How to buy Korn Ferry stock (KFY)

Korn Ferry is a staffing & employment services business based in the US. Korn Ferry shares (KFY) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $66.56 – a decrease of 5.06% over the previous week. Korn Ferry employs 9,076 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.7 billion.

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Korn Ferry stock price (NYSE: KFY)

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Korn Ferry shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2024-12-18.

Latest market close	$66.56
52-week range	$53.92 - $80.64
50-day moving average more info button	$73.73
200-day moving average more info button	$68.78
Wall St. target price	$81.50
PE ratio more info button	14.3383
Dividend yield more info button	$0 (1.78%)
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$4.67

Is it a good time to buy Korn Ferry stock?

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Korn Ferry price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $66.6 from 2024-12-19

1 week (2024-12-13)	-5.01%
1 month (2024-11-21)	-13.48%
3 months (2024-09-20)	-10.97%
6 months (2024-06-21)	-2.45%

1 year (2023-12-21)	13.52%
2 years (2022-12-21)	32.99%
3 years (2021-12-21)	71.1546
5 years (2019-12-20)	66.84%

Is Korn Ferry stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Korn Ferry stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Korn Ferry's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Korn Ferry's P/E ratio

Korn Ferry's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 14x. In other words, Korn Ferry shares trade at around 14x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Korn Ferry's PEG ratio

Korn Ferry's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.36. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Korn Ferry's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Korn Ferry's EBITDA

Korn Ferry's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $330 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Korn Ferry's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Korn Ferry financials

Revenue TTM	$2.7 billion
Operating margin TTM	10.66%
Gross profit TTM	$686.7 million
Return on assets TTM	5.32%
Return on equity TTM	10.99%
Profit margin	6.76%
Book value	$33.34
Market Capitalization more info button	$3.5 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Korn Ferry share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 29.66% of net profits

Recently Korn Ferry has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Korn Ferry shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Korn Ferry's case, that would currently equate to about $0 per share.

While Korn Ferry's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Korn Ferry may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Korn Ferry's most recent dividend payout was on 14 January 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 18 September 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").

Korn Ferry share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Korn Ferry's shares have ranged in value from as little as $53.9173 up to $80.64. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Korn Ferry's is 1.558. This would suggest that Korn Ferry's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Korn Ferry overview

Korn Ferry, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of organizational consulting services worldwide. The company offers consulting services for organizational structure, culture, performance, development, and people; and builds, sells, and delivers Digital talent technology products, including a talent suite that enables clients to make critical talent decisions in the flow of work across talent acquisition and talent development. It also provides executive search services that helps organizations to recruit board level, chief executive, and other C-suite/senior executive, as well as general management talent; enterprise talent acquisition solutions for permanent and interim placements at the professional level middle and upper management, as well as senior executives; and recruitment outsourcing and projects solutions for clients' recruitment requirements. The company operates cloud human resources platforms comprising Korn Ferry Architect, for providing organization and talent planning architecture for an agile and future-focused workforce; Korn Ferry Assess, for empowering leaders to take actions that lead to business success; Korn Ferry Listen, for deploying engagement surveys and benchmark employee engagement; Korn Ferry Sell, for developing and replicating sales strategies; and Korn Ferry Pay, a self-service pay solution, that provides global data and insights needed in real-time to make decisions on employee compensation programs. It serves public and private companies, middle-market and emerging growth companies, and government and non-profit organizations, as well as consumer markets, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, industrial, technology, and specialties sectors. The company was formerly known as Korn/Ferry International and changed its name to Korn Ferry in January 2019. Korn Ferry was founded in 1969 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Korn Ferry is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 1.379% of Korn Ferry shares are held by insiders and 97.346% by institutions. How many people work for Korn Ferry?
Latest data suggests 9,076 work at Korn Ferry. When does the fiscal year end for Korn Ferry?
Korn Ferry's fiscal year ends in April. Where is Korn Ferry based?
Korn Ferry's address is: 1900 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90067 What is Korn Ferry's ISIN number?
Korn Ferry's international securities identification number is: US5006432000 What is Korn Ferry's CUSIP number?
Korn Ferry's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 500643200