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KB Financial Group Inc.
KB Financial Group Inc. (KB) is listed on NYSE and classified in Banks - Regional, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The company is worth $41.71B and trades at 10.2x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $8.34B in fiscal 2010, up 9.4% from the year before. It reported a net loss of $520.18M. The share price is 10.9% below its 52-week high of $133.29. It pays a dividend yielding 2.79%. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Israel Englander (Millennium Management), at $5.69M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +167.7% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,932.06▲ +193.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 2 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $52.89 | $50.85 | |
| P/E | — | — | 26.7x |
| P/S | — | 2.2x | 2.3x |
| P/B | — | 1.2x | 1.2x |
| EPS | -$1.52 | $1.90 | |
| Profit margin | — | -6.24% | 8.12% |
| ROE | — | -3.46% | 4.11% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 0.0% a year plus a 2.8% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividend growing 5.8% a year against a 7.3% required return, from the stock’s beta.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
4 methods answered, across 2 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-5.7% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARESAres Management Corp | $123.70 | 57.0x | 11.2x | 4.37% | 14.92% | $41.04B |
| PRUPrudential Financial Inc | $118.17 | 10.4x | 1.3x | 4.74% | 12.01% | $40.77B |
| AIGAmerican International Group Inc | $83.03 | 15.2x | 1.1x | 2.41% | 7.22% | $43.42B |
| IXOrix Corp | $36.89 | 10.2x | 1.4x | 2.68% | 14.04% | $39.71B |
| BBDOBank Bradesco | $3.55 | 11.5x | 1.1x | 5.92% | 13.76% | $39.67B |
| AMPAmeriprise Financial Inc | $496.83 | 12.0x | 6.9x | 1.37% | 63.43% | $43.89B |