KT Corp
KT
18.91
-0.09
-0.47%
KT Corp
US · KT
#1574 by market cap
Listed 1970
18.91
-0.09
-0.47%
Live - 5344 symbols - heartbeat 275s ago
· 2026-10-08 06:46
Pre-market
18.95
+0.21%
After-hours
18.91
0.00%
- Market cap
- 9.01B
- P/E (TTM)i
- 9.32
- P/Bi
- 0.65
- EPSi
- 2.64
- Div yieldi
- 4.03%
- 52W posi
- 28%
Reader sentiment
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✦ Quant Financial Health how this is computed
Weak
- Altman Z-Score is 1.40, below the 1.8 "distress zone" threshold.
- Most reliable for industrial/manufacturing companies; less meaningful for banks, insurers and other financials.
Revenue annual, last 8 years
Latest year +7.10% YoY
Margins
- Gross margin
- 64.05%
- Operating margin
- 9.17%
- Net margin
- 6.08%
Key ratios & quality
- Enterprise valuei
- 5.66T
- PEG ratioi
- 0.86
- Altman Z-Scorei
- 1.40
PEG uses trailing P/E against the 3-year net income growth rate (10.89%/yr) since forward earnings estimates aren't available here, so this is not a "forward PEG." Altman Z-Score below ~1.8 suggests financial distress risk, above ~3.0 suggests low risk; the model is most reliable for industrial/manufacturing companies and less meaningful for banks and other financial firms.
Income statement
| Line item | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 23.44T | 24.90T | 24.44T | 24.90T | 25.64T | 26.29T | 26.38T | 28.25T |
| Gross profit | 13.64T | 14.30T | 14.31T | 14.86T | 15.90T | 16.72T | 17.02T | 18.10T |
| Selling & admin expenses | 6.48T | 6.72T | 6.80T | 6.92T | 7.27T | 7.30T | 8.27T | 7.58T |
| Research & development | 176.76B | 165.03B | 156.94B | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Operating profit | 1.10T | 1.16T | 1.37T | 1.75T | 1.79T | 1.69T | 874.44B | 2.59T |
| Pretax profit | 1.03T | 1.02T | 1.03T | 1.98T | 1.89T | 1.30T | 571.51B | 2.40T |
| Tax | 314.57B | 320.06B | 285.35B | 519.02B | 505.76B | 330.44B | 164.85B | 576.82B |
| Net profit | 719.41B | 695.87B | 746.26B | 1.46T | 1.39T | 972.18B | 406.67B | 1.82T |
| Basic EPS | 1.32K | 1.32K | 1.43K | 2.88K | 2.60K | 1.99K | 935 | 3.54K |
| Diluted EPS | 1,317.00 | 1,316.00 | 1,429.00 | 2,873.50 | 2,598.00 | 1,988.50 | 934.00 | 3,534.00 |
| Line item | 2025-03 | 2025-06 | 2025-09 | 2025-12 | 2026-03 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 6.85T | 7.43T | 7.13T | 6.85T | 6.78T | 6.68T |
| Gross profit | 4.48T | 4.81T | 4.48T | 4.33T | 4.31T | 4.43T |
| Selling & admin expenses | 1.78T | 1.80T | 1.89T | 2.12T | 1.89T | 1.88T |
| Research & development | 61.41B | 39.02B | 55.06B | -- | 64.54B | 44.06B |
| Operating profit | 684.36B | 1.01T | 533.46B | 362.78B | 478.23B | 640.98B |
| Pretax profit | 711.83B | 974.93B | 593.44B | 121.16B | 512.54B | 646.09B |
| Tax | 145.03B | 241.65B | 148.19B | 41.95B | 124.22B | 165.55B |
| Net profit | 566.80B | 733.28B | 445.25B | 79.21B | 388.32B | 480.54B |
| Basic EPS | 1.10K | 1.41K | 811 | 216 | 730 | 915 |
| Diluted EPS | 1,097.00 | 1,409.50 | 810.00 | 214.50 | 729.00 | 914.50 |
Balance sheet
| Line item | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total current assets | 12.16T | 11.98T | 11.15T | 11.86T | 12.69T | 14.59T | 14.37T | 14.07T |
| Cash & ST investments | 3.70T | 3.17T | 3.84T | 4.21T | 3.77T | 4.32T | 5.06T | 5.13T |
| Inventory | 1.07T | 791.68B | 534.64B | 514.15B | 717.67B | 988.35B | 1.05T | 504.83B |
| Total assets | 32.47T | 34.63T | 33.66T | 37.16T | 40.99T | 42.79T | 42.00T | 43.05T |
| Total current liabilities | 9.39T | 10.15T | 9.19T | 10.07T | 10.70T | 13.25T | 14.03T | 11.84T |
| Short-term debt | 1.37T | 1.19T | 1.42T | 1.73T | 1.83T | 3.06T | 3.90T | 2.50T |
| Long-term debt | 5.28T | 6.11T | 5.90T | 6.71T | 8.18T | 7.16T | 6.62T | 8.29T |
| Total liabilities | 17,815,630,000,000.00 | 19,491,530,000,000.00 | 18,111,112,000,000.00 | 20,592,180,000,000.00 | 22,577,114,000,000.00 | 24,249,072,000,000.00 | 24,035,197,000,000.00 | 23,633,307,000,000.00 |
| Total equity | 14.66T | 15.14T | 15.55T | 16.57T | 18.41T | 18.54T | 17.97T | 19.42T |
| Retained earnings | 11.26T | 11.59T | 12.16T | 13.29T | 14.26T | 14.48T | 13.75T | 14.92T |
| Line item | 2025-03 | 2025-06 | 2025-09 | 2025-12 | 2026-03 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total current assets | 14.46T | 14.39T | 15.12T | 14.07T | 14.53T | 14.82T |
| Cash & ST investments | 4.62T | 5.02T | 5.39T | 5.13T | 4.96T | 5.22T |
| Inventory | 853.88B | 443.92B | 443.84B | 504.83B | 537.55B | 625.66B |
| Total assets | 42.19T | 42.19T | 43.01T | 43.05T | 43.51T | 44.69T |
| Total current liabilities | 13.13T | 12.12T | 12.22T | 11.84T | 12.64T | 13.16T |
| Short-term debt | 3.65T | 2.93T | 2.45T | 2.50T | 3.53T | 4.18T |
| Long-term debt | 7.52T | 7.82T | 8.08T | 8.29T | 7.30T | 7.09T |
| Total liabilities | 23,847,295,000,000.00 | 23,316,209,000,000.00 | 23,752,817,000,000.00 | 23,633,307,000,000.00 | 23,516,436,000,000.00 | 24,253,763,000,000.00 |
| Total equity | 18.34T | 18.88T | 19.26T | 19.42T | 19.99T | 20.43T |
| Retained earnings | 14.20T | 14.74T | 14.99T | 14.92T | 15.17T | 15.47T |
Cash flow
| Line item | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | 4.01T | 3.75T | 4.74T | 5.56T | 3.60T | 5.50T | 5.07T | 4.94T |
| Depreciation & amortization | 3.36T | 3.66T | 3.67T | 3.65T | 3.71T | 3.87T | 3.93T | 3.94T |
| Free cash flow | 1.00T | -55.18B | 1.02T | 1.31T | -390.07B | 1.33T | 1.70T | 900.77B |
| Dividends paid | -298.63B | -305.16B | -310.57B | -350.33B | -476.80B | -526.83B | -872.35B | -577.81B |
| Stock buybacks / issuance | -24.42B | 0 | -114.68B | -193.63B | 0 | -300.09B | -27.10B | -250.00B |
| Ending cash balance | 2.70T | 2.31T | 2.63T | 3.02T | 2.45T | 2.88T | 3.72T | 3.51T |
| Line item | 2025-03 | 2025-06 | 2025-09 | 2025-12 | 2026-03 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | 630.25B | 2.06T | 1.26T | 991.56B | 650.14B | 1.52T |
| Depreciation & amortization | 982.75B | 991.00B | 981.72B | 981.90B | 973.71B | 945.17B |
| Free cash flow | -1.05T | 1.36T | 529.72B | 60.25B | -222.21B | 718.53B |
| Dividends paid | -- | -- | -144.76B | -144.66B | -- | -- |
| Stock buybacks / issuance | -47.20B | -152.18B | -50.63B | 0 | 0 | -153.56B |
| Ending cash balance | 3.13T | 3.79T | 3.89T | 3.51T | 2.86T | 3.05T |
Returns & efficiency
| Line item | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROE %i | 5.21 | 4.85 | 5.07 | 9.35 | 7.98 | 5.96 | 2.79 | 10.17 |
| ROA %i | 2.08 | 1.95 | 2.07 | 3.83 | 3.22 | 2.37 | 1.08 | 4.04 |
| ROIC %i | 3.58 | 3.14 | 3.29 | 6.02 | 5.10 | 3.92 | 1.90 | 6.53 |
| 5-year avg ROE %i | 2.32 | 5.15 | 5.14 | 5.68 | 6.48 | 6.64 | 6.23 | 7.25 |
| EBIT margin %i | 5.73 | 5.23 | 5.37 | 9.00 | 8.52 | 6.31 | 3.59 | 9.80 |
| FCF / sales %i | 4.32 | -- | 4.21 | 5.26 | -- | 5.06 | 6.45 | 3.19 |
| Current ratioi | 1.29 | 1.18 | 1.21 | 1.18 | 1.19 | 1.10 | 1.02 | 1.19 |
| Quick ratioi | 1.00 | 0.90 | 0.95 | 0.92 | 0.92 | 0.87 | 0.80 | 0.93 |
| Debt / assetsi | 20.47 | 21.08 | 21.73 | 22.71 | 24.41 | 23.88 | 25.05 | 25.05 |
| LT debt / equityi | 40.21 | 44.88 | 42.10 | 44.78 | 49.24 | 42.79 | 40.89 | 47.04 |
| Interest coveragei | 4.48 | 4.80 | 4.91 | 8.51 | 7.44 | 4.66 | 2.53 | 7.56 |
| Revenue CAGR (3Y) %i | 1.49 | 2.62 | 1.19 | 2.35 | 1.33 | 2.94 | 1.95 | 3.29 |
| Net income CAGR (3Y) %i | 5.72 | -4.66 | 14.94 | 28.10 | 24.98 | 12.33 | -30.28 | 10.89 |
| FCF CAGR (3Y) %i | 11.96 | -- | 7.30 | 9.31 | -- | 9.43 | 9.09 | -- |
| Line item | 2025-03 | 2025-06 | 2025-09 | 2025-12 | 2026-03 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROE %i | 3.74 | 5.37 | 5.49 | 10.17 | 8.80 | 7.19 |
| ROA %i | 1.47 | 2.15 | 2.22 | 4.04 | 3.57 | 2.95 |
| ROIC %i | 2.49 | 3.58 | 3.74 | 6.53 | 5.69 | 4.76 |
| 5-year avg ROE %i | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| EBIT margin %i | 4.21 | 5.61 | 5.83 | 9.80 | 9.12 | 8.18 |
| FCF / sales %i | 1.55 | 1.21 | 2.05 | 3.19 | 6.13 | 3.96 |
| Current ratioi | 1.10 | 1.19 | 1.24 | 1.19 | 1.15 | 1.13 |
| Quick ratioi | 0.85 | 0.95 | 0.98 | 0.93 | 0.90 | 0.88 |
| Debt / assetsi | 26.48 | 25.48 | 24.49 | 25.05 | 24.91 | 25.22 |
| LT debt / equityi | 45.29 | 45.64 | 46.29 | 47.04 | 40.16 | 38.16 |
| Interest coveragei | 3.07 | 4.18 | 4.40 | 7.56 | 7.00 | 6.06 |
| Revenue CAGR (3Y) %i | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Net income CAGR (3Y) %i | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| FCF CAGR (3Y) %i | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
✦ Quant Revenue Concentration how this is computed
Lead segment, long tail
- Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the largest reported line at 67.72% of revenue, across 6 reported segments.
- Other divisions follows at 35.25%, so the top line still matters most but isn’t the whole story.
Revenue breakdown most recent period
Business
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)67.72%
Other divisions35.25%
Finance12.75%
Real estate3.77%
Satellite TV2.64%
Quote time 2026-10-08 06:46:25 · For reference only, not investment advice and not tailored to your situation.