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KT 5.5Price and target zones价格与目标区间
Near the buy zone接近买入区间
What the company does公司做什么
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Investment thesis投资逻辑 from the watchlist来自关注列表
👀 ANALYZED 8/11 — first file ever. Entry $16.50-18.00, ~3% below spot, and the Q2 print may deliver it within days.
What's working
- Dividend covered — FY25 dividends KRW 578bn on FCF KRW 901bn = 64% FCF payout, 7.4% FCF yield; survives a 25% FCF cut with the buyback absorbing the bad year
- The only telecom exposure in either portfolio and a real diversifier against a software/semi-heavy book; sits in the same capital role as VICI and should be sized against it, not stacked on it. FV $18-24 (central $21). Trim 9x fwd.
Red flags
- But the payout is FORMULAIC, not progressive — 50% of net income means the dividend falls with earnings, and only the 2026 KRW 2,400 floor is committed
- DYT says fair-to-expensive, not cheap: 4.48% current vs a 5.30% 5yr average — the yield is BELOW its own band, and forward 4.7% still is. P/B has already run 0.56x → 0.73x. Per [[pitfall-dyt-inverts-when-price-caused-the-yield]], price did most of the work. You are not early.
- Foreign ownership sits at the 49% statutory cap — no headroom for incremental foreign buying.
- Own breach worse than SKT's — cloned femtocell certs, 11 months undetected, KRW 54bn fine 7/30, ~230,000 subscribers lost
- New CEO Park Yoon-young; state-linked appointment risk is structural (2023 precedent)
- AICT is slideware AND decelerating — Q1'26 B2B −2.2%, KT Cloud net profit −80%; value the MSFT partnership at zero. ⚖️ Graham $35.95 vs DYT saying fair — a real conflict, resolved for DYT: book value is depreciating network gear replaced from the same cash that pays the dividend. Graham is the floor (~$16-18), not a target
Watch
- Sleeve placement is a judgment call, stated openly: the 4.48% cash yield FAILS this sleeve's ≥5% test (the same test that put FIS in Re-Rating at 4.11%). It sits here anyway because total shareholder-return yield is ~6.6% — a board-committed 50% of adjusted standalone net income for FY2026-28, minimum DPS KRW 2,400, plus a KRW 250bn buyback cancelling 9/09 and KRW 1tn of treasury cancelled by 2028 — and because the coupon, not multiple expansion, is where the return comes from. The job is cash generation now; that is the definition being met. Korean telecom ADR, 1 ADR = 0.5 common, KRW reporting, 0.73x book, beta 0.09, ROE target 9-10% by 2028. Korea's reform is the real backdrop — fiduciary duty amended to run to all shareholders, mandatory treasury cancellation, dividend tax cut to 14-30% from 45% for >40% payers (KT's 50% qualifies). 🔍 Neither base year is clean and this is the trap: 2024 was depressed by a ~KRW 1tn labour restructuring charge; 2025 was inflated by ~KRW 500bn of non-repeating Gangbuk HQ property OP. Normalised core OP ~KRW 1.9-2.0tn vs the reported 2.47tn → normalised P/E ~9.8x. Q1'26 OP already −29.9%; Q2 consensus ~−40%. The comp is ugly and the business is not; that gap is the entry.
- Vendor EV (9.75T), P/S (0.00) and EV/EBITDA (1.58) mix KRW with USD — unusable.
👀 8/11 已分析 — 史上第一份文件。 买入区间 $16.50-18.00,比现价低约 3%,而 Q2 财报可能在几天内就把它送到那里。 ⚠️ 板块归属是一个判断,这里公开说明:4.48% 的现金股息率不满足本板块 ≥5% 的检验标准(同一个标准把 4.11% 的 FIS 放进了「重估值板块」)。 它仍然放在这里,是因为股东总回报率约为 6.6% — 董事会已批准在 FY2026-28 期间返还调整后母公司净利润的 50%,包含每股最低股息 KRW 2,400、一笔在 9/09 完成并注销的 KRW 250bn 回购,以及到 2028 年注销 KRW 1tn 库存股 — 也因为回报来自票息本身,而不是估值扩张。 这个板块的任务是「现在就产生现金」,而它满足的正是这个定义。 韩国电信 ADR,1 份 ADR = 0.5 股普通股,以韩元报表,0.73x 市净率,贝塔 0.09,2028 年 ROE 目标 9-10%。 韩国的治理改革是真实的背景 — 商法修订后董事的忠实义务及于全体股东,库存股强制注销,派息率 >40% 的公司股息税从 45% 降到 14-30%(KT 的 50% 政策符合条件)。 🔍 两个基准年都不干净,这就是陷阱:2024 年被约 KRW 1tn 的劳动重组费用压低;2025 年被约 KRW 500bn 一次性的江北总部房地产营业利润抬高。 正常化后的核心营业利润约为 KRW 1.9-2.0tn,而不是账面的 2.47tn → 正常化市盈率约 9.8x。 2026 年 Q1 营业利润已经 −29.9%;Q2 市场预期约 −40%。 难看的是同比基数,不是这门生意;这个落差就是买点。 ✅ 股息有覆盖 — FY25 股息 KRW 578bn,自由现金流 KRW 901bn,即派息占自由现金流 64%,自由现金流收益率 7.4%;就算自由现金流砍掉 25% 也扛得住,由回购来吸收这个坏年份。 🚩 但派息政策是公式化的,不是递进式的 — 「净利润的 50%」意味着盈利下滑股息就下滑,而且只有 2026 年的 KRW 2,400 下限是被承诺的。 🚩 股息率理论(DYT)说的是「合理偏贵」,不是便宜:当前 4.48%,而五年均值是 5.30% — 股息率低于它自己的历史区间,前瞻的 4.7% 同样如此。 市净率已经从 0.56x 走到了 0.73x。 按照 [[pitfall-dyt-inverts-when-price-caused-the-yield]],主要是价格在起作用。 你不算早。 🚩 外资持股已经顶到 49% 的法定上限 — 增量外资几乎没有空间。 🚩 KT 自己的数据泄露比 SKT 更严重 — 毫微微蜂窝基站证书被克隆,11 个月未被发现,7/30 被罚 KRW 54bn,流失约 230,000 名用户。 🚩 新任 CEO 朴润荣(Park Yoon-young)3 月上任;带有国家背景的任命风险是结构性的(2023 年有先例)。 🚩 AICT 只是幻灯片,而且还在减速 — 2026 年 Q1 的 B2B −2.2%,KT Cloud 净利润 −80%;微软合作的价值按零计算。 ⚖️ 格雷厄姆给 $35.95,而 DYT 说「合理」— 这是真实的矛盾,判给 DYT:这里的账面价值是会折旧的网络设备,必须用支付股息的同一笔现金去替换。 格雷厄姆给出的是底部(约 $16-18),不是目标价。 ❌ 供应商数据里的 EV(9.75T)、P/S(0.00)和 EV/EBITDA(1.58)把韩元和美元混在一起 — 不可用。 ✅ 这是两个投资组合里唯一的电信敞口,对一个软件/半导体权重很高的组合是真正的分散;它与 VICI 扮演同一种资金角色,应该与 VICI 互相权衡规模,而不是叠加上去。 合理价值 $18-24(中枢 $21)。 **减持 9x 前瞻市盈率。 **
Competitive advantages竞争优势 from the thesis and the reports来自投资逻辑和报告
- The moat is efficient scale plus regulatory barrier , and it is durable — nobody is building a fourth Korean mobile network.
- It is also a moat that caps returns rather than compounding them .