profit from every ¥100 of sales.
¥0¥100
Kadokawa
¥3,615.00+2.38% today
+11.4% in 1 year
1-year low ¥2,728.501-year high ¥3,897.00
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 ¥71.87 for every ¥1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
It holds more cash than debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Kadokawa sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from ¥221 billion in 2022 to ¥278 billion in 2025, with ¥7.39 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Kadokawa vs. similar companies
Kadokawa grows in the middle of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from ¥100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per ¥1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kadokawa | 71.9× · Very expensive | ||
 Informa | 1,060.9× · Very expensive | ||
 The New York Times | 33.7× · Expensive | ||
 Pearson | 23.2× · Fair price | ||
 Jiangsu Phoenix Publishing & Media | 13.4× · Cheap |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Kadokawa'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 221,208 | 255,429 | 258,109 | 277,915 | |
| 75,587 | 90,856 | 86,613 | 99,075 | |
| 18,520 | 25,931 | 18,455 | 16,652 | |
| 25,660 | 27,603 | 26,676 | 25,527 | |
| 14,078 | 12,679 | 11,384 | 7,392 | |
| 105.96 | 90.89 | 83.40 | 50.44 | |
| 34.2% | 35.6% | 33.6% | 35.6% | |
| 8.4% | 10.2% | 7.2% | 6.0% | |
| 6.4% | 5.0% | 4.4% | 2.7% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of JPY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 325,319 | 382,898 | 340,310 | 410,029 |
| Cash | 123,931 | 167,219 | 105,351 | 145,494 |
| Total debt | 65,283 | 65,265 | 25,349 | 26,689 |
| Total liabilities | 149,581 | 159,729 | 127,746 | 132,623 |
| 171,898 | 202,547 | 190,591 | 252,214 | |
| 133 | 139 | 136 | 147 | |
| 5.8% | 5.6% | 6.4% | 4.3% | |
| 8.2% | 6.3% | 6.0% | 2.9% |
Cash flow
| In millions of JPY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21,708 | 17,516 | 8,298 | 13,841 | |
| 5,254 | 7,068 | 8,952 | 14,133 | |
| 16,454 | 10,448 | -654 | -292 | |
| Dividends paid | 3,289 | 4,239 | 4,253 | 4,065 |
| 12 | 1,303 | 20,001 | 0 | |
| – | – | 0 | 2,443 |
Valuation
- 71.9×
- –
- –
- 1.9×
- 1.9×
- –
- 16.2×
- -0.1%
- 1.4%
- 0.8%
Profitability
- 35.6%
- 6.0%
- 2.7%
- –
- 4.3%
- 5.5%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +7.9%
- −21.9%
- –
- –
- +3.3%
Financial health
- -4.7×
- 0.11
- –
- 215.9×
- 2.33
- –
- –
How it ranks in Communication Services
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 34%of 436
Bottom 28%of 439
Bottom 11%of 346
Top 38%of 439
Bottom 15%of 441
0.8%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$8a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
55.0% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earnsNews
No recent news on file.
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
0/7Passes 0 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.
Warren Buffett
37No pass
Benjamin Graham
52No pass
Philip Fisher
16No pass
Peter Lynch
27No pass
Joel Greenblatt
13No pass
Charlie Munger
22No pass
Terry Smith
17No pass
Questions about Kadokawa
Is Kadokawa a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, priced as if everything goes right. 0 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Kadokawa AI analysis
What does Kadokawa do?
Kadokawa Corporation operates as an entertainment company in Japan. It operates through six segments: Publication/IP Creation; Animation and Live-Action Film, Game, Web Services, Education/EdTech, and Other segments. It is in Publishing, based in Tokyo, Japan.
Does Kadokawa pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 0.8% a year, about 55% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out ¥4.07 billion in dividends.
Is Kadokawa stock halal?
Yes. Kadokawa passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 5% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
How has Kadokawa stock done over the past year?
Up 11.4% over the past twelve months, to ¥3,615.00. It traded between ¥2,728.50 and ¥3,897.00 and is 7.2% below its high.
Who are Kadokawa's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Informa, The New York Times, Pearson and Jiangsu Phoenix Publishing & Media. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Kadokawa's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 10, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.