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Tokyo Electron Limited
TYO:8035 · TYO · Semiconductors
Tokyo Electron Limited is one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturing equipment companies, headquartered in Japan and supplying many of the tools required to produce advanced logic and memory chips.
Current price
¥11,240.00
▼ −¥315.00 (2.73%) today
Share price
Live market data▲ +5552.00 (+97.61%)2025-10-14 — 2026-10-14
ET&A View
Last reviewed 17 September 2026
Buy
ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.
Fair Value
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12M Price Target
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Preferred Entry
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ET&A Score
8.9/ 10Strong overall
Tokyo Electron is one of the highest-quality semiconductor-equipment franchises globally, with leading positions across several of the most technically demanding steps in semiconductor manufacturing and unusually strong exposure…
Is it expensive?
Why we like it
- Holds more cash than debt.
- Very profitable — keeps about 29% of its sales as profit.
- Turns about 12% of its sales into spare cash.
What worries us
- The share price swings more than most.
Business Health
Is the business financially healthy?
Yes — healthy
Margins, cash generation and the balance sheet stand out.
Overall
Strong
- Growth Average
Revenue
¥2.63tn · ↑ +0% last year
- Growth Good
Earnings
¥621.0bn · ↑ +6% last year
- Excellent
Margins
Keeps 29% of sales as operating profit
- Strong
Cash generation
¥320.3bn spare cash a year · 12% of sales
- Excellent
Balance sheet
More cash than debt
- Yield Strong
Dividend
4.0% yield · Pays out 46% of earnings · covered 2.2×
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Tokyo Electron is one of the highest-quality semiconductor-equipment franchises globally, with leading positions across several of the most technically demanding steps in semiconductor manufacturing and unusually strong…
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- Our View in full
- What could drive it higher / go wrong
- Fair Value & Preferred Entry
- How our view has changed
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What could drive it higher — and what could go wrongThe catalysts and risks we are watching.Members
Valuation discussionWhere today's price sits, and how it compares with the company's own history and its peers.Members
Financial and earnings trendsSales, margins, profit, earnings per share and cash, year by year.
Reported annual results, newest first · Market data. “Growth” is the change in sales on the year before.
| Year | Revenue | Growth | Operating margin | Net income | EPS | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | ¥2.44tn | +0.5% | 25.6% | ¥574.5bn | ¥1250.88 | ¥320.3bn |
| FY2025 | ¥2.43tn | +32.8% | 28.7% | ¥544.1bn | — | ¥414.1bn |
| FY2024 | ¥1.83tn | −17.1% | 24.9% | ¥364.0bn | ¥781.20 | ¥309.7bn |
| FY2023 | ¥2.21tn | — | 28.0% | ¥471.6bn | ¥1003.86 | ¥350.0bn |
| FY2022 | — | — | — | — | ¥931.30 | — |
Next earningsFri, 30 Oct 2026Earnings calendar →
Who it suitsStrategy suitability and investment style.
Long-term growth investors
Also suits: Adventurous investors comfortable with big swings
How it compares with peersOther companies we cover in Semiconductors.
- Nvidia CorpNVDA
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- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSM)TSM
ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.
- Broadcom IncAVGO
ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.
- SK hynix IncSKHY
ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.
Compare Tokyo Electron Limited with any company → The model’s own peer calculations are in the Research View.
What the company doesThe full company profile.
Tokyo Electron Limited is one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturing equipment companies, headquartered in Japan and supplying many of the tools required to produce advanced logic and memory chips. The company develops equipment used across critical stages of semiconductor fabrication, including photoresist coating and developing, etching, deposition, cleaning, thermal processing, and wafer testing. Its systems are used by leading semiconductor manufacturers globally, giving Tokyo Electron significant exposure to investment in advanced foundries, memory production, and next-generation chip manufacturing.
Tokyo Electron’s strength comes from its technological leadership, deep relationships with major semiconductor producers, and strong positions in several highly specialised parts of the chipmaking process. The company sits at the centre of long-term themes including artificial intelligence, advanced computing, high-bandwidth memory, smaller process nodes, 3D semiconductor architectures, and increasingly complex chip manufacturing. As producing leading-edge semiconductors requires more processing steps and increasingly sophisticated equipment, Tokyo Electron is positioned to benefit from rising semiconductor capital expenditure and the growing technical intensity of global chip production.
Semiconductors · Japan
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Financial statementsEvery published figure with its source, the market snapshot and connected sheets.
Income
- Revenue
- ¥2.63tnMarket data
- Gross profit
- ¥1.20tnMarket data
- EBITDA
- ¥778.3bnMarket data
- Operating profit (EBIT)
- ¥624.9bnMarket data
- Net income
- ¥621.0bnMarket data
- Earnings per share (EPS)
- ¥263.52Market data
Growth
- Revenue growth, latest year
- Below Average0.5%Calculated
- Revenue growth, 3-year average
- Average3.4%Calculated
- Earnings growth, latest year
- Good5.6%Calculated
- Earnings growth, 3-year average
- Good6.8%Calculated
- Revenue growth, latest quarter vs a year earlier
- 33.3%Market data
- Earnings growth, latest quarter vs a year earlier
- 40.4%Market data
Margins & returns
- Gross margin
- Strong45.6%Market data
- EBITDA margin
- 29.6%Market data
- Operating margin
- Excellent28.9%Market data
- Net margin
- Excellent23.6%Market data
- Return on equity (ROE)
- Excellent30.9%Market data
- Return on assets (ROA)
- 15.8%Market data
Cash flow
- Operating cash flow
- ¥583.5bnMarket data
- Free cash flow
- ¥320.3bnMarket data
- Free-cash-flow margin
- Strong12.2%Calculated
- Free cash flow ÷ net income
- 0.5×Calculated
Balance sheet
- Cash
- ¥409.6bnMarket data
- Total debt
- ¥0Market data
- Net cash (more cash than debt)
- ¥409.6bnMarket data
- Net debt ÷ EBITDA
- Excellent−0.5×Calculated
- Current ratio
- 2.6×Market data
Shares & dividends
- Shares outstanding
- 454.0mMarket data
- Market capitalisation
- ¥4.87tnMarket data
- Dividend per share
- ¥125.60Market data
- Dividend yield
- Strong4.0%Market data
- Payout ratio
- 46.4%Market data
- Market data — the live feed (Yahoo Finance)
- Calculated — worked out by ET&A from the figures shown, using the formulas in our methodology
Other published figures
- Price / Sales
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- EV / EBITDA
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- Price / Book
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- Forward P/E
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Market data
LivePrice¥11,240.00
Day−¥315.00 (−2.73%)
52-week range¥5,688.00 – ¥15,760.00
vs 52-week low+97.61%
vs 52-week high−28.68%
As of 14 October 2026
- P/E Ratio
- 40.68x
Valuation multiplesP/E, forward P/E, EV/EBITDA, Price/Sales and FCF yield — today and at Fair Value.Members
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Other published measures
- Price / Book
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Historical dataValuation history, how our view has changed, and the share-price history.
Share-price history
Use the 5Y and Max ranges on the price chart at the top of the page.
ForecastsWhat analysts expect — market consensus, not ET&A estimates.
Forecasts
- Forward EPS (next year, consensus)
- ¥1280.20Market data
- Expected EPS growth, next year
- Excellent385.8%Calculated
- Expected revenue growth, next year
- 54.5%Market data
Forecasts are market consensus or calculated from forward EPS — not ET&A estimates, and they can be wrong.
MethodologyHow ET&A values a company and reaches a view.
How we value Tokyo Electron Limited
- 1. The right method for the business. Each business is valued on the method that suits its economics — earnings for most companies, book value and returns for banks and insurers, cash flows or dividends where earnings mislead.
- 2. What the business deserves. ET&A builds a fair multiple from the company's own quality, sustainable growth, earnings predictability and risk. History, peers and the market are checked against it, but they don't set it.
- 3. Fair Value. The earnings (or other basis) per share multiplied by that fair multiple, cross-checked against independent methods.
- 4. Preferred Entry. A price below Fair Value that leaves room for the return ET&A requires for the company's risk.
- 5. Is it expensive? Today’s price is placed on ET&A’s Valuation Attractiveness scale — the same measure the ET&A Score uses. Cheap is the Preferred Entry; above Fair Value the shares are Expensive, and Very Expensive once they are more than 25% above it.
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Read the full ET&A methodology →How we reach a view
The ET&A View combines our assessment of the business with where today’s price sits against our Preferred Entry and Fair Value. It is a considered judgement, not a mechanical score.
- Business quality
- Financial performance
- Growth outlook
- Debt and financial strength
- Valuation
- Risk
- What could drive it higher
- Buy
- ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.
- Accumulate
- ET&A likes the company but would prefer investors to build exposure gradually.
- Hold
- ET&A sees limited reason to buy aggressively or sell at the current price.
- Reduce
- ET&A believes the current valuation or risk profile makes a smaller position more appropriate.
- Sell
- ET&A believes the downside risk materially outweighs the potential return at the current price.
ET&A Score: ET&A's overall assessment of business quality, valuation, growth and risk, out of 10. It weighs business quality, financial strength, growth, valuation, risk, future prospects.
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Scoring calculationsBehind the ET&A Score and the Business Health ratings.
Behind the ET&A Score
The automatic, rules-based scores that feed our research. The ET&A Score blends these with our own analysis of the business and its value. How the framework works →
ET&A Quant Score
Strong
Highly profitable · Strong balance sheet · Strong
Profitability & margins · Highly profitable7.9
Balance sheet · Strong balance sheet9.0
Price momentum · Strong10.0
Context — not part of the score
- Valuation multiplesPriced on the high side
- Share-price steadinessVery high volatility
- IncomeModerate yield
Valuation and share-price swings describe the shares, not the company, so they are judged in the ET&A Score and View instead.
- Annualised volatility
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- Max drawdown (1y)
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- 12-month return
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- 3-month return
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- P/E
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- Price / Sales
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- EV / EBITDA
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- EBITDA margin
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- Net debt / EBITDA
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- Dividend yield
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The detailed figures behind these scores — price swings, past falls, returns, valuation and margins — are part of ET&A membership. View plans
Based on the factors that could be measured (45% of the model).
Business Health ratings
Each area is scored from 0 to 10 on ET&A’s methodology scales — the same ones our research uses — then given a word: Excellent from 8.5, Strong from 7, Good from 5.5, Average from 4.5, Below Average from 3, Weak below 3. The overall answer is the average of the areas we could rate (at least three); the dividend isn’t part of it.
| Area | Based on | Score | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue |
Rated on 3-year average revenue growth, on ET&A's growth scale. | 5.0 / 10 | Average |
| Earnings |
Rated on 3-year average earnings growth, on ET&A's growth scale. | 6.0 / 10 | Good |
| Margins |
The average of operating and net margin, each scored on ET&A's margin scales. A negative margin scores 1 (Weak). | 8.6 / 10 | Excellent |
| Cash generation |
Free cash flow as a share of sales, on ET&A's cash-generation scale. | 8.0 / 10 | Strong |
| Balance sheet |
Net debt ÷ EBITDA — roughly how many years of operating earnings would repay the debt — on ET&A's leverage scale. | 9.3 / 10 | Excellent |
| Dividend |
Dividend yield on ET&A's income scale. Not part of the overall health rating. | 7.0 / 10 | Strong |
| Overall | Average of the 5 rated areas | 7.4 / 10 | Strong |
ET&A's scales
Where each band starts on the scales above. They are fixed and identical for every company we cover; they come straight from ET&A’s methodology, so a company is judged the same way here as in our research.
| Measure | Excellent | Strong | Good | Average | Below Average | Weak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GrowthStructural Growth (Fundamental Conviction) | 18%+ | 10%+ | 5.0%+ | 1.7%+ | −2.5%+ | below −2.5% |
| Operating marginCompetitive Position (Fundamental Conviction) | 29%+ | 20%+ | 13%+ | 7.5%+ | 0%+ | below 0% (loss) |
| Net marginEarnings Durability (Fundamental Conviction) | 23%+ | 15%+ | 9.8%+ | 6.0%+ | 0%+ | below 0% (loss) |
| Free-cash-flow marginCapital Allocation (Fundamental Conviction) | 15%+ | 8.5%+ | 3.8%+ | 1.3%+ | −2.5%+ | below −2.5% |
| Net debt ÷ EBITDAStructural Risk (Fundamental Conviction) | net cash | ≤ 1.5× | ≤ 2.8× | ≤ 3.6× | ≤ 5.0× | above 5.0× |
| Return on equity (banks & insurers)Bank and insurer quality | 16%+ | 12%+ | 9.0%+ | 6.7%+ | 2.7%+ | below 2.7% |
| Equity ÷ assetsBank capital | 7.5%+ | 6.0%+ | 4.7%+ | 4.0%+ | any | — |
| Dividend yieldIncome factor (ET&A Quant Score) | 5.8%+ | 4.0%+ | 2.5%+ | 1.8%+ | 1.0%+ | below 1.0% |
Band floors: Excellent 8.5 · Strong 7 · Good 5.5 · Average 4.5 · Below Average 3 (scores out of 10). Utilities and property companies’ structural debt is scored 6.5, as in ET&A’s risk model.
Valuation model outputsFair Value, the 12-Month Price Target, Preferred Entry and the expected return — and how each was calculated.Members
Peer calculationsThe comparable companies the valuation model used, with their multiples and returns.Members
Detailed assumptionsEvery input the valuation model used, with its source.Members
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