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Kintetsu Department Store Co.Ltd.
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Rating:72Outperform
Price Target:
¥2,016.00
▲(9.98% Upside)
Action:Upgraded
Date:08/04/26
The score is driven primarily by improving financial performance—meaningful deleveraging, restored profitability, and stronger recent free cash flow—tempered by thin/variable margins. Valuation is reasonable at ~13x earnings but the dividend yield is modest. Technicals are mixed, with intermediate trend support but softer near-term positioning and neutral momentum readings.
Positive Factors
Sharply reduced leverage
Meaningful deleveraging to ~0.05 debt-to-equity and a larger equity base materially increases financial flexibility, lowers interest burden and improves resilience to revenue shocks, enabling sustainable reinvestment or strategic moves over the next several quarters.
Negative Factors
Thin and volatile margins
Persistently thin and historically volatile margins make earnings and cash generation sensitive to cost inflation, pricing pressure or demand swings; this reduces margin of safety and makes multi-quarter profit predictability harder for capital allocation decisions.
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Positive Factors
Negative Factors
Sharply reduced leverage
Meaningful deleveraging to ~0.05 debt-to-equity and a larger equity base materially increases financial flexibility, lowers interest burden and improves resilience to revenue shocks, enabling sustainable reinvestment or strategic moves over the next several quarters.
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Kintetsu Department Store Co.Ltd. (8244) vs. iShares MSCI Japan ETF (EWJ)
Market Cap
¥74.70B
Dividend Yield1.08%
Average Volume (3M)44.29K
Price to Earnings (P/E)13.1
Beta (1Y)0.35
Revenue Growth6.67%
EPS Growth165.24%
CountryJP
Employees1,954
SectorGeneral
Sector StrengthN/A
IndustryDepartment Stores
Share Statistics
EPS (TTM)140.77
Shares Outstanding40,437,940
10 Day Avg. Volume51,790
30 Day Avg. Volume44,293
Financial Highlights & Ratios
PEG Ratio2.99
Price to Book (P/B)1.57
Price to Sales (P/S)0.57
P/FCF Ratio6.50
Enterprise Value/Market CapN/A
Enterprise Value/RevenueN/A
Enterprise Value/Gross ProfitN/A
Enterprise Value/EbitdaN/A
Forecast
1Y Price TargetN/A
Price Target UpsideN/A
Rating ConsensusN/A
Number of Analyst Covering0
EPS Forecast (FY)N/A
Revenue Forecast (FY)N/A
Kintetsu Department Store Co.Ltd. Business Overview & Revenue Model
Company Description
Kintetsu Department Store Co., Ltd. (8244) is a Japan-based retailer primarily engaged in the operation of department stores. The company provides a broad assortment of consumer goods through its department store formats, including apparel, access...
How the Company Makes Money
The company makes money mainly by selling merchandise through its department stores. Its core revenue stream is retail sales across multiple product categories (e.g., fashion items, cosmetics, food, and other lifestyle goods), where earnings are g...
Kintetsu Department Store Co.Ltd. Financial Statement Overview
Summary
Income Statement
72
Positive
Balance Sheet
84
Very Positive
Cash Flow
78
Positive
| Breakdown | TTM | Feb 2026 | Feb 2025 | Feb 2024 | Feb 2023 | Feb 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Income Statement | ||||||
| Total Revenue | 125.08B | 125.45B | 115.11B | 113.51B | 107.85B | 98.15B |
| Gross Profit | 63.72B | 58.94B | 53.30B | 50.19B | 47.69B | 42.67B |
| EBITDA | 12.71B | 11.19B | 10.17B | 9.63B | 7.97B | 5.26B |
| Net Income | 5.64B | 3.71B | 3.48B | 2.78B | 1.89B | -775.00M |
Balance Sheet | ||||||
| Total Assets | 122.22B | 124.75B | 115.86B | 116.59B | 119.30B | 120.08B |
| Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments | 4.38B | 4.66B | 2.59B | 3.73B | 3.24B | 4.10B |
| Total Debt | 5.75B | 2.32B | 4.81B | 6.27B | 12.86B | 17.43B |
| Total Liabilities | 75.73B | 78.92B | 77.28B | 79.27B | 84.71B | 86.77B |
| Stockholders Equity | 46.49B | 45.83B | 38.58B | 37.32B | 34.59B | 33.31B |
Cash Flow | ||||||
| Free Cash Flow | 0.00 | 11.10B | 2.79B | 7.06B | 4.91B | -141.00M |
| Operating Cash Flow | 0.00 | 15.23B | 6.73B | 10.17B | 7.56B | 2.50B |
| Investing Cash Flow | 0.00 | -12.49B | -3.90B | -2.19B | -3.02B | -3.30B |
| Financing Cash Flow | 0.00 | -669.00M | -3.97B | -7.49B | -5.40B | -715.00M |
Kintetsu Department Store Co.Ltd. Peers Comparison
UnderperformOutperform
Sector (55)
Name | Overall Rating | Market Cap | P/E Ratio | ROE | Dividend Yield | Revenue Growth | EPS Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
80 Outperform | ¥1.26T | 16.73 | 12.81% | 1.90% | -1.78% | 51.07% | |
72 Outperform | ¥74.70B | 13.14 | ― | 1.09% | 6.67% | 165.24% | |
68 Neutral | ¥349.30B | 11.12 | 9.80% | 2.01% | -0.23% | -17.40% | |
60 Neutral | ¥740.65B | 26.91 | 6.72% | 1.76% | -2.32% | -30.08% | |
59 Neutral | ¥669.41B | -179.46 | -0.88% | 1.52% | 1.79% | -114.35% | |
59 Neutral | ¥1.05T | 11.48 | 9.98% | 1.67% | 2.96% | 13.23% | |
55 Neutral | $6.65B | 3.83 | -15.92% | 6.20% | 10.91% | 7.18% |
* General Sector Average
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