KT Dividends and Buybacks
Dividend criteria checks 6/6
KT is a dividend paying company with a current yield of 4.43% that is well covered by earnings.
Key information
4.4%
Dividend yield
1.6%
Buyback Yield
| Total Shareholder Yield | 6.0% |
| Future Dividend Yield | 5.1% |
| Dividend Growth | 14.2% |
| Next dividend pay date | n/a |
| Ex dividend date | n/a |
| Dividend per share | n/a |
| Payout ratio | 38% |
Recent dividend and buyback updates
Recent updates
Narrative Update • Jun 30
A030200: Higher Future P/E Assumptions Will Support Long-Term Upside Potential
KT's analyst price target has shifted from ₩91,380.72 to ₩96,974.15, with analysts pointing to updated assumptions for the discount rate, revenue growth, profit margin, and future P/E as the key drivers behind this change. What’s in the News for KT KT reported that between February 10, 2026 and March 31, 2026, it repurchased 0 shares for KRW 0 million under its existing buyback program.Narrative Update • Jun 16
A030200: AI Reorganization And Governance Changes Will Support Long-Term Upside Potential
Analysts have trimmed their fair value estimate for KT from ₩95,603 to ₩91,381, citing updated assumptions around discount rates, revenue growth, profit margins, and a lower future P/E multiple. What's in the News for KT KT appointed Park Yoon-young as CEO at the March 31, 2026 shareholders meeting, with his term running through the 2029 shareholders meeting, while Kim Young-shub ended his CEO term on the same date.
Narrative Update • Jun 01
A030200: AI Restructuring And AX Expansion Will Drive Future Upside Potential
Analysts have raised KT's fair value estimate from ₩56,000 to ₩60,000, citing updated assumptions for the discount rate, revenue growth, profit margin and future P/E as the key drivers of the new price target. What's in the News KT announced a sweeping organizational restructuring and executive reshuffle, including a 30% cut in executive-level roles and a full replacement of key department heads.
Narrative Update • May 17
A030200: AX Reorganization And New Leadership Will Drive Future AI Upside
Analysts have slightly reduced KT's target price from ₩71,824.80 to ₩71,790.00, reflecting updated views that combine a modestly adjusted discount rate and revenue outlook with a slightly higher projected profit margin and future P/E. What's in the News Shareholders at KT's 44th Annual General Meeting on March 31, 2026 approved amendments to the articles of incorporation, formalizing updates to the company bylaws (Key Developments).Narrative Update • Apr 22
A030200: Telecom Restructuring And AX Focus Will Drive Future AI Upside
Analysts have slightly reduced their average price target on KT, from about ₩72,150 to roughly ₩71,825. They are incorporating more conservative assumptions for revenue growth and profit margins, along with a modest increase in the expected future P/E multiple.Narrative Update • Apr 08
A030200: Telecom Restructuring And AX Focus Will Support Future AI Expansion
Analysts have lifted their fair value estimate for KT from ₩65,256 to about ₩72,151, citing slightly lower discount rate assumptions, more conservative revenue growth inputs, a modestly higher profit margin outlook, and a small adjustment to the future P/E they use in their models. What's in the News KT announced a sweeping organizational restructuring and executive reshuffle, including a 30% reduction in executive-level roles and full replacement of key department heads, aimed at strengthening its core telecom operations and accelerating artificial intelligence transformation, or AX (Key Developments).Narrative Update • Mar 25
A030200: Share Buybacks And Article Changes Will Support Long-Term Upside Potential
Analysts now estimate fair value for KT at around ₩95,603, up from about ₩94,434. The revision primarily reflects modest adjustments to the discount rate, revenue growth, profit margin, and future P/E assumptions.Narrative Update • Mar 10
A030200: Share Buybacks And Margin Gains Will Support Long-Term Upside Potential
Analysts have lifted their price target for KT from around ₩84,056 to approximately ₩94,434, citing updated assumptions for slightly higher revenue growth, improved profit margins, a lower discount rate, and a modestly lower future P/E multiple. What's in the News KT's Board of Directors authorized a share buyback plan on February 10, 2026, signaling a commitment to return capital to shareholders over a defined period (company announcement).Narrative Update • Feb 23
A030200: AI Data Center Ambitions And Buyback Plan Will Mask Weak Outlook
Analysts have kept KT's fair value estimate unchanged at ₩56,000. However, they have refreshed their price target framework to reflect a lower discount rate, softer revenue growth assumptions, slightly higher profit margin expectations, and a marginally adjusted future P/E multiple.Narrative Update • Feb 09
A030200: AI Data Center Partnership Will Support Balanced Long Term Outlook
Analysts have lifted their fair value estimate for KT from ₩51,400 to ₩56,000, citing updated assumptions on revenue growth, profit margins, and a slightly lower future P/E multiple as key drivers of the change. What's in the News KT signed a Memorandum of Understanding with DigitalBridge Group, Inc.Narrative Update • Jan 26
A030200: AI Data Center Expansion Will Support Long-Term Upside Potential
Analysts have slightly trimmed their fair value estimate for KT, with the price target moving from ₩84,087.17 to ₩84,056.19 as they update assumptions related to discount rates, revenue growth, profit margins, and future P/E multiples. What's in the News DigitalBridge Group, Inc.Narrative Update • Jan 10
A030200: AI Data Center Partnership Will Drive Long-Term Upside Potential
Analysts have nudged their price target for KT slightly higher to ₩84,087 from ₩84,024, citing updated assumptions for the discount rate, revenue growth, profit margin, and future P/E. What's in the News KT signed a Memorandum of Understanding with DigitalBridge Group, Inc.Narrative Update • Dec 26
A030200 AI Data Center Expansion Will Drive Future Upside Potential
Analysts have raised their price target on KT modestly, citing slightly lower discount rate assumptions, marginally higher expected revenue growth and profit margins, and a small reduction in the projected future P/E multiple. Together these factors support an incremental improvement in estimated equity value to approximately $84,024 per share.Analysis Article • Dec 16
Is KT (KRX:030200) Using Too Much Debt?
Some say volatility, rather than debt, is the best way to think about risk as an investor, but Warren Buffett famously...Narrative Update • Dec 12
A030200 AI Data Center Partnership Will Drive Long-Term Upside Potential
Analysts have trimmed their fair value estimate for KT from approximately $85,900 to $84,000 per share as they factor in a higher discount rate, slightly slower revenue growth, and modestly lower profit margins, partially offset by expectations for a higher future P/E multiple. What's in the News DigitalBridge Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding with KT to collaborate on next generation AI data centers in Korea, marking DigitalBridge's first partnership with a major Korean telecom operator (Key Developments) The partners will explore large scale AI and cloud infrastructure projects, including AI factory type data centers that could scale to gigawatt level facilities and require multi billion dollar investments (Key Developments) This collaboration extends DigitalBridge's global data center platform into Korea and supports its Asia focused deployment strategy following the $11.7 billion close of DigitalBridge Partners III (Key Developments) KT plans to leverage its nationwide high speed network, stable data center operations, and high performance GPU clusters to build energy efficient, AI specialized infrastructure and strengthen Korea's AI data center ecosystem (Key Developments) KT executives indicated they are reviewing multiple options to secure resilient and efficient AI data center capacity and will pursue both domestic and global AI data center opportunities with DigitalBridge to offer tailored solutions for customers (Key Developments) Valuation Changes Fair Value Estimate: Reduced slightly from approximately ₩85,900 to about ₩84,000 per share, reflecting a modest downward revision in intrinsic value.Analysis Article • Nov 30
Many Still Looking Away From KT Corporation (KRX:030200)
It's not a stretch to say that KT Corporation's ( KRX:030200 ) price-to-earnings (or "P/E") ratio of 12.6x right now...Analysis Article • Nov 15
KT (KRX:030200) Has Some Way To Go To Become A Multi-Bagger
Finding a business that has the potential to grow substantially is not easy, but it is possible if we look at a few key...Narrative Update • Nov 08
A030200: AI Platforms Will Drive Substantial Cloud Service Expansion In Telecom
Narrative Update on KT Analyst Price Target Analysts have lowered their price target for KT from $66,256 to $65,256. This change reflects a more cautious outlook, primarily due to adjusted growth and profitability assumptions.Analysis Article • Sep 12
Is KT (KRX:030200) Using Too Much Debt?
Warren Buffett famously said, 'Volatility is far from synonymous with risk.' It's only natural to consider a company's...Narrative Update • Sep 06
AI Platforms And Cloud Services Will Boost South Korean Telecom
With no change in either consensus revenue growth or net profit margin forecasts, analysts have left KT’s fair value estimate effectively unchanged at ₩66,256. What's in the News KT partnered with Perion Network and NHN AD to launch Korea’s first large-scale programmatic Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) advertising integration, including 179 subway and 85 lifestyle venue screens, expanding premium media supply in APAC.
New Narrative • Nov 27
Innovative AI Partnerships And Cloud Expansion Propel Dynamic Transformation
Strategic transformation into AICT and partnerships in AI/cloud sectors are set to enhance revenue and operational efficiency through new business offerings.Stability and Growth of Payments
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Stable Dividend: A030200's dividends per share have been stable in the past 10 years.
Growing Dividend: A030200's dividend payments have increased over the past 10 years.
Dividend Yield vs Market
| KT Dividend Yield vs Market |
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| Segment | Dividend Yield |
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| Company (A030200) | 4.4% |
| Market Bottom 25% (KR) | 1.3% |
| Market Top 25% (KR) | 4.3% |
| Industry Average (Telecom) | 4.9% |
| Analyst forecast (A030200) (up to 3 years) | 5.1% |
Notable Dividend: A030200's dividend (4.43%) is higher than the bottom 25% of dividend payers in the KR market (1.32%).
High Dividend: A030200's dividend (4.43%) is in the top 25% of dividend payers in the KR market (4.3%)
Earnings Payout to Shareholders
Earnings Coverage: With its reasonably low payout ratio (37.6%), A030200's dividend payments are well covered by earnings.
Cash Payout to Shareholders
Cash Flow Coverage: With its reasonably low cash payout ratio (33.4%), A030200's dividend payments are well covered by cash flows.
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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status
| Data | Last Updated (UTC time) |
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| Company Analysis | 2026/07/11 18:31 |
| End of Day Share Price | 2026/07/10 00:00 |
| Earnings | 2026/03/31 |
| Annual Earnings | 2025/12/31 |
Data Sources
The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.
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| Company Financials | 10 years |
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| Analyst Consensus Estimates | +3 years |
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| Market Prices | 30 years |
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| Ownership | 10 years |
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| Management | 10 years |
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| Key Developments | 10 years |
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Analyst Sources
KT Corporation is covered by 35 analysts. 24 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.
| Analyst | Institution |
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| Seyon Park | Barclays |
| Sun Jung Lee | BofA Global Research |
| Joshua Kim | CGS International |