Equity Overview
Price & Market Data
Price: $8.44
Daily Change: +$0.02 / 0.24%
Range: $8.13 - $8.67
Market Cap: $19,659,458,560
Volume: 41,752
Performance Metrics
1 Week: 0.24%
1 Month: -4.18%
3 Months: 6.59%
6 Months: -6.86%
1 Year: 0.86%
YTD: 2.36%
Company Details
Employees: 32566
Sector: Consumer non-durables
Industry: Household/Personal care
Country: Japan
Details
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. 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.