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Kao stock: growth
4452.TKao reported $10.57B in revenue for fiscal 2025, up 3.7% on the prior year, up 4.1% a year on average over up to five years.
Daily figure as of 13 Nov 2026
Revenue (Annual rate)
1.8%
per year from 2006 to 2025, per share 2.7%
Earnings (Annual rate)
3%
per year from 2006 to 2025, per share 4%
Free cash flow (Annual rate)
1%
per year from 2006 to 2025, per share 2%
Growth per year by period
What reaches shareholders is growth per share: buybacks lift it, new shares dilute it.
| since 2020 | since 2015 | since 2006 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 4.1% | 1.4% | 1.8% |
| Revenue per share | 5.0% | 2.2% | 2.7% |
| Earnings | −1.0% | 2.0% | 3.0% |
| Earnings per share | −0.2% | 2.2% | 4.0% |
| Free cash flow | −2.3% | 2.1% | 1.0% |
| Free cash flow per share | −1.5% | 2.9% | 2.0% |
Fiscal years at a glance
How revenue and earnings grow
- Revenue
- Earnings
- Free cash flow
Figures as a table
| Year | Revenue | Earnings | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | $7.71B | $441.64M | $722.55M |
| 2007 | $8.26B | $416.8M | $890.29M |
| 2008 | $7.99B | $403.65M | $552.15M |
| 2009 | $7.42B | $253.64M | $858.63M |
| 2010 | $7.43B | $292.66M | $773.8M |
| 2011 | $7.62B | $328.33M | $500.79M |
| 2013 | $8.24B | $405.54M | $770.67M |
| 2014 | $8.78B | $498.38M | $588.41M |
| 2015 | $9.22B | $619.06M | $705.39M |
| 2016 | $9.13B | $792.45M | $686.74M |
| 2017 | $9.33B | $920.56M | $639.85M |
| 2018 | $9.44B | $962.44M | $722.09M |
| 2019 | $9.41B | $928.09M | $1.01B |
| 2020 | $8.65B | $789.88M | $972.61M |
| 2021 | $8.88B | $686.53M | $723.7M |
| 2022 | $9.71B | $538.76M | $409.43M |
| 2023 | $9.6B | $274.71M | $928.73M |
| 2024 | $10.2B | $674.82M | $902.84M |
| 2025 | $10.57B | $751.93M | $867.06M |
Data status and sources
- Score
- Daily value of 13 Nov 2026, recalculated nightly
- Price
- Closing price of 13 Nov 2026
- Latest annual report
- Fiscal year 2025, period end 31 Dec 2025
- Currency
- Amounts in US dollars, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Nov 2026 ($1 = ¥159.70)
- Source
- Financial statements, ratios and prices from Financial Modeling Prep (FMP), based on the company's reports. MEQIRI calculates the score and fair value from them.
Mandatory disclosures for this rating
- ; time horizon around 12 months
- Rated Strong, published since 7 Nov 2026 (in the score history since 16 Oct 2026)
- Valuation signal Fairly valued since 10 Nov 2026, previously Undervalued
- End-of-day prices, metrics cached for up to 24 hours
- Score and fair value are estimates from a disclosed model. They are not facts and not a price target.
- Produced by SSM Ventures UG (haftungsbeschränkt), responsible person Sven Brostmeyer, Managing Director, automatically according to the disclosed model.
- Not investment advice. Losses up to and including a total loss are possible. Personal circumstances are not considered.