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Korn Ferry KFY

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
5 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$2.9B
▲ 6.4% YoY
$277.4M
▲ 12.7% YoY
$324.3M
▲ 7.4% YoY

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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
2B3B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+0.9%
+10.1%
+8.1%
+9.3%
+9.8%
+19.4%
+24.5%
+10.9%
+9.7%
+20.1%
+24.6%
+9.9%
+49.1%
+37.8%
+17.4%
+19.7%
+33.0%
+26.0%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +10.1% a year over the five years to FY2025 — 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%
5%10%15%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 14.5%
10%20%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.

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
200M400M
200820162025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 104.6 · Net buybacks 115.7
100M200MDividendsNet buybacks
2008201120142017202020232025

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—not applicable◌not available in our data
KFY, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B2.92.82.82.92.61.82.02.01.81.61.31.11.00.80.80.80.60.7
Operating income $B0.40.30.20.30.50.20.20.10.20.10.10.10.10.00.10.1−0.00.0
EBITDA $B0.50.40.30.40.50.20.20.20.30.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.0
Income tax $B0.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.00.10.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.0
Net income $B0.30.20.20.20.30.10.10.10.10.10.00.10.10.00.10.10.0−0.0
Free cash flow $B0.30.30.20.30.50.20.20.20.20.10.00.10.10.00.10.1−0.0−0.0
EPS, diluted $5.224.603.233.955.982.091.901.812.351.470.581.761.480.701.151.270.12−0.23
Dividend / sh $1.991.591.020.600.480.400.400.400.400.400.400.10◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout %3834321682022231728716———1——
ROE %14.513.710.013.122.48.88.58.411.67.93.311.310.25.19.011.01.1◌
Shares out B0.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.060.060.060.060.050.050.050.050.050.05◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 70 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. Four checks were skipped: cost of revenue is not tagged before 2011. One check was skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityServices-Employment Agencies
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsApril 30
Data on record since2008

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