Yaskawa Electric (6506) Stock Price, Fundamentals & Analysis

What 6506 does

Yaskawa Electric (6506) is a Japanese company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange stocks that operates in the motion control, robotics, and system engineering sectors. It manufactures and sells rotary servo motors, direct drive motors, linear motors, machine controllers, positioning sensor encoders, and servo amplifiers, which are used in industrial robots, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, machine tools, flat panel display production lines, and metalworking machines. The company also supplies a wide range of robots—including arc and spot welding, handling, assembly, collaborative, palletizing, and semiconductor wafer transfer robots—for applications in welding, material handling, and automated production.

Key numbers explained

• 4,480 JPY is the current share price, the amount you would pay for one share right now.
• The trailing P/E ratio of 33 shows how much investors are paying per yen of the company's last 12 months' earnings; a higher number often reflects higher growth expectations.
• The forward P/E ratio of 21.9 uses expected future earnings, giving a sense of valuation relative to what analysts anticipate.
• 135.74 JPY is the trailing 12-month earnings per share, the portion of the company's profit allocated to each outstanding share.
• The dividend yield of 1.61% is the annual dividend expressed as a percentage of the current share price, indicating the cash return from dividends alone.
• The ex-dividend date of Feb 25, 2027 is the cutoff: you must own the stock before this date to receive the next dividend payment.
• 50% of earnings are paid out as dividends, meaning the company returns half of its profit to shareholders and retains the rest.
• 1.24 is the beta, a measure of the stock's volatility compared to the overall market; values above 1 suggest higher sensitivity to market swings.
• The 52-week range of 3,042 – 7,915 shows the lowest and highest prices over the past year, illustrating the stock's recent trading band.
• 45.5% is the price change over the last 52 weeks, reflecting the total return from one year ago to today.
• 10.6% revenue growth year over year indicates the company's top-line expansion on a trailing 12-month basis.
• 6.1% profit margin and 6.1% operating margin show how much of each yen in revenue translates into net profit and operating profit, respectively.
• 7.5% return on equity measures how effectively the company generates profit from shareholders' invested capital.
• The debt-to-equity ratio of 24.5% indicates the proportion of debt relative to equity, with lower values generally suggesting a more conservative capital structure.
• 2.4 is the price-to-book ratio, comparing the market price to the company's book value per share.

What to watch

Investors tracking Yaskawa Electric (6506) often monitor the industrial robotics and motion control landscape, where demand is tied to factory automation and semiconductor production cycles. The company's position among peers such as Secom (9735), Asahi Kasei (3407), and Hitachi Construction Machinery (6305) can provide context for sector trends. Broader factors like global manufacturing activity, supply chain conditions, and currency movements between the yen and major currencies can influence the stock's performance. The upcoming earnings release on 9 oct. 2026 will be a key date for updated financial results. For those building a diversified portfolio, Yaskawa Electric is also part of the Nikkei 225, which tracks large-cap Japanese equities.