ACCE price target published on 22 Oct 2026, 16:00 CEST.
Price used: ¥2981 at the close on 23 Oct 2026, 08:30 CEST.
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Data
ACCE score
77
out of 100
P/E
12.1x
forward 17.3x
1-year return
+34.1%
Dividend yield
2.59%
Kirin Holdings Company, Limited in four questions
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Kirin Holdings makes beer, non-alcoholic beer-taste drinks, ready-to-drink chuhai, and a growing pharmaceuticals and health-science business, with the Kirin Ichiban and Gogo no Kocha brands anchoring its Japanese domestic sales. The moat is distribution and brand scale in a concentrated Japanese beer market where Kirin sits as a top-two player, which supports a 48.4% gross margin and a 15.1% ROE. Revenue grew 9.2% last year, and the stock trades at 12.1x trailing earnings against 17.1x forward, a gap that signals the market is pricing in an earnings decline before any recovery, so the forward multiple is the number to test. With a 2.33 trillion yen market cap and an operating margin of 12.5%, the name is worth a deeper look if the portfolio manager wants a Japanese consumer staple with a pharma option attached, with the forward earnings assumptions being the first item to verify.
⚠ Investor warnings · 2 flagsAI-assisted·How I use AI
moderate
Price above ACCE target
Shares trade at ¥2980.50, 8.4% above the ACCE price target of ¥2750.00 set on 2026-10-22, so the stock already prices in more than our target assumes.
moderate
Earnings growth not repeatable
Earnings rose 164.9% YoY against revenue growth of 9.2%, and the 38.3% Q2 EPS beat looks like a one-off swing rather than a run-rate, so the 12.1 trailing P/E may flatter the stock.
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AI-assisted·How I use AIWritten Oct 22, 2026 · figures from 2026-10-22 · prices to Oct 23, 2026
Why it could do well
Free cash flow of JPY 226.9B over the last twelve months gives the company real cash to fund dividends and reinvestment.
Earnings per share beat expectations by 38.3%, with 92.87 reported against 67.15 expected.
A 2.6% dividend yield pays shareholders while the business keeps growing its revenue by 9.2% a year.
Why it could disappoint
At a forward P/E of 17.1x, the shares already price in a good deal of future growth for a company with a 7.8% net margin.
The analysts' mean price target of JPY 2954.27 sits almost on top of the ¥2980.50 share price, leaving little upside.
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