HMC
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Evidence as of 2026-09-16The desk's Snapshot
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Overview · Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, and distributes motorcycles, automobiles, power products, and other products in Japan, North America, Europe, Asia, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Motorcycle Business, Automobile Business, Financial Services Business, and Power Product and Other Businesses. The Motorcycle Business segment produces motorcycles, including sports, business, and commu…
Management team
- Mr. Katsushi Inoue · Senior Managing Exec. Officer & Chief Officer for Electrification Business Development OperationsFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Masayuki Igarashi · Managing Executive Officer & Chief Officer for Regional Operations (China)Find on LinkedIn
- Mr. Noriya Kaihara · Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer & Chief Officer for Regional Operations (North America)Find on LinkedIn
- Mr. Mitsugu Matsukawa · Managing Executive OfficerFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it, not a rating or a recommendation.
+0.2 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled. The rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
What the evidence shows
The surviving evidence presents a mixed picture (+0.2 of a possible +2; was +0.2 before debate) with high confidence. Total assets rose from ¥ 23,973,153,000,000 as of FY 2022 to ¥ 30,775,867,000,000 as of FY 2025, while total equity increased to ¥ 13,005,872,000,000 as of FY 2024 before edging down to ¥ 12,627,822,000,000 as of FY 2025. Total borrowings climbed from ¥ 8,102,556,000,000 as of FY 2022 to ¥ 11,451,267,000,000 as of FY 2025, with long‑term borrowings at ¥ 6,953,520,000,000 at FY 2025 and cash and cash equivalents at ¥ 4,528,795,000,000 (peak ¥ 4,954,565,000,000 at FY 2024). Market metrics show a recent 6‑month momentum of +25.3% (82nd percentile) but a 12‑month return of −3.4% (28th percentile); the 50‑day and 200‑day simple moving averages sit below the price by +5.3% and +13.4% respectively, with a golden cross aged 24 days as of 2026-09-15. Trailing twelve‑month operating income is ¥ 901,051,000,000, implying an enterprise‑value to operating‑income multiple of about 7.7 using the evidence EV of ¥ 6,978,086,101,207.
What the debate changed
The desk largely upheld its original claims; nothing was dropped or materially weakened during the debate. That left the read intact: balance‑sheet growth in assets and borrowings, a temporary peak in cash at FY 2024, and mixed market signals anchored by the recent golden cross and elevated volatility. The only shifts in emphasis were to call out parsing gaps in filings and to flag stale share‑count inputs as a potential distortion to valuation multiples.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else (no outside knowledge, no browsing), so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC (revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter) and reports which way the trend is running.
Total assets increased from ¥23,973,153,000,000 as of 31 March 2022 to ¥30,775,867,000,000 as of 31 March 2025.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001193125-24-163995Total equity rose from ¥10,772,546,000,000 as of 31 March 2022 to ¥13,005,872,000,000 as of 31 March 2024, then fell to ¥12,627,822,000,000 as of 31 March 2025.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001193125-25-142316Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full: its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet; its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
A Form 4 with the 4 filed 3 September 2026 was filed on 2026-09-03 (evidence parse_status: skipped).
4 filed 2026-09-03A Form 4 with the 4 filed 3 September 2026 was filed on 2026-09-03 (evidence parse_status: skipped).
4 filed 2026-09-03Reads the signal panel above (momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta) and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
Momentum over the past 6 months is +25.3% and ranks in the 82th percentile of the 559-stock research universe as of 2026-09-15.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-15weakened in debateMomentum over the past 12 months (12_1) is -3.4% and ranks in the 28th percentile of the 559-stock research universe as of 2026-09-15.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-15weakened in debateReads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
The provided evidence contains 15 Form 4 filings for HMC.
Form 4 × 15 (90d window not enforced here)Twelve of those Form 4 filings were filed on 3 September 2026.
Form 4 × 15 (90d window not enforced here)Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Coverage includes a negative safety/legal story: 'Dealer Admits Trafficking Fake Honda Airbags Shipped As Night Lights' reported by carscoops.com on 2026-09-15.
News · carscoops.com · 2026-09-15Product-focused local marketing appeared: a press release titled '2026 Honda Prelude Brings Hybrid Performance and Modern Sporty Style to Drivers in St. John's, NL' ran via PR Newswire and was republished on Yahoo Finance on 2026-09-15.
News · prnewswire.com · 2026-09-15Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5: who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
Shikama Mahito (Executive Officer) purchased 5,000 shares for "$52k" on 2026-08-06 as reported in the Form 4.
Form 4 · Shikama Mahito (Executive Officer) · $52k code A · 2026-08-06Fujimura Eiji (See Remarks) purchased 789 shares for "$8k" on 2026-08-03 as reported in the Form 4.
Form 4 · Fujimura Eiji (See Remarks) · $8k code A · 2026-08-03Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The market price in the evidence is 32.21 and the implied market capitalization is 55,614,101,207.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeCash reported as of 2025-03-31 is 4,528,795,000,000 and long-term debt reported as of 2025-03-31 is 11,451,267,000,000, yielding an enterprise value of 6,978,086,101,207 in the evidence.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score. The argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
The evidence contains several reasonably strong, company-specific signals that support a favorable read: total assets rose materially from ¥23.97T to ¥30.78T (fundamentals-0) while cash and equivalents increased to ¥4.53T (fundamentals-4), insiders registered multiple small purchases in August–September 2026 (insider-0 through insider-5), and short-term market technicals show clear positive momentum and a recent golden-cross (market-0 and market-2). Valuation items in the record indicate an enterprise value modest relative to trailing operating income (ev/operating-income ≈ 7.7, valuation-2), which is a concrete, directly computed ratio in the evidence and strengthens the comparative-read argument. The bear points about rising total and long-term borrowings (fundamentals-2 and fundamentals-3) are valid but of moderate strength when viewed alongside rising total assets and equity (fundamentals-0 and fundamentals-1) and the cash build (fundamentals-4); these mixed balance-sheet changes are factual but do not on their own negate the positive signals. The strongest weaknesses in the dataset are parsing gaps and stale fields (filings-0 through filings-5 with parse_status skipped, ownership-3, and valuation-5), which reduce the strength of some filing- and shares-based inferences, and market indicators like 12-month momentum and three-year drawdown (market-1 and market-3) which are factual, objectively negative historical patterns that temper the overall picture.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
diversified0.27
39 surviving claims rest on 23 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 18% of them, and 96% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The evidence base is moderately resilient: claims draw from a diverse set of 23 sources rather than a single document, which gives some redundancy across the 39 surviving claims. However one analyst accounts for a sizable share (18%) of the claims and 96% of raised points survived desk debate, which suggests the read may carry some confirmation bias or insufficient contestation — treat the read as informative but not decisively robust.
Peer context · computed, not argued
12-1 momentum ranks 6th of 8 in Auto Manufacturers (as of 2026-09-15).
6-month relative strength ranks 1st of 8 in Auto Manufacturers (as of 2026-09-15).
90-day volatility ranks 6th of 8 in Auto Manufacturers (as of 2026-09-15).
dividend yield ranks 2nd of 8 in Auto Manufacturers (as of 2026-09-15).
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
Third-party consensus shown for context. It never enters Moneyta sentiment. When the two diverge, the debate above is where the why lives.
What this was built from
Every figure on this page traces to one of these. The desk reads only what is listed here (no outside knowledge, no browsing), and each card shows who read it and what it contributed to the score.
8 filings· 2 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data, not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+0.0 to the score
10 documents· 2 cited
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes+0.0 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash+0.0 to the score
1 holdings record
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.0 to the score
7 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
20 filings· 2 cited
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state, with stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot+1.0 to the score
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
Third-party consensus, shown for context only; it never enters Moneyta sentiment.
Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal; the gap is shown rather than hidden.
Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
Educational analysis of published data. Moneyta does not give investment advice or make recommendations. Past patterns do not indicate future results.
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