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Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry (KFY) is listed on NYSE and classified in Staffing & Employment Services, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Los Angeles, United States and has 8,965 employees. The company is worth $4.27B and trades at 14.4x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $2.94B in fiscal 2026, up 6.4% from the year before. Net income was $277.43M. The share price is 12.8% below its 52-week high of $87.51. It pays a dividend yielding 2.88%, and has raised its annual dividend for 5 years in a row in our records. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Israel Englander (Millennium Management), at $20.25M. In that quarter, 4 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $278.28K of its stock on the open market and bought none.
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.
▲ +0.4% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,045.75▲ +4.6%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $73.03 | $66.02 | $67.45 | $59.35 | $50.62 | $75.73 | $43.50 | $42.40 | $39.54 | $41.38 | $29.43 | $33.18 | $28.76 | $26.12 | $15.86 | $17.06 | $23.11 | $16.50 |
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 20.1% a year plus a 2.9% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 19.4 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 13.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 8.0% a year against a 10.3% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BETABETA Technologies, Inc. | $18.03 | — | 2.6x | 0.00% | -89.94% | $4.22B |
| XEX-Energy, Inc. | $10.36 | — | 1.6x | 0.00% | — | $4.21B |
| FCNFti Consulting Inc | $157.59 | 19.0x | 3.2x | 0.00% | 15.63% | $4.35B |
| PAMPampa Energy Inc. | $77.90 |
| P/E | 19.4x | 14.0x | 14.4x | 20.9x | 15.0x | 8.5x | 36.2x | 22.9x | 23.4x | 16.8x | 28.1x | 50.7x | 18.9x | 19.4x | 37.3x | 13.8x | 13.4x | 192.6x | — |
| P/S | 1.3x | 1.3x | 1.2x | 1.3x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 2.2x | 1.2x | 1.2x | 1.2x | 1.5x | 1.3x | 1.6x | 1.4x | 1.5x | 0.9x | 1.0x | 1.8x | — |
| P/B | 1.9x | 1.9x | 1.8x | 2.0x | 1.9x | 1.7x | 3.0x | 1.9x | 1.9x | 1.8x | 2.2x | 1.6x | 2.1x | 1.9x | 1.9x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 2.2x | — |
| EPS | $5.22 | $4.60 | $3.23 | $3.95 | $5.98 | $2.09 | $1.90 | $1.81 | $2.35 | $1.47 | $0.58 | $1.76 | $1.48 | $0.70 | $1.15 | $1.27 | $0.12 | -$0.23 |
| Dividend yield | 1.21% | 2.26% | 2.91% | 2.13% | 1.42% | 1.13% | 0.61% | 0.92% | 0.94% | 1.01% | 1.21% | 1.36% | 1.21% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | 22.41% | 31.61% | 41.74% | 44.58% | 21.27% | 9.53% | 22.01% | 21.05% | 22.10% | 17.02% | 34.01% | 68.97% | 22.73% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 6.57% | 9.44% | 8.91% | 6.05% | 7.32% | 12.35% | 6.29% | 5.31% | 5.20% | 7.35% | 5.19% | 2.30% | 8.29% | 7.30% | 3.92% | 6.57% | 7.58% | 0.88% | — |
| ROE | 9.62% | 14.06% | 13.18% | 9.76% | 12.71% | 21.13% | 8.38% | 8.59% | 8.27% | 11.00% | 7.77% | 2.96% | 10.84% | 9.62% | 5.01% | 8.63% | 10.18% | 1.08% | — |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+84.2% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 1.0x |
| 0.00% |
| 15.26% |
| $4.18B |
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