KT Corporation ADR (KT): Investing In A Time Of Crisis

KT Corporation ADR (NYSE:KT) currently has a daily average trading volume of 823.07K but it saw 2575544 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 8.03B USD, the company’s current market price of $16.34 came rising about 2.13 while comparing to the previous closing price of $16.00. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $16.24 and as low as $12.10. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $16.08 while lowest mark touched by it was $16.39.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of KT Corporation ADR (KT) gives us an average price of $15.63, while its current price level is 0.62% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 35.04% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $15.48 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $14.21. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.15% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.82%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 62.22 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, KT’s stock price is moving 7.15% up while it is 5.08% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 21.58% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 26.76%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in December, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 2.23. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $6.68T as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $26.64T and seeing the company making $27.52T in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $6.67T for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, KT Corporation ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 492.83M with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 16.22% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 4.87% and return on equity (ROE) at 6.80%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 9.22 while having a 7.39 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.89. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.61 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.41. Its return on asset (ROA) is 2.67% on average.