ¥1.56B | ¥1.63B | ¥2.04B | ¥0 |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socionext 6526.T | $1.78B | -16% | +21% | 5% | 21.1× | n/a |
| Renesas Electronics 6723.T | $27.9B | -23% | +26% | 24% | 9.9× | 12.2% |
| Mediatek 2454.TW | $164B | +7% | +6% | 15% | 24.7× | 40.7% |
| Marvell Technology MRVL | $124B | -17% | +31% | 17% | 25.0× | 54.4% |
| Broadcom AVGO | $1.40T | -32% | +49% | 49% | 16.9× | 26.6% |
Peer set: Sector in the same market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | 6526.T | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | -31.1% | -4.7% | 3rd lowest of 21 |
| 6-month return | -16.3% | -0.4% | 4th lowest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -54.9% | -22.8% | 2nd lowest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +20.7% | +7.8% | 2nd highest of 21 |
| Operating margin | 4.8% | 8.6% | 3rd lowest of 21 |
| Forward P/E | 21.1× | 11.1× | 2nd most expensive of 20 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | -9.9 pp | +3.3 pp | lowest of 21 |
| EV / EBITDA | 9.1× | 7.2× | 5th most expensive of 17 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | -0.5× | 0.2× | 7th least indebted of 19 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socionext 6526.T | Japan | $1.78B | -16% | +21% | 5% | 21.1× | n/a | n/a |
| Konica Minolta 4902.T | Japan | $1.79B | +14% | 0% | 5% | 9.7× | -5.6% | +4.7% |
| Happinet 7552.T | Japan | $1.82B | +133% | +19% | 3% | 16.2× | -4.1% | +11.1% |
| Inaba Denkisangyo 9934.T | Japan | $1.82B | -4% | +15% | 8% | n/a | -11.9% | +8.5% |
| SHO BOND 1414.T | Japan | $1.71B | -6% | -2% | 23% | 16.3× | -7.5% | +2.2% |
| SWCC 5805.T | Japan | $1.71B | +1% | +21% | 11% | 11.1× | 6.4% | +11.4% |
| Chudenko 1941.T | Japan | $1.71B | +3% | +9% | 12% | 11.0× | -8.6% | +4.3% |
| Sumitomo Warehouse 9303.T | Japan | $1.87B | +4% | +2% | 6% | 16.3× | 11.3% | +0.4% |
| Nisshinbo 3105.T | Japan | $1.87B | -9% | +2% | 7% | 11.5× | 3.6% | +1.9% |
| OSG 6136.T | Japan | $1.88B | -2% | +20% | 18% | 11.4× | 1.7% | +9.0% |
| Tsubakimoto Chain 6371.T | Japan | $1.68B | +7% | +20% | 8% | 10.3× | 2.0% | +8.9% |
| ARE 5857.T | Japan | $1.89B | +1% | +38% | 7% | 9.3× | 2.0% | +29.4% |
| Japan Elevator Service 6544.T | Japan | $1.65B | -9% | +17% | 19% | 29.3× | 4.0% | +18.6% |
| BIC Cameras 3048.T | Japan | $1.94B | +10% | +7% | 4% | 15.2× | -8.2% | +4.5% |
| HAZAMA ANDO 1719.T | Japan | $1.94B | -11% | +4% | 8% | 9.8× | -11.7% | +4.5% |
| Namura Shipbuilding 7014.T | Japan | $1.62B | -9% | +7% | 19% | 9.9× | -3.1% | +10.1% |
| PILOT 7846.T | Japan | $1.62B | +33% | +7% | 14% | 14.6× | -3.8% | +7.7% |
| Meidensha 6508.T | Japan | $1.96B | -20% | +12% | 10% | 11.0× | 5.1% | +7.1% |
| FP Corporation 7947.T | Japan | $1.61B | +35% | +4% | 9% | 15.5× | -1.0% | +5.1% |
| MIRAIT ONE 1417.T | Japan | $1.60B | -24% | +5% | 6% | 10.4× | -5.7% | +5.4% |
| Mitsui ES 7003.T | Japan | $1.98B | -45% | +12% | 11% | 8.7× | 16.0% | -11.3% |