Korn Ferry (KFY)
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.
- Symbol
- KFY
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Staffing & Employment Services
- Market cap
- $3.85B
- 52 week range
- 58.95 - 87.51
Valuation
- Share price
- $73.96 (close of 2026-09-23)
- P/E (TTM)
- 14.05x
- Price to book
- 1.93x
- Price to free cash flow
- 12.09x
- Enterprise value
- $3.65B
- Book value per share
- $39.40
Price performance
| Period | Change |
|---|
| 1 day | -3.66% |
| 5 days | -4.98% |
| 1 month | -13.05% |
| 3 months | +3.12% |
| 6 months | +17.60% |
| Year to date | +12.03% |
| 1 year | +2.10% |
| 3 years | +57.40% |
| 5 years | -0.86% |
| 10 years | +247.88% |
| All time | +468.92% |
Profitability and growth
- Return on equity
- 14.02%
- Return on invested capital
- 18.11%
- Return on assets
- 6.83%
- Return on capital employed
- 12.16%
- Gross margin
- 21.18%
- Net margin
- 9.44%
- EBITDA margin
- 16.12%
- Revenue growth
- 6.43%
- Net income growth
- 12.75%
- Free cash flow growth
- 7.43%
Cash flow and balance sheet
- Free cash flow yield (TTM)
- 8.27%
- Current ratio
- 2.37x
- Net debt to EBITDA
- -0.41x
Latest reported year
- Period end
- 2026-04-30
- Fiscal year
- 2026
- Revenue
- $2.94B
- Cost of revenue
- $2.32B
- Gross profit
- $622.47M
- EBITDA
- $473.59M
- Net income
- $277.43M
- Earnings per share
- $5.33
- Shares outstanding
- 51.43M
Income statement by year
| Period end | Revenue | Gross profit | Net income | EPS |
|---|
| 2026-04-30 | $2.94B | $622.47M | $277.43M | $5.33 |
| 2025-04-30 | $2.76B | $604.81M | $246.06M | $4.69 |
| 2024-04-30 | $2.80B | $471.97M | $169.15M | $3.25 |
| 2023-04-30 | $2.86B | $584.80M | $209.53M | $3.98 |
| 2022-04-30 | $2.64B | $707.35M | $326.36M | $6.04 |
| 2021-04-30 | $1.82B | $347.56M | $114.45M | $2.11 |
| 2020-04-30 | $1.98B | $434.98M | $104.95M | $1.91 |
| 2019-04-30 | $1.97B | $492.82M | $102.65M | $1.84 |
| 2018-04-30 | $1.82B | $1.75B | $133.78M | $2.39 |
| 2017-04-30 | $1.62B | $1.55B | $84.18M | $1.48 |
Margins and returns by year
| Period end | Gross margin | Net margin | Return on equity | Return on capital |
|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 21.18% | 9.44% | 14.02% | 18.11% |
| 2025-04-30 | 21.90% | 8.91% | 13.14% | 17.62% |
| 2024-04-30 | 16.88% | 6.05% | 9.74% | 11.86% |
| 2023-04-30 | 20.42% | 7.32% | 12.68% | 17.05% |
| 2022-04-30 | 26.76% | 12.35% | 21.06% | 31.47% |
| 2021-04-30 | 19.10% | 6.29% | 8.36% | 9.62% |
| 2020-04-30 | 22.00% | 5.31% | 8.58% | 11.32% |
| 2019-04-30 | 24.97% | 5.20% | 8.26% | 13.25% |
| 2018-04-30 | 95.95% | 7.35% | 10.97% | 14.79% |
| 2017-04-30 | 95.59% | 5.19% | 7.74% | 9.78% |
Cash and debt by year
| Period end | Cash | Debt |
|---|
| 2026-04-30 | $1.10B | $398.56M |
| 2025-04-30 | $1.01B | $397.74M |
| 2024-04-30 | $941.00M | $396.95M |
| 2023-04-30 | $844.02M | $396.19M |
| 2022-04-30 | $978.07M | $395.48M |
| 2021-04-30 | $850.78M | $394.79M |
| 2020-04-30 | $689.24M | $394.14M |
| 2019-04-30 | $626.36M | $222.88M |
| 2018-04-30 | $520.85M | $211.31M |
| 2017-04-30 | $410.88M | $236.22M |
Free cash flow by year
| Period end | Free cash flow | Stock-based compensation |
|---|
| 2026-04-30 | $324.29M | $47.68M |
| 2025-04-30 | $301.88M | $47.96M |
| 2024-04-30 | $228.81M | $39.97M |
| 2023-04-30 | $273.51M | $36.28M |
| 2022-04-30 | $452.25M | $29.21M |
| 2021-04-30 | $220.31M | $27.16M |
| 2020-04-30 | $194.89M | $22.82M |
| 2019-04-30 | $212.12M | $23.39M |
| 2018-04-30 | $177.13M | $21.47M |
| 2017-04-30 | $56.05M | $18.96M |
Dividend history
- Most recent payment
- 2026-09-22
- Paid in the last twelve months
- $2.61
| Payment date | Dividend per share |
|---|
| 2026-09-22 | $0.55 |
| 2026-07-06 | $0.55 |
| 2026-03-27 | $0.55 |
| 2025-12-19 | $0.48 |
| 2025-09-26 | $0.48 |
| 2025-07-03 | $0.48 |
| 2025-03-27 | $0.48 |
| 2024-12-20 | $0.37 |
Investor relations
Past earnings dates
| Reported | Fiscal period | EPS estimate |
|---|
| 2026-09-09 | Jul/2026 | $1.35 |
| 2026-06-23 | - | - |
| 2026-03-09 | - | - |
| 2025-12-09 | - | - |
| 2025-09-09 | - | - |
| 2025-06-18 | - | - |
| 2025-03-11 | - | - |
| 2024-12-05 | - | - |
Filings and sources
- Company website
- kornferry.com
- SEC filings
- 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K on EDGAR
- Earnings calendar
- All upcoming reports
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