Adeka Corporation operates in the Industrial organic chemicals sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Adeka with three other companies in this sector in Japan: Soda Nikka Co., Ltd. (2017 sales of 92.47 billion Japanese Yen [US$828.52 million] of which 72% was Chemical Manufacturing), NOF Corporation (174.06 billion Japanese Yen [US$1.56 billion] of which 64% was Chemicals Business), and Nissan Chemical Industries Ltd (180.29 billion Japanese Yen [US$1.62 billion] of which 27% was Agricultural Chemical).

Sales Analysis. Adeka reported sales of ¥223.44 billion (US$2.00 billion) for the fiscal year ending March of 2017. This represents a very small increase of 0.3% versus 2016, when the company's sales were ¥222.75 billion. Sales at Adeka have increased during each of the previous five years (and since 2012, sales have increased a total of 31%). Sales of Other saw an increase that was more than double the company's growth rate: sales were up 20.2% in 2017, from ¥7.80 billion to ¥9.37 billion. Adeka also saw significant increases in sales in Food Business (up 8.6% to ¥66.40 billion) . Not all segments of Adeka experienced an increase in sales in 2017: sales of Chemicals fell 4.0% to ¥147.67 billion.