Kao Corporation

Factors to consider:

• Company pays dividends (annually): last record date 2025-06-30, amount 0.53$ (Y1.39%)
• Earnings for 9 months up through Q3 exceed our estimates

Stock Forecast*

* forecast is subjective and experimental, should not be used for any investment decisions

Long term estimates were made for the period from 2024-12-31 to 2026-12-31

• 2024-12-31 to 2025-12-31 estimated range: [36.23$, 51.79$]
• 2025-12-31 to 2026-12-31 estimated range: [36.41$, 52.40$]

Financial Metrics affecting the KAOCF estimates:

• Negative: with PPE of 27.8 at the end of fiscal year the price was very high
• Positive: 7.86 < Operating profit margin, % of 9.01
• Positive: 1.87 < Return on assets ratio (scaled to [-100,100]) of 5.46
• Positive: -8.75 < Industry operating profit margin (median), % of 1.21
• Positive: 41.86 < Shareholder equity ratio, % of 57.13 <= 63.39
• Positive: Industry inventory ratio change (median), % of -1.22 <= -0.15
• Positive: -4.48 < Investing cash flow per share per price, % of -1.50
• Positive: Interest expense per share per price, % of 0.13 <= 0.79
• Negative: Industry operating cash flow per share per price (median), % of 4.36 <= 5.52