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KT Corporation KT

10 fiscal years on record · KRW · FY2024 reported
SEC FILINGS ONLY
Revenue · FY2024
KRW 26.4T
▲ 0.4% vs FY2023
EPS · FY24
KRW 1868.00
Dividend / sh · FY24
KRW 1960.00
Payout · FY24
190%
ROE · FY24
2.8%
Net margin · FY24
1.7%
Dividend coverage
1.0×
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Result
KRW 26.38T
Revenue, FY2024 · full 10-year series below
Revenue Net income
800016000240003200026379.6459.92015201820212024
800016000240003200026379.6459.92015201820212024

2 cents of every revenue dollar became profit this year.

Per share
KRW 1868.00
Diluted EPS, FY2024
EPS Dividend
2000400060001960.001868.002015201820212024
2000400060001960.001868.002015201820212024

Earnings covered only a fraction of the dividend — the rest came from cash or borrowing.

Profitability
2.8%
Return on equity, FY2024
ROE
2.557.5102.8%2015201820212024
2.557.5102.8%2015201820212024
Operating margin2.4%
Net margin1.7%
Return on assets1.1%

Each KRW of equity produced 3 cents of profit this year.

Returned to shareholders
KRW 899.5B
returned in FY2024 · dividends + net buybacks
Dividends paidKRW 872.4B
Net buybacksKRW 27.1B
Share of profit195.6%
Consecutive raises—

KRW 872.4B in dividends and KRW 27.1B in buybacks — 196% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Growth
+1.2% a year
revenue, compounded over five years
CAGR
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue
+1.9%
+1.2%
Net income
−30.3%
−6.6%
EPS, diluted
−31.2%
−6.6%
Dividend / share
+13.2%
+12.2%
Returned to shareholders
+18.3%
+24.1%

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where the series crosses a loss.

Share base
—
Shares outstanding, FY2024
Change, 5 years—
Change, 10 years—

A share split breaks the comparison across the period, so we leave it out.

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Balance sheet
KRW 42.00T
total assets, end of FY2024
Total assetsKRW 42.00T
EquityKRW 16.18T
CashKRW 3.72T
Gross debtKRW 10.52T
Net debtKRW 6.80T
DepositsKRW 833.5B

Net debt stands at 42% of equity.

History
10 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · KRW
Metric
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Revenue KRW B
26379.6
26287.2
25638.9
24898.0
24099.4
24899.2
23436.0
23546.9
23164.2
22699.9
Operating income KRW B
640.1
1428.4
1968.2
1699.4
1022.3
1027.0
1100.9
1069.1
1383.1
1077.1
EBITDA KRW B
4517.8
5238.6
5624.0
5307.0
4656.6
4656.5
4382.6
4433.6
4728.4
4415.7
Income tax KRW B
164.8
330.4
505.8
519.0
285.3
320.1
314.6
270.7
334.9
227.1
Net income KRW B
459.9
993.3
1260.5
1356.9
700.9
645.7
645.6
461.6
745.1
546.4
EPS, diluted KRW
1868.00
3977.00
5196.00
5747.00
2858.00
2632.00
2634.00
1883.00
3041.00
2231.00
Dividend / sh KRW
1960.00
1960.00
1910.00
1350.00
1100.00
1100.00
1000.00
800.00
500.00
·
Payout %
190
53
38
26
44
47
46
53
25
8
ROE %
2.8
6.0
8.0
9.4
5.1
4.8
5.2
4.0
6.6
5.0
Shares out B
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Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks figures not disclosed in the filing for that year.

How we verifyAUDITED
26 of 28
checks passed before publication
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidity

Every figure was compared against the original statement: 2 failures and 0 presentation gaps.

What we don’t show

We’d rather say what’s missing than fill the gap with an estimate.

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