Ratings Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.

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Apr. 16	Zhenjiang Runjing High Purity Chemical Technology Co.,Ltd. agreed to acquire Sumika Electronic Materials Co., Ltd./Sumika Electronic Materials Co., Ltd. from Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited.	CI
Mar. 20	Idemitsu Kosan Agrees to Boost Fuji Oil Stake to 13%	MT

Summary

On the basis of various fundamental qualitative criteria, the company appears to be particularly poorly ranked from a medium and long-term investment perspective.
From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental situation
The company has a good ESG score relative to its sector, according to Refinitiv.

Strengths

The company's profit outlook over the next few years is a strong asset.
With regards to fundamentals, the enterprise value to sales ratio is at 0.79 for the current period. Therefore, the company is undervalued.
The company appears to be poorly valued given its net asset value.
The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.

Weaknesses

As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
The company's profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization characterizes fragile margins.
Low profitability weakens the company.
The company is in a hindered financial situation with significant debt and rather low EBITDA levels.
For the last twelve months, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.
The sales outlook for the group was lowered in the last twelve months. This change in forecast points out a decline in activity as well as pessimistic analyses of the company.
For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
For the last twelve months, the analysts covering the company have given a bearish overview of EPS estimates, resulting in frequent downward revisions.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.
Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.

Ratings chart - Surperformance

Chart ESG Refinitiv

Sector: Diversified Chemicals

	1st Jan change	Capi.	ESG Refinitiv
SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO., LTD.	+2.99%	3.68B	A-
SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.	-0.19%	74.89B	B
BASF SE	+0.09%	46.52B	A-
DUPONT DE NEMOURS, INC.	-4.19%	30.82B	C
PIDILITE INDUSTRIES LIMITED	+9.85%	18.19B	B
BRENNTAG SE	-10.05%	11.54B	B
SYENSQO SA/NV	-8.09%	9.73B	-
ASAHI KASEI CORPORATION	+2.79%	9.4B	A-
SRF LIMITED	+6.35%	9.37B	C-
MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL GROUP CORPORATION	+3.85%	8.11B	B

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