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Kao Corporation is currently in a long term downtrend where the price is trading 20.0% below its 200 day moving average.
From a valuation standpoint, the stock is 97.8% cheaper than other stocks from the Consumer Defensive sector with a price to sales ratio of 2.5.
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 2/5.
| Sector | Consumer Defensive |
|---|---|
| Industry | Household & Personal Products |
| Exchange | F |
| CurrencyCode | EUR |
| ISIN | JP3205800000 |
| Market Cap | 17B |
|---|---|
| PE Ratio | 25.59 |
| Target Price | None |
| Dividend Yield | 2.7% |
| Beta | 0.19 |
Kao Corporation develops and sells hygiene and living care, health and 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 oleo chemicals; fat and oil derivatives; surfactants; fragrances; water-reducing admixtures; casting sand binders; plastics additives; process chemicals; toners and toner binders; inkjet ink colorants and ink; fine polishing agents and cleaners; and materials and process chemicals. 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.
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