# Kirin Holdings Company (2503.JP)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/2503.JP

Analysis as of: 2026-10-15T07:09:33.553Z. Financial observations: FY2012–FY2025.

Listing currency: JPY. Reporting currency: JPY.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: pass; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: JPY 2,918.00 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low JPY 1,440.35 per share, central JPY 1,731.23 per share, high JPY 2,004.61 per share. Buy at or below the central value JPY 1,731.23 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-15T07:09:33.553Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 7.1% at the stated quote. About 7.1% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; JP 10-year bond 2.9% + 4 points).

## Checklist

### understandable: pass

- 3 revenue declines in the last 10 years (informational)

- Financial history: 10 years

- Years with declining revenue: 3

- Years with a net loss: 0

- Operating margin variation: 0.30×

Chart: Operating margin; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 0.08×

- FY2018: 0.10×

- FY2019: 0.05×

- FY2020: 0.06×

- FY2021: 0.04×

- FY2022: 0.06×

- FY2023: 0.07×

- FY2024: 0.05×

- FY2025: 0.09×

### moat: fail

- ROIC median below threshold

- ROIC worst years below threshold (more than 1 bad year allowed)

- ROIC, median of available years: 7.7%

- ROIC, second-lowest year: 5.7%

- Years with nonpositive capital: 0

- Capital spending / revenue: 5.0%

- ROIC including acquisitions, ten-year median: 4.1%

- Typical minus recent gross margin: -1.6 pp

Chart: ROIC excluding acquisitions; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 9.9%

- FY2018: 17.3%

- FY2019: 5.9%

- FY2020: 7.7%

- FY2021: 4.5%

- FY2022: 7.7%

- FY2023: 9.1%

- FY2024: 5.7%

- FY2025: 10.1%

### economics: fail

- owner earnings cash conversion below threshold

- Owner earnings / net income, 5-yr: 0.72×

- Cash conversion uses consolidated totals: No

- Owner earnings, five-year total: JPY 352B

- Net income, five-year total: JPY 489B

- Return on incremental invested capital: 16.3%

- Working capital / revenue, annual change: -0.2 pp

- Working capital / revenue, final three-year average: 21.3%

Chart: Annual owner cash / profit; fiscal year observations.

- FY2021: 0.65×

- FY2022: 0.87×

- FY2023: 0.88×

- FY2024: 0.45×

- FY2025: 0.62×

### management: fail

- Historical market-dollar context (not the management verdict): 2016 to 2025 (9 years)

- buybacks unrelated to price (informational)

- Per-share earnings: 163.19 to 139.16 (three-year endpoint medians)

- per-share value declined or ends nonpositive

- Management verdict uses per-share economic progress: Yes

- Ordinary dilution, 10-year annual growth: -1.2%

- Ordinary dilution, 5-year annual growth: -0.7%

- Market cap gain: JPY 167B

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: -1.2%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: -0.7%

- $1 test, starting fiscal year: FY2016

- $1 test, ending fiscal year: FY2025

- Per-share value growth: -2.0%

- Per-share value change: JPY -24.03

- Per-share value, starting three-year median: JPY 163.19

- Per-share value, ending three-year median: JPY 139.16

- Average buyback yield: 0.0%

- Buyback history: 1 years

- Debt-funded buybacks: No

- Cumulative net income, 10 years: JPY 1.18T

- ROIC, last three-year median: 9.1%

Chart: Earnings per share; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: JPY 163.19

- FY2017: JPY 265.17

- FY2018: JPY 183.57

- FY2019: JPY 68.00

- FY2020: JPY 85.57

- FY2021: JPY 71.73

- FY2022: JPY 135.08

- FY2023: JPY 139.16

- FY2024: JPY 71.87

- FY2025: JPY 182.13

### accounting: pass

- Sloan accruals: -4.2%

- Receivables to sales index (DSRI): 1.02×

- Restructuring years, last five: 0

- Stock compensation / operating cash flow: 0.0%

- Earnings backed by cash: Yes

- Operating cash / earnings: 2.00×

- Accounting red flags: 0

- Goodwill and intangibles / equity: 0.95×

Chart: Sloan accruals; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: -3.4%

- FY2017: 0.8%

- FY2018: -1.5%

- FY2019: -4.9%

- FY2020: -3.8%

- FY2021: -6.5%

- FY2022: -1.0%

- FY2023: -3.2%

- FY2024: -5.5%

- FY2025: -4.2%

## Holders

## Price story

Price needs cash profits to grow 9.3% a year for ten years · sales +4.1%

Story as of 2026-10-16T10:00:13.968Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

Price needs cash profits to grow 9.3% a year for ten years

### Sales · FY2024–2025

sales +4.1%; source https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100XTVS.pdf; observed 2026-03-27.

- FY2016: JPY 1.85T 

- FY2017: JPY 1.86T 

- FY2018: JPY 1.93T 

- FY2019: JPY 1.94T 

- FY2020: JPY 1.85T 

- FY2021: JPY 1.82T 

- FY2022: JPY 1.99T 

- FY2023: JPY 2.13T 

- FY2024: JPY 2.34T 

- FY2025: JPY 2.43T 

### Gross margin · FY2025

gross margin 47.6%; source https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100XTVS.pdf; observed 2026-03-27.

- FY2016: 49.5% 

- FY2018: 43.2% 

- FY2019: 43.7% 

- FY2020: 43.5% 

- FY2021: 45.2% 

- FY2022: 45.5% 

- FY2023: 45.1% 

- FY2024: 45.6% 

- FY2025: 47.6% 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Annual sales are JPY 2.4 trillion.

- Source: https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100XTVS.pdf (filed 2026-03-27); FY2025: revenue 2433363000000; grossProfit 1158003000000; margin = grossProfit / revenue.

### Why customers stay

Margins ranged from 45.1% to 47.6% during 2023–25; it earns 7.7% on its capital.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-27); FY2023: grossProfit / revenue = 45.1%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-27); FY2024: grossProfit / revenue = 45.6%.

- Source: https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100XTVS.pdf (filed 2026-03-27); FY2025: grossProfit / revenue = 47.6%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-27); 10-year return on capital observations [[2016,0.09930692611851054],[2018,0.17344068199489435],[2019,0.05892430977497289],[2020,0.07682750370587296],[2021,0.04531755371836171],[2022,0.07743253970514687],[2023,0.0905616300280824],[2024,0.057414497705069144],[2025,0.10121246267792937]]; median 0.07743253970514687. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Can it raise prices

Kept about a 46% gross margin through 2022 cost inflation.

- Source: https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100XTVS.pdf (filed 2026-03-27); Gross margin observations: [[2021,0.4517213173251646],[2022,0.45525386686290004],[2023,0.45140046842357523]]; range within 2 percentage points.

### Where the cash goes

Spends 29.9% of cash earnings on expansion; earns 16.3% on new investment.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-27); FY2018: growth capex 19939000000; upkeep 67946000000; owner earnings 164202000000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.12142970243967796.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-27); FY2019: growth capex 3414107761.9041443; upkeep 92982892238.09586; owner earnings 38639435486.32686. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.08835811701007582.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-27); FY2020: growth capex 0; upkeep 93026000000; owner earnings 52142463943.02998. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-27); FY2021: growth capex 0; upkeep 86335000000; owner earnings 39146092160.645386. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-27); FY2022: growth capex 12542000000; upkeep 85937000000; owner earnings 96038107045.23166. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.13059399425785242.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-27); FY2023: growth capex 26583000000; upkeep 87227000000; owner earnings 98747526881.506. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.269201678659748.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-27); FY2024: growth capex 58060658918.40512; upkeep 122523341081.59488; owner earnings 26299219007.77331. Growth capex / owner earnings = 2.207695175329884.

- Source: https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100XTVS.pdf (filed 2026-03-27); FY2025: growth capex 27441290280.40811; upkeep 148150709719.5919; owner earnings 91918261299.70294. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.2985401365560512.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-27); Incremental return on capital 0.16284474442640798, from the economics test's unchanged annual inputs.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-27); Dividend observations: [[2016,34675000000],[2018,44823000000],[2019,51366000000],[2020,55326000000],[2021,54184000000],[2022,53778000000],[2023,57500000000],[2024,58316000000],[2025,58730000000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

### What the price says

The price assumes cash profits grow 9.3% yearly over ten years.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-27); Ten-year compound average after fade. Initial solved rate 0.12032388211449774. Price 2918; FX 1; discount 0.1; same standard ten-year fade to terminal 0.03.  Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (JPY per share)

- 2016-11: JPY 1,863.50 per share

- 2016-12: JPY 1,901.50 per share

- 2017-01: JPY 1,848.00 per share

- 2017-02: JPY 1,934.00 per share

- 2017-03: JPY 2,100.50 per share

- 2017-04: JPY 2,166.00 per share

- 2017-05: JPY 2,336.50 per share

- 2017-06: JPY 2,289.00 per share

- 2017-07: JPY 2,430.50 per share

- 2017-08: JPY 2,496.50 per share

- 2017-09: JPY 2,648.00 per share

- 2017-10: JPY 2,704.50 per share

- 2017-11: JPY 2,629.50 per share

- 2017-12: JPY 2,840.50 per share

- 2018-01: JPY 2,721.00 per share

- 2018-02: JPY 2,778.50 per share

- 2018-03: JPY 2,832.50 per share

- 2018-04: JPY 3,073.00 per share

- 2018-05: JPY 3,095.00 per share

- 2018-06: JPY 2,963.00 per share

- 2018-07: JPY 2,857.00 per share

- 2018-08: JPY 2,747.50 per share

- 2018-09: JPY 2,911.00 per share

- 2018-10: JPY 2,698.50 per share

- 2018-11: JPY 2,665.00 per share

- 2018-12: JPY 2,298.50 per share

- 2019-01: JPY 2,590.00 per share

- 2019-02: JPY 2,489.00 per share

- 2019-03: JPY 2,642.50 per share

- 2019-04: JPY 2,519.50 per share

- 2019-05: JPY 2,355.00 per share

- 2019-06: JPY 2,323.50 per share

- 2019-07: JPY 2,370.00 per share

- 2019-08: JPY 2,098.50 per share

- 2019-09: JPY 2,288.00 per share

- 2019-10: JPY 2,305.00 per share

- 2019-11: JPY 2,423.00 per share

- 2019-12: JPY 2,390.00 per share

- 2020-01: JPY 2,412.50 per share

- 2020-02: JPY 2,075.00 per share

- 2020-03: JPY 2,137.50 per share

- 2020-04: JPY 2,078.50 per share

- 2020-05: JPY 2,207.50 per share

- 2020-06: JPY 2,274.50 per share

- 2020-07: JPY 2,034.00 per share

- 2020-08: JPY 2,085.00 per share

- 2020-09: JPY 1,973.50 per share

- 2020-10: JPY 1,879.00 per share

- 2020-11: JPY 2,273.50 per share

- 2020-12: JPY 2,434.00 per share

- 2021-01: JPY 2,246.00 per share

- 2021-02: JPY 2,088.50 per share

- 2021-03: JPY 2,120.50 per share

- 2021-04: JPY 2,050.50 per share

- 2021-05: JPY 2,211.50 per share

- 2021-06: JPY 2,166.00 per share

- 2021-07: JPY 2,000.00 per share

- 2021-08: JPY 1,994.00 per share

- 2021-09: JPY 2,075.00 per share

- 2021-10: JPY 1,981.00 per share

- 2021-11: JPY 1,817.00 per share

- 2021-12: JPY 1,847.00 per share

- 2022-01: JPY 1,837.00 per share

- 2022-02: JPY 1,907.50 per share

- 2022-03: JPY 1,829.00 per share

- 2022-04: JPY 1,900.50 per share

- 2022-05: JPY 1,992.50 per share

- 2022-06: JPY 2,137.50 per share

- 2022-07: JPY 2,185.50 per share

- 2022-08: JPY 2,294.50 per share

- 2022-09: JPY 2,227.00 per share

- 2022-10: JPY 2,189.50 per share

- 2022-11: JPY 2,165.00 per share

- 2022-12: JPY 2,011.00 per share

- 2023-01: JPY 1,999.00 per share

- 2023-02: JPY 2,039.00 per share

- 2023-03: JPY 2,096.00 per share

- 2023-04: JPY 2,209.00 per share

- 2023-05: JPY 2,079.50 per share

- 2023-06: JPY 2,101.50 per share

- 2023-07: JPY 2,102.50 per share

- 2023-08: JPY 2,046.00 per share

- 2023-09: JPY 2,093.00 per share

- 2023-10: JPY 2,119.50 per share

- 2023-11: JPY 2,087.00 per share

- 2023-12: JPY 2,066.00 per share

- 2024-01: JPY 2,123.00 per share

- 2024-02: JPY 2,084.50 per share

- 2024-03: JPY 2,100.50 per share

- 2024-04: JPY 2,300.50 per share

- 2024-05: JPY 2,175.00 per share

- 2024-06: JPY 2,073.00 per share

- 2024-07: JPY 2,130.50 per share

- 2024-08: JPY 2,202.50 per share

- 2024-09: JPY 2,186.00 per share

- 2024-10: JPY 2,248.00 per share

- 2024-11: JPY 2,089.50 per share

- 2024-12: JPY 2,049.00 per share

- 2025-01: JPY 1,964.50 per share

- 2025-02: JPY 2,026.50 per share

- 2025-03: JPY 2,077.50 per share

- 2025-04: JPY 2,159.00 per share

- 2025-05: JPY 2,072.00 per share

- 2025-06: JPY 2,019.50 per share

- 2025-07: JPY 1,999.00 per share

- 2025-08: JPY 2,135.50 per share

- 2025-09: JPY 2,167.50 per share

- 2025-10: JPY 2,164.50 per share

- 2025-11: JPY 2,453.50 per share

- 2025-12: JPY 2,348.00 per share

- 2026-01: JPY 2,392.00 per share

- 2026-02: JPY 2,707.00 per share

- 2026-03: JPY 2,525.00 per share

- 2026-04: JPY 2,479.50 per share

- 2026-05: JPY 2,718.50 per share

- 2026-06: JPY 2,810.50 per share

- 2026-07: JPY 2,953.00 per share

- 2026-08: JPY 3,054.00 per share

- 2026-09: JPY 2,854.00 per share

- 2026-10: JPY 2,836.00 per share

## Annual estimated value (JPY per share)

- FY2022: low JPY 804.32 per share, central JPY 924.81 per share, high JPY 1,067.69 per share

- FY2023: low JPY 916.43 per share, central JPY 1,058.87 per share, high JPY 1,218.20 per share

- FY2024: low JPY 997.27 per share, central JPY 1,186.49 per share, high JPY 1,372.06 per share

- FY2025: low JPY 1,396.71 per share, central JPY 1,678.15 per share, high JPY 1,942.67 per share

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

Prior published observations retained from 2026-10-15T07:09:33.553Z where newer inputs omit a numeric field or fiscal period.

## Sources

[Original EDINET filing](https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100XTVS.pdf); period 2025-12-31, filed 2026-03-27.

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.
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Kirin Holdings Company

2503 · JP

Nikkei 225 · TOPIX Large70

Not a wonderful business

3 quality tests fail. A lower price would not fix the business.

Share price
JPY 2,918.00
Buy up to
JPY 1,731.23
Expected / yr
7.1% at today's price (10.0% at central value)

The business

How it makes money
Why customers stay
Can it raise prices
Where the cash goes
What the price says

1. Is this a good business?

Evidence only; not required for Buy

Margins varied 30.1% around their average (limit 35%), and no loss years were recorded (limit 2).

9y median
5.8%
Worst year
3.7%
Latest · 2025
8.6%

Capital return excluding acquisitions: median 7.7% (minimum 15%), and the second-worst year 5.7% (minimum 10%).

9y median
7.7%
Worst year
4.5%
Latest · 2025
10.1%

Each $1 of profit left $0.72 for owners over five years (minimum $0.80).

Five-year totals
0.72×
Annual median
0.65×
Latest · 2025
0.62×

Per-share value fell from 163.19 to 139.16, comparing three-year medians at each end (must rise and stay positive).

10y median
JPY 137.12
Worst year
JPY 68.00
Latest · 2025
JPY 182.13

Profits were backed by cash: accruals were -4.2% of assets (limit 10%).

10y median
-3.6%
Worst year
0.8%
Latest · 2025
-4.2%

Profit record · pass 0 loss years in 10 (at most 2), mean operating margin 6.5%, three-year average owner earnings per share 89.29 JPY.

2. Is the price low enough?

Price & return math
Value rangeJPY 1,440.35 – JPY 2,004.61
Buy at or belowCentral value JPY 1,731.23
Discount to value1 − 2918.00 / 1731.23 = -68.6%
Return / yearAbout 7.1% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%)
Cash-flow inputsOwner cash JPY 117.27/share; 2.2% growth for 5 years, then fades to 3.0%; excess cash JPY 77.77/share today.
Required return10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value
RevenueJPY 2.43T
2.43T020162025
FY2016 · Revenue: JPY 1.85T; FY2017 · Revenue: JPY 1.86T; FY2018 · Revenue: JPY 1.93T; FY2019 · Revenue: JPY 1.94T; FY2020 · Revenue: JPY 1.85T; FY2021 · Revenue: JPY 1.82T; FY2022 · Revenue: JPY 1.99T; FY2023 · Revenue: JPY 2.13T; FY2024 · Revenue: JPY 2.34T; FY2025 · Revenue: JPY 2.43T
Revenue
Owner earningsJPY 92B
164B020162025
FY2018 · Owner earnings: JPY 164B; FY2019 · Owner earnings: JPY 39B; FY2020 · Owner earnings: JPY 52B; FY2021 · Owner earnings: JPY 39B; FY2022 · Owner earnings: JPY 96B; FY2023 · Owner earnings: JPY 99B; FY2024 · Owner earnings: JPY 26B; FY2025 · Owner earnings: JPY 92B
Owner earnings
Operating margin8.6%
10.3%0.0%20162025
FY2016 · Operating margin: 7.7%; FY2018 · Operating margin: 10.3%; FY2019 · Operating margin: 4.5%; FY2020 · Operating margin: 5.6%; FY2021 · Operating margin: 3.7%; FY2022 · Operating margin: 5.8%; FY2023 · Operating margin: 7.0%; FY2024 · Operating margin: 5.4%; FY2025 · Operating margin: 8.6%
Operating margin
Net cash / debtJPY -798B
1.00-798B20162025
FY2016 · Net cash / debt: JPY -582B; FY2018 · Net cash / debt: JPY -242B; FY2019 · Net cash / debt: JPY -365B; FY2020 · Net cash / debt: JPY -481B; FY2021 · Net cash / debt: JPY -402B; FY2022 · Net cash / debt: JPY -435B; FY2023 · Net cash / debt: JPY -525B; FY2024 · Net cash / debt: JPY -739B; FY2025 · Net cash / debt: JPY -798B
Net cash / debt
Diluted shares810M
913M020162025
FY2016 · Diluted shares: 913M; FY2017 · Diluted shares: 913M; FY2018 · Diluted shares: 894M; FY2019 · Diluted shares: 877M; FY2020 · Diluted shares: 841M; FY2021 · Diluted shares: 834M; FY2022 · Diluted shares: 822M; FY2023 · Diluted shares: 810M; FY2024 · Diluted shares: 810M; FY2025 · Diluted shares: 810M
Diluted shares
Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2025Original filing ↗ ·