KT (KT)

• Market cap: $8.75B
• 1 day: 0.72%
• 5 days: 0.61%
• 1 month: -1.79%
• 3 months: -10.46%
• 6 months: -6.01%
• Year to date: 16.2%
• 1 year: 18.4%
• 5 years: 70.74%
• 10 years: 47.2%
• Sector: Communication Services
• Industry: Telecom Services

About: KT is South Korea's largest fixed-line telecom operator, with around 11.5 million fixed-line broadband customers and 9.5 million IPTV customers, and is the second-largest wireless operator with 28 million subscribers. Additionally, it has a number of nontelecom businesses, including real estate, payment processing, artificial intelligence, and IDC/cloud services, many of which are the focus of its growth strategy. The company was formed from the previously government-owned, monopoly telecom business and was listed in 1998. After selling its mobile business in 1994 (forming its mobile competitor, SK Telecom) KT created its own mobile operator in 1997.

Employees: 16,927