profit from every ¥100 of sales.
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Ajinomoto
¥5,118.00-0.39% today
+21.0% in 1 year
1-year low ¥3,300.001-year high ¥6,175.00
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay ¥69.31 for every ¥1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Ajinomoto sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from ¥1.15 trillion in 2022 to ¥1.53 trillion in 2025, with ¥70.3 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Ajinomoto handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
Buybacks ¥90.7B¥39.1B
Free cash flow 2025¥114.8B
Bought back its own shares¥90.7B
Paid as dividends¥39.1B
Cash vs. debt¥164.8B vs. ¥455.4B
Ajinomoto vs. similar companies
Ajinomoto grows the fastest of these 5 and is the most expensive for its profits.
| Company | Profit from ¥100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per ¥1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ajinomoto | 69.3× · Very expensive | ||
 Nestlé | 24.1× · Fair price | ||
 Danone | 23.1× · Fair price | ||
 JBS | 20.3× · Fair price | ||
 Foshan Haitian Flavouring and Food | 28.9× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Ajinomoto's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of JPY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,149,370 | 1,359,115 | 1,439,231 | 1,530,556 | |
| 425,897 | 470,387 | 511,448 | 550,764 | |
| 123,587 | 144,602 | 141,953 | 107,656 | |
| 197,674 | 226,847 | 232,755 | 209,222 | |
| 75,725 | 94,065 | 87,121 | 70,272 | |
| – | 87.98 | 83.70 | 69.77 | |
| 37.1% | 34.6% | 35.5% | 36.0% | |
| 10.8% | 10.6% | 9.9% | 7.0% | |
| 6.6% | 6.9% | 6.1% | 4.6% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of JPY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 1,457,060 | 1,511,734 | 1,768,371 | 1,721,131 |
| Cash | 151,454 | 132,777 | 171,537 | 164,776 |
| Total debt | 313,908 | 288,564 | 442,494 | 455,353 |
| Total liabilities | 717,316 | 688,766 | 883,923 | 907,858 |
| 686,909 | 768,676 | 815,074 | 746,804 | |
| – | 1,069 | 1,041 | 1,007 | |
| 9.2% | 10.3% | 8.6% | 7.1% | |
| 11.0% | 12.2% | 10.7% | 9.4% |
Cash flow
| In millions of JPY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 145,576 | 117,640 | 168,074 | 209,898 | |
| 80,719 | 73,046 | 72,022 | 95,090 | |
| 64,857 | 44,594 | 96,052 | 114,808 | |
| Dividends paid | 27,273 | 31,630 | 38,406 | 39,136 |
| 40,041 | 30,022 | 91,341 | 90,695 | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 69.3×
- –
- –
- 6.6×
- 3.2×
- 42.4×
- 24.7×
- 2.4%
- 1.4%
- –
Profitability
- 36.0%
- 7.0%
- 4.6%
- –
- 7.1%
- 8.8%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +10.0%
- –
- –
- –
- −3.1%
Financial health
- 1.4×
- 0.61
- –
- 8.5×
- 1.82
- –
- –
How it ranks in Consumer Staples
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 32%of 669
Bottom 33%of 673
Bottom 5%of 625
Top 25%of 672
Bottom 27%of 668
News
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Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
1/7Passes 1 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass. Context about the kind of company it is, not a recommendation.
Warren Buffett
49No pass
Benjamin Graham
77Pass
Philip Fisher
41No pass
Peter Lynch
34No pass
Joel Greenblatt
44No pass
Charlie Munger
35No pass
Terry Smith
41No pass
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