Everything behind the call on Aica Kogyo Company, Limited. 6 sections, ordered the way risk stacks up: survival first, quality and price in the middle, context last. The Beacon gives you the read. This is where you check the work.
The five reads
Global tape
No overseas listings — AIKCF trades on its home exchange only.
The bottom linestart here
Earnings
In 48 days
5 Nov 2026
cohort P(beat) 61% · n=139,757
Dividend
3.71%
Forward annual yield at today's price
Risk flags
3 on watch
5 checks run, 2 clear
beta 0.64 · vol 0% ann. worst drawdown 0%
New to this? Every metric carries a plain-English read beside it, and an ⓘ next to a label opens the definition. Anything unfamiliar is also defined at the foot of the page under Glossary.
In one paragraphwhat the company actually does129 chars
Aica Kogyo Company, Limited manufactures and sells chemical products in Japan, China, rest of Asia, Oceania, and internationally.
OTC Markets OTCPK · USDIndustrial Conglomerates
$23.690.00 · 0.00%CLOSED · vol 0
52-week range↑ 0% off low · ↓ 0.0% off high
$23.69now $23.69$23.69
Quote Sep 16, 2026 · time not on file Tape 2026-09-16
01
Survival & solvency
and 2 of 5 forensic checks clear.
↳ Plain EnglishBefore anything else: can this company pay its bills? These blocks check the balance sheet, whether your slice of ownership is being diluted, and whether the accounting looks honest.
Piotroski F-score
F 5/9WATCH
Piotroski F-score 5 of 9. Nine pass/fail tests covering profitability, leverage and operating efficiency; seven or more is strong.
Balance sheetSep 18, 2026
Solvency and liquidity ratios
Current ratioshort-term assets against short-term bills2.13×healthy >2
Debt / equityborrowings against shareholder capital0.25
Net cashcash on hand in excess of every borrowing$11.63B
Your ownership stake
Share-count growth vs peersLOW DILUTION
25th pctile
Where this name's share-count growth ranks among peers. Lower is less dilutive.
Accounting forensicsSEC filings
Red-flag x-rayGRADE B
70 / 100
0 critical · 3 watch · 2 clear of 5 scored tests
2 of 5 checks clear
Red-flag x-ray · every check, passes included
CheckStatusValueWhat it looks for
Bankruptcy distressWATCHZ 2.10Altman-Z in the Grey · fundamentals
Earnings manipulationWATCHM -2.17M-score in range · fundamentals
Profitability qualityWATCHF 5/9Piotroski F-score 5 of 9 · fundamentals
Filing forensicsCLEAR0 flagsno filing red flags on the latest 10-K · forensic
5 checks, 2 clear and 3 watch. The passes are shown because a score built from five checks means something different from one built from three.
02Refreshed · Sep 18, 2026FAIR · 44/100
Business quality
7% net margin, 10% return on equity, +1% revenue growth, and capital earning 12% against a 1% cost.
↳ Plain EnglishMargins tell you how much of each sales dollar the company keeps. Return on capital tells you whether reinvesting that money creates value. Both are read against what the filings support, not against a target.
Quality score
44 / 100FAIR
Profitability · net margin 7%
Growth · revenue +1% YoY
Balance strength · debt/equity 0.25
Profitability, growth and balance strength scored separately, then blended.
ProfitabilityRefreshed · Sep 18, 2026
Net marginOF EVERY SALES DOLLAR
7.4%
The share of revenue that survives every cost and becomes profit.
Gross marginPRICING POWER
28.3%
What is left of a sales dollar before overhead — the clearest read on pricing power.
Operating marginAFTER RUNNING COSTS
11.6%
What survives the cost of running the whole business.
Return on equityPER $1 OF EQUITY
9.7%
Annual return on each dollar of shareholder equity.
ROIC − WACC spreadCREATES VALUE
11.5pp
Earns 12% on invested capital that costs about 1%. A positive spread means every retained dollar compounds rather than leaks.
Incremental ROIC (3y)ON NEW CAPITAL
6.9%
The return on capital put to work over the last three years — a sharper read than the trailing average, because it prices the newest decisions.
Growth & relative strength
Trailing return by period
1 month
0.0%
3 months
0.0%
6 months
0.0%
Year to date
0.0%
Revenue growth (YoY)GROWING
+1.2%
Revenue against the same period a year ago.
EPS growth (YoY)MARGINS WIDENING
+3.6%
Earnings per share against a year ago. Running ahead of revenue means margins are widening.
Relative-strength rankTOP 46%
54 / 100
Where this name's 3-month return against the S&P 500 ranks across the market — a quarter's standing, not the year's.
Typical earnings moveData unavailableRealized move magnitudes are not published for this name yet — no measured print on file.
Reaction: beat vs missData unavailableThe beat-versus-miss reaction gap is not computed for this name — undetermined — needs ≥12 measured beats.
Consensus biasVALIDATED
Persistent
insufficient surprise history
Next reportIN 48 DAYS
5 Nov 2026
revenue 68.2 B
Dividends & income
Dividend yieldforward annual
3.71%
The cash return the payment alone provides at today's price.
Cash coveragefree cash flow
<1x
Whether the payment is funded out of the cash the business generates.
Inventory ledger
Data unavailableNo inventory detail is tagged in this company's filings. The ledger needs the XBRL inventory components, which a business without physical goods does not report.
Segments & geography
Data unavailableRevenue by segment and region is not on file for this name, so product and geographic concentration are not shown.
↳ Plain EnglishA multiple is what the market charges for a dollar of this company's earnings, cash or revenue; the trend and the options tape say what the price is doing around it. Together they are the timing picture, not the quality one.
Momentum (RSI-14)
100OVERBOUGHT
030 oversold70 hot100
Where momentum sits on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 is overbought, below 30 oversold; the middle says the move has room either way.
The setup right now
Price · 133 sessions2026-03-09 → 2026-09-16
price50-day200-day
How to read this
Up 0.00% on the session.
Follow the solid line: each point is a session close. Compare it to the 50-day average — while price stays above it the short-term trend is up, and a drop below is the first structural warning.
Market cap$1.50B
Day range$23.69 – $23.69
Above 52-week low0%
Realized volatility0% ann.
Worst drawdown0.0%
Typical day (ATR-14)±0.0%
$0.00
The average true range — how far this stock moves on an ordinary day. It sets the scale a stop has to clear.
MACDBELOW SIGNAL
0.00
The short-term trend against its own signal line. The sign is the read; the size is not a target.
Bollinger position50% OF RANGE
Mid band
Where price sits inside its own volatility band. The edges are where a move is stretched, not where it reverses.
Chandelier exitBROKEN
$23.69
A volatility-based trailing stop, set a few average ranges below the recent high.
Pivots (classic)R1 $24 · S1 $24
$23.69
The last settled session's range projected forward. Reference levels, not predictions — after a big gap they can sit on the wrong side of the price until the next close.
DeMark countdownFLAT SETUP
0 of 9
Counts consecutive closes against the prior trend. A completed 9 often marks exhaustion.
5 Nov 2026 · in 48 daysNext earningsThe next scheduled catalyst. The forward guide usually moves the tape more than the printed number. Date as the vendor last stated it on 6 Sept; companies confirm about three weeks ahead, so it can still move.
2026-09-25 · in 7 daysConsumer SentimentA scheduled macro release. It moves this stock independently of anything the company does.
Setup & oddsNightly
Pullback riskoverstretch read
In line1.00× segment rate · n=80,392
Historically, mid names in this tape state saw a ≥10% pullback within 63 trading days in 79% of cases (n=80,392).
Valuation
Earnings yield vs cashABOVE CASH
2.25pp
The earnings yield clears the risk-free rate, so the current return alone competes with cash.
Net cash per shareCASH BACKING
$172.01
Cash less every borrowing, per share. It is the part of the price that is not a claim on future profits.
Multiples
Trailing P/Eearnings already reported13.8×
Price / salesprice against revenue, before any of it becomes profit0.0×
Price / bookprice against the accounting value of the assets0.0×
EV / EBITDAOperating earnings are negative, so this multiple has no denominator to divide into.Not meaningful
EV / free cash flowThe business consumes cash rather than generating it, so this multiple has no denominator to divide into.Not meaningful
FCF yieldfree cash flow per dollar of market value22.41%
0 of the 4 priced multiples above sit in the richer half of its band. 2 are marked not meaningful because the figure they divide into is negative — shown as absent rather than as a low, cheap-looking number. Each priced multiple is read against this stock's own history where a five-year range is on file, so the question is whether today is dear for this name rather than for the market. The multiples are computed separately from the quote above and are not re-priced as it moves, so they can lag it.
Price horizon & timingSep 16, 2026
Measure from a price$
To the 50-day
0.0%
short-term trend line · $23.69
To the 52-week high
0.0%
highest print of the past year · $23.69
To the 52-week low
0.0%
lowest print of the past year · $23.69
A typical day (ATR)
$23.69 – $23.69
±$0.00 average true range
Type any price to re-measure every distance from it. Each row is a level this page already states somewhere else, so nothing here is a new number — and none of it is a recommendation to trade at that price.
Gamma map
Data unavailableThis name has no listed options chain, so there is no dealer gamma to map. Regime, flip level, walls and the implied move all need a chain to exist.
Options tape
Data unavailableNo options chain is connected for this ticker. Max pain, the put/call ratio, the implied move and the open-interest ladder all need the chain feed.
0413F quarterly · Form 4 dailyNET SIGNAL +2
Ownership & flow
Institutions hold 39%.
↳ Plain EnglishWho is buying and selling, and what they had to disclose. Institutions file 13F 45 days after quarter end, executives file Form 4 within two days, and Congress discloses under the STOCK Act with a 30–45 day legal lag. Every one of those is a look backwards.
Net signal
+2BALANCED · 30d
Quality / value +2
1 bull / 0 bear factors. The points sum to the net beside the label; nothing here is weighted after the fact.
The QTick signalNightly
Quality / valueTTM · CONTEXT
+2
133% upside to estimated fair value
Signal
1 bull / 0 bear factors
Independent factors scored and netted to +2 over 30d, a balanced reading. 1 of 9 factors carried a direction; the others scored zero and do not vote. The signal describes where the data leans, not what to do about it.
Cross-category read
Data unavailableFewer independent evidence families are ready than the engine's minimum, so there is nothing to check for agreement. A cross-category read over two categories is not a read.
Wall Street
Data unavailableNo sell-side firm publishes research on this name. There is no consensus rating, no price target and no estimate revisions to weigh — for a company this size that is the norm rather than a gap in our data.
Who owns it13F quarterly · Form 4 daily
Institutional ownershipRETAIL-HEAVY
38.8%
The share held by 13F filers. It describes last quarter's positioning, not today's — filings land up to 45 days after quarter end.
Insider ownershipOFFICERS & DIRECTORS
14.2%
The share held by the people running the company.
Free float77% OF SHARES
48.47M
Shares actually available to trade, excluding insider and restricted holdings.
Dollar volume (ADV)AVERAGE
$0/day
Average dollars traded per day, and where that ranks cross-sectionally. Thin liquidity is a cost you pay on the way out, not just on the way in.
Borrow feeData unavailableWe do not license securities-lending data, so the annualized cost of borrowing shares to short is not something we can show. Short interest and days-to-cover above are the closest read we can source.
The story · news & sentimentRolling window
Why it moved on Sep 18, 2026NONE
0.00%
AIKCF was little changed +0.00% since the last close — no notable catalyst, and the move itself was modest.
Matched · Sep 18, 2026
Congress
Data unavailableNo congressional trades in this name have been disclosed under the STOCK Act. Lawmakers' disclosed trades cluster heavily in large caps, so an empty list is the usual state.
050 graded callsORDINARY VOLATILITY
Risk & track record
Beta 0.64, 0% annual volatility, a 0% worst drawdown, and 3 of 8 risk surfaces clear.
↳ Plain EnglishWhat owning it does to a portfolio, what the model votes against, and how often our own calls have been right. Every call is graded when it resolves, and the ones still open stay visible.
Max drawdown
0.0%WORST FALL
The deepest peak-to-trough fall in the measured window. Only hold a position you can watch do this.
What it does to a portfolio5-year window
Beta (vs the market)LOW FIT
0.64
The market explains about 0.2% of its daily moves, so this beta says little about how it tracks the index — most of its movement is its own.
3-year beta 0.64
Annualized volatilityORDINARY
0%
How far it swings over a year, from its own realized returns.
What votes against
Data unavailableNo factor in the model currently votes against this name. That is a statement about the model's inputs today, not a claim that nothing could go wrong.
Failure modes · by company type
Data unavailableFailure modes are routed per company type, and only the bank-run and crypto-treasury rulebooks are validated so far. This name routes as growth, so there is no cohort-specific checklist to run. A generic list would read as analysis without being any.
The risk case · why not to buy8 surfaces · nightly
Suggested position capmax defensible size
2.9%tail cap binds
max defensible size 2.9% - tail binds
Avoid score6-month distress
0.9%0.1× its cohort · names above $5
Observational 6-month large-drawdown risk ranking — not a forecast, not alpha. Historical distress rate for this names above $5 segment: 7.3%. This name reads 0.1× that base rate.
LowDistress screenThe distress model did not score this name in the latest run, so this surface is unmeasured rather than clear.Not scored
MedPosition size, not conviction, is the binding constrainthalf-Kelly 38.6% · tail cap 2.9% · category cap 54.6%. The tail cap binds, so 2.9% is the number (n=70,004). We show which one binds rather than the friendliest.Sizing
LowLottery-ticket behaviourIts best 21-day return sits at 0.0% against a 10.8% cohort 90th-percentile threshold — below the line where forward returns have historically turned negative.Behaviour
LowPost-earnings driftNo measured earnings reaction on file, so the drift surface is unmeasured.Not scored
LowDividend riskNot scored for this name.Not scored
LowRestatement historyFiling history is not deep enough to check for restatements.Not scored
LowCrowded shortNot in a warn state: the crowded-short model only publishes when short interest and thin liquidity coincide, and neither condition is met here.Not scored
Signal
3 of 8 surfaces clear.
8 surfaces checked, 3 clear. The binding constraint is position size — the tail cap is the one that binds. Each row states which surface it is and what it measured; a surface that could not be scored says so rather than counting as clear.
Who should skip it
Skip it if any of these is you
You'd size it like a core holding
The binding cap is 2.9% of a portfolio. Above that the tail stops being survivable.
Our track record0 resolved
Track recordBUILDING IN THE OPEN
2 logged
2 calls logged on this name, 0 resolved so far. Calls are logged the moment they are made, so the open ones are public before anyone knows how they turn out, and a hit-rate is not published until enough of them resolve.
0 resolved · 2 open
Calls on AIKCFTHIS NAME
2
This name's own call count. Too few have resolved to publish a rate over them, so none is shown rather than a rate over 0.
0610-K disclosed linksINDUSTRIAL CONGLOMERATES
The wider context
5 mapped peers, 3 connections.
↳ Plain EnglishCompanies do not trade alone. This is the peer set, the supply chain that has to deliver, and the macro variables that move the stock regardless of company news.
Next macro catalyst
Consumer SentimentIN 7 DAYS
2026-09-25. A scheduled release that moves this stock independently of anything the company does.
Versus peersLatest session
Peer set · 5 names
SymbolRelationshipPriceSession
8058.TPeer$4,947.00-0.64%
8031.TPeer$5,171.00-1.01%
8001.TPeer$2,306.50-2.68%
8002.TPeer$4,976.00-0.88%
8053.TPeer$1,803.50-2.22%
The mapped peer set and how each traded in the latest session. A peer moving with this name says the move is the sector's; one moving against it says the move is this company's.
Rising layoffs signal factories and builders are slowing.
Typical for the Industrials sector
On the day 0.0% · A week later 0.0% · Two weeks later 0.0% · Rose on 0 of 24 report days
Across the last 24 Initial jobless claims reports since Mar 19, 2026, AIKCF moved 0.0% on average on the day and was 0.0% higher two weeks later. The S&P 500 moved +0.2% on those days.
Industrial productionUsually helps when factory output comes in stronger than expected
Industrial companies sell into exactly this activity.
Typical for the Industrials sector
On the day 0.0% · A week later 0.0% · Two weeks later 0.0% · Rose on 0 of 6 report days
Only 6 reports on file, so treat this as a sketch, not a pattern. Across the last 6 Industrial production reports since Mar 18, 2026, AIKCF moved 0.0% on average on the day and was 0.0% higher two weeks later. The S&P 500 moved 0.0% on those days.
Factories pay more for materials before they can raise their own prices, and higher rates slow orders.
Typical for the Industrials sector
On the day 0.0% · A week later 0.0% · Two weeks later 0.0% · Rose on 0 of 6 report days
Only 6 reports on file, so treat this as a sketch, not a pattern. Across the last 6 Core PCE (the Fed's gauge) reports since Mar 31, 2026, AIKCF moved 0.0% on average on the day and was 0.0% higher two weeks later. The S&P 500 moved +0.4% on those days.
Factories pay more for materials before they can raise their own prices, and higher rates slow orders.
Typical for the Industrials sector
On the day 0.0% · A week later 0.0% · Two weeks later 0.0% · Rose on 0 of 6 report days
Only 6 reports on file, so treat this as a sketch, not a pattern. Across the last 6 Core inflation (core CPI) reports since Mar 15, 2026, AIKCF moved 0.0% on average on the day and was 0.0% higher two weeks later. The S&P 500 moved +0.4% on those days.
Customer momentum
Data unavailableCustomer momentum needs listed customers that disclose a revenue dependence on this company, and none is on file. The connections below are a different map: competitors and partners, most of them curated rather than filed.
Connections3 links · none confirmed
Direct connections · 3 edges
CompanyRelationSessionProvenance
BA · Customercustomer+0.61%Rumored · manual
CAT · Suppliersupplier+1.30%Rumored · manual
HON · Competitorcompetitor-0.01%Rumored · manual
0 of 3 edges are named in a filing; the rest come from reporting we have not matched to one yet, and are labelled as such.