SK Telecom

US · SKM #1213 by market cap Listed 1970

35.57 -0.88 -2.41%

Live - 5344 symbols - heartbeat 133s ago · 2026-10-08 07:37

Pre-market 34.98 -1.66%

After-hours 35.67 +0.28%

Overnight 35.00 -1.60%

Market cap: 13.65B
P/E (TTM): 25.16
P/B: 1.19
EPS: 0.76
Div yield: 1.67%
52W pos: 59%

Reader sentiment Are you bullish or bearish on SKM?

Anonymous reader poll. Unscientific, not investment advice.

✦ Quant Financial Health how this is computed

Weak

Altman Z-Score is 1.75, 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 -4.69% YoY

Margins

Gross margin: 87.30%
Operating margin: 5.94%
Net margin: 2.27%

Key ratios & quality

Enterprise value: 7.59T
Altman Z-Score: 1.75

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	16.87T	15.42T	16.09T	16.75T	17.30T	17.61T	17.94T	17.10T
Gross profit	13.96T	13.02T	13.92T	14.52T	15.05T	15.39T	15.66T	14.93T
Selling & admin expenses	3.32T	2.45T	2.59T	2.71T	2.88T	2.90T	3.08T	3.06T
Research & development	387.68B	324.05B	353.20B	347.71B	340.86B	369.51B	378.08B	339.51B
Operating profit	1.25T	1.09T	1.29T	1.47T	1.66T	1.81T	1.84T	1.02T
Pretax profit	3.98T	807.03B	905.22B	1.72T	1.24T	1.49T	1.76T	722.26B
Tax	843.98B	262.94B	221.26B	446.80B	288.32B	342.24B	374.67B	347.18B
Net profit	3.13T	860.73B	1.50T	2.42T	947.83B	1.15T	1.39T	375.08B
Basic EPS	8.05K	1.35K	2.27K	3.99K	2.29K	2.75K	3.21K	1.01K
Diluted EPS	8,053.38	1,345.88	2,271.06	3,988.79	2,284.38	2,747.25	3,199.58	1,012.88

Line item	2025-03	2025-06	2025-09	2025-12	2026-03	2026-06
Revenue	4.45T	4.34T	3.98T	4.33T	4.39T	4.36T
Gross profit	3.89T	3.84T	3.41T	3.79T	3.85T	3.88T
Selling & admin expenses	749.00B	672.34B	682.37B	956.59B	704.34B	663.66B
Research & development	89.91B	80.05B	98.24B	71.31B	86.61B	95.90B
Operating profit	574.89B	350.64B	61.23B	28.25B	547.81B	573.83B
Pretax profit	507.88B	240.39B	-163.85B	137.84B	465.57B	571.99B
Tax	146.31B	157.14B	2.88B	40.85B	149.15B	106.01B
Net profit	361.58B	83.25B	-166.73B	96.99B	316.42B	465.98B
Basic EPS	937	221	-425	280	827	1.21K
Diluted EPS	934.62	220.34	-425.13	280.28	825.84	1,212.68

Balance sheet

Line item	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Total current assets	7.96T	8.09T	8.78T	6.35T	7.22T	6.59T	7.48T	6.73T
Cash & ST investments	2.75T	2.27T	2.95T	1.39T	2.12T	1.75T	2.35T	1.68T
Inventory	288.05B	162.88B	171.44B	204.64B	166.36B	179.81B	209.78B	167.64B
Total assets	42.37T	45.20T	47.91T	30.91T	31.31T	30.12T	30.52T	30.11T
Total current liabilities	6.85T	7.85T	8.18T	6.96T	8.05T	6.99T	9.22T	6.53T
Short-term debt	1.06T	1.41T	1.41T	1.79T	2.50T	1.99T	2.91T	1.66T
Long-term debt	8.59T	9.23T	9.67T	7.39T	7.19T	7.42T	6.57T	7.59T
Total liabilities	20,019,861,000,000.00	22,385,434,000,000.00	23,510,714,000,000.00	18,576,139,000,000.00	19,153,066,000,000.00	17,890,828,000,000.00	18,687,621,000,000.00	17,152,491,000,000.00
Total equity	22.35T	22.82T	24.40T	12.34T	12.16T	12.23T	11.83T	12.96T
Retained earnings	22.14T	22.23T	22.98T	22.44T	22.46T	22.80T	22.98T	22.94T

Line item	2025-03	2025-06	2025-09	2025-12	2026-03	2026-06
Total current assets	7.68T	7.54T	6.93T	6.73T	7.21T	7.29T
Cash & ST investments	2.55T	2.55T	1.69T	1.68T	1.77T	2.04T
Inventory	205.90B	192.97B	225.11B	167.64B	202.07B	149.13B
Total assets	29.92T	29.30T	28.90T	30.11T	30.02T	32.43T
Total current liabilities	8.73T	7.28T	6.49T	6.53T	6.09T	5.85T
Short-term debt	2.81T	2.03T	1.66T	1.66T	1.61T	1.58T
Long-term debt	6.60T	7.46T	8.04T	7.59T	7.56T	7.58T
Total liabilities	17,978,708,000,000.00	17,332,912,000,000.00	17,086,403,000,000.00	17,152,491,000,000.00	16,674,341,000,000.00	16,935,152,000,000.00
Total equity	11.94T	11.97T	11.81T	12.96T	13.35T	15.49T
Retained earnings	23.09T	23.05T	22.82T	22.94T	24.94T	25.22T

Cash flow

Line item	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Operating cash flow	4.33T	4.03T	5.82T	5.03T	5.16T	4.95T	5.09T	3.92T
Depreciation & amortization	3.28T	4.02T	4.17T	4.11T	3.76T	--	--	--
Free cash flow	1.04T	518.09B	2.13T	1.72T	2.11T	1.87T	2.53T	1.60T
Dividends paid	-706.09B	-718.70B	-742.14B	-1.03T	-904.02B	-773.81B	-804.32B	-628.36B
Stock buybacks / issuance	0	300.00B	-426.66B	-76.11B	0	-285.49B	-15.79B	0
Ending cash balance	1.51T	1.27T	1.37T	872.73B	1.88T	1.45T	2.02T	1.49T

Line item	2025-03	2025-06	2025-09	2025-12	2026-03	2026-06
Operating cash flow	1.25T	1.40T	166.30B	1.10T	1.06T	1.21T
Depreciation & amortization	896.96B	894.97B	897.73B	--	878.63B	876.30B
Free cash flow	698.67B	1.08T	-484.57B	304.68B	681.56B	748.89B
Dividends paid	0	-451.61B	-176.76B	8.00M	0	-176.82B
Stock buybacks / issuance	--	--	--	0	--	--
Ending cash balance	2.30T	2.35T	1.38T	1.49T	1.47T	1.20T

Returns & efficiency

Line item	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
ROE %	15.44	3.85	6.38	13.55	7.84	9.48	10.66	3.16
ROA %	8.21	2.01	3.22	6.07	2.89	3.50	4.06	1.28
ROIC %	11.49	3.40	5.06	8.89	4.98	5.95	6.65	2.73
5-year avg ROE %	12.86	11.08	10.31	10.90	9.41	8.22	9.58	8.94
EBIT margin %	25.38	8.79	12.22	11.93	9.04	10.67	12.07	6.47
FCF / sales %	6.15	2.64	11.46	10.29	12.21	10.60	14.09	9.36
Current ratio	1.16	1.03	1.07	0.91	0.90	0.94	0.81	1.03
Quick ratio	0.85	0.71	0.77	0.57	0.59	0.61	0.53	0.63
Debt / assets	22.78	25.56	25.37	33.54	35.41	35.38	35.28	34.45
LT debt / equity	38.22	44.21	45.26	74.06	75.88	76.04	67.13	67.73
Interest coverage	13.94	3.92	5.70	7.14	4.77	4.82	5.37	2.88
Revenue CAGR (3Y) %	-0.51	-3.38	-2.80	-0.25	3.93	3.06	2.32	-0.40
Net income CAGR (3Y) %	27.23	-19.06	-16.67	-8.36	0.88	-10.08	-19.62	-23.50
FCF CAGR (3Y) %	-3.98	-22.60	29.00	18.44	59.77	-4.37	13.64	-8.84

Line item	2025-03	2025-06	2025-09	2025-12	2026-03	2026-06
ROE %	10.58	8.41	4.84	3.16	2.76	5.33
ROA %	4.12	3.38	1.94	1.28	1.16	2.36
ROIC %	6.55	5.40	3.43	2.73	2.51	3.90
5-year avg ROE %	--	--	--	--	--	--
EBIT margin %	12.41	11.12	8.41	6.47	6.19	8.07
FCF / sales %	15.06	17.03	9.42	9.36	9.29	7.33
Current ratio	0.88	1.03	1.07	1.03	1.18	1.25
Quick ratio	0.59	0.71	0.68	0.63	0.74	0.79
Debt / assets	35.66	36.50	37.48	34.45	34.03	31.30
LT debt / equity	66.53	73.12	78.34	67.73	64.74	55.52
Interest coverage	5.62	5.06	3.71	2.88	2.81	3.77
Revenue CAGR (3Y) %	--	--	--	--	--	--
Net income CAGR (3Y) %	--	--	--	--	--	--
FCF CAGR (3Y) %	--	--	--	--	--	--

✦ Quant Revenue Concentration how this is computed

Single-engine

cellular services is the largest reported line at 82.89% of revenue, across 4 reported segments.
The next-largest line, fixed-line telecommunication services, is a distant second at 31.01% - a sharp slowdown here would have little to offset it.

Revenue breakdown most recent period

Business

cellular services82.89%

fixed-line telecommunication services31.01%

Others1.76%

Quote time 2026-10-08 07:37:56 · For reference only, not investment advice and not tailored to your situation.