Posco ICT (KOSDAQ:A022100) - Share price, News & Analysis

A022100 fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	0/6
Future Growth	0/6
Past Performance	1/6
Financial Health	6/6
Dividends	2/6

A022100 Stock Overview

Posco ICT Company Ltd. provides ICT solutions in South Korea and internationally.

Rewards

Became profitable this year

Risk Analysis

Earnings have declined by 26.6% per year over past 5 years

Large one-off items impacting financial results

Posco ICT Competitors

Price History & Performance

Summary of all time highs, changes and price drops for Posco ICT
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	₩6,140.00
52 Week High	₩9,030.00
52 Week Low	₩5,470.00
Beta	0.87
1 Month Change	0.33%
3 Month Change	8.29%
1 Year Change	-20.67%
3 Year Change	13.49%
5 Year Change	-16.46%
Change since IPO	115.44%

Recent News & Updates

Mar 09

Are Posco ICT Company Ltd.'s (KOSDAQ:022100) Fundamentals Good Enough to Warrant Buying Given The Stock's Recent Weakness?

With its stock down 7.9% over the past month, it is easy to disregard Posco ICT (KOSDAQ:022100). However, the company's...

Shareholder Returns

	A022100	KR IT	KR Market
7D	2.8%	3.4%	1.2%
1Y	-20.7%	-15.1%	-14.3%

Return vs Industry: A022100 underperformed the KR IT industry which returned -15.1% over the past year.

Return vs Market: A022100 underperformed the KR Market which returned -14.3% over the past year.

Price Volatility

Is A022100's price volatile compared to industry and market?
A022100 volatility
A022100 Average Weekly Movement	3.5%
IT Industry Average Movement	5.2%
Market Average Movement	5.4%
10% most volatile stocks in KR Market	10.2%
10% least volatile stocks in KR Market	3.1%

Stable Share Price: A022100 is less volatile than 75% of KR stocks over the past 3 months, typically moving +/- 4% a week.

Volatility Over Time: A022100's weekly volatility (4%) has been stable over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1989	1,849	Du-Hwan Choi	https://www.poscoict.com

Posco ICT Company Ltd. provides ICT solutions in South Korea and internationally. The company offers smart technologies in various domain fields, such as IoT, big data and AI, etc. It offers smart factory; factory automation; and infrastructure services for power facilities, safety/environment, and maintenance of power instrumentation and hardware and software of process computers. The company also provides PosFrame, a smart platform that collects structured/unstructured data in real-time in the production site to utilize the data-based analysis and AI to enable optimum control.

Posco ICT Fundamentals Summary

How do Posco ICT's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
A022100 fundamental statistics
Market Cap	₩953.35b
Earnings (TTM)	₩15.05b
Revenue (TTM)	₩910.41b

61.9x

P/E Ratio

1.0x

P/S Ratio

Is A022100 overvalued?

See Fair Value and valuation analysis

Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report
A022100 income statement (TTM)
Revenue	₩910.41b
Cost of Revenue	₩792.95b
Gross Profit	₩117.45b
Other Expenses	₩102.40b
Earnings	₩15.05b

Last Reported Earnings

Mar 31, 2022

Next Earnings Date

n/a

Earnings per share (EPS)	99.14
Gross Margin	12.90%
Net Profit Margin	1.65%
Debt/Equity Ratio	0.2%

How did A022100 perform over the long term?

See historical performance and comparison

Dividends

0.8%

Current Dividend Yield

50%

Payout Ratio

Valuation

Is Posco ICT undervalued compared to its fair value and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

0/6

Valuation Score 0/6

Below Fair Value
Significantly Below Fair Value
PE vs Industry
PE vs Market
PEG Ratio
PB vs Industry

61.93x

Price to Earnings (PE) ratio

Share Price vs. Fair Value

Below Fair Value: A022100 (₩6140) is trading above our estimate of fair value (₩1573.09)

Significantly Below Fair Value: A022100 is trading above our estimate of fair value.

Price To Earnings Ratio

PE vs Industry: A022100 is poor value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (61.9x) compared to the KR IT industry average (16.5x).

PE vs Market: A022100 is poor value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (61.9x) compared to the KR market (14.1x).

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

PEG Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate A022100's PEG Ratio to determine if it is good value.

Price to Book Ratio

PB vs Industry: A022100 is overvalued based on its Price-To-Book Ratio (2.6x) compared to the KR IT industry average (1.6x).

Future Growth

How is Posco ICT forecast to perform in the next 1 to 3 years based on estimates from 0 analysts?

Future Growth Score

0/6

Future Growth Score 0/6

Earnings vs Savings Rate
Earnings vs Market
High Growth Earnings
Revenue vs Market
High Growth Revenue
Future ROE

32.4%

Forecasted Software industry annual growth in earnings

In this section we usually present revenue and earnings growth projections based on the consensus estimates of professional analysts to help investors understand the company’s ability to generate profit. But as Posco ICT has not provided enough past data and has no analyst forecast, its future earnings cannot be reliably calculated by extrapolating past data or using analyst predictions.

This is quite a rare situation as 97% of companies covered by SimplyWall St do have past financial data.

Past Performance

How has Posco ICT performed over the past 5 years?

Past Performance Score

1/6

Past Performance Score 1/6

Quality Earnings
Growing Profit Margin
Earnings Trend
Accelerating Growth
Earnings vs Industry
High ROE

-26.6%

Historical annual earnings growth

Earnings and Revenue History

Quality Earnings: A022100 has a large one-off loss of ₩12.8B impacting its March 31 2022 financial results.

Growing Profit Margin: A022100 became profitable in the past.

Past Earnings Growth Analysis

Earnings Trend: A022100's earnings have declined by 26.6% per year over the past 5 years.

Accelerating Growth: A022100 has become profitable in the last year, making the earnings growth rate difficult to compare to its 5-year average.

Earnings vs Industry: A022100 has become profitable in the last year, making it difficult to compare its past year earnings growth to the IT industry (14.4%).

Return on Equity

High ROE: A022100's Return on Equity (4.2%) is considered low.

Financial Health

How is Posco ICT's financial position?

Financial Health Score

6/6

Financial Health Score 6/6

Short Term Liabilities
Long Term Liabilities
Debt Level
Reducing Debt
Debt Coverage
Interest Coverage

Financial Position Analysis

Short Term Liabilities: A022100's short term assets (₩429.5B) exceed its short term liabilities (₩254.1B).

Long Term Liabilities: A022100's short term assets (₩429.5B) exceed its long term liabilities (₩20.2B).

Debt to Equity History and Analysis

Debt Level: A022100 has more cash than its total debt.

Reducing Debt: A022100's debt to equity ratio has reduced from 0.6% to 0.2% over the past 5 years.

Debt Coverage: A022100's debt is well covered by operating cash flow (3060.9%).

Interest Coverage: A022100 earns more interest than it pays, so coverage of interest payments is not a concern.

Balance Sheet

Dividend

What is Posco ICT current dividend yield, its reliability and sustainability?

Dividend Score

1/6

Dividend Score 1/6

Notable Dividend
High Dividend
Stable Dividend
Growing Dividend
Earnings Coverage
Future Dividend Coverage

0.81%

Current Dividend Yield

Dividend Yield vs Market

Notable Dividend: A022100's dividend (0.81%) isn’t notable compared to the bottom 25% of dividend payers in the KR market (0.84%).

High Dividend: A022100's dividend (0.81%) is low compared to the top 25% of dividend payers in the KR market (2.75%).

Stability and Growth of Payments

Stable Dividend: Whilst dividend payments have been stable, A022100 has been paying a dividend for less than 10 years.

Growing Dividend: A022100 has only been paying a dividend for 3 years, and since then payments have not increased.

Earnings Payout to Shareholders

Earnings Coverage: With its reasonable payout ratio (50.4%), A022100's dividend payments are covered by earnings.

Cash Payout to Shareholders

Cash Flow Coverage: With its reasonably low cash payout ratio (39%), A022100's dividend payments are well covered by cash flows.

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Management

How experienced are the management team and are they aligned to shareholders interests?

CEO

Du-Hwan Choi (67 yo)

8.33yrs

Tenure

Mr. Du-Hwan Choi serves as the President of Posco ICT Company Ltd. and has been its Chief Executive Officer since 2014. Mr. Choi served as the Chief Research Officer of KT from 1991 to 1994 and served as i...

Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2022/05/24 00:00
End of Day Share Price	2022/05/24 00:00
Earnings	2022/03/31
Annual Earnings	2021/12/31