Kao Corporation (ADR)

Factors to consider:

• Company pays dividends (irregularly): last record date 2025-06-30, amount 0.06$ (Y0.74%)
• Price in estimated range
• Earnings for 6 months up through Q2 are close to 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: [7.39$, 10.87$]
• 2025-12-31 to 2026-12-31 estimated range: [7.67$, 11.28$]

Financial Metrics affecting the KAOOY estimates:

• Positive: with PPE of 27.3 at the end of fiscal year the price was very low
• Positive: 7.86 < Operating profit margin, % of 9.01
• Positive: 41.86 < Shareholder equity ratio, % of 57.13 <= 63.39
• Negative: Industry earnings per price (median), % of 0.38 <= 4.43
• Positive: -4.48 < Investing cash flow per share per price, % of -1.54
• Positive: 1.87 < Return on assets ratio (scaled to [-100,100]) of 5.46
• Negative: 0.01 < Interest expense per share per price, % of 0.14
• Positive: Industry inventory ratio change (median), % of -1.22 <= -0.15
• Positive: 0.33 < Operating cash flow per share per price, % of 6.78
• Negative: Industry operating profit margin (median), % of 1.21 <= 2.97
• Negative: Industry operating cash flow per share per price (median), % of 4.36 <= 5.52