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11-Year Summary of Consolidated Financial Data

You can view key financial data such as net sales, operating income and net sales by segment for the past 11 years. For the financial information in detail, please refer to the Annual Securities Report.

Consolidated 11-Year Summary Download
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Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. and Consolidated Subsidiaries

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Fiscal year ended 2022.3 2021.3 2020.3 2019.3 2018.3 2017.3
Results for the year (millions of yen)
Net sales ¥184,805 ¥173,381 ¥175,123 ¥172,639 ¥167,888 ¥159,117
Cost of sales 120,837 117,067 117,059 109,461 102,475 95,253
Selling, general and administrative expenses 42,916 41,124 40,587 43,238 42,791 44,213
Operating income 21,050 15,194 17,485 19,939 22,615 19,646
Profit before income taxes 23,700 17,523 18,141 21,283 22,061 22,397
Profit attributable to owners of parent 17,181 12,574 12,815 14,851 15,488 15,635
Amounts per share (yen)
Profit attributable to owners of parent 101.70 73.62 74.25 85.77 89.45 90.23
Cash dividend applicable to the year 40.00 30.00 30.00 30.00 30.00 30.00
Net assets 1,459.06 1,332.06 1,225.71 1,247.75 1,203.23 1,120.73
Year-end financial position (millions of yen)
Current assets 175,843 156,852 153,102 161,958 157,814 153,602
Current liabilities 45,760 37,491 38,800 41,412 42,746 41,321
Working capital 130,083 119,361 114,302 120,546 115,068 112,281
Property, plant and equipment 89,060 88,980 85,960 87,246 83,228 80,230
Total assets 315,459 294,535 278,496 293,571 285,600 272,791
Net assets 246,425 228,273 210,019 229,043 220,619 205,866
Year-end statistics
Number of shares issued (thousands) 170,503 177,503 177,503 182,503 182,503 182,503
Dividend payout ratio (%) 39.3 40.7 40.4 35.0 33.6 33.2
Number of round-lot shareholders 13,051 13,748 12,090 12,437 13,048 8,629
Number of employees 5,703 5,664 5,847 5,814 5,684 5,517
Financial ratios
Current ratio (times) 3.8 4.2 3.9 3.9 3.7 3.7
Equity ratio (%) 77.8 77.2 75.2 73.6 72.9 71.1
ROE (%) 7.3 5.8 6.0 7.0 7.7 8.2
ROA (%) 5.6 4.4 4.5 5.1 5.5 5.7
Sales by business segment (millions of yen)
Functional chemicals business 77,152 72,465 71,540 69,688 67,664 64,029
Functional materials 31,068 23,759 21,073 20,217 19,794 18,914
Color materials 22,402 22,323 26,118 22,168 21,023 20,057
Digital printing materials - - - - - –
Color chemicals - - - - - –
Catalysts 5,983 10,886 6,759 6,406 5,650 4,188
Polatechno Division 17,696 15,495 – – – –
Polatechno Group – – 17,589 20,896 21,196 20,869
Electronic materials - - – – - –
Pharmaceuticals business 52,083 50,441 47,774 46,231 47,485 47,648
Safety systems business 46,112 41,997 46,990 47,218 43,937 38,782
Other businesses 9,456 8,477 8,817 9,500 8,800 8,657
Agrochemicals 7,404 6,444 6,820 7,460 6,735 6,572
Other 2,051 2,032 1,997 2,040 2,065 2,084
Fiscal year ended 2016.3 2015.3 2014.3 2013.3※2 2012.5
Results for the year (millions of yen)
Net sales ¥162,922 ¥161,861 ¥160,080 ¥128,104 ¥147,109
Cost of sales 96,653 94,664 90,645 73,757 84,690
Selling, general and administrative expenses 44,570 44,890 45,332 37,278 43,031
Operating income 21,713 22,301 24,090 17,066 19,398
Profit before income taxes 25,148 23,972 25,388 19,816 18,427
Profit attributable to owners of parent 17,291 15,653 16,718 12,342 11,401
Amounts per share (yen)
Profit attributable to owners of parent 96.09 86.38 92.25 68.09 62.89
Cash dividend applicable to the year 30.00 25.00 25.00 20.00 20.00
Net assets 1,075.56 1,030.16 918.35 828.87 745.30
Year-end financial position (millions of yen)
Current assets 151,170 141,282 141,843 131,553 121,400
Current liabilities 39,740 38,915 41,271 39,857 38,909
Working capital 111,430 102,367 100,572 91,696 82,491
Property, plant and equipment 81,040 81,576 75,166 67,183 61,526
Total assets 272,679 265,126 247,592 224,705 204,674
Net assets 200,492 199,680 177,935 160,454 144,019
Year-end statistics
Number of shares issued (thousands) 182,503 182,503 182,503 182,503 182,503
Dividend payout ratio (%) 31.2 28.9 27.1 29.4 31.8
Number of round-lot shareholders 10,815 9,257 10,174 12,516 14,597
Number of employees 5,188 5,165 4,794 4,619 4,583
Financial ratios
Current ratio (times) 3.8 3.6 3.4 3.3 3.1
Equity ratio (%) 69.3 70.4 67.2 66.9 66.0
ROE (%) 9.2 8.9 10.6 8.7 8.7
ROA (%) 6.4 6.1 7.1 5.7 5.6
Sales by business segment (millions of yen)
Functional chemicals business 68,788 73,558 73,610 60,320 68,149
Functional materials 18,398 18,559 18,378 10,929 12,363
Color materials 21,229 – – – –
Digital printing materials – 12,130 12,090 – –
Color chemicals – 9,909 9,536 7,195 8,599
Catalysts 4,990 7,525 8,710 6,303 8,163
Polatechno Division – – – – –
Polatechno Group 24,172 25,434 24,896 – –
Electronic materials – – – 35,895 39,025
Pharmaceuticals business 50,200 48,932 50,898 41,115 49,389
Safety systems business 35,342 30,485 27,086 18,785 20,202
Other businesses 8,590 8,884 8,485 7,882 9,368
Agrochemicals 6,519 6,696 6,245 5,771 6,901
Other 2,072 2,188 2,240 2,110 2,467
  • *1 Consolidated fiscal year ended March 31 or May 31
  • *2 The closing date of accounts was changed from May 31 to March 31 beginning from the fiscal period ended March 31, 2013. As a result, the term of consolidation for the fiscal period ended March 31, 2013 consists of the 10 months from June 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013 for Nippon Kayaku and some of its subsidiaries.

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