Korn Ferry (KFY)

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Korn Ferry's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Korn Ferry's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.6 billion in fiscal 2017 to $2.9 billion in fiscal 2026, up 6.8% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 8% from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-04-30, Korn Ferry's diluted share count grew about 0.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 47% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 8 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-04-30, Korn Ferry earned about 14 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 51 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.5% over the year (the filed statements).

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Korn Ferry's standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.9 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 40% by size; a net margin of 9.4% ranks in the top 36%; revenue growth of 0.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 22% (its annual reports).

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Korn Ferry's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Burnison, Gary D (CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2007-07-03, 19.4 years (top 3% of its family); the 13 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.1 years (bottom 33%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 13 people in charge now (top 33%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Korn Ferry's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $1.1 billion against debt of $399 million leaves 17.1% of its assets as net cash, top 28% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 11% of revenue (top 44%) (its annual report).

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Korn Ferry's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 0.9% a year over the last three filed years against 6.8% over all 10, slowing (bottom 16% of its family); the newest year grew 6.4% (bottom 43%); capital spending grew 8.5% a year (top 29%) (its annual reports). Korn Ferry reported 7 product lines in fiscal 2026: Industrial at $911 million (31%), Financial Service at $547 million (19%), Life Sciences and Healthcare at $486 million (17%), and 4 more; 6 of 7 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Korn Ferry's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.9 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 8.4% above the $2.7 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 29% of its family); net income of $277 million against a prior three-year average of $208 million (top 43%); a net margin of 9.4% against 7.4% before (top 40%) (its annual reports).