Key Technology Inc. Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

November 2024 | 50 pages | ID: K8F6766CF31BEN
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Abstracts

Key Technology Inc. Fundamental Company Report provides a complete overview of the company’s affairs. All available data is presented in a comprehensive and easily accessed format. The report includes financial and SWOT information, industry analysis, opinions, estimates, plus annual and quarterly forecasts made by stock market experts. The report also enables direct comparison to be made between Key Technology Inc. and its competitors. This provides our Clients with a clear understanding of Key Technology Inc. position in the Heavy Machinery Industry.

• The report contains detailed information about Key Technology Inc. that gives an unrivalled in-depth knowledge about internal business-environment of the company: data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history.
• Another part of the report is a SWOT-analysis carried out for Key Technology Inc.. It involves specifying the objective of the company's business and identifies the different factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. SWOT-analysis helps to understand company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats against it.
• The Key Technology Inc. financial analysis covers the income statement and ratio trend-charts with balance sheets and cash flows presented on an annual and quarterly basis. The report outlines the main financial ratios pertaining to profitability, margin analysis, asset turnover, credit ratios, and company’s long-term solvency. This sort of company's information will assist and strengthen your company’s decision-making processes.
• In the part that describes Key Technology Inc. competitors and the industry in whole, the information about company's financial ratios is compared to those of its competitors and to the industry. The unique analysis of the market and company’s competitors along with detailed information about the internal and external factors affecting the relevant industry will help to manage your business environment. Your company’s business and sales activities will be boosted by gaining an insight into your competitors’ businesses.
• Also the report provides relevant news, an analysis of PR-activity, and stock price movements. The latter are correlated with pertinent news and press releases, and annual and quarterly forecasts are given by a variety of experts and market research firms. Such information creates your awareness about principal trends of Key Technology Inc. business.

About Key Technology Inc.

Key Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells, and services process automation systems that process product streams of discrete pieces. The company's systems integrate electro-optical automated inspection and sorting systems with process systems that include specialized conveying and preparation equipment. It provides parts and service for each of its product lines to customers worldwide.

Products

Automated Inspection Systems

Automated inspection systems are used in various applications to detect and remove defects and foreign material from the product stream. The company’s product families within this group include the following: Manta, Tegra, and Optyx, which are used in various applications and industries; Tobacco Sorter 3 tobacco sorting systems used in tobacco threshing and primary processing; ADR automatic defect removal systems used in the potato strip industry; and OptyxSG and VeriSym used in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industry.

The company’s automated inspection systems incorporate object-based sorting technology that recognizes color, size, and shape, as well as differences in the structural properties of the objects and differing levels of fluorescing material. These capabilities provide solutions to previously difficult sorting problems, such as differentiation between green beans and green bean stems. The sorters are equipped with application-specific software packs, called KeyWare, which are designed for a single product category. The systems operate on the company’s advanced G6 electro-optical platform, which features a controller, vision engine, and high-resolution cameras. Network communication software allows the systems to interface with plant networks, extending machine monitoring, and communication control capabilities beyond the plant floor to the control room. FMAlert, an optional feature for G6 optical sorters, improves tracking and control of foreign material by capturing and saving a digital image of every object identified as foreign material.

The company’s optical inspection systems use proprietary linear array, charged coupled device (CCD) monochromatic, color, or multi-spectral cameras. Additionally, Manta and Optyx can be equipped with Raptor Laser Technology or FluoRaptor, a fluorescence-sensing laser, in combination with the cameras. The cameras and laser-sensors scan the product-streams, which move at 5 to 20 feet per second, at the rate of 1,500 to 8,000 times per second and identify foreign material and defects approximately 1/128 of an inch in diameter.

Manta: Manta 2000 is the company’s on-belt sorter. Featuring high-resolution inspection and a 79-inch scan width, Manta 2000 handles approximately 44,000 pounds of vegetables or fruit per hour and the Manta 1600, with a 60-inch scan width, handles approximately 33,000 pounds of product per hour. Manta’s design supports on-belt viewing as well as off-belt, in-air viewing by a combination of color or Vis/IR (visible infrared) cameras and Raptor or FluoRaptor lasers.

Optyx: Using a combination of on-belt and in-air sorting, Optyx is a family of sorters that can be equipped with cameras or a combination of cameras and lasers. The Optyx 3000 series features a 24-inch scan width to sort approximately 13,000 pounds of product an hour, offering the power and sorting capabilities of a sorter in a machine ideal for smaller processors and lower volume processing lines. The Optyx 6000 series features a 48-inch scan width to sort up to 26,500 pounds of product an hour.

Tegra: Inspecting product in-air using cameras configured in a tilted-X geometry that look at oblique angles, Tegra views product from various sides. A metal-mesh catenary C-belt uses gravity and centrifugal force – not friction – to gently accelerate, stabilize, and launch product into the inspection zone. Ideal for highly three-dimensional products such as slices, dices, and larger round objects that may have small defects on one surface, and applications include potato products, green beans, dried beans, corn, carrots, pears, peaches, and coffee. Tegra is available with a 60-inch wide platform to sort approximately 33,000 pounds of product an h

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Contents

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

DISCLAIMER

1. KEY TECHNOLOGY INC. COMPANY PROFILE

1.1. Key facts
1.2. Financial Performance
1.3. Key Executives
1.4. Ownership and Major Holders
1.5. Company History

2. KEY TECHNOLOGY INC. BUSINESS OVERVIEW

2.1. Business Description
2.2. Major Products and Services
2.3. Markets and Sales Activities
2.4. Locations, Subsidiaries, Operating Units

3. KEY TECHNOLOGY INC. SWOT ANALYSIS

3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats

4. KEY TECHNOLOGY INC. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

4.1. Financial Statements
4.1.1. Income Statement
4.1.2. Balance Sheet
4.1.3. Cash Flow
4.2. Financial Ratios
4.2.1. Profitability
4.2.2. Margin Analysis
4.2.3. Asset Turnover
4.2.4. Credit Ratios
4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
4.3. Stock Market Snapshot

5. KEY TECHNOLOGY INC. COMPETITORS AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

5.1. Key Technology Inc. Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of Key Technology Inc. and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of Key Technology Inc. and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. Key Technology Inc. Industry Analysis
5.4.1. Heavy Machinery Industry Snapshot
  5.4.2. Key Technology Inc. Industry Position Analysis

6. KEY TECHNOLOGY INC. NEWS & EVENTS

6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events

7. KEY TECHNOLOGY INC. EXPERTS REVIEW¹

7.1. Experts Consensus
7.2. Experts Revisions

8. KEY TECHNOLOGY INC. ENHANCED SWOT ANALYSIS²

9. UNITED STATES PESTEL ANALYSIS²

9.1. Political Factors
9.2. Economic Factors
9.3. Social Factors
9.4. Technological Factors
9.5. Environmental Factors
9.6. Legal Factors

10. KEY TECHNOLOGY INC. IFE, EFE, IE MATRICES²

10.1. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.3. Internal External Matrix

11. KEY TECHNOLOGY INC. PORTER FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS²

12. KEY TECHNOLOGY INC. VRIO ANALYSIS²

APPENDIX: RATIO DEFINITIONS

LIST OF FIGURES

Key Technology Inc. Annual Revenues in Comparison with Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
Profit Margin Chart
Operating Margin Chart
Return on Equity (ROE) Chart
Return on Assets (ROA) Chart
Debt to Equity Chart
Current Ratio Chart
Key Technology Inc. 1-year Stock Charts
Key Technology Inc. 5-year Stock Charts
Key Technology Inc. vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
Key Technology Inc. vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
Key Technology Inc. Article Density Chart

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List Of Tables

LIST OF TABLES

Key Technology Inc. Key Facts
Profitability
Management Effectiveness
Income Statement Key Figures
Balance Sheet Key Figures
Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
Key Technology Inc. Key Executives
Key Technology Inc. Major Shareholders
Key Technology Inc. History
Key Technology Inc. Products
Revenues by Segment
Revenues by Region
Key Technology Inc. Offices and Representations
Key Technology Inc. SWOT Analysis
Yearly Income Statement Including Trends
Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Balance Sheet Including Trends
Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Cash Flow Including Trends
Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Key Technology Inc. Profitability Ratios
Margin Analysis Ratios
Asset Turnover Ratios
Credit Ratios
Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
Key Technology Inc. Capital Market Snapshot
Key Technology Inc. Direct Competitors Key Facts
Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Heavy Machinery Industry Statistics
Key Technology Inc. Industry Position
Company vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Company vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Company vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Company vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
Key Technology Inc. Consensus Recommendations¹
Analyst Recommendation Summary¹
Price Target Summary¹
Experts Recommendation Trends¹
Revenue Estimates Analysis¹
Earnings Estimates Analysis¹
Historical Surprises¹
Revenue Estimates Trend¹
Earnings Estimates Trend¹
Revenue Revisions¹

ANALYSIS FEATURES

SWOT Analysis

SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.

Enhanced SWOT Analysis

Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:

• How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?
• How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?

Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.

PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.

Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.

Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:

• Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?
• Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?
• Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?
• Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?
• Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?
• Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?

IFE, EFE, IE Matrices

The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.

The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.

The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.

Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.

Porter Five Forces Analysis

The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:

1. What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
2. Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
3. What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
4. How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
5. How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?

VRIO Analysis

VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:

• Tangible resources
  • Financial
  • Physical
  • Technological
  • Organizational
• Intangible resources
  • Human
  • Innovation and Creativity
  • Reputation
• Organizational capabilities

The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:

• Valuable?
• Rare?
• Costly to imitate?
• Organized properly?