Yaskawa Electric: Servo Recovery at a Full Price
Yaskawa Electric is a century-old Japanese automation supplier whose profit engine is AC servo motors and drives, with a global industrial-robot arm and a company-estimated 16% global AC servo-drive share. Its latest fiscal year (ended 2026-02-28) was still an earnings trough (revenue 542.1 billion yen, operating profit only 47.3 billion yen, margin about 8.7%), yet the shares more than doubled off a 52-week low of 2,807 yen to about 7,046 yen, leaving the stock near 50x trailing earnings, above FANUC, ABB, and Omron, even as owner earnings stay thin because capex surged to 46.2 billion yen. Rating Hold: durable servo economics support a real cyclical recovery, but the stock already prices much of the earnings rebound while owner earnings remain depressed at the current level.