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Hitachi

HTHIY
43
Conglomerates · Industrials
Price
$29.65
+0.52 (+1.79%)
Market Cap
$133.42B
Exchange
Other OTC
Winston Score
43
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
Data as of Jul 25, 2026 · filings through Mar 31, 2026

Share count falling — buybacks

6.1% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 4.84B (2022) → 4.54B (2026)

Hitachi is a large Japanese industrial company that makes a wide range of products and services, from trains and elevators to power grid equipment and data storage systems. Its main customers include governments, utilities, railways, manufacturers, and large businesses around the world. Hitachi is one of Japan's oldest and largest conglomerates, and it has spent recent years reshaping itself to focus on digital infrastructure and industrial technology rather than consumer electronics.

Hitachi earns money by selling hardware like railway systems and construction machinery, and by providing software and IT services that help businesses manage complex operations. It operates globally, with major revenue coming from Japan, North America, Europe, and Asia, and reported revenues of roughly $80 billion in recent fiscal years. Its biggest growth driver is its "Social Innovation Business" strategy, which bundles physical infrastructure with digital services — but the company faces risks from a strong yen, slowing global capital spending, and intense competition in industrial technology markets.

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Quality

Gross Margin
30.6%
Modest — 30.6% gross margin
Operating Margin
12.1%
Healthy — 12.1% operating margin
ROCE
5.0%
Weak — 5.0% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-13.2%
Shrinking sales (-13.2% YoY)
EPS YoY
+2.8%
Flat earnings

Single-digit earnings growth — steady but not exciting.

EPS Consistency
4/8 quarters
Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
271%
Turns 271% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
15.6%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (15.6%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.15
Conservative — low debt load (0.15)
Interest Cover
23.41x
Comfortably covers interest (23.4x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
0.2x
Attractive valuation — P/E 0.2

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

P/E vs Forward
+0.1
GROWING
Earnings roughly flat

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
1.03%
Small dividend — 1.03% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend Growth
-81.0%
Dividend cut (-81.0% YoY) — warning sign

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