QualityDipStocks / Telecommunications · Telecommunications Equipment
KT KT
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 29% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well below our fair value estimate.
Worth knowing
- Deepest drop from a 52-week high in over 3 years
- FCF yield 12%, top 8% of the 1145 we measure
From the data on this page, as of the last close. How we pick these
- Fair value est.
- $33.88+95%
- Market Value
- —
- Off 52-wk high
- −29%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.45
5 bullish · 4 bearish See why
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 3.7% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 1.7%; bull = 8.5% and 5.7% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is below even the bear case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, KT’s free cash flow would need to shrink about 8% a year for five years; our estimate uses 4%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much KT moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves much less than the market, but its own price swings are 1.8× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.45
- Volatility
- 22% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.25
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.19
How it ranks
Where KT stands vs every one of the 1,996 stocks we cover that has the number. Longer bar = better.
Top quarter on 3 of 6 measures
- Discount to fair value estimate95% · price below our base caseTop 9%of 1,314
- Free cash flow yield12% · free cash flow vs market capTop 7%of 1,391
- Dividends + buybacks yield7.3% · cash paid out or used to retire shares, vs market capTop 14%of 1,836
- Revenue growth, last 12 months+7.1% · vs the 12 months beforeLowest 39%of 1,814
- Operating margin8.9% · of sales kept as operating profitLowest 39%of 1,288
- Return on invested capital12% · profit per dollar of capitalTop 45%of 838
From SEC filings and our fair value estimate model. A ranking, not advice.
Valuation details
DCF $33.88 · FCF value $44,319
Assumes 3.7% growth for 5 years (revenue grew 3.7% a year FY23–FY25), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $2.06 a share (fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025, converted from KRW at 0.000744, 0.5 shares per ADR), from the 20-F filed Apr 29, 2026. Capex: purchases of property, plant and equipment (from the filing).
Fundamentals
The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $33.88, 95% above the price.
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 11.9% (price / FCF 8.4×): $1.0B of free cash in the last 12 months.
ValuationP/E of 6.6× vs a 14.4× median for the 26 Telecommunications companies we cover.
ValuationEV/EBITDA of 1.6×: modest for what the business earns before interest, tax and depreciation.
Balance sheetNet cash of $749M: cash and short-term investments exceed debt (Dec 31, 2025).
Top bearish points 4 of 5
Cash returnsFree cash flow fell 38% over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 10%, below the 16% median for the 28 Telecommunications companies we cover.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: sales down vs the year-ago quarter.
RiskReports earnings Nov 6: results can move the price sharply and reset Market Value.
All fundamentals
P/E 6.6 · FCF yield 11.9% · ROE 10%
Valuation
- P/E
- 6.6×Telecommunications median 14.4×
- Price / FCF
- 8.4×
- FCF yield
- 11.9%
- EV / EBITDA
- 1.6×
- Price / sales
- 0.40×
- Price / book
- 0.64×
- Market cap
- $8.4Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $7.7B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $21.0B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +7.1%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +3.3%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $7068.00
- EPS growth, last FY
- +278.4%
- Net income, 12 months
- $1.3B
- Net income growth
- +274%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- n/agross profit isn't reported (common for service and financial companies)
- Operating margin
- 8.9%
- Net margin
- 6.1%
- FCF margin
- 4.8%
- Return on equity
- 10%
- Return on invested capital
- 12%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $2.6B
- Total debt
- $1.9B
- Net cash
- $749M
- Debt / equity
- 0.14×
- Interest coverage
- 6.9×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $1.0B
- FCF growth, 12 months
- −38%
- Dividend yield
- 5.09%$430M paid
- Payout ratio
- 34%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $186M2.2% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- n/ano quarterly diluted share count
- Stock-based comp
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Trailing 12 months to Dec 31, 2025; balance sheet at Dec 31, 2025. From KT’s SEC filings, reported in KRW and converted to US dollars. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
The business
FCF $857.8B · Sales −10%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$857.8B
- Free-cash-flow yield11.9%
- Free-cash-flow margin3%
- Gross margin100%
- Operating margin10%
- Return on invested capital27%
- Return on equity7%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)−10%
- Net debt / EBITDA1.3×
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $17.36
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$16.78−3.3%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$17.36you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$24.54+41.4%
- Fair value est.base case$33.88+95.2%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 37 · 5 days +2.2%
Signals
Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Next report
Nov 6
- DateFri Nov 6
- Year-ago EPS$0.59
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
KT is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 332 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.
Voices & buzz
Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on KT in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Telecommunications Equipment
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.