Komatsu is landing big mining deals and rolling out trucks that can switch to cleaner power, which could help it grow as customers face tighter environmental rules. But weak demand in some key regions, trade tariffs, and piling inventory could keep profits under pressure longer than investors expect.Read more
Catalysts About Komatsu Komatsu is a global manufacturer of construction, mining and industrial machinery, with additional operations in retail finance and semiconductor related equipment. What are the underlying business or industry changes driving this perspective?Read more
Catalysts About Komatsu Komatsu manufactures and sells construction, mining and industrial machinery, along with related parts, services and finance solutions. What are the underlying business or industry changes driving this perspective?Read more
Komatsu Ltd. manufactures and sells construction, mining, and utility equipment in Japan, the Americas, Europe, China, rest of Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, Africa, and CIS countries. It operates in three segments: Construction, Mining and Utility Equipment; Retail Finance; and Industrial Machinery and Others. The company offers construction and mining equipment, including excavators, hydraulic and mini excavators, wheel loaders, bulldozers, motor graders, dump trucks, backhoe loaders, rope and hybrid shovels, electric wheel loaders, continuous miners, and jumbo and blasthole drills. It also provides demolition, waste, and recycling equipment, such as mobile crushers and mini shovels; agricultural and livestock equipment; forestry equipment, including harvesters, forwarders, feller bunchers, log loaders, tree planters, and forklifts; quarry equipment; material handling equipment; and shield and tunnel-boring machines, pipe layers, towing tractors, and engines. In addition, the company offers industrial machinery, including presses, sheet-metal machinery, 3D laser cutting machines, transfer machines, battery manufacturing equipment, wire saws, thermos modules, thermoelectric generation modules/EH sensor devices, and temperature control products; crawler carriers; iron and steel castings; shearers; mobile soil recyclers and tub grinders; railroad maintenance equipment; engines and components, such as diesel engines, diesel generator sets, hydraulic equipment, and batteries; and logistics equipment. Further, the company engages in the provision of retail financing; construction machinery rental; transportation, warehousing, packing, and other services; development, manufacture, sale, and service of excimer laser used for lithography tools in semiconductor manufacturing; and purchase and sale of used equipment. Komatsu Ltd. was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
