Kao Corporation (4452) — research page

JP · jp-cm-kg/TSE-PRIME/4452 · as of 2026-11-06

Identity and listing

The issuer is Kao Corporation, listed on the Prime Market under ticker 4452. Its ISIN is JP3205800000 and its LEI is 353800HM38HFCB8RGL63. Its security type is Corporate, its sector is 3200 Chemicals, and its jurisdiction is Japan (EDINET domestic filer). Its segment is not on the record. Its listing status is listed, not halted.

The disclosure read

The record holds 15 filings in the window 2025-11-06 to 2026-11-06, across 8 filing days. By type, the filings are 3 ad hoc, 5 corporate news, 2 prospectus, 3 regulatory filing and 2 results. The median gap between filing days is 33 days. The latest filing is dated 2026-08-07 and is a regulatory filing, 91 days before the record date of 2026-11-06. The Prime Market median is 29.0 days for cadence, 10 filings and 70.0 days for latency, across 1557 issuers. The 3200 Chemicals sector median is 36.5 days for cadence, 9.0 filings and 91 days for latency, across 202 issuers.

window 2025-11-06 to 2026-11-06 · the node's disclosure lines, as get_filings serves them

Auditor

The auditor of record is 有限責任監査法人トーマツ. Its location is not on the record. Auditor changes are not on the record, as this register has no lifecycle type map yet.

Events and halts

Listing, delisting, name change, domicile change and segment move are not on the record, as this register has no lifecycle type map yet. The halt flag shows the issuer as listed, not halted.

Orderability

For the client category Qualified Institutional Investors, the signal is null and the outcome is not determinable, because the rule states a product scope and the subject's record carries no instrument class to place within it. The rule version is acm-68000/jp/suitability-principle-fiea-article-40/r1, and the chapter is as of 2026-11-04.

rule acm-68000/jp/suitability-principle-fiea-article-40/r1 · chapter as of 2026-11-04 · the full outcome: get_orderability

Coverage

The issuer's investor-relations page names 15 research houses: BofA Securities Japan Co., Ltd.; Citigroup Global Markets Japan, Inc.; CLSA Securities Japan Co., Ltd.; Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd.; Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd.; Jefferies Japan Co., LTD; JPMorgan Securities Japan Co., Ltd.; Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.; Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd.; Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.; Okasan Securities Co., Ltd.; SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.; Tokai Tokyo Intelligence Laboratory Co., Ltd.; Morgan Stanley; and MUFG Securities Co., Ltd.

Open research

No openly published research notes were found on the record.

Licensed

Licensed research: none loaded. A licensed row is served only to an agent whose firm holds that licence (licensor, entitlement). No licensed row is loaded.

As-of depth

The market's vintage is not sealed. No issuer years are sealed, and the market's earliest sealed date and the start of the live record are not on the record.

Sources

10 source pages are named on this page; every value above carries its own source page and read date in the numbers.

10.1

https://www.jpx.co.jp/english/markets/statistics-equities/misc/tvdivq0000001vg2-att/data_e.xlsx (identity.exchange)

10.2

https://mapping.gleif.org/api/v2/isin-lei/latest (identity.isin)

10.3

https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/codelist/Edinetcode.zip (identity.jurisdiction)

10.4

https://mapping.gleif.org/api/v2/isin-lei/latest/download (identity.lei)

10.5

https://mcp.jp-cm-kg.ai/events/TSE-PRIME/4452 (the disclosure lines)

10.6

https://www.jpx.co.jp/markets/equities/suspended/index.html (the halt flag)

10.7

https://disclosure2.edinet-fsa.go.jp/WZEK0040.aspx?S100XT6G (the auditor)

10.8

https://mcp.jp-cm-kg.ai/book/aio.json (the orderability chapter)

10.9

https://www.kao.com/global/en/investor-relations/stock-information/analyst/ (coverage)

10.10

https://mcp.jp-cm-kg.ai/record/TSE-PRIME/4452 (the record)

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