KT Corporation

KOSE:A030200 Stock Report

Market Cap: ₩12.9t

KT Past Earnings Performance

Past criteria checks 5/6

KT has been growing earnings at an average annual rate of 0.09%, while the Telecom industry saw earnings declining at 1.5% annually. Revenues have been growing at an average rate of 2.9% per year. KT's return on equity is 8.3%, and it has net margins of 5.5%.

Key information

0.09%

Earnings growth rate

-0.57%

EPS growth rate

Telecom Industry Growth14.18%
Revenue growth rate2.87%
Return on equity8.29%
Net Margin5.47%
Last Earnings Update31 Mar 2026

Recent past performance 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.
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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.

Revenue & Expenses Breakdown

How KT makes and spends money. Based on latest reported earnings, on an LTM basis.

Earnings and Revenue History

KOSE:A030200 Revenue, expenses and earnings (KRW Millions)
DateRevenueEarningsG+A ExpensesR&D Expenses
31 Mar 2628,177,4921,542,32421,655,4343,131
31 Dec 2528,244,1611,729,93021,517,3400
30 Sep 2527,974,804962,6224,944,11916,809
30 Jun 2527,502,685928,4314,546,5886,254
31 Mar 2526,621,747633,52821,370,60410,379
31 Dec 2426,431,204469,23321,366,3850
30 Sep 2426,543,2221,179,2474,136,0103,912
30 Jun 2426,586,0491,086,1734,374,3469,653
31 Mar 2426,587,1711,087,6574,311,4528,199
31 Dec 2326,376,2731,008,7154,156,6590
30 Sep 2326,260,4411,194,0694,926,01513,285
30 Jun 2326,040,2001,227,5454,567,3455,229
31 Mar 2325,804,8311,146,3024,440,4852,708
31 Dec 2225,638,8551,259,6864,171,7620
30 Sep 2225,690,6381,424,0604,377,858164,540
30 Jun 2225,430,8191,436,8614,209,006168,362
31 Mar 2225,146,2791,461,6293,935,240168,982
31 Dec 2124,898,0051,354,5373,884,9450
30 Sep 2124,481,6701,018,3863,944,575164,205
30 Jun 2124,265,486911,3963,799,725160,726
31 Mar 2124,114,377751,7143,774,897157,103
31 Dec 2024,099,394700,8893,693,760156,940
30 Sep 2023,904,896611,3283,433,641162,921
30 Jun 2024,117,373597,7793,611,354160,737
31 Mar 2024,339,403593,6223,886,164164,931
31 Dec 1924,342,064615,7773,857,135165,028
30 Sep 1924,117,015569,87514,941,051169,775
30 Jun 1923,851,821602,61611,093,183173,438
31 Mar 1923,560,226679,7047,206,711173,418
31 Dec 1823,436,050645,5713,714,715176,758
30 Sep 1823,731,798529,1661,745,651216,196
30 Jun 1823,609,917486,586-2,676,001172,184
31 Mar 1823,645,453457,7633,991,917169,743
31 Dec 1723,546,929461,5594,002,913168,635
30 Sep 1723,678,996683,6714,366,654163,402
30 Jun 1723,382,360715,1834,055,445164,451
31 Mar 1723,217,514723,0743,858,747165,582
01 Jan 1723,164,202745,0903,886,712167,881
30 Sep 1623,100,182495,6374,007,002177,603
30 Jun 1623,062,467419,0514,033,479180,119
31 Mar 1622,816,179328,8443,800,185182,229
31 Dec 1522,699,856404,0453,751,849183,821
30 Sep 1522,047,400319,6532,663,486190,766

Quality Earnings: A030200 has high quality earnings.

Growing Profit Margin: A030200's current net profit margins (5.5%) are higher than last year (2.4%).

Free Cash Flow vs Earnings Analysis

Past Earnings Growth Analysis

Earnings Trend: A030200's earnings have grown by 0.09% per year over the past 5 years.

Accelerating Growth: A030200's earnings growth over the past year (143.5%) exceeds its 5-year average (0.09% per year).

Earnings vs Industry: A030200 earnings growth over the past year (143.5%) exceeded the Telecom industry 12.1%.

Return on Equity

High ROE: A030200's Return on Equity (8.3%) is considered low.

Return on Assets

Return on Capital Employed

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2026/07/05 05:27
End of Day Share Price 2026/07/03 00:00
Earnings2026/03/31
Annual Earnings2025/12/31

Data Sources

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Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
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  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

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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.

AnalystInstitution
Seyon ParkBarclays
Sun Jung LeeBofA Global Research
Joshua KimCGS International