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KT Corp
NYSE· Communication Services· Telecom Services· CUSIP 48268K101
$17.45-3.32%Price as of Oct 23, 00:50 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
KT Corp (KT) is listed on NYSE and classified in Telecom Services, part of the Communication Services sector. It is headquartered in Seongnam-si, South Korea and has 13,886 employees. The company is worth $8.26B and trades at 9.5x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 16.1x. Revenue was ₩28.25T in fiscal 2025, up 7.1% from the year before. Net income was ₩1.72T. The share price is 29.0% below its 52-week high of $24.58. It pays a dividend yielding 4.64%. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Two Sigma (Two Sigma Investments), at $101.09M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 2 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.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $8.26B
- P/E
- 9.5x
- Forward P/E
- 4.8x
- P/B
- 0.6x
- Dividend yield
- 4.64%
- Payout
- 44.02%
- EPS
- $1.84
- ROE
- 7.15%
- Profit margin
- 4.72%
- Revenue growth
- -10.10%
- Beta
- 0.09
- 52-week high
- $24.58
- 52-week low
- $17.13
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Revenue, debt and profit are in KRW, the currency the company reports in — not converted to dollars. Dividends are in dollars.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
- Two SigmaAddedTwo Sigma Investments · Q2 2026$101.09M5.85M shares · 0.1% of portfolio
- Israel EnglanderReducedMillennium Management · Q2 2026$12.72M736.4K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Ray DalioAddedBridgewater Associates · Q2 2026$3.58M207.23K shares · 0.0% of portfolio- Renaissance TechnologiesReducedRenaissance Technologies · Q2 2026$1.03M59.79K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Cliff AsnessHeldAQR Capital Management · Q2 2026$179.15K10.37K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Price over time
▲ +45.5% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,722.48▲ +72.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 4 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $18.97 | $15.52 | $13.44 | $13.50 | |
| EPS | ₩3,557.00 | ₩953.00 | ₩2,019.00 | ₩2,602.50 | |
| Dividend yield | 4.39% | 3.16% | 3.50% | 5.29% | 5.40% |
| Profit margin | 4.35% | 6.08% | 1.74% | 3.78% | 4.92% |
| ROE | 6.76% | 9.76% | 2.84% | 5.94% | 7.59% |
This company reports in KRW, and the stock trades in dollars. P/E, P/S, P/B and payout would divide dollars by KRW, so they are not shown; EPS is in KRW. Margin, ROE and dividend yield do not depend on the currency.
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$34.89
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$8.54
Earnings growing 0.0% a year plus a 4.6% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$29.59
Median P/E of 16.1 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
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This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Cash flow
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This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Operating
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This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividends
$23.68
Dividend growing 4.4% a year against a 7.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
How the average is calculated
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
Earnings $24.34 (avg. of 3)+Dividends $23.68÷ 2 =$24.01
$24.01
4 methods answered, across 2 families.
$18.01
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
$17.45
+37.6% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Communication 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZGZillow Group Inc | $35.14 | 152.8x | 1.8x | 0.00% | 1.22% | $7.9B |
| ZZillow Group Inc | $33.98 | 147.7x | 1.8x | 0.00% | 1.22% | $7.64B |
| LLYVALiberty Live Holdings, Inc. | $97.24 | — | — | 0.00% | — | $8.95B |
| TIMBTim S.a | $19.46 | 11.3x | 1.9x | 1.63% | 17.25% | $9.25B |
| SIRISirius Xm Holdings Inc | $27.54 | 11.0x | 0.8x | 3.92% | 7.57% | $9.28B |
| LLYVKLiberty Live Holdings, Inc. | $101.23 | — | — | 0.00% | — | $9.31B |
About the company
- 13,886
- Seongnam-si, South Korea