With 1.44 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.85 million shares. During the session, the Telecom Services company that operates in wider Communication Services sector, reached to the highest price of $17.03 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $16.73. The 52-week range on KT shows that it touched its highest point at $18.45 and its lowest point at $12.10 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $20.37. With its current market cap of 8.37 billion, KT has annualized dividend of $0.36 while the current yield stands at 2.12%. KT paid its most recent dividend on 1135728000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1727654400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.95.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of KT was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.18%, but this was up by 8.68% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 8.06% while six-month performance rose 27.76%. The stock gained 20.87% in the past year, while it has gained 9.73% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for KT yields 1.75 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.28. EPS is expected to grow by 14.15% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 3.60%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 491.65 million KT shares are outstanding with a float of 491.57 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 4.82 million, which was 98.0 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Kook-Hyun Kang as the firm’s President of Customer Business Group, Byung-Sam Park serves as its Senior Executive Vice President of Ethics Office.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.18346001 of KT’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, KT reported revenue of $6654615000000.0 and operating income of $473341000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1550486000000.0 and diluted EPS was $725.5.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for KT since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With KT analysts setting a high price target of 24.0 and a low target of 19.2, the average target price over the next 12 months is 21.57949. Based on these targets, KT could surge 40.93% to reach the target high and rise by 12.74% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 26.71% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1094.41533 being high and $1004.7183 being low. For KT, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1052.70098. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.
