KT (KT)

• Market cap: $11.6B
• 1 day: -0.71%
• 5 days: -1.86%
• 1 month: 15.2%
• 3 months: 29.63%
• 6 months: 17.88%
• Year to date: 25%
• 1 year: 38.29%
• 5 years: 107.5%
• 10 years: 99.5%
• Sector: Communication Services
• Industry: Telecom Services

About: KT is South Korea's largest fixed-line telecom operator, with around 11.5 million fixed-line broadband customers and 9.5 million IPTV customers, and is the second-largest wireless operator with 28 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: 16,927