Inside the research

Korn Ferry

KFY Research profile · latest available data

Price overview

$71.73

▼ -0.27 (-0.4%)

52w hi$85.66
52w lo$58.14
Vol591.70K
As of25 Sep 2026

The Verdict

Hold

Our score +0.20

Short+0.24
Medium+0.18
Long+0.17

computed 2026-09-27

Key fundamentals

Korn Ferry

Industrials · Staffing & Employment Services

Market cap$3.91B
Enterprise value$3.70B
Trailing P/E13.59x
Forward P/E11.24x
EV / EBITDA8.82x
P / S (ttm)1.32x
Profit margin9.5%
Return on equity14.5%
Revenue growth+6.8%
Earnings growth+5.3%
Debt / equity29.87

Layer Breakdown

LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.28
Sector-0.01
Technical+0.15
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-09-27

Business overview

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

Risk Metrics

Beta vs SPX0.68
Corr SPX0.38
Annual vol28.6%
Annual ret+2.0%
Sharpe0.07
Max DD-25.1%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Material Events

DateEvent8-K
2026-08-06Other Material Eventread
2026-08-03Material Agreement, Exhibitsread
2026-06-29Material Agreement, Securities Issuance…read
2026-06-23Earnings Release, Exhibitsread
2026-06-22Other Material Event, Exhibitsread
2026-03-09Earnings Release, Exhibitsread
2026-03-06Officer / Director Change, Exhibitsread
2026-03-05Other Material Event, Exhibitsread
2025-12-09Earnings Release, Exhibitsread
2025-12-08Other Material Event, Exhibitsread
2025-09-233.03, Bylaws Amendment…read
2025-09-09Earnings Release, Exhibitsread

Flow & Concentration

Insider 180d net$0
Insider buys / sells0 / 0
Insider biasNeutral
13F holders8
Top-5 share98.0%
HHI4,553 (concentrated)

Top Holders

HolderValueShares
State Street Corp$140.72M2.11M
Millennium Management$20.25M304.19K
AQR Capital Management$19.07M286.42K
Capital Research / Capital World$17.91M269.06K
Renaissance Technologies$12.79M192.10K
Citadel Advisors$3.55M53.30K
Fidelity / FMR LLC$815.90K12.25K
T. Rowe Price Group$9.29K139.51K

As of 2026-06-30

SEC Filings

DateFormDoc
2026-08-07ARSview
2026-08-07DEF 14Aview
2026-08-07DEFA14Aview
2026-08-068-Kview
2026-08-038-Kview
2026-07-174view
2026-07-164view
2026-07-164view
2026-07-144view
2026-07-144view
2026-07-144view
2026-07-144view
2026-07-144view
2026-06-298-Kview
2026-06-2610-Kview

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%

Indices

S&P SmallCap 600

Recent Sessions

DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Sep 25$71.38$72.09$70.96$71.73591.70K
Sep 24$74.00$74.43$70.57$72.00978.10K
Sep 23$75.42$75.43$73.91$73.96562.00K
Sep 22$77.11$77.11$75.08$75.86350.20K
Sep 21$77.37$77.37$76.46$76.77359.10K

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