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About Kao Corporation
Kao Corporation develops and sells hygiene living care, health beauty care, life care, cosmetics, and chemical products in Japan. It 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 Chuo, Japan.
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Kao Corporation is currently in a long term downtrend where the price is trading 8.5% below its 200 day moving average.
From a valuation standpoint, the stock is 147.6% more expensive than other stocks from the Consumer Defensive sector with a price to sales ratio of 2.6.
Kao Corporation's total revenue sank by 4.1% to $377B since the same quarter in the previous year.
Its net income has dropped by 9.9% to $40B since the same quarter in the previous year.
Finally, its free cash flow grew by 21.4% to $67B since the same quarter in the previous year.
Based on the above factors, Kao Corporation gets an overall score of 1/5.