Equity Overview
Price & Market Data
Price: $8.41
Daily Change: -$0.07 / 0.83%
Daily Range: $8.27 - $8.78
Market Cap: $19,019,991,040
Daily Volume: 44,791
Performance Metrics
1 Week: -7.68%
1 Month: 3.32%
3 Months: 1.66%
6 Months: -6.56%
1 Year: 1.82%
YTD: 5.19%
Company Details
Employees: 32566
Sector: Consumer non-durables
Industry: Household/Personal care
Country:
Details
Kao Corporation develops and sells hygiene living care, health 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 oleochemicals, fat and oil derivatives, surfactants, and fragrances; water-reducing admixtures for concrete, casting sand binders, plastics additives, and process chemicals for various industries; and toners/toner binders, inkjet ink colorants, ink, fine polishing agents and cleaners for hard disk, and materials and process chemicals for semiconductor. The company was formerly known as Kao Soap Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Kao Corporation in 1982. Kao Corporation was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.