The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

KFY

Concerning the House

Korn Ferry, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of organizational consulting services worldwide. The company offers consulting services for talent strategies, organizational structures, and workforce capabilities; and develops, integrate, and commercializes with Korn Ferry Talent suite, as well as enabling technology across Korn Ferry's other solution areas. 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, consumer markets, government and public services, financial services, healthcare, education, 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.

United States · www.kornferry.com

The Long Run

FY 2011–2025 · 15 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$2.76B+10.3%
Operating income$316.34M+26.0%
Net income$209.53M+30.0%
Cash from ops$364.36M+53.9%
Quotation

$84.83

+1.53 (+1.8%)

52w hi$84.83
52w lo$58.56
Vol167.35K
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score +0.33

Short+0.28
Medium+0.37
Long+0.38

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

Korn Ferry

Industrials · Staffing & Employment Services

Market cap$4.36B
Enterprise value$3.72B
Trailing P/E16.25x
Forward P/E13.42x
EV / EBITDA9.03x
P / S (ttm)1.50x
Profit margin9.5%
Return on equity14.6%
Revenue growth+6.7%
Earnings growth+15.0%
Debt / equity30.13
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.71
Corr SPX0.40
Annual vol28.9%
Annual ret+15.1%
Sharpe0.52
Max DD-25.1%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.30
Sector+0.07
Technical+0.24
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$84.13$84.85$82.89$84.83167.35K
Aug 12$81.99$83.31$81.39$83.30314.60K
Aug 11$83.75$84.07$82.59$82.75261.10K
Aug 10$84.07$84.52$83.32$83.64272.80K
Aug 7$83.12$84.71$81.86$84.07423.60K