Komatsu Ltd. manufactures and sells construction, mining, and utility equipment; and forest and industrial machinery worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Construction, Mining and Utility Equipment; Retail Finance; and Industrial Machinery and Others. It offers construction and mining equipment, including electric rope shovels, continuous miners, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, bulldozers, motor graders, dump trucks, mini excavators, utility equipment, and other mining equipment. The company also provides forklift trucks; forestry equipment, including harvesters, forwarders, and feller bunchers, as well as forestry-specific machines based on construction equipment; recycling equipment, such as mobile crushers, soil recyclers, and mobile tub grinders; tunneling machines, which comprise shield and tunnel-boring machines, as well as small diameter pipe jacking machines; and diesel engines, hydraulic equipment, and iron and steel castings products. In addition, it offers metal forging and stamping presses, including large presses, and small and medium-sized presses; sheet-metal machines, such as press brakes, shears, laser cutting machines, and fine plasma cutting machines; machine tools, which comprise crankshaft millers, transfer machines, machining centers, grinding machines, and wire saws; excimer lasers for semiconductor lithography tools; thermoelectric modules and temperature-control equipment for semiconductor manufacturing; and defense-related equipment, as well as provides warehousing and packing services. Further, the company provides other specific equipment for demolition, metal recycle, and slag handling; wear parts, periodic replacement parts, attachments, and remanufacturing parts; and retail financing for construction and mining equipment. Komatsu Ltd. was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
P/B ratio for Komatsu Ltd. (6301.T)
P/B ratio as of 2023: 1.39
According to Komatsu Ltd.'s latest financial reports and stock price the company's current price-to-sales ratio (TTM) is 1.39. At the end of 2022 the company had a P/B ratio of 1.22.
P/B ratio history for Komatsu Ltd. from 1997 to 2023
P/B ratio at the end of each year
| Year | P/B ratio |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.39 |
| 2022 | 1.22 |
| 2021 | 1.24 |
| 2020 | 1.69 |
| 2019 | 0.95 |
| 2018 | 1.38 |
| 2017 | 2.01 |
| 2016 | 1.73 |
| 2015 | 1.19 |
| 2014 | 1.47 |
| 2013 | 1.48 |
| 2012 | 1.76 |
| 2011 | 2.25 |
| 2010 | 2.96 |
| 2009 | 2.28 |
| 2008 | 1.29 |
| 2007 | 3.10 |
| 2006 | 2.50 |
| 2005 | 3.58 |
| 2004 | 1.68 |
| 2003 | 1.54 |
| 2002 | 1.07 |
| 2001 | 1.09 |
| 2000 | 1.16 |
| 1999 | 0.96 |
| 1998 | 0.95 |
| 1997 | 0.91 |