Kt Corp
KT NYSE· Telephone Communications (No Radiotelephone)
Last close · Oct 30, 2026
$17.28
KIRA · Stoqly’s AI analyst, in plain words
- Kt Corp had $19.9B of revenue in fiscal 2025, up 2.7% on the year before. Over five years, revenue changed −0.6% a year on average.
- Its operating margin was 9.0%, up 6.5 pts: of every 100 in sales, about 9 is left after running the business.
- Kt Corp made $1.2B of net profit in fiscal 2025. From fiscal 2016 to 2025, diluted EPS grew 7.4% a year.
- Kt Corp returned $582M to shareholders in fiscal 2025. The diluted share count fell 1.2%.
- Kt Corp owes $5.0B more than it holds in cash, about 1.1 years of operating profit.
Market cap
$8.4B
P/E
7.0x
Revenue
$19.9B
Net income
$1.2B
Free cash flow
—
Operating margin
9.0%
Kt Corp in 30 seconds · fiscal 2025
Are sales growing?
+2.7%
Only a little. Sales grew 2.7% last year.
Does it make a profit?
6.1%
A little. It keeps 6.1% of every sale as profit.
Is debt under control?
1.1x
Keep an eye on it. Repaying its debt would take 1.1 years of operating profit.
How healthy are the accounts?
6 / 8
Mixed. It passes 6 of 8 health tests.
How is the share priced?
7.0x
One share costs 7.0 times its yearly profit per share.
What Kt Corp does
No business description yet.
- Fiscal year ends
- December 31, 2025
- Latest annual report
- 20-F · Apr 29, 2026
- Legal name
- KT CORP
- CIK
- 0000892450
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Results and finances
The last 5 fiscal years. Amounts in USD. Compiled by stoqly.net.
| Fiscal year | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales and profit | |||||
| Revenue | $21.7B | $19.8B | $20.1B | $19.3B | $19.9B |
| Revenue growth | 6.5% | −8.8% | 1.4% | −3.8% | 2.7% |
| Operating margin | 6.8% | 7.7% | 5.4% | 2.4% | 9.0% |
| Net income | $1.2B | $975M | $760M | $337M | $1.2B |
| Net margin | 5.4% | 4.9% | 3.8% | 1.7% | 6.1% |
| Diluted EPS | $2.51 | $2.01 | $1.52 | $0.68 | $2.49 |
| Cash | |||||
| Cash from operations | $4.9B | $2.8B | $4.2B | $3.7B | $3.5B |
| Dividends paid | $306M | $369M | $403M | $640M | $406M |
| Share buybacks | $169M | $0.0M | $230M | $19.9M | $176M |
| Share count change | −3.9% | 2.8% | 3.0% | −1.4% | −1.2% |
| Debt and strength | |||||
| Cash and short-term investments | $2.5B | $1.9B | $2.2B | $2.5B | $2.4B |
| Debt incl. finance leases | $7.1B | $7.9B | $7.9B | $7.1B | $7.5B |
| Deposits | $685M | $650M | $679M | $565M | $689M |
| Shareholders' equity | $12.6B | $13.2B | $12.9B | $11.0B | $12.2B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 1.0x | 1.4x | 1.4x | 1.4x | 1.1x |
| Current ratio | 1.2x | 1.2x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 1.2x |
| Interest coverage | 6.5x | 6.7x | 4.0x | 1.7x | 6.9x |
| Returns and quality | |||||
| Return on capital | 6.4% | 5.8% | 4.4% | 2.1% | 7.8% |
| Return on equity | 9.3% | 7.6% | 5.8% | 2.8% | 10.4% |
| Return on tangible equity | 9.9% | 7.7% | 6.1% | 3.1% | 10.0% |
| Piotroski F-score | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Altman Z'' | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.7 |
Insiders bought, 12 months
$0.0M
0 insiders
Insiders sold, 12 months
$0.0M
0 insiders
Of sales under plans
—
$0.0M
How to read these numbers
- Revenue:
- Total sales reported in the income statement.
- Operating margin:
- Operating income as a share of revenue.
- Net income:
- Profit after all expenses, interest and tax.
- Free cash flow:
- Cash from operations minus capital spending.
- Net debt / EBITDA:
- Years of EBITDA needed to pay off net debt. Below zero means more cash than debt.
- Return on capital:
- After-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash.
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Charts and comparison
Ten years at a glance, and how it stacks up against similar companies.
Revenue
Net income
Margins, % of revenue
Cash vs debt (incl. leases)
Free cash flow
Dividends and buybacks
KIRA
At $17.28 a share, the company is worth $8.4B: 7.0 times its earnings of the last four quarters.
Compiled and analysed by stoqly.net from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (CIK 0000892450). Latest version: stoqly.net/companies/kt. Data updated November 1, 2026. Filed in KRW under IFRS and converted to US$: income and cash-flow lines at each period's average exchange rate, balance-sheet lines at the period-end rate. For information only — not investment advice. Check the original filings before relying on any figure.