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Artience Co (TSE:4634) Financial Strength : 5 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Artience Co Financial Strength?

Artience Co has the Financial Strength Rank of 5.

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors:

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
3. Altman Z-Score.

Artience Co's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 7.71. Artience Co's debt to revenue ratio for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 0.25. As of today, Artience Co's Altman Z-Score is 2.20.


Competitive Comparison of Artience Co's Financial Strength

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Artience Co's Financial Strength, along with its competitors' market caps and Financial Strength data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Artience Co's Financial Strength Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Artience Co's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:

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Artience Co Financial Strength Calculation

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors

A company ranks high with financial strength is likely to withstand any business slowdowns and recessions.

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.

Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.

Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income (EBIT) by its Interest Expense:

Artience Co's Interest Expense for the months ended in Mar. 2024 was 円-565 Mil. Its Operating Income for the months ended in Mar. 2024 was 円4,357 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 円56,044 Mil.

Artience Co's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is

Interest Coverage=-1*Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*4357/-565
=7.71

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.

Artience Co's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is

Debt to Revenue Ratio=Total Debt (Q: Mar. 2024 ) / Revenue
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Revenue
=(26836 + 56044) / 326908
=0.25

3. Altman Z-Score.

Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones.
When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones.
When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones.

Artience Co has a Z-score of 2.20, indicating it is in Grey Zones. This implies that Artience Co is in some kind of financial stress. If it is below 1.81, the company may faces bankrupcy risk.

Warning Sign:

Altman Z-score of 2.2 is in the grey area. This implies that the company is under some kind of financial stress. If it is below 1.8, the company may face bankruptcy risk.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Artience Co  (TSE:4634) Financial Strength Explanation

The maximum rank is 10. Companies with rank 7 or higher will be unlikely to fall into distressed situations. Companies with rank of 3 or less are likely in financial distress.

Artience Co has the Financial Strength Rank of 5.


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Artience Co (TSE:4634) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
3-13 Kyobashi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, JPN, 104-8377
Artience Co Ltd is a holding company whose subsidiaries manufacture and sell a variety of chemicals and inks. The firm organizes itself into various segments based on product type. The printing and information segment, which generates the Most revenue, sells printing inks used for ink-jet printers, newspapers, magazines, and other printed materials. The colorants and functional materials segment sells pigments, plastic colorants, and liquid crystal display color filter materials. The polymers and coatings segments sells coatings, adhesives, plastic resins, and can coatings. The packaging materials segment sells packaging inks used for food and consumer goods packaging. Most of Toyo Ink's revenue comes from Japan.

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