Japan Material reports record results
Japan Material builds and services systems that supply semiconductor and LCD manufacturers with ultrapure water, specialty gases and chemicals. The Japanese company was founded in 1997 and went public in 2011. The roundup puts its market value at 1.2 billion euros.
According to ENVALITH, Japan Material posted record results for the fiscal year ended March 2026. Sales rose 10.1 percent from a year earlier to 57,976 million yen, while operating profit increased 30.9 percent to 14,640 million yen. Its operating margin reached 25.3 percent. Kioxia Corporation, its largest customer, contributed 21.6 percent of sales.
The company's forecast for the fiscal year ending March 2027 projects slower growth: sales of 61,000 million yen, a 5.2 percent increase, and operating profit of 15,500 million yen, up 5.9 percent.
Meiko supplies circuit boards and assembly
Meiko Electronics develops, manufactures and sells printed circuit boards, and also assembles electronic components onto them. The Japanese business has a market value of 3.1 billion euros, according to the roundup.
Meiko's company profile dates its founding to November 25, 1975. Consolidated sales totaled 206,806 million yen in the fiscal year ended March 2025. Across its affiliated companies, Meiko had 14,967 employees as of March 31, 2026.
Kohoku's components serve cars, AI servers and fiber networks
Japan's Kohoku Kogyo makes lead terminals for aluminum electrolytic capacitors, a business in which the roundup puts its global market share at 60 percent. Automotive manufacturers are the main customers for the terminals, which are also used in AI servers. Kohoku's market value is 712.2 million euros.
The company's optical-component business supplies fiber-optic communications networks. That includes optical isolators for submarine cables, a segment in which Kohoku estimates it holds more than 50 percent of the world market.
Kohoku says it can produce more than 600 billion lead terminals annually. Its consolidated workforce stood at 1,710 at the end of December 2025.
HawkEye 360 monitors radio signals from orbit
US-based HawkEye 360 uses a small fleet of its own satellites, flying in formation in low Earth orbit, to locate radio signals. Its work focuses primarily on military applications: identifying jammers and radar systems, and tracking vessels whose transponders have been switched off.
The roundup values HawkEye 360 at 1.0 billion euros and describes its technology as currently in demand.
