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Valqua Ltd.7995.TCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

Japan · JPY·Industrials›Industrial Machinery
Momentum laggard 15
Mkt cap
$611M
US dollars, full cap
Free float
79%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$3.69M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
10.2×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-0.1 pp
WACC 11.3%
Hurdle
+6 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
88 days
2 Feb 2027
Close · JPY¥5,450
1D-4.4%
1W-15.5%
1M-26.9%
3M-18.3%
6M-5.9%
YTD+34.2%
1Y+44.4%
ATR %5.9%
52w lowhigh37.1% off high

What Valqua does

Employees: 1,582

Valqua at a glance

Size Valqua (7995.T) is a Japan Industrials company (Industrial Machinery) with a market value of $611M, the 970th largest of 1,379 Japan companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ¥5,450 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 5.9%, against -13.6% for the median peer and +1.8% for the Japan market (cap-weighted) — 10th highest of 20 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 15.4% over the last twelve months (peer median +10.6%); the operating margin is 15.1% (peer median 7.7%).

Valuation It trades at 10.2× forward earnings against a peer median of 19.2× (cheapest of 12).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 11% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +6%, so the hurdle is +6 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 0.1 points below its cost of capital (11.3% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 2 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

8010012014011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 20267995.T 96Peer median 86
Six months, rebased to 100: Valqua against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Valqua financials

Reported figures in JPY; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue¥65.9B¥58.6B¥60.1B¥61.7B¥62.2B
Revenue growth—-3%-3%-1%—
Gross profit¥28.7B¥25.0B¥23.8B¥25.3B¥25.7B
EBITDA¥17.0B¥9.96B¥8.47B¥9.71B¥11.6B
Net income¥8.11B¥5.13B¥4.68B¥4.91B¥6.75B
Free cash flown/a¥572M-¥1.56B-¥2.10B¥2.06B
Capital expendituren/a¥4.95B¥6.97B¥4.82B¥2.68B
Total debt¥14.3B¥17.0B¥14.5B¥11.0B¥6.72B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Valqua competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%-25%0%+25%+50%-40%-20%0%3010284506301081002903688665LSC6884190025596104603726MANINDS001223301591687730006600241859430899707995.T6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Valqua is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+50%+100%+150%0×100×200×300×4506002903688665688419610468770899707995.TRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Valqua is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+20%0%20%4506688665LSC6884196277002559603726687759430899707995.TGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Valqua is the large dot.

Valqua competitors and peer comparison

How Valqua compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Valqua against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
Measure7995.TPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-26.9%-9.1%3rd lowest of 21
6-month return-5.9%-13.6%10th highest of 20
Distance from 52-week high-37.1%-41.1%9th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+15.4%+10.6%7th highest of 21
Operating margin15.1%7.7%6th highest of 21
Forward P/E10.2×19.2×cheapest of 12
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)11.3%6.8%5th most demanding of 11
Growth delivered (Del g)+5.5%+7.4%3rd lowest of 11
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+5.7 pp+2.4 pp4th most demanding of 11
ROIC minus cost of capital-0.1 pp-4.6 pp8th highest of 21
EV / EBITDA5.8×9.9×2nd cheapest of 9
Net debt / EBITDA0.2×-1.7×3rd most indebted of 10

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Valqua 7995.TJapan$611M-6%+15%15%10.2×11.3%+5.5%
Xiamen Dingrongyan Technology 301028.SZChina$614M-25%+15%16%n/an/an/a
Gfc 4506.TWOTaiwan$608M-5%+4%22%17.2×-9.7%+6.5%
Yanpai Filtration Technology 301081.SZChina$607M+9%+16%3%n/an/an/a
Yuhuan CNC Machine Tool 002903.SZChina$616M-28%-26%-18%335.0×n/an/a
Robotphoenix Intelligent Technology 6871.HKHong Kong$606Mn/a+45%-38%n/an/an/a
Cubic Sensor and Instrument 688665.SSChina$603M-19%+6%12%24.1×30.0%+27.3%
London Security LSC.LUnited Kingdom$602M+16%+12%13%n/a-7.1%+9.9%
Nextool Technology 688419.SSChina$621M-14%+36%24%23.7×34.4%+11.8%
Hosokawa Micron 6277.TJapan$601M+7%-1%5%14.6×14.6%+7.8%
Jiangsu Yawei Machine Tool 002559.SZChina$624M-25%+7%2%25.9×24.8%+6.9%
Shibaura Machine 6104.TJapan$597M+2%-22%2%41.3×n/an/a
Zhejiang Langdi 603726.SSChina$597M-14%-9%10%n/a9.6%+5.4%
Man Industries (India) MANINDS.NSIndia$629M+49%+11%11%19.2×n/an/a
OK Science & Technology 001223.SZChina$629M-19%+10%-5%n/an/an/a
Nanjing Comptech Composites 301591.SZChina$593M+18%+10%14%n/an/an/a
Obara 6877.TJapan$630M+12%+17%17%10.6×-0.2%+6.9%
Sanchuan Wisdom Technology 300066.SZChina$632M-35%+16%-1%n/an/an/a
Zhejiang Kangsheng 002418.SZChina$632M-34%+14%2%n/an/an/a
Noritz 5943.TJapan$633M-3%-1%2%12.8×4.1%+1.9%
VM Inc. 089970.KSSouth Korea$590M-44%+150%27%12.6×-0.3%+9.2%

Questions

Which companies are Valqua's closest peers?
The cockpit's peer set: Xiamen Dingrongyan Technology (301028.SZ), Gfc (4506.TWO), Yanpai Filtration Technology (301081.SZ), Yuhuan CNC Machine Tool (002903.SZ), Robotphoenix Intelligent Technology (6871.HK), Cubic Sensor and Instrument (688665.SS), London Security (LSC.L), Nextool Technology (688419.SS).
Is Valqua expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 10.2× against a peer median of 19.2×, cheapest of 12 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 11% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +6%, so the hurdle is +6 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Valqua stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -5.9% against -13.6% for the median peer; over one year +44.4%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.