Almost Everything Going Right For Shin-Etsu Chemical

When an uncommonly well-run company intersects with stronger than expected underlying end-markets, very good things can happen for the stock. Such has been the case for Shin-Etsu (OTCPK:SHECY), where strong results up and down the line have pushed the shares up another 25% or so from where they were when I last wrote about the company, even after a double-digit pullback from the January high.

I still lean positive on these shares. Although I fully expect the company's growth rate to slow from its recent trajectory, I believe the company's exposure to the strong PVC and wafer cycles as well as exposure to other growing specialty markets, biases the story in a favorable direction. Although the shares have enjoyed a very strong run since 2016, healthy end-markets should still support a high single-digit annual return at this point.

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Almost Everything Going Right For Shin-Etsu Chemical