KT is South Korea's largest fixed-line telecom operator, with around 9.0 million fixed-line broadband customers and 9.4 million IPTV customers, and is the second-largest wireless operator with 25 million subscribers. Additionally, it has a number of nontelecom businesses, including real estate, payment processing, artificial intelligence, and IDC/cloud services, many of which are the focus of its growth strategy. The company was formed from the previously government-owned, monopoly telecom business and was listed in 1998. After selling its mobile business in 1994 (forming its mobile competitor, SK Telecom) KT created its own mobile operator in 1997.

Financial Strength

6/10

Name	Current	Vs Industry
Cash-To-Debt	0.28
Equity-to-Asset	0.39
Debt-to-Equity	0.61
Debt-to-EBITDA	2.09
Interest Coverage	6.32
Piotroski F-Score	5/9	0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Altman Z-Score	1.46	Distress Grey Safe
Beneish M-Score	-2.56	Manipulator Not Manipulator
WACC vs ROIC		WACC ROIC

Growth Rank

5/10

	Name	Current	Vs Industry		Vs History
	3-Year Revenue Growth Rate	1.7
	3-Year EBITDA Growth Rate	6.4
	3-Year EPS without NRI Growth Rate	14.9
	3-Year FCF Growth Rate	-92.7
	3-Year Book Growth Rate	5.3
	Future 3-5Y EPS without NRI Growth Rate	-1.5
	Future 3-5Y Total Revenue Growth Rate	3.08

Momentum Rank

9/10

	Name	Current	Vs Industry		Vs History
	5-Day RSI	43.88
	9-Day RSI	36.93
	14-Day RSI	34.98
	6-1 Month Momentum %	19.65
	12-1 Month Momentum %	27.88

Liquidity Ratio

	Name	Current	Vs Industry		Vs History
	Current Ratio	1.1
	Quick Ratio	1.03
	Cash Ratio	0.22
	Days Inventory	38.76
	Days Sales Outstanding	55.48
	Days Payable	134.71

Dividend & Buy Back

	Name	Current	Vs Industry		Vs History
	3-Year Dividend Growth Rate	21.2
	3-Year Average Share Buyback Ratio	-1.4
	Shareholder Yield %	-0.18

Profitability Rank

6/10

	Name	Current	Vs Industry		Vs History
	Gross Margin %	73.21
	Operating Margin %	6.23
	Net Margin %	3.83
	FCF Margin %	3.76
	ROE %	6.07
	ROA %	2.43
	ROIC %	3.83
	ROC (Joel Greenblatt) %	11.61
	ROCE %	6.19
	Years of Profitability over Past 10-Year	8

GF Value Rank

5/10

	Name	Current	Vs Industry		Vs History
	PE Ratio	8.21
	PE Ratio without NRI	7.98
	Shiller PE Ratio	13.68
	Price-to-Owner-Earnings	25.57
	PEG Ratio	1.27
	PS Ratio	0.32
	PB Ratio	0.5
	Price-to-Tangible-Book	0.59
	Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow	8.36
	Price-to-Operating-Cash-Flow	1.78
	EV-to-EBIT	9.03
	EV-to-Forward-EBIT	9.57
	EV-to-EBITDA	3.44
	EV-to-Forward-EBITDA	3.03
	EV-to-Revenue	0.64
	EV-to-Forward-Revenue	0.62
	EV-to-FCF	13.97
	Price-to-Projected-FCF	0.46
	Price-to-Median-PS-Value	1
	Price-to-Peter-Lynch-Fair-Value	0.56
	Price-to-Graham-Number	0.47
	Earnings Yield (Greenblatt) %	11.07
	FCF Yield %	12.24
	Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %	20.72

GF Value: $12.47

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