Investors Are Waking Up To KT Corporation ADR (NYSE: KT) After Rising 19.43% Over The Past 12 Months

KT Corporation ADR (NYSE:KT) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.78M but it saw 1293376 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 8.46B USD, the company’s current market price of $17.21 came falling about -2.66 while comparing to the previous closing price of $17.68. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $18.45 and as low as $12.10.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of KT Corporation ADR (KT) gives us an average price of $17.22, while its current price level is -6.72% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 42.23% 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 $16.71 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $15.20. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.71% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases 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 51.16 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, KT’s stock price is moving -1.94% down while it is -2.82% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 10.89% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 19.43%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in March, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 3.01. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $7.07T as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $27.77T and seeing the company making $27.62T in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $7.02T for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, KT Corporation ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 491.65M with 0.06% of that held by the insiders while 21.91% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 1.94% and return on equity (ROE) at 2.53%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 23.54 while having a 7.97 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.94. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.64 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.44. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.99% on average.