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Toto

TOTDY
44
Construction Materials · Industrials
Price
$39.95
+0.43 (+1.09%)
Market Cap
$6.57B
Exchange
Other OTC
Winston Score
44
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Mixed
Growth
Good
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Exceptional
Valuation
Strong
Dividends
Weak

Share count falling — buybacks

2.3% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 169.7M (2022) → 165.7M (2026)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Toto Ltd. is a Japanese company best known for making toilets, sinks, faucets, and other bathroom fixtures. It sells to homebuilders, hotels, hospitals, and regular households across the world. Toto is one of the largest bathroom fixture makers in the world and invented the modern washlet — a toilet seat with built-in water cleaning functions that is extremely popular in Japan.

Toto earns money by selling its hardware products directly to contractors, distributors, and retailers. Most of its revenue comes from Japan, but it also operates in the United States, China, and other parts of Asia. Its main competitive advantage is its strong brand reputation for quality and its early lead in washlet technology, which competitors have struggled to match. The key growth opportunity is expanding washlet adoption outside Japan, particularly in the US and China, while the main risk is slowing construction activity in Japan and China, which are its two largest markets.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+6.4% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+150.3% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

¥0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

3.3%ownership

Relatively low insider ownership

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

¥197.2B cash & investments

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth context

Toto is growing revenue at 6% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
35.3%
Modest — 35.3% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
4.8%
Thin — 4.8% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
9.8%
Below par — 9.8% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
+3.7%
Slow sales growth (+3.7% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
+337.3%
Earnings growing fast (+337.3% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
4/8 quarters
Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
0%
Weak — only 0% of profit becomes cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
0.0%
Thin free cash flow (0.0%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.05
Conservative — low debt load (0.05)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
63.73x
Comfortably covers interest (63.7x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
25.6x
Growth-priced — P/E 25.6

P/E above the market average. People are paying up for expected growth.

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
+9.3
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (25.6 → 16.3)

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Dividends

Dividend
Dividend Yield
1.57%
Small dividend — 1.57% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
-16.6%
Dividend cut (-16.6% YoY) — warning sign

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