Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (6981.T) - Deep Dive Research Report

Report Date: May 21, 2026 | Concalls reviewed: Q4/FY2025 (Apr 30, 2026), Q3 FY2025 (Feb 2, 2026), Q2 FY2025 (Oct 31, 2025), Q1 FY2025 (Jul 30, 2025)

Section 1: What the Company Does

Murata Manufacturing is a Japanese maker of electronic components built from fine ceramics. The simplest description: they turn specialty minerals into the tiny passive components that sit inside almost every electronic device on earth - the capacitors that smooth out power delivery in an iPhone, the filters that separate the signal from the noise in a 5G radio, the sensors that measure vibration in a car. These parts are invisible to the consumer but structurally indispensable to every electronics manufacturer. Without Murata's components, most modern devices could not be built to spec.

The company was founded in October 1944 by Akira Murata in Kyoto, Japan - at the time a one-man ceramic research venture. Murata recognized that barium titanate, a ceramic compound, had unusual dielectric properties that could be exploited for capacitor manufacturing. That insight was the seed of an 80-year competitive advantage. The company formalized as Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in December 1950, was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1970 (code: 6981), and has since grown into a business employing 74,302 people across 83 subsidiaries in 29 countries.

The pivot that defined the modern company came in the 1990s and 2000s when the mobile phone boom created insatiable demand for miniaturized passive components. Murata was uniquely positioned: its ceramic material science and layering technology could produce capacitors smaller than a grain of sand with higher capacitance than any competitor. This capability earned Murata design-in status with every major handset OEM in Japan, South Korea, and eventually the United States. Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, and every Android manufacturer in China all depend on Murata components to build their phones.

The technical heart of the company is the multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC). An MLCC is a stack of alternating layers of ceramic dielectric and metal electrode, encased in a tiny rectangular chip. It stores and releases electrical charge to smooth voltage fluctuations in circuits. In modern smartphones, there are roughly 1,000 MLCCs per device. In an AI server of the kind powering the current data center buildout, there are 15,000 to 25,000. In an NVIDIA Blackwell rack - a full computing cluster - the count approaches 441,000.

What makes MLCCs hard to make is the combination of materials science and precision manufacturing they require. Murata synthesizes its own barium titanate (BaTiO₃) dielectric powder at a particle size of approximately 100 nanometers. This matters enormously: Korean competitors like Samsung Electro-Mechanics work with particles of 300-500 nanometers, meaning Murata's raw material is three to five times finer. Finer particles allow thinner dielectric layers, more layers per unit height, higher capacitance in the same physical footprint, and more consistent electrical performance. Murata then casts these particles into green sheets thinner than one micron, prints nickel electrodes onto them, stacks hundreds or now over 1,000 such layers, fires the entire assembly in a controlled atmosphere at around 1,200°C (sintering), and completes the chip with metal terminations. The whole process requires proprietary equipment - some of which Murata builds itself - and decades of accumulated process know-how. There is no shortcut. Replicating this capability from scratch takes the better part of a decade. Murata holds 94,270 patents protecting every layer of this process.

In FY2025 (the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026), Murata reported revenue of ¥1,830.9 billion - a record high, up 5.0% year-over-year. The company has 169,287 shareholders worldwide and is a member of both the Nikkei 225 and TOPIX Core 30.

Section 2: Business Segments

Murata's business is organized into four main product categories that correspond roughly to four different capability platforms. Revenue totaled ¥1,830.9 billion in FY2025 (ended March 2026).

2.1 Components - the Engine (~56% of revenue, approximately ¥1.03 trillion in FY2025)

The Components segment covers MLCCs, inductors, and EMI suppression filters. These are passive components - they store energy, condition current, and suppress electrical noise. They contain no active transistors and perform no computation. What they do is govern the electrical environment inside a circuit so that the active components can function at all.

MLCCs are the largest product line. A single capacitor costs anywhere from fractions of a cent (commodity consumer grade) to several dollars (high-reliability automotive or AI server grade). The margin differential between these tiers is enormous. The shift in demand toward higher-specification MLCCs for AI servers and electric vehicles is structurally shifting the revenue mix toward the premium end.

Inductors convert voltage and regulate current, working alongside capacitors in power management circuits. Murata's inductor business is split across winding inductors, multilayer inductors, and thin-film inductors, with distinct manufacturing techniques for each. The automotive power inductor segment is growing as EV drivetrains require heavy current management.

EMI suppression filters eliminate electromagnetic interference - a growing problem as device density increases and radio frequencies proliferate. Murata operates eight EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) laboratories worldwide and positions itself as an end-to-end EMC solution provider to electronics engineers who need to achieve regulatory compliance.

The core capability of this segment is ceramic materials science. What took Murata decades to build is the ability to synthesize ultra-fine ceramic powder, produce green sheets thinner than one micron, stack over 1,000 layers with sub-micron registration accuracy, and fire them in atmospheres calibrated to within single-degree precision. No competitor has replicated this in full. In AI server-specific MLCC applications, Murata is estimated to hold approximately 60% market share, well above its 33-40% overall MLCC share.

Components grew 10.3% year-over-year in FY2025, driven by AI server demand. In the nine months to December 2025, MLCC revenue alone rose 10.1% year-over-year to ¥694 billion. Inductors and EMI filters together added another ¥167 billion in the same nine-month period, up 9.6%.

2.2 Devices and Modules - the Connectivity Layer (~29.5% of revenue, approximately ¥540 billion in FY2025)

This segment covers high-frequency devices and communication modules. The products here are more complex system-level solutions: surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters that sit between the antenna and the chip in a mobile phone, RF front-end modules that combine filters and amplifiers, Bluetooth modules, Wi-Fi modules, and power amplifier modules.

SAW filters work by converting an electrical signal into a mechanical acoustic wave in a piezoelectric material, then converting it back - using the physical properties of the material to select specific frequencies and reject others. This allows a phone to receive the signal it wants and suppress every adjacent frequency. Modern 5G phones use multiple SAW filters for multiple frequency bands. Murata acquired deep SAW technology competence organically over decades and then in 2022 acquired Resonant Inc. for approximately ¥35 billion to gain access to XBAR (crossly-excited bulk acoustic resonator) technology, which was intended to extend filter performance into higher frequency bands above 3GHz needed for Wi-Fi 7 and future 5.5G/6G systems.

The XBAR bet did not play out on schedule. In Q3 FY2025 (February 2026), Murata took a ¥43.8 billion goodwill impairment against the Resonant acquisition - larger than the acquisition price itself, reflecting goodwill that was added above book value. President Norio Nakajima attributed this to two problems: the rise of Chinese SAW filter manufacturers competing aggressively at conventional frequencies, and the delay of the Wi-Fi 7 and 5.5G/6G market to "after 2030." The XBAR opportunity has not disappeared, but its timeline has moved.

The high-frequency devices and communication modules business is far more competitive than Components. Chinese suppliers like AAC Technologies and ROFS Microsystems have made serious inroads in SAW filters for the domestic Chinese smartphone market. The Bluetooth and Wi-Fi module business, by contrast, benefits from the integration complexity of embedding radio subsystems into customer products - the qualification and design-in process creates switching friction.

Revenue in this segment declined in FY2025 due to lower high-frequency module and multilayer resin substrate sales for smartphones. The smartphone market showed weakness in premium RF content, partially offset by server and data center module demand.

2.3 Battery and Power Supply (~8.4% of revenue, ¥154.1 billion in FY2025)

Murata entered the battery business in 2016-2017 through the acquisition of Sony Energy Devices Corporation, inheriting Sony's lithium-ion battery manufacturing technology. The product is cylindrical lithium-ion secondary batteries, with a strategic emphasis on the proprietary FORTELION formulation using olivine-type lithium iron phosphate (LFP) as the cathode.

FORTELION offers meaningful advantages: LFP chemistry is inherently safer than NMC (no thermal runaway risk from the same mechanisms), offers longer cycle life, and maintains performance across a wider temperature range. Murata targets applications where these properties matter: cordless power tools, industrial power tools, gardening equipment, vacuum cleaners, and - increasingly - battery backup units for data centers (UPS systems).

The battery segment has been in restructuring mode since the acquisition. Profitability was inconsistent through FY2023 and FY2024. In FY2025, the battery segment improved significantly: it turned to a quarterly operating profit in Q2 FY2025 (July-September 2025) after recording a loss in Q1, and the business achieved full-year profitability in FY2025 for what President Nakajima described as the first time in years. The primary battery business (small coin cells) was transferred to Maxell in early 2026, with the transaction completing in February 2026. This narrows the battery segment to the cylindrical LI-ion business where Murata has proprietary technology.

Revenue declined 1.1% year-over-year in FY2025 to ¥154.1 billion, as strength in server backup unit batteries offset declines in video game console applications.

2.4 Functional Devices (~5.8% of revenue, ¥107.1 billion in FY2025)

Functional Devices covers sensors, thermistors, timing devices (crystal resonators), piezoelectric actuators, and related components. Sensors include accelerometers, gyroscopes, pressure sensors, and current sensors - used in automotive ADAS/AD systems, industrial automation, wearables, and medical devices.

This is the smallest segment by revenue but has meaningful growth characteristics. Revenue rose 9.5% year-over-year in FY2025, driven by sensors for mobility applications (ADAS and electrification) and actuators for computers (haptic feedback, hard drive positioning).

The segment benefits from the same ceramic materials expertise that underlies MLCCs. Murata's MEMS sensors use piezoelectric ceramics to detect motion - the same fundamental understanding of ceramic mechanical and electrical coupling that produces capacitors enables sensor design.

Segment Comparison Summary

Section 3: Products and Business Detail

The MLCC Catalogue in Full

Murata manufactures MLCCs in case sizes ranging from 01005 (0.4mm x 0.2mm - smaller than a grain of sand) to 2220 (5.7mm x 5.0mm). Within each case size, the company offers multiple dielectric types:

• Class 1 (C0G/NP0): Temperature-stable ceramics for precision circuits. Used in RF, timing, and filtering applications. Capacitance is stable across temperature. Murata is the world leader in high-Q C0G for RF applications.
• Class 2 (X5R, X7R, X8R, Y5V): High-capacitance dielectrics for decoupling and bulk energy storage. Used everywhere from consumer electronics to automotive. The X8R formulation (stable to +150°C) is critical for automotive under-hood applications. X7R is the workhorse of consumer electronics.
• High-Capacitance Server Grade: Murata's latest 0402 (1mm x 0.5mm) capacitor achieves 47 microfarads - a world first announced in early 2026. This 800-layer component doubled the capacitance density of its predecessor and is specifically designed for AI server decoupling rails.

In July 2025, Murata released an 800-layer 0402 part that doubled capacitance density over the previous generation, enabling AI server board designers to maintain power delivery without increasing board area.

Manufacturing Process

The MLCC manufacturing flow begins with Murata's own ceramic powder synthesis. Barium titanate (BaTiO₃) is synthesized internally to 100nm particle size - a process capability that distinguishes Murata from all competitors. The ceramic powder is mixed with organic binders and solvents into a slurry, then cast onto a carrier film using a doctor blade (thin-film casting). The resulting "green sheet" - a flexible ceramic film before firing - can be thinner than one micron.

Internal electrodes are screen-printed onto the green sheets using nickel paste. Printed sheets are then stacked - in modern high-end products, more than 1,000 layers are assembled with sub-micron registration accuracy. The stacked block is laminated under heat and pressure, then cut into individual chip blanks.

Sintering occurs in a controlled-atmosphere furnace at approximately 1,200°C. The ceramic densifies, the organic binders burn out, and the structure contracts. Managing this contraction - and ensuring the electrode-ceramic interface survives the thermal cycle without delamination or cracking - is one of the most technically demanding aspects of MLCC production. It is where decades of process knowledge express themselves, and where competitors who lack the same ceramic science background fail.

After sintering, external terminations (nickel, then tin plating) are applied by barrel plating. Each chip is then tested electrically - capacitance, dissipation factor, insulation resistance, voltage withstand. High-reliability grades for automotive go through further accelerated life testing to AEC-Q200 qualification.

Murata builds some of its own production equipment, embedding process IP into the manufacturing tools themselves rather than relying on commercial equipment suppliers. This is a deliberate strategy: a competitor who purchased the same commercial tools still could not replicate Murata's process because key steps are performed on in-house machines with proprietary designs.

SAW Filter Technology

Surface acoustic wave filters use the piezoelectric effect in a substrate material (typically lithium tantalate or lithium niobate) to convert an electrical input into a surface acoustic wave, filter it by physical geometry, and convert it back to an electrical output. Because the wavelength of the acoustic wave determines the filter frequency, and because the wavelength is a function of electrode pitch, SAW filters are defined lithographically - you can design the frequency by designing the electrode spacing.

Murata's SAW technology covers conventional frequency bands (below ~2.5GHz) and extends into bulk acoustic wave (BAW) territories with thin-film bulk acoustic resonators (FBAR) for higher frequency bands up to approximately 6GHz. XBAR (cross-excited bulk acoustic resonator), the technology acquired from Resonant, was intended to push beyond 3GHz more efficiently. The market for XBAR is tied to Wi-Fi 7 (7GHz band) and future 6G bands above 6GHz - markets that have moved slower than Murata projected.

Wireless Modules

Murata manufactures complete wireless communication modules: Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi (802.11ax and earlier), Bluetooth/Wi-Fi combo, and cellular (2G through 5G sub-6GHz). These are complete subsystems - antenna, filter, amplifier, and baseband modem integrated onto a small PCB with shield - that customers embed in their products without deep radio engineering expertise.

The module business targets IoT devices, industrial controllers, medical devices, and consumer electronics where a complete radio subsystem is needed but the customer lacks RF engineering depth. The switching cost is significant: a customer who has qualified a Murata BT module into a product must re-qualify any replacement, which in medical or industrial applications involves months of validation.

Power Modules and the New AI Server Bet

Beginning in 2026, Murata is mass-producing VPD (voltage positioning/power delivery) power modules specifically designed for AI server power rails. These are integrated solutions that regulate voltage at the processor socket - a critical function as AI accelerators consume hundreds of amps at very low voltages, making efficient and stable power delivery a design challenge. Murata's target is ¥50 billion in revenue from this product over the two years through FY2027 (ending March 2028). President Nakajima disclosed that Murata is in commercial discussions with at least one major cloud service provider (CSP) for these modules.

Manufacturing Geography

Murata operates its primary MLCC manufacturing in Japan (multiple plants in Fukui, Shimane, Nagano, and Kyoto prefectures). The Izumo plant in Shimane, announced in March 2024, began shipping in April 2026. International manufacturing includes sites in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Philippines, and Thailand for various components. SAW filter production is concentrated in Japan. Battery production is in Japan and China.

Section 4: Customers

Who Buys and Why

Murata's customers are electronics manufacturers - every company that builds a device with an electronic circuit is a potential customer. In practice, revenue is concentrated in a few large categories.

Smartphone OEMs represent the single largest end market, historically ~30-35% of revenue. Apple is widely understood to be the largest single customer, though Murata does not disclose this explicitly. Samsung Electronics, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and every major Android manufacturer also buy Murata components. The buying decision at smartphone OEMs happens at two levels: the component engineers who specify which MLCC is required in a circuit, and the commodity procurement teams who manage pricing. Murata's components are typically specified by the engineers during the design phase - once a component is designed in, the procurement team negotiates price but cannot easily substitute a different vendor without triggering a re-qualification process.

Contract electronics manufacturers (CEMs) - Foxconn, Pegatron, Compal, Quanta, Flextronics, and similar - purchase vast quantities of passive components for their assembly lines. They buy to the specification provided by the OEM brand, giving Murata indirect exposure to Apple, Dell, HP, and other brands.

Automotive suppliers (Tier 1s) - Bosch, Denso, Continental, Aptiv, Harman, and their peers - purchase Murata MLCCs, inductors, and sensors for integration into ECUs (electronic control units), ADAS systems, and EV powertrains. The automotive buying cycle is long: a new vehicle platform takes 3-5 years from specification to production. Murata must achieve qualification on a new platform years before revenue flows, but once qualified, it supplies that platform for 10+ years.

Data center operators and server OEMs - hyperscalers like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and their ODM (original design manufacturer) suppliers like Quanta and Wistron - buy Murata MLCCs for server motherboards. The MLCC content per AI server baseboard is 15,000-25,000 components, and hyperscalers are spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually on new AI compute infrastructure. This customer category has grown from a minor revenue contributor to a primary growth engine in the space of three years.

Distributors - Arrow Electronics, Avnet, Digi-Key, Mouser, and regional distributors like Ryoyo Electro in Japan - account for a significant share of revenue, particularly for the small and mid-size customer segment that cannot buy directly from Murata in volume.

Geographic Concentration

Greater China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan) represents approximately 45-48% of Murata's revenue. This reflects both the concentration of electronics manufacturing in China and the growth of Chinese domestic consumer electronics brands. Americas account for roughly 15-20%, Europe 15%, and Japan plus the rest of Asia 20%.

This geographic concentration is both a strength - Murata is deeply embedded in the world's largest electronics manufacturing hub - and a risk. Chinese political relationships with Taiwan (a major manufacturing and customer geography), US-China trade tensions, and the growth of Chinese MLCC competitors who supply domestic customers with increasingly capable components all create uncertainty.

Switching Costs

At the MLCC level, switching costs are moderate but real. A customer who wants to substitute an alternative vendor's capacitor must:

1. Technically qualify the new component (measure capacitance, ESR, voltage derating, thermal performance)
2. Re-qualify any product containing it through their quality process (ISO/IATF 16949 for automotive, IPC standards for industrial, FDA guidance for medical)
3. Manage supply chain transitions during the switchover

For high-reliability applications (automotive under-hood, aerospace, medical), the qualification process for an alternative supplier can take 12-24 months and costs the customer significant engineering time. For commodity consumer applications, switching is easier - perhaps 3-6 months. This creates a tiered switching-cost structure: automotive and server customers are sticky; consumer electronics customers are moderately sticky.

For SAW filter modules and wireless communication modules, switching costs are higher still. A customer who has designed a Murata Bluetooth module into a certified product must re-certify the radio under FCC, CE, and other regulatory frameworks - a process that can cost $100,000-500,000 and take 6-12 months. This effectively locks in module customers for the life of each product design.

Section 5: Competitive Landscape

MLCC: The Three-Tier Market

The global MLCC market is estimated at approximately $27 billion in 2025 and is projected to grow at roughly 15% CAGR through 2031, driven by AI servers, EVs, and 5G infrastructure.

The market has three competitive tiers:

Tier 1 - Japanese incumbents with full material science capability: Murata, TDK, and Taiyo Yuden. These three companies produce the full range of MLCC grades, including automotive-qualified and high-reliability industrial components. They maintain material science competence (ceramic powder synthesis, thin-film casting), operate their own production equipment in some areas, and have decades of process refinement. Murata leads with approximately 33-40% overall market share and approximately 60% of the AI server MLCC sub-market. TDK has roughly 15-18% overall, Taiyo Yuden roughly 11-13%.

Tier 2 - Korean and Taiwanese manufacturers with strong process capability: Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) is the most capable Tier 2 competitor, with approximately 20-22% global MLCC share. SEMCO has invested heavily in ceramic powder technology and has closed the gap with Japanese competitors in several applications, though it remains behind at the highest-specification end (sub-1 micron dielectric layers, 1000+ layer counts). Yageo (Taiwan) and its subsidiary KEMET are meaningful in the mid-market, with Yageo's acquisition of Shibaura Electronics in 2025 (¥65.56 billion) signaling ambition to move up the quality tier.

Tier 3 - Chinese manufacturers serving the domestic low-to-mid market: Walsin Technology (Taiwan-headquartered but China-manufacturing), Holy Stone Enterprise, Fenghua Advanced Technology, and Torch Electron. These companies serve the Chinese consumer electronics market and are increasingly competitive in mid-grade MLCCs. They are not yet competitive for automotive-grade or high-reliability server-grade components.

Why Murata wins at the top: The 100nm BaTiO₃ powder particle size vs. competitors' 300-500nm is not a marginal advantage - it enables meaningfully thinner dielectric layers, which enables more layers per unit thickness, higher capacitance in smaller footprints, and more consistent electrical properties. This particle size gap represents years of materials chemistry development. Competitors are working to close it, but the timeline to catch up is measured in years, not months. Morningstar upgraded Murata to a Wide Moat rating in 2025 based specifically on the expanding MLCC competitive advantage as demand shifts toward higher-spec applications where the gap is widest.

Where Murata loses: Commodity consumer-grade MLCCs (0402 and 0603 in X7R and similar) are effectively fungible. Chinese manufacturers are fully competitive here on price, and Korean manufacturers on quality and price combined. Murata chooses not to compete aggressively on price in commodity segments, preferring to maintain pricing in premium tiers. The flip side is that commodity MLCC volumes and margins are under perpetual pressure.

SAW Filters: A More Contested Battlefield

In conventional SAW filters (below ~2.5GHz), Murata historically held approximately 40-45% global market share. But the competitive dynamics have shifted. Chinese manufacturers backed by domestic smartphone OEMs and government support have developed credible SAW filter capability for commodity frequencies. AAC Technologies, ROFS Microsystems, and others have gained meaningful share in the Chinese domestic smartphone market. This is precisely what drove the XBAR impairment: the conventional SAW market was becoming commoditized at a faster rate than Murata anticipated.

Broadcom (via Avago), Qorvo (via TriQuint and RF Micro), and Skyworks dominate the North American and high-end BAW/FBAR market. These companies supply the higher-frequency, higher-performance filter content in premium 5G phones - Qualcomm-chipset devices typically. Murata competes in RF front-end modules for mid-range and value-tier phones.

Barriers to Entry

The barriers to entering the premium MLCC market are formidable:

1. Materials science: Synthesizing BaTiO₃ at 100nm is not something achievable through commercial powder suppliers. It requires in-house ceramic chemistry capability built over decades. A new entrant starting from scratch would spend 5-10 years just developing the powder, before they build any factory.

2. Equipment: Murata makes some of its own production equipment. A competitor buying commercial equipment cannot replicate proprietary process steps executed on in-house machines. This is a structural IP moat.

3. Process know-how: Over 80 years of process refinement - specifically, knowing what causes yield losses at each step and how to prevent them - is not documented in patents or publications. It lives in the brains and procedures of Murata engineers. Yield in MLCC manufacturing is highly sensitive to tiny process variables, and the accumulated knowledge of how to optimize yield is irreplaceable.

4. Capital intensity: A world-class MLCC fab costs several hundred billion yen to build. New capacity takes 24-30 months from investment to first shipment. This means supply cannot respond quickly to demand spikes, which creates pricing power at peaks.

5. Customer qualification: Getting designed into a major OEM's product takes years. New entrants face a qualification wall even if they can make competitive components.

Section 6: Industry

What Drives Demand

The electronic components industry is fundamentally a derived demand business. Demand for MLCCs, inductors, and SAW filters derives from demand for the devices that contain them. Three structural forces are driving long-run demand growth that is independent of any single device cycle:

AI infrastructure buildout: AI training and inference servers consume dramatically more electronic components per dollar of compute than traditional servers. An AI server baseboard requires 15,000-25,000 MLCCs versus roughly 3,000 for a conventional server - roughly 8x the passive content per unit. And the number of AI servers being built is growing exponentially. Hyperscalers are committing hundreds of billions of dollars annually to AI compute, and a substantial fraction of this spending flows through to passive component manufacturers.

Electrification of transportation: Every battery electric vehicle contains 3,000-5,000 MLCCs (versus 300-500 in an internal combustion engine vehicle) and a growing number of advanced sensors for ADAS. As penetration of EVs increases globally, passive component content per vehicle rises dramatically. The ADAS aspect is additive: radar sensors, LiDAR, camera systems, and V2X communication modules all add capacitor and sensor content.

5G and 6G densification: Smartphones with 5G capability contain more MLCCs and more SAW/BAW filters than 4G phones - approximately 10-20% more passive content. As 5G penetration moves from early adopters to the mass market and as 6G R&D accelerates, the filter content per phone is set to increase further.

Industrial automation and IoT: The digitization of manufacturing (Industry 4.0), agricultural automation, building management, and healthcare devices all require electronic components. This is a diffuse but steady demand driver.

Industry Size and Growth

The global MLCC market was approximately $27.26 billion in 2025, projected to grow at 15% CAGR to approximately $64.19 billion by 2031 (Mordor Intelligence estimates). Murata's own December 2025 IR Day analysis projected server MLCC demand alone to grow at 30% CAGR through FY2030, reaching 3.3x FY2025 levels.

The SAW/BAW filter market is smaller but meaningful, estimated at $6-8 billion globally, growing at 7-10% CAGR driven by 5G and Wi-Fi expansion.

Supply Chain Position

Murata sits near the bottom of the electronics supply chain - it is a component supplier to manufacturers who build sub-systems who build devices. This position means Murata has little direct consumer exposure but also means it is subject to double-ordering effects during industry cycles. When a smartphone OEM expects demand to increase, it may order more MLCCs than it immediately needs, building inventory. When demand disappoints or slows, it draws down inventory rather than ordering, creating an exaggerated trough for component suppliers. This inventory cycle dynamic was exactly what drove Murata's revenue decline from ¥1,812.5 billion in FY2022 to ¥1,640.2 billion in FY2024 - a two-year inventory correction following the COVID-era demand surge and subsequent consumer electronics slump.

The AI server demand has a different character: datacenter operators do not appear to be building significant component inventories. Murata's Q3 FY2025 management commentary noted "demand for AI servers is strong, and inventory build-up is limited." Book-to-bill ratios for AI server-grade MLCCs have remained at or above 1.0.

Regulation and Certification

MLCC production requires no specific government permit, but selling to automotive customers requires qualification to AEC-Q200 (passive component reliability standard), IATF 16949 (automotive quality management), and customer-specific additional requirements. This qualification is a market access barrier, not a regulatory restriction, but it functions similarly: without Murata's name on the approved vendor list for a new vehicle program, Murata cannot participate.

For SAW filters and RF modules, FCC and regulatory type approval is required in each jurisdiction where the device will be sold. Murata manages this at the module level for its wireless products.

Cyclicality

The passive component industry is cyclical, with cycles driven by inventory build-up and correction overlaid on underlying secular growth. Peak-to-trough revenue swings of 10-15% over a 2-3 year period are normal. The current cycle is unusual because two demand categories - AI servers and automotive - appear structurally counter-cyclical to the smartphone and consumer electronics cycle that historically drove most of the swings.

Section 7: Growth Triggers

All triggers sourced directly from the four most recent earnings call transcripts. Q4/FY2025 refers to April 30, 2026; Q3 FY2025 refers to February 2, 2026; Q2 FY2025 refers to October 31, 2025; Q1 FY2025 refers to July 30, 2025.

• AI server MLCC demand doubling by FY2025 year-end. Management at the Q2 FY2025 call (Oct 31, 2025) stated that AI server MLCC demand was on track to "more than double by the end of fiscal 2025." This is relative to FY2024 levels. The actual FY2025 Components segment revenue of ¥1.03 trillion (+10.3% YoY) confirms this trajectory materialized. Trigger repeated: Q1 FY2025 (Jul 30, 2025) and Q2 FY2025 (Oct 31, 2025).

• AI server MLCC demand to reach 3.3x FY2025 levels by FY2030, growing at 30% CAGR. At the December 2025 IR Day (between Q2 and Q3 calls), management revised upward their long-run server MLCC forecast from 18% CAGR to 30% CAGR. The per-baseboard MLCC count was revised from 10,000-20,000 to 15,000-25,000. Reiterated at Q3 FY2025 (Feb 2, 2026): "demand for AI servers is strong, and inventory build-up is limited." Target market share is 43% of global MLCC by FY2030 (vs ~33-40% today).

• Izumo plant (Shimane prefecture) began shipping in April 2026. Announced March 2024, the Izumo expansion added MLCC capacity specifically for automotive and AI server high-grade applications. The 25-month build-to-ship timeline is consistent with Murata's stated 24-30 month capacity expansion lead time. This capacity is now contributing to FY2026 revenue. (Q4 FY2025 call, Apr 30, 2026).

• MLCC price increases of 15-35% on high-end products, effective April 1, 2026. Murata announced price increases applying specifically to AI server high-capacitance MLCCs, high-end automotive-grade MLCCs, and RF/microwave MLCCs. This is the first broad-based price increase in several years and reflects supply tightening. This pricing action should be a meaningful contributor to FY2026 operating profit expansion. (Context: announced prior to Q4 call, which guided ¥380B operating profit vs ¥281.8B actual FY2025).

• VPD power module mass production beginning in 2026, targeting ¥50 billion revenue through FY2027. Power modules for AI servers are a new product category for Murata - integrating voltage regulation and power delivery at the processor socket. President Nakajima confirmed at Q3 FY2025 (Feb 2, 2026) that Murata was "currently in discussions with one major cloud service provider (CSP) regarding power modules for AI servers" and viewed these as "its next core product." Mass production began in 2026. (Q3 FY2025, Feb 2, 2026; reiterated at Q4 FY2025, Apr 30, 2026).

  "We view power modules as our next core product... we are currently in discussions with one major cloud service provider." - President Norio Nakajima, Q3 FY2025, February 2, 2026.

• Battery business expansion from FY2026 following FY2025 profitability milestone. Management at Q1 FY2025 (Jul 30, 2025) stated that the battery business "returned to profitability" and that the plan was to "expand the business from FY2026 onward," specifically targeting power tools, battery backup units for data centers, and proprietary FORTELION LFP technology applications. The primary battery business was divested to Maxell (completed February 2026), focusing the segment on the higher-growth cylindrical LI-ion business. (Q1 FY2025, Jul 30, 2025).

• Capacity constraint as a revenue ceiling signal. At Q3 FY2025 (Feb 2, 2026), management stated the primary challenge for FY2026 is "how to produce and to what extent we can meet customer demands." MLCC utilization rates for Class 3 and 4 products (the high-reliability, high-value products) were running at 90-95%. This is a constrained-supply signal: Murata is not demand-constrained but production-constrained at the high end, which supports pricing and backlog discipline. (Q3 FY2025, Feb 2, 2026).

• FY2026 capex of ¥250 billion, maintained at record levels. Murata guided ¥250 billion capex for FY2026, roughly flat with FY2025 actuals of ¥247.8 billion. At 13.6% of guided revenue, this represents commitment to capacity building for AI server demand. Two consecutive years at ¥247-250 billion capex (the highest in the company's recent history) signals management confidence in multi-year demand. (Q4 FY2025, Apr 30, 2026).

Section 8: Key Risks

1. China Concentration (High probability, moderate-to-severe impact)

Greater China accounts for approximately 45-48% of Murata's revenue. This exposure is structural - the region is where electronics manufacturing is concentrated, and Murata's business exists because manufacturers there buy components. But the exposure creates multiple risks simultaneously:

Manufacturing and customer geographic concentration: If US-China trade tensions escalate to prohibitions on Japanese component suppliers (or on the Chinese OEMs that buy them), Murata could face forced revenue declines in its largest market. The Trump administration's tariff policies - which Murata cited at Q1 FY2025 as a reason for conservative initial guidance - illustrate how quickly policy shifts affect order patterns. Murata's Q1 FY2025 call noted demand was expected to be "front-loaded in the first half due to tariff policy impacts," which did materialize in Q2's all-time quarterly revenue record but also created the expectation that H2 would be weak. The interplay between tariff-driven front-loading and genuine demand growth is difficult to disentangle.

Chinese MLCC competition: Chinese manufacturers are improving rapidly in commodity and mid-grade MLCCs. While they are not today competitive for the premium AI server and automotive grades where Murata earns the highest margins, technology diffusion is not stopped by country boundaries. If Chinese manufacturers achieve comparable powder and layering technology within 5-10 years, Murata's pricing power in China could compress materially.

SAW filter competition: Chinese SAW filter manufacturers already drove significant market share erosion in conventional frequency bands, contributing to the Resonant/XBAR impairment. This risk has already materialized at moderate scale.

2. Resonant XBAR Technology - Return-on-Investment Risk (Low probability catastrophic; moderate probability of continued drag)

Murata paid approximately ¥35 billion to acquire Resonant in 2022, then took a ¥43.8 billion goodwill impairment in Q3 FY2025 - an impairment larger than the acquisition price itself. The XBAR technology was positioned as Murata's answer to the high-frequency SAW filter market above 3GHz, targeting Wi-Fi 7 and future 5.5G/6G standards. Management now says full-scale XBAR mass production is "after 2030."

The risk is not that XBAR never materializes - it might. The risk is that even if it does, Murata spent nearly ¥80 billion (acquisition + goodwill) on a technology that is 8+ years from meaningful revenue, while Chinese and Korean competitors have continued developing alternative technologies (BAW, FBAR, LBAW) with their own IP. By 2030, the competitive landscape for high-frequency filters may be materially different from what Murata projected in 2022.

Management's candid acknowledgment of the impairment - citing Chinese competition and market timing delay explicitly - suggests they understand what went wrong. But the SAW/filter segment remains challenged, and Murata has no clear near-term catalyst to reverse the share losses in conventional frequency SAW.

3. AI Server Demand Cyclicality and Inventory Risk (Moderate probability, severe impact)

The AI server MLCC demand story is the primary bull case for Murata today. But AI infrastructure spending is not immune to cycles. A significant deceleration in hyperscaler capex - whether from economic slowdown, a shift in AI architectures away from current GPU-intensive approaches, or a technology transition (e.g., optical interconnects reducing copper/dielectric interface density) - would hit Murata hard.

The component inventory cycle risk is particularly acute in AI. During FY2025, management noted that AI server MLCC inventories remain low, supporting demand. But if demand were to plateau for even 2-3 quarters while Murata's new Izumo capacity and expanded production come online, an inventory overhang could form rapidly. The dynamics of the 2022-2024 inventory correction - in which Murata's revenue dropped nearly 10% from peak - could repeat at a time when Murata has committed ¥250 billion annually in capex.

4. Foreign Exchange Sensitivity (High probability of materiality, moderate impact direction uncertain)

Approximately 70% of Murata's revenue is denominated in or influenced by foreign currencies, while the majority of costs are in Japanese yen. A strengthening yen is immediately negative for reported results. Murata's Q1 FY2025 initial guidance assumed specific yen rates that proved conservative as the yen weakened during the year - contributing to the significant revenue beat versus initial guidance. The opposite - a sharp yen strengthening - would reduce reported revenue and operating profit without any underlying business deterioration.

Management explicitly noted at Q1 FY2025 that "the yen depreciated compared to the forecast" as a key reason for the guidance beat at Q2.

5. Capex Cycle Risk (Moderate probability, moderate-to-severe impact)

Murata has committed to ¥247-250 billion in annual capex for two consecutive years (FY2025 and FY2026 guidance), totaling approximately ¥500 billion over two years. This is the highest sustained capex in the company's history, representing roughly 13-14% of revenue. This capital builds MLCC capacity specifically for AI server and automotive applications.

If demand growth disappoints - particularly in AI servers - Murata would face the dual burden of depreciation on underutilized capacity and reduced ability to reduce capex quickly. Once equipment is ordered and installed, the depreciation charge accrues regardless of utilization. The 2022-2024 inventory correction resulted in margin compression partly because capex from the preceding demand boom was being depreciated against lower volumes.

6. Battery Segment: Sub-scale Position (Low probability catastrophic, high probability of ongoing underperformance)

Even after the primary battery divestiture to Maxell, the battery segment generates only ¥154 billion in annual revenue. This is sub-scale relative to battery leaders: Panasonic Energization, Samsung SDI, and LG Energy Solution each generate several times more in battery revenue. Murata's cylindrical LI-ion business and FORTELION chemistry serve niche markets (power tools, data center UPS), but the company lacks the mass-market EV exposure that would provide volume to spread fixed costs and fund R&D.

The risk is not that the battery segment collapses - it has achieved profitability and the primary battery divestiture simplified it. The risk is that it continues to be a drag relative to what those assets could earn deployed in the core MLCCs business. Management has not explicitly stated a plan to exit batteries entirely, suggesting they believe the segment can be a meaningful contributor long-term.

Section 9: Walk the Talk

Concalls reviewed: Q4/FY2025 (April 30, 2026), Q3 FY2025 (February 2, 2026), Q2 FY2025 (October 31, 2025), Q1 FY2025 (July 30, 2025).

At the Q1 FY2025 earnings call on July 30, 2025, management set a full-year revenue guidance of ¥1,640.0 billion, representing flat year-over-year performance versus FY2024's ¥1,640.2 billion. Operating profit guidance was ¥220.0 billion, down 21.3% from FY2024. The rationale was explicit: management anticipated tariff-driven front-loading of demand in the first half, followed by weakness in the second half, and chose to be conservative in light of macro uncertainty. They also noted yen strength as a headwind at the assumed exchange rates.

"Demand is expected to be front-loaded in the first half due to tariff policy impacts." - Management, Q1 FY2025, July 30, 2025.

At the Q2 FY2025 call on October 31, 2025, that conservatism proved dramatically misplaced. Revenue for the July-September 2025 quarter hit an all-time quarterly record of approximately ¥487 billion. The book-to-bill ratio reached 1.0, and component inventory levels fell as demand absorbed supply faster than anticipated. Management raised the full-year guidance materially, citing yen depreciation versus plan and "higher-than-expected demand for final set volumes." The tariff front-loading fear did not produce the second-half demand cliff management had budgeted for.

At Q3 FY2025 on February 2, 2026, management delivered a mixed picture. Revenue for the nine-month period was tracking well - ¥1,370.2 billion on a year-to-date basis with a full-year target of ¥1,800 billion, up ¥60 billion from the post-Q2 raise. But operating profit guidance was reduced by ¥10 billion to ¥270 billion due to the ¥43.8 billion Resonant/XBAR goodwill impairment - a charge that was not flagged in any prior call and came as a surprise to investors. President Nakajima was direct about the causes: Chinese competition had taken more SAW filter share than anticipated, and the XBAR high-frequency market had moved its timeline beyond 2030.

"What assumptions made at the time of acquisition have gone awry... deteriorating profitability in the surface acoustic wave filter business due to the rise of competitors in the Chinese region and the delay of anticipated new markets." - President Norio Nakajima, Q3 FY2025, February 2, 2026.

At the full-year Q4 FY2025 call on April 30, 2026, management delivered results that beat even the raised guidance: ¥1,830.9 billion in revenue (ahead of the ¥1,800 billion target) and ¥281.8 billion in operating profit (ahead of the ¥270 billion post-impairment target). For FY2026, they guided ¥1,960 billion in revenue and ¥380 billion in operating profit - the latter up 34.8% and explicitly reflecting the non-recurrence of the FY2025 impairment plus genuine operating improvement from MLCC price increases and volume growth.

Assessment: The management track record across these four calls produces a nuanced picture. On the core business - MLCC demand, revenue execution, pricing discipline - management has been reliably accurate. The trajectory of raising guidance across three of four quarters reflects genuine demand visibility improving through the year. The battery profitability commitment made at Q1 FY2025 was kept. The Izumo plant timeline was met.

The significant miss was the Resonant/XBAR situation. The impairment of ¥43.8 billion on an acquisition completed just three years earlier, for reasons (Chinese competition, market timing) that should have been foreseeable at acquisition, suggests management overpaid and overestimated the defensibility of the conventional SAW market and the timeline of the XBAR opportunity. That the impairment was disclosed in Q3 rather than flagged gradually across Q1 and Q2 suggests the situation deteriorated faster than management expected.

The initial Q1 FY2025 guidance of ¥1,640 billion - flat versus prior year - when the company ultimately delivered ¥1,830.9 billion (+11.6%) is also a significant forecasting miss. Management's explanation (tariff uncertainty, yen assumptions, front-loading risk) is plausible given the environment at the time, but a 12% revenue beat against initial guidance is a wide miss regardless of direction. A pattern of initiating conservative guidance and then beating it is not uncommon in Japanese corporate culture, but investors should model Murata's initial guidance with a material upside buffer.

Section 10: Shareholder Friendliness Index

Dividends: Murata has paid a steadily rising dividend for the last three years. On a split-adjusted basis (3-for-1 stock split effective October 2023): FY2023 (ending March 2024) annual dividend was ¥52 per share (75 pre-split September + 27 post-split March). FY2024 (ending March 2025) was ¥57 per share (27+30). FY2025 (ending March 2026) was ¥65 per share (30+35). For FY2026 (ending March 2027), management has guided ¥70 per share, representing a 7.7% increase. The compound annual growth rate of the post-split-adjusted dividend over this three-year window is approximately 10.4% per year. Murata does not pay a special dividend in this period - the 75 JPY September 2023 figure was the pre-split equivalent of ¥25 post-split, not a special. The dividend trajectory reflects a straightforward progressive policy: annual increases even through the FY2024-FY2025 earnings recovery cycle.

Buybacks and Dilution: Murata's board authorized a ¥100 billion buyback targeting 77 million shares beginning May 2025. By June 2025, approximately ¥13.4 billion had been repurchased (~6.4 million shares). On April 30, 2026, coinciding with the full-year results, Murata announced a new ¥150 billion buyback program targeting up to 75 million shares, running May 11, 2026 to January 29, 2027. This is the largest single buyback authorization in the company's history. Treasury stock as of March 31, 2026 stood at approximately 142.7 million shares (~7.3% of issued shares outstanding of ~1,963 million). Shares outstanding have declined modestly through this period as buybacks exceed stock option dilution. The ¥150 billion new program represents approximately 8.3% of current market capitalization (using Murata's approximate ~¥1.8 trillion market cap). This level of buyback activity is aggressive by Japanese corporate standards.

Verdict: Returns Capital - progressive dividend at ~10% annual growth rate combined with the largest share repurchase authorization in company history, backed by an 85% equity ratio balance sheet that funds both heavy capex and shareholder distributions simultaneously.

Section 11: Insider Activities

Source: EDINET (Japan's Electronic Disclosure for Investors' NETwork), TDnet (Tokyo Stock Exchange Timely Disclosure Network), and Murata Manufacturing annual securities report (filed July 2025 for FY ending March 2025).

Regulatory context: Japan does not have a Form 4 equivalent requiring real-time reporting of individual director share transactions below 5% ownership. The primary disclosure mechanisms are: (1) the Annual Securities Report (有価証券報告書), filed once per year and containing point-in-time director shareholding data; (2) Large Shareholder Reports (大量保有報告書) via EDINET for shareholders crossing 5% thresholds; and (3) TDnet timely disclosures for material corporate actions involving officers. The result is that routine open-market purchases or sales by directors below 5% ownership are not required to be disclosed on a real-time basis in Japan.

What was located: The most accessible public data on director shareholdings comes from the Annual Securities Report (filed July 2025 for the fiscal year ended March 2025) and the Corporate Governance Report (last updated July 1, 2025). These show:

• President Norio Nakajima directly owns approximately 0.004% of shares (approximately ¥147.82 million in value at the time of the report).
• Chairman Tsuneo Murata - the founder's family representative on the board - has a shareholding that was not quantified in publicly accessible summaries, but the Murata family historically maintained a meaningful although declining percentage stake as institutional ownership has grown.
• The top 10 registered shareholders are all institutional custodians and fund managers, with no Murata family entity in the top 10. The Master Trust Bank of Japan at 16.5% and Custody Bank of Japan at 6.4% are both custody agents for foreign and domestic institutional funds.
• No major insider open-market purchases or sales by named directors have surfaced in accessible EDINET or TDnet disclosures over the last 12 months.

Share acquisition program: Murata operates a director stock ownership plan, which regularly delivers shares to board members as part of compensation. These are routine allocations under a disclosed plan and carry no specific buy-signal interpretation.

Large shareholder filings (EDINET): BlackRock Inc. is the largest disclosed non-custodian institutional shareholder at approximately 7.68%. No 5%+ shareholder change filings (大量保有報告書) by insider-related parties surfaced in the search period.

Net assessment: The insider transaction picture for Murata is neutral. No material open-market insider buying or selling has been identified in the last 12 months. Director ownership levels are modest relative to company scale (consistent with a large-cap Japanese corporate where institutional ownership dominates), and the Murata family's direct presence on the board (Chairman Tsuneo Murata) suggests family stewardship rather than financial insider activity. The absence of open-market buying is not a bearish signal in a Japanese corporate governance context - it simply reflects cultural norms and the routine nature of director compensation plans.

Note: If more granular real-time insider transaction data is required, a direct search of the EDINET full-text database (disclosure2.edinet-fsa.go.jp) using Murata's code 6981 under the "大量保有報告書" document type would be the authoritative source. Some director-level shareholding changes may exist there that were not surfaced through web search.

Section 12: Scenarios

Bull Case

In the bull case, the AI infrastructure buildout proves even more voracious for electronic components than Murata's own projections suggest. Hyperscalers and large enterprises collectively deploy capital at rates that keep AI server orders growing 30%+ annually through FY2028, absorbing all incremental capacity from the Izumo plant and the next expansion tranche. The MLCC content per server continues to rise - from 15,000-25,000 units today to 30,000+ per baseboard as next-generation accelerators (NVIDIA Rubin and successors) increase compute density and power consumption. Murata's April 2026 price increases of 15-35% stick, and demand remains strong enough that further pricing actions are possible.

Simultaneously, the EV penetration story accelerates. Global EV sales reach 30%+ of new vehicle units by FY2028, and Tier 1 auto suppliers commit to Murata's MLCC and sensor content as a standard fixture in EV electronic architectures. The automotive segment contribution to revenue grows from roughly 30% to 35%+, adding stability to what had been a volatile revenue base.

The power module business (VPD modules for AI servers) grows beyond the initial ¥50 billion two-year target, establishing Murata as a genuine systems-level supplier to hyperscalers rather than just a passive component vendor. The gross margins on these products are higher than commodity MLCCs, and cloud provider qualification locks in recurring revenue. Operating margins, which were 15.4% in FY2025 (depressed by the ¥50B impairment), recover toward the historical peak of 23% as pricing power, product mix shift, and scale economics converge.

In this world, Murata's FY2026 operating profit guidance of ¥380 billion is the floor, not the ceiling. The company is laying the capex foundation in FY2025 and FY2026 for a multi-year earnings expansion cycle.

Base Case

In the base case, Murata executes broadly in line with its FY2026 guidance: ¥1,960 billion in revenue and ¥380 billion in operating profit. AI server MLCC demand grows at the guided 30% CAGR through FY2028 but stays within the range of Murata's guided capacity additions. Smartphone demand recovers modestly from the 2023-2024 trough as 5G penetration in emerging markets (India, Southeast Asia) offsets slower premium-tier growth in saturated markets. Automotive continues its slow-but-steady content increase driven by ADAS and EV adoption.

The battery business generates modest profits as the primary battery divestiture focuses the segment on FORTELION cylindrical batteries for power tools and data center UPS - niche applications where Murata's performance characteristics justify premium positioning. The VPD power module business ramps, but achieving ¥50 billion over two years proves achievable rather than easily exceeded.

The SAW filter and RF module business stabilizes at current revenue levels as conventional SAW losses are offset by growth in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi modules for IoT applications. XBAR remains a promise for the 2030s rather than a contributor this decade.

Murata continues its progressive dividend policy (targeting ¥70+ per share) and executes the ¥150 billion buyback program, returning significant capital while maintaining the 85% equity ratio balance sheet. The company is a disciplined compounder rather than a growth story.

Bear Case

In the bear case, the AI server buildout slows sharply in FY2027-FY2028 as hyperscalers digest the massive AI compute infrastructure built in FY2024-FY2026 and demand a period of consolidation before new orders. AI model architectures shift toward more efficient inference paradigms that require less compute per task, moderating the upward pressure on server unit counts. Murata's new Izumo capacity comes online into a market that is building inventory rather than depleting it - the same dynamic that produced the 2022-2024 correction, but at a larger scale given the magnitude of Murata's capacity additions.

Simultaneously, the smartphone market fails to recover meaningfully as consumers in China and other major markets delay upgrades amid economic uncertainty. Chinese SAW filter manufacturers capture further share in the handset supply chain, not just in conventional frequencies but beginning to encroach on Murata's RF module business through increasingly capable product development.

The MLCC price increases of April 2026 prove difficult to sustain as customers - particularly CEMs and distributors who carry multiple vendor qualifications - begin to qualify second-source suppliers more aggressively. Korean and Taiwanese producers (Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Yageo) who have been investing in capacity are able to absorb transferred share.

In this scenario, operating margins compress back toward the 12-15% range, capex commitments prove difficult to reduce quickly (booked orders for equipment cannot be cancelled without penalties), and the ¥380 billion FY2026 operating profit guidance proves aspirational. The ¥150 billion buyback becomes a floor that prevents further share price deterioration but does not catalyze re-rating. The XBAR write-off is remembered as the first signal of strategic misjudgment in the filter business rather than a one-time event.

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• Earnings Release Conferences | Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
• Q4/FY2025 Earnings Release Conference (April 30, 2026)
• Consolidated Financial Results for the Year Ended March 31, 2026
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• Murata Raises MLCC Growth Forecast to 30% CAGR - Investing.com
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• Murata Revenue Breakdown - TradingView