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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, integrates, 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.
Ticker KFY Exchange NYSE Sector Industrials Industry Staffing & Employment Services Market cap $3.83B 52-week range $58.95 - $87.51 Valuation Share price $75.38 (close of Nov 6, 2026) P/E (TTM) 13.96x Price to book 1.91x Price to free cash flow 12.01x Enterprise value $3.62B Book value per share $39.40 Price performance Period Change 1 day -2.31% 5 days -1.53% 1 month +6.08% 3 months -8.82% 6 months +14.21% Year to date +14.18% 1 year +16.00% 3 years +55.49% 5 years -9.43% 10 years +273.91% All time +479.85%
Short interest As of Oct 15, 2026 Short % of float 4.09% Shares short 1.64M Days to cover 2.78 Change since prior report -29.25% Source FINRA consolidated short interest Profitability and growth Return on equity 14.02% Return on invested capital 10.39% 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) 8.32% Current ratio 2.37x Net debt to EBITDA -0.41x Latest reported year Period end Apr 30, 2026 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 Interest expense $20.00M 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 $445.84M $133.78M $2.39 2017-04-30 $1.62B $346.52M $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% 10.39% 2025-04-30 21.90% 8.91% 13.14% 10.35% 2024-04-30 16.88% 6.05% 9.74% 7.04% 2023-04-30 20.42% 7.32% 12.68% 10.55% 2022-04-30 26.76% 12.35% 21.06% 17.14% 2021-04-30 19.10% 6.29% 8.36% 5.46% 2020-04-30 22.00% 5.31% 8.58% 7.12% 2019-04-30 24.97% 5.20% 8.26% 7.59% 2018-04-30 24.50% 7.35% 10.97% 9.50% 2017-04-30 21.37% 5.19% 7.74% 6.79%
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 Sep 22, 2026 Paid in the last twelve months $2.13 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 Next earnings report Next confirmed report Dec 8, 2026 Consensus EPS estimate $1.36 Past earnings dates Reported Fiscal period EPS estimate 2026-09-09 Jul 2026 $1.35 2026-06-23 Apr 2026 $1.37 2026-03-09 Jan 2026 $1.22 2025-12-09 Oct 2025 $1.30 2025-09-09 Jul 2025 $1.24 2025-06-18 Apr 2025 $1.26 2025-03-11 Jan 2025 $1.13 2024-12-05 Oct 2024 $1.21
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