Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S)Green Consumer GoodsLifestyleFast-Moving Consumer GoodsBeautyChemicalConsumer GoodsHealth CareManufacturingRetail
Description
Kao Corporation engages in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of consumer products and chemical products worldwide.
Segments
The company’s operations consist of Consumer Products Business and Chemical Business. The Consumer Products Business has…
Analysis
Middle-of-the-road
Kao Corporation sits in the middle of our grid: average quality, average price, no obvious signal in either direction.
On valuation, the picture is fair. The owner-earnings multiple stands at 20.8×; owner earnings: the cash an owner could take out each year. The implied growth embedded in that price is around 7% a year, against analyst forecasts of 7%. The price, in other words, assumes less than the experts do.
Growth is moderate; the safety picture is adequate. The company scores 12/20 on our value-creation score: creating some value.
No flags apply to this company at this time: accounts, balance sheet, and cash quality all pass. A clean bill of health is meaningful, not just the absence of a warning. This analysis describes numbers; it is not investment advice.
360° rank · history
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Jan 202315
30
2023202420252026
All-time high
48
Sep 2025
All-time low
15
Jan 2023
Average rank
30
across all years
Detailed & Historical Ranks
Deep dive into 15 detailed ranks and 3 years of history.
Current202520242023
Price/Sales
43
30
41
50
Price/Earnings
42
22
22
48
Price/Book
33
7
24
43
Dividend Yield
73
46
54
61
Value (overall)
40
11
28
53
Cells are coloured by rank band (red weak → green strong). Sentiment & 360° history begins 2023.