Kao Corporation (ADR)

Factors to consider:

• Company pays dividends (semi-annually): last record date 2025-12-31, amount 0.08$ (Y2.09%)
• Earnings for 15 months up through Q1 (+1 year) 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: [7.53$, 10.84$]
• 2025-12-31 to 2026-12-31 estimated range: [8.13$, 11.61$]

Financial Metrics affecting the KAOOY estimates:

• Positive: with PPE of 27.4 at the end of fiscal year the price was very low
• Positive: 6.59 < Operating cash flow per share per price, % of 6.75
• Positive: 7.54 < Operating profit margin, % of 9.01
• Positive: Interest expense per share per price, % of 0.14 <= 0.73
• Positive: -9.55 < Industry operating profit margin (median), % of 1.21
• Positive: 42.59 < Shareholder equity ratio, % of 57.13 <= 64.29
• Negative: Industry operating cash flow per share per price (median), % of 4.36 <= 5.46
• Positive: 0.05 < Industry earnings per price (median), % of 0.38
• Negative: Investing cash flow per share per price, % of -1.54 <= -0.60
• Positive: 1.81 < Return on assets ratio (scaled to [-100,100]) of 5.46