Industrials / Staffing & Employment ServicesUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Market cap

3.5B

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Market data

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Current market quote for this ticker.

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E12.1

P25 14.6P50 20.6P75 30.4

Trailing P/E13.5

P25 17.1P50 27.2P75 47.6

ROE14.3

P25 -16.4P50 5.9P75 16.4

ROIC15.8

P25 -10.3P50 5.1P75 12.2

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Indicator catalog

All KFY market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

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USD

Showing 276 of 276 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000056679
Company name	Korn Ferry
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	500643200
Employees	9,253
Employees Change	177%
Employees Change Percent	1.95
Enterprise value	$3.1B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Staffing & Employment Services
IPO Date	1999-02-11
Isin	US5006432000
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$3.5B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$67.78
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	309,061.39x
Sector	Industrials
Sic	7361
Symbol	KFY
Website	https://www.kornferry.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	7.54%
EV Earnings	11.69x
EV Sales Forward	1.04x
EV/EBIT	8.55x
EV/EBITDA	7.39x
EV/FCF	10.77x
EV/Sales	1.08x
FCF yield	8.19%
Forward P/E	12.1x
P/B ratio	1.74x
P/E ratio	13.45x
P/S ratio	1.23x
PE Ratio10 Y	27.01x
PE Ratio3 Y	16.44x
PE Ratio5 Y	15.88x
PS Forward	1.18x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	12.68%
EBITDA Margin	14.67%
FCF margin	10.07%
Gross margin	24.8%
Gross Profit	$709.1M
Gross Profit Growth	9.82%
Gross Profit Growth Q	9.36%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	-1.8%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	11.25%
Net Income	$265.3M
Net Income Growth	8.72%
Net Income Growth Q	11.73%
Net Income Growth Quarters	3%
Net Income Growth Years	1%
Net Income Growth3 Y	2.25%
Net Income Growth5 Y	41.78%
Pretax Margin	13.1%
Profit Margin	9.39%
Profit Per Employee	$28,673
Profitable Years	16
ROA	5.96
Roa5y	5.89
ROCE	11.85
ROE	14.3
Roe5y	13.8
ROIC	15.84
Roic5y	19.68

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	11.04%
Cagr15y	9.76%
Cagr1y	8.39%
Cagr20y	6.79%
Cagr3y	15.27%
Cagr5y	1.93%
Div CAGR10	17.4%
Div CAGR3	49.13%
Div CAGR5	37.83%
EPS Growth	8.71
EPS Growth Q	11.68
EPS Growth Quarters	3
EPS Growth Years	1
EPS Growth3 Y	1.97
EPS Growth5 Y	42.25
FCF Growth	-8.98%
FCF Growth Q	7.83%
FCF Growth3 Y	-1.59%
FCF Growth5 Y	7.24%
OCF Growth	0.79%
OCF Growth Q	9.23%
OCF Growth10 Y	17.92%
OCF Growth3 Y	0.03%
OCF Growth5 Y	9.84%
Revenue Growth	5.57x
Revenue Growth Q	7.28x
Revenue Growth Quarters	4x
Revenue Growth Years	0x
Revenue Growth3 Y	0.4x
Revenue Growth5 Y	11.02x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.75
Assets	$3.9B
Cash	$962.2M
Current Assets	$1.8B
Current Liabilities	$889.6M
Debt	$564.5M
Debt EBITDA	$1.19
Debt Equity	$0.28
Debt FCF	$1.96
Equity	$2B
Interest Coverage	90.72
Liabilities	$1.9B
Long Term Assets	$2.2B
Long Term Liabilities	$1.1B
Net Cash	$415.9M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$11.83
Net Cash Growth	65.43%
Net Debt EBITDA	$-0.99
Net Debt Equity	$-0.21
Net Debt FCF	$-1.44
Tangible Book Value	$998.4M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$19.4
WACC	9.53

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	2.01
Net Working Capital	$-33.4M
Quick ratio	1.86
Working Capital	$898.9M
Working Capital Turnover	$3.49

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-0.28%
Dividend Growth	25.16%
Dividend Growth Years	5%
Dividend per share	$1.92
Dividend Years	12
Dividend Yield	2.83%
Ex Div Date	2026-03-27
Last Dividend	$0.55
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	39.5%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	184.98%
1Y total return	8.38%
200-day SMA	67.46
3Y total return	53.19%
50-day SMA	63.95
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	10.01%
All Time High	84.68
All Time High Change	-19.96%
All Time High Date	2021-11-08
All Time Low	5.59
All Time Low Change	1,112.52%
All Time Low Date	2003-02-13
ATR	1.81
Beta	1.22
Beta1y	0.75
Beta2y	0.92
Ch YTD	2.67
High	68.03
High52	78.5
High52 Date	2025-09-09
High52ch	-13.65%
Low	66.14
Low52	58.95
Low52 Date	2026-02-24
Low52ch	14.98%
Ma50ch	5.99%
Price vs 200-day SMA	0.48%
RSI	62.15
RSI Monthly	51.92
RSI Weekly	54.72
Sharpe ratio	0.29x
Sortino ratio	0.62
Total Return	2.55%
Tr YTD	3.56
Tr15y	304.15%
Tr1m	7.06%
Tr1w	1.89%
Tr3m	0.38%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	3
Analyst Count Top	1
Analyst Price Target Top	$75
Analyst Ratings	Strong Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$1.38
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	4.55
Earnings Revenue Estimate	741,562,888x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	3.01x
Operating Income	$362.6M
Operating Income Growth	15.34
Operating Income Growth Q	11.49
Operating Income Growth3 Y	-5.79
Operating Income Growth5 Y	18.61
Operating margin	12.68
Price target	$73
Price Target Change	$7.7
Price Target Change Top	$10.65

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	51,349,907%
Float Percent	98.96%
Net Borrowing	-5,798,000
Shares Insiders	0.99%
Shares Institutions	96.22%
Shares Out	51,887,087
Shares Qo Q	-0.19%
Shares Yo Y	0.28%
Short Float	3.02%
Short Ratio	2.43
Short Shares	2.99

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$237.8M
Average Volume	407,329x
Bv Per Share	38.91
CAPEX	$-85.4M
Ch10y	146.5
Ch15y	244.2
Ch1m	7.06
Ch1w	1.89
Ch1y	5.3
Ch20y	216.9
Ch3m	-0.48
Ch3y	42.82
Ch5y	0.68
Ch6m	5.09
Change	0.95%
Change From Open	1.73
Close	67.14
Days Gap	-0.76
Depreciation Amortization	56,784,000
Dollar Volume	21,395,705.9
Earnings Date	2026-06-17
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$362.6M
EBITDA	$419.4M
EPS	$5.04
F Score	7
FCF	$287.9M
FCF EV Yield	9.29x
FCF Per Share	$5.55
Financing CF	-175,255,000
Fiscal Year End	April
Founded	1,969
Goodwill	951,962,000
Graham Number	66.41067
Graham Upside	-2.02
Income Tax	$102.4M
Investing CF	-86,488,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-03-09
Last Report Date	2026-01-31
Last Split Type	Never
Last10k Filing Date	2025-06-27
Lynch Fair Value	$126
Lynch Upside	85.81
Ma150	65.77
Ma150ch	3.05%
Ma20	66.04
Ma20ch	2.63%
Net CF	159,067,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-06-17
Open	66.63
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	12.21
P OCF Ratio	9.42
Payment Date	2026-04-15
Position In Range	86.77
Ppne	323,656,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$8.39
Ptbv Ratio	3.52
Relative Volume	0.77x
Revenue	2,859,745,000x
SBC By Revenue	1.75x
Share Based Comp	50,185,000
Tax By Revenue	3.58x
Tax Rate	27.33%
Tr20y	272.03%
Tr6m	6.74%
Us State	California
Volume	315,664
Z Score	3.01

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Income

KFY dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+2.8%

$1.92 annual per share

Payout ratio

+39.5%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+37.8%

5 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+2.6%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-03-27

Performance

KFY stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns KFY?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+96.2%

Float: +99.0% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+1.0%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

KFY momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

62.1

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+0.5%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

1.22

More volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

0.29

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

KFY vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
BA	The Boeing Company	187.1B	95.1x	2.0x	-13.6%	+10.3%	+27.9%	卖出
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	413.4B	44.7x	5.8x	16.5%	+10.5%	+183.2%	卖出
DE	Deere & Company	155.3B	32.4x	3.3x	6.0%	+4.8%	+23.3%	卖出

Questions

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