KT (KT)

• Market cap: $7.94B
• 1 day: 0.56%
• 5 days: -1.04%
• 1 month: -4.83%
• 3 months: 2.93%
• 6 months: 19.56%
• Year to date: 22.55%
• 1 year: 16.70%
• 5 years: 39.38%
• 10 years: 11.31%

About: KT is South Korea's largest fixed-line telecom operator, with around 11.7 million fixed-line broadband customers and 9.4 million IPTV customers, and is the second-largest wireless operator with 25 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: 19,737

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

131% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 30 | Existing positions closed: 13

71% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 84 | Existing positions reduced: 49

10% more funds holding

Funds holding: 171 [Q2] → 188 (+17) [Q3]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 1 [Q2] → 1 (+0) [Q3]

0% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $1.12B [Q2] → $1.11B (-$5.27M) [Q3]

2.45% less ownership

Funds ownership: 31.82% [Q2] → 29.37% (-2.45%) [Q3]

66% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $178K | Put options by funds: $517K