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Data sourced from SEC EDGAR filings and third-party price providers. Scores, valuations, and metrics are algorithmic estimates. This is not investment advice. See our Terms and Methodology.
Kesla Oyj Class A is the listed equity share of Kesla Oyj, a Finnish machine engineering company founded in 1960 and headquartered in Joensuu. The company specializes in designing, manufacturing, and marketing forestry technology and material handling equipment, serving the wood harvesting, processing, and transport chain. Its product portfolio encompasses harvester heads, forest trailers, wood chippers, log loaders, grapples, stroke delimbers, and tractor equipment, alongside truck, stationary, industrial, and recycling cranes. Kesla also operates a defense division offering military engineering solutions for countermobility, logistics, and vehicle maintenance. Operating primarily in the industrials sector, Kesla focuses on professional forestry applications and related industries, with production facilities in eastern Finland and international sales presence. In 2024, the company reported turnover of €44.3 million, with over half from exports, underscoring its role in sustainable forestry machinery and global material handling markets. Employing around 232 people, Kesla Oyj Class A represents a stake in specialized equipment innovation for demanding operational environments.
€4.58
€0.42 (-8.40%)
EOD Jul 2, 2026
The business is unprofitable at the operating level (-15.18% margin). The thesis depends entirely on whether and when it reaches sustainable profitability.
Revenue declined 22.4% YoY. Margins deteriorated 15.2pp alongside, both lines moving the wrong way.
Free cash flow declined 42% versus the prior year, cash generation momentum has weakened. ROIC dropped from 0.05% to -19.57%, capital efficiency is deteriorating.
Based on TTM earnings · Diluted shares
Profitability & Returns
Revenue (TTM)
€34M
▼ -22.4% YoY
Net Income (TTM)
-€4M
▼ -757.7% YoY
Op. Margin
-15.18%
▼ -15.2pp YoY
ROIC
-19.57%
▼ -19.6pp YoY
Cash Flow & Balance Sheet
FCF (TTM)
€1M
▼ -41.6% YoY
Op. Cash Flow (TTM)
€3M
▼ -31.3% YoY
Net Debt
€11M
Cash & Equiv.
€109K
3Y CAGR: -9.1%
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Kesla Oyj Class A (KELAS.XHEL) trades above a two-stage DCF intrinsic value of about €2.36 per share, so at €4.58 the stock looks overvalued (48.4% above estimated intrinsic value). A high multiple is not the same as overvalued: fast-growing, high-quality businesses can deserve a premium. See the general approach in how to tell if a stock is overvalued.
On quality, Kesla Oyj Class A scores 22/100 on Intrinsiqq's quality scorecard (a lower-quality business on these measures), weighing growth, margins, returns on capital, share count, and balance-sheet strength. All figures are computed from SEC filings; read the full methodology. This is analysis, not investment advice.
Intrinsiqq's two-stage DCF estimates an intrinsic value of about €2.36 per share for KELAS.XHEL, projecting its recent free cash flow forward with a growth rate that fades toward a long-run rate and discounting it back to today. Applying a 25% margin of safety gives a more conservative fair-value entry around €1.77. At today's €4.58, that puts the stock about 48.4% above estimated intrinsic value. The result is sensitive to the growth and discount-rate inputs, so it is best to run conservative, base and optimistic cases. You can adjust all of them yourself with the sliders on the DCF tab.
Kesla Oyj Class A scores 22 out of 100 on Intrinsiqq's quality score, a weighted blend of 7 metrics each scored 0 to 100, which makes it a lower-quality business on these measures. Recent fundamentals include a -15.2% operating margin and a -19.6% return on invested capital. The score weighs revenue and free-cash-flow growth, operating margins, return on invested capital, share-count change, and balance-sheet strength, all computed from SEC filings, not opinion. Because valuation only means something relative to quality, the full metric-by-metric breakdown is on the quality scorecard.
That depends on valuation and quality together, not either alone. KELAS.XHEL currently trades above its estimated intrinsic value and scores 22/100 on quality (lower-quality). A cheap price is only a bargain if the business is durable, and a premium can be justified by genuine quality, so the two questions, "is it cheap?" and "is it good?", only make sense side by side. Read the valuation against the quality scorecard, run the DCF on your own assumptions, and decide for yourself. This is analysis from SEC filings, not investment advice.