How does KAO0's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

KAO0 is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (36.8x) compared to the peer average (53.6x).

How does KAO0's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the European Personal Products Industry?

KAO0 is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (36.8x) compared to the European Personal Products industry average (24.2x).

What is KAO0's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

Insufficient data to calculate KAO0's Price-To-Earnings Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.

What is the Fair Price of KAO0 when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

KAO0 (€7.7) is trading above our estimate of [[fair value]] (€6.99)

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

Insufficient data to show price forecast.

KAO0 Stock Overview

Develops and sells hygiene and living care, health and beauty care, life care, cosmetics, and chemical products. More details

KAO0 fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	1/6
Future Growth	1/6
Past Performance	4/6
Financial Health	6/6
Dividends	5/6

Rewards

Earnings are forecast to grow 12.27% per year

Earnings grew by 36.7% over the past year

Pays a reliable dividend of 2.33%

Risk Analysis

No risks detected for KAO0 from our risk checks.

My Notes

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Kao Corporation Competitors

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XTRA:HEN3

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Estée Lauder Companies

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Puig Brands

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€10.1b

Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Kao
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	JP¥7.70
52 Week High	JP¥8.70
52 Week Low	JP¥7.20
Beta	0.11
1 Month Change	5.48%
3 Month Change	-7.78%
1 Year Change	n/a
3 Year Change	n/a
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	0.65%

Recent updates

Shareholder Returns

	KAO0	DE Personal Products	DE Market
7D	-3.1%	0.6%	-1.1%
1Y	n/a	-5.9%	8.1%

Return vs Industry: Insufficient data to determine how KAO0 performed against the German Personal Products industry.

Return vs Market: Insufficient data to determine how KAO0 performed against the German Market.

Price Volatility

Is KAO0's price volatile compared to industry and market?
KAO0 volatility
KAO0 Average Weekly Movement	3.3%
Personal Products Industry Average Movement	3.8%
Market Average Movement	4.9%
10% most volatile stocks in DE Market	11.8%
10% least volatile stocks in DE Market	2.5%

Stable Share Price: KAO0 has not had significant price volatility in the past 3 months compared to the German market.

Volatility Over Time: Insufficient data to determine KAO0's volatility change over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1887	34,257	Yoshihiro Hasebe	www.kao.com/jp/

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.

Kao Corporation Fundamentals Summary

How do Kao's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
KAO0 fundamental statistics
Market cap	€18.91b
Earnings (TTM)	€513.71m
Revenue (TTM)	€9.96b

36.8x

P/E Ratio

1.9x

P/S Ratio

Is KAO0 overvalued?

See Fair Value and valuation analysis

Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
KAO0 income statement (TTM)
Revenue	JP¥1.60t
Cost of Revenue	JP¥984.88b
Gross Profit	JP¥611.83b
Other Expenses	JP¥529.48b
Earnings	JP¥82.36b

Last Reported Earnings

Sep 30, 2024

Next Earnings Date

Feb 06, 2025

Earnings per share (EPS)	177.30
Gross Margin	38.32%
Net Profit Margin	5.16%
Debt/Equity Ratio	13.3%

How did KAO0 perform over the long term?

See historical performance and comparison

Dividends

2.3%

Current Dividend Yield

85%

Payout Ratio

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/18 01:44
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/18 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

^* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.

Analysis Model and Snowflake

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Industry and Sector Metrics

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Analyst Sources

Kao Corporation is covered by 30 analysts. 10 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Mitsuko Miyasako	Barclays
James Moon	BNP Paribas Securities (Asia)
Akiko Kuwahara	BofA Global Research

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