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Kao

4452.TSE
45.80 USD
0.59
+1.31%

Overview

Last close
45.80 usd
Market cap
21.27B usd
52 week high
50.54 usd
52 week low
35.87 usd
Target price
51.53 usd

Valuation

P/E
27.3413
Forward P/E
26.3158
Price/Sales
1.8894
Price/Book Value
2.9499
Enterprise Value
20.53B usd
EV/Revenue
1.8314
EV/EBITDA
12.1189

Key financials

Revenue TTM
11.21B usd
Gross Profit TTM
4.40B usd
EBITDA TTM
1.65B usd
Earnings per Share
1.67 usd
Dividend
1.04 usd
Total assets
11.90B usd
Net debt
-218.50M usd

About

Kao Corporation develops and sells hygiene living care, health beauty care, life care, cosmetics, and chemical products. The company offers fabric, kitchen, home, and sanitary care products; facial, body, hair, and oral care, hair styling and color, salon, in-bathroom health care, and warming products; and self-selection cosmetics, as well as provides cosmetics counselling services. It also provides oleo chemicals, such as oleochemicals, fat and oil derivatives, surfactants, and fragrances; water-reducing admixtures for concrete, casting sand binders, plastics additives, and process chemicals for various industries; and toners/toner binders, inkjet ink colorants, ink, fine polishing agents and cleaners for hard disk, and materials and process chemicals for semiconductor. The company was formerly known as Kao Soap Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Kao Corporation in 1982. Kao Corporation was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Symbol
    4452.TSE
  • Exchange
    TSE
  • Isin
    JP3205800000
  • Country
    Japan
  • Sector
    Consumer Defensive
  • Industry
    Household & Personal Products
  • CEO
    Mr. Yoshihiro Hasebe
  • Headquarter
    Tokyo
  • Web site
    https://www.kao.com/jp/
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