Is the business good?
How good a business is KT?
KT Corporation earns 2.3% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
2.3%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 6.7 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 2.4%
Operating margin · Telecom Services median 11% · fiscal year to FY2024
- Share count, year on year
- −1.4%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2019 | 4.1% |
| FY2020 | 4.2% |
| FY2021 | 6.8% |
| FY2022 | 7.7% |
| FY2023 | 5.4% |
| FY2024 | 2.4% |
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- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2024
- 2.4%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2024
- 1.7%
- Free cash flow margin
- 8.2%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $26.38T
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $2.16T
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $459.9B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 2.3%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.