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KT Corp. (KT)

NYSE: KT · Telephone Communications (No Radiotelephone) · Korea M5, KR · filing with the SEC since 2002
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Grade5.0
◀ Past 5.5● Present 5.2▶ Future 4.6
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The grade of KT Corp.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.0/10
◀ Past5.525% of the headline
● Present5.235% of the headline
▶ Future4.640% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.5/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.6/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 22% of this tense · 76th percentile among 21 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

KT Corp.'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).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
5.7/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+1.7% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 57th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

KT Corp.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from KRW 22700 billion in fiscal 2015 to KRW 26380 billion in fiscal 2024, up 1.7% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 3% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span1.7%bottom 34% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 45% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 18% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak3.2%top 34% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
3.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.4% a year. 16% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 37th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2024-12-31, KT Corp.'s diluted share count grew about 1.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 16% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 28% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 47% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.2/1035% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
6.2/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 2%: 2¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 57%: owes 57¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 20 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2024-12-31, KT Corp. earned about 2 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 57 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.4% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 42% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 36% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 8% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.2/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 42% of 19 in its family; net margin 1.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

KT Corp.'s standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of KRW 26380 billion in fiscal 2024 is not ranked by size, since the family reports in another currency; a net margin of 1.5% ranks in the bottom 45%; revenue growth of 1.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 39% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • net margin1.5%bottom 45% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth1.9%bottom 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
4.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 4.5/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 13 members with one.
What the record cannot read
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read.
How it was reasoned
family median, 13 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: KT Corp.'s leadership is put at 4.5 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because it files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 13 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.6/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
6.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 38% of 19 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 19 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

KT Corp.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2024): cash of KRW 3717 billion against debt of KRW 10521 billion leaves -16.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 48% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 19.2% of revenue (top 24%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-16.2%bottom 48% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue19.2%top 24% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
5.5/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 45% of 19 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 55th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

KT Corp.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2024: revenue grew 1.9% a year over the last three filed years against 1.7% over all 10, speeding up (top 29% of its family); the newest year grew 0.4% (bottom 34%); research spending grew 2% a year (top 42%) (its annual reports). KT Corp. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.3 points a yeartop 29% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth0.4%bottom 34% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending2.0%top 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
2.5/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 25% of 17 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 25th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

KT Corp.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of KRW 26380 billion in fiscal 2024 came in 2.3% below the KRW 27011 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 38% of its family); net income of KRW 407 billion against a prior three-year average of KRW 1272 billion (bottom 21%); a net margin of 1.5% against 5% before (bottom 15%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-2.3%bottom 38% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-68%bottom 21% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-3.4 pointsbottom 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton KT · research, not advice