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Korn Ferry KFY

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

5 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH

Revenue

$2.9B

▲ 6.4% YoY

Net income

$277.4M

▲ 12.7% YoY

Free cash flow

$324.3M

▲ 7.4% YoY

In brief

What this company does

Korn Ferry provides services spanning strategy and leadership to hiring, development, rewards, and workforce roles and skills. As of April 30, 2026, it had 98 offices in 51 countries. As of April 30, 2026, Korn Ferry employed 8,965 full-time professionals. It delivers services through five solution areas. Its Consulting solution area helps clients design and implement talent strategies, organizational structures, and workforce capabilities and rewards. Its Executive Search solution area recruits executives across global markets, drawing on decades of industry and sector specialization. Its RPO solution area provides high-volume, outsourced hiring solutions that deliver talent acquisition services for enterprise clients. Korn Ferry has studied how people and organizations perform for more than 50 years.

Written from the business description in KORN FERRY's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 June 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 2.9B

Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below

Revenue $B Net income $B

FY2025 · Revenue 2.9 · Net income 0.3

Compound annual growth

Revenue

+0.9%

+10.1%

+8.1%

+9.3%

Net income

+9.8%

+19.4%

+24.5%

+10.9%

EPS, diluted

+9.7%

+20.1%

+24.6%

+9.9%

Dividend / share

+49.1%

+37.8%

+17.4%

Returned to shareholders

+19.7%

+33.0%

+26.0%

+19.9%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +10.1% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +19.4%, earnings per share at +20.1%.

The share count fell from 0.05B to 0.05B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

10 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 12.8% · Net 9.6%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 14.5%

Gross margin—

Operating margin12.8%

Net margin9.6%

Return on assets7.1%

EBITDAUSD 473.6M

Each USD of equity produced 14 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 220.4M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $M

FY2025 · FCF 324.3

Net buybacks $M Dividends $M

FY2025 · Dividends 104.6 · Net buybacks 115.7

Dividends paidUSD 104.6M

Net buybacksUSD 115.7M

Share of profit79.4%

Consecutive raises5 years

USD 104.6M in dividends and USD 115.7M in buybacks — 79% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 4.1B

EquityUSD 2.0B

CashUSD 1.1B

Gross debtUSD 398.6M

Net debtUSD -696.9M

Current ratio1.94×

The company holds more cash than debt.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years

Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

row low → row highnegative

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008
Revenue $B	2.9	2.8	2.8	2.9	2.6	1.8	2.0	2.0	1.8	1.6	1.3	1.1	1.0	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.7
Operating income $B	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	−0.0	0.0
EBITDA $B	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
Income tax $B	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	−0.0	0.0
Net income $B	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	−0.0
Free cash flow $B	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	−0.0	−0.0
EPS, diluted $	5.22	4.60	3.23	3.95	5.98	2.09	1.90	1.81	2.35	1.47	0.58	1.76	1.48	0.70	1.15	1.27	0.12	−0.23
Dividend / sh $	1.99	1.59	1.02	0.60	0.48	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.10	·	·	·	·	·	·
Payout %	38	34	32	16	8	20	22	23	17	28	71	6	·	·	·	1	·	·
ROE %	14.5	13.7	10.0	13.1	22.4	8.8	8.5	8.4	11.6	7.9	3.3	11.3	10.2	5.1	9.0	11.0	1.1	·
Shares out B	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 70 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 18 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityServices-Employment Agencies

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated inDelaware

Fiscal year endsApril 30

Data on record since2008