Earlier this week, Goldman Sachs upgraded TOTO to buy, highlighting the company’s electrostatic chucks, which are used in NAND chip manufacturing and AI-related data centers, as a potential profit driver.
Shining a spotlight on TOTO’s little-known semiconductor equipment business highlights how traditional bathroom equipment manufacturers are becoming increasingly tied to AI infrastructure investments.
Next, we’ll look at how TOTO’s growing role in electrostatic chucks for AI data centers shapes its investment story.
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To own TOTO today, you have to believe that the company can balance its low-margin, cyclical home appliance core with its more profitable, but still small, electrostatic chuck business coupled with AI infrastructure investments. Goldman Sachs’ upgrade embodies the second step in this story, with the stock’s jump suggesting the market is already pricing in a larger role for semiconductors than prior guidance suggested. In the short term, the main drivers will be the continued buildout of our AI data center, execution at Chuck, and follow-up on our recently completed share buyback. At the same time, lower full-year outlooks, thin profit margins and reliance on one-time gains to support earnings have kept the risk side of the book firmly under consideration.
But investors should also be mindful of how fragile these margins remain. TOTO’s stock price is on the rise, but it has the potential to expand by as much as 48%. Uncover your fair value today.
The single fair value of ¥3,289.92 from Simply Wall St Community is below recent trading and is a reminder that retail investors could be pricing Toto very differently. Against AI Chuck’s optimism and recent guidance cuts, it’s a useful prompt to compare some perspectives before deciding how much of the semiconductor story to trust.
Check out another fair value estimate for TOTO – find out why the stock is worth as much as 3,290 yen.
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