How to buy Korn Ferry stock | 31.71

Korn Ferry is a staffing & employment services business based in the US. Korn Ferry shares (KFY) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Korn Ferry employs 8,198 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$1.8 billion.

How to buy shares in Korn Ferry

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Korn Ferry. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: KFY. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Korn Ferry reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$31.71, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Korn Ferry, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Korn Ferry. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Korn Ferry's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Korn Ferry's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was USD$31.71, which is 24.43% down on its pre-crash value of USD$41.96 and 47.83% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$21.45.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Korn Ferry shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$523.26 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$752.16.

Korn Ferry share price

Use our graph to track the performance of KFY stocks over time.

Korn Ferry shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-20.

Latest market close	USD$31.71
52-week range	USD$22.18 - USD$43.99
50-day moving average	USD$29.9603
200-day moving average	USD$29.3457
Wall St. target price	USD$34.4
PE ratio	56.625
Dividend yield	USD$0.4 (1.26%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.561

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Is it a good time to buy Korn Ferry stock?

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Korn Ferry price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $31.71 from 2020-10-16

1 week (2020-10-23)	-1.98%
1 month (2020-10-01)	9.38%
3 months (2020-07-30)	10.84%
6 months (2020-04-30)	9.99%

1 year (2019-10-30)	-14.41%
2 years (2018-10-30)	-27.92%
3 years (2017-10-30)	-21.92%
5 years (2015-10-30)	-12.81%

Is Korn Ferry under- or over-valued?

Valuing Korn Ferry stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Korn Ferry's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Korn Ferry's P/E ratio

Korn Ferry's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 57x. In other words, Korn Ferry shares trade at around 57x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Korn Ferry's PEG ratio

Korn Ferry's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.36. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Korn Ferry's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Korn Ferry's EBITDA

Korn Ferry's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$192.3 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Korn Ferry's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Korn Ferry financials

Revenue TTM	USD$1.8 billion
Operating margin TTM	8.57%
Gross profit TTM	USD$541.7 million
Return on assets TTM	3.82%
Return on equity TTM	2.62%
Profit margin	1.74%
Book value	$22.156
Market capitalisation	USD$1.7 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Korn Ferry shares

There are currently 962,537 Korn Ferry shares held short by investors – that's known as Korn Ferry's "short interest". This figure is 55% up from 620,922 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Korn Ferry shares can be evaluated.

Korn Ferry's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Korn Ferry's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Korn Ferry shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Korn Ferry shares traded daily (recently around 443565.43778802). Korn Ferry's SIR currently stands at 2.17. In other words for every 100,000 Korn Ferry shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2170 shares are currently held short.

However Korn Ferry's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Korn Ferry shares, or, against the total number of tradable Korn Ferry shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Korn Ferry's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Korn Ferry shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.0253% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Korn Ferry shares, roughly 25 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Korn Ferry.

Find out more about how you can short Korn Ferry stock.

Korn Ferry share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 14.65% of net profits

Recently Korn Ferry has paid out, on average, around 14.65% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.26% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Korn Ferry shareholders could enjoy a 1.26% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Korn Ferry's case, that would currently equate to about $0.4 per share.

While Korn Ferry's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Korn Ferry is investing more in its future growth.

Korn Ferry's most recent dividend payout was on 15 October 2020. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 24 September 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").

Korn Ferry share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Korn Ferry's shares have ranged in value from as little as $22.18 up to $43.99. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Korn Ferry's is 1.4892. This would suggest that Korn Ferry's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Korn Ferry overview

Korn Ferry, together with its subsidiaries, provides organizational consulting services worldwide. It operates through four segments: Consulting, Digital, Executive Search, and RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) & Professional Search. The company provides executive search services to fill executive-level positions, such as board directors, chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers, chief information officers, chief human resource officers, and other senior executive officers for clients in the industrial, financial services, life sciences/healthcare provider, consumer, technology, and educational/not-for-profit market sectors. It also offers organizational strategy, assessment and succession, and leadership development, as well as rewards and benefits to assist clients. In addition, the company provides RPO, project recruitment, and individual professional search and outsource recruiting solutions. It serves public and private companies, and middle market and emerging growth companies, as well as government and non-profit organizations. 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.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Korn Ferry is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 1.459% of Korn Ferry shares are held by insiders and 96.302% by institutions.

• How many people work for Korn Ferry?

  Latest data suggests 8,198 work at Korn Ferry.

• When does the fiscal year end for Korn Ferry?

  Korn Ferry's fiscal year ends in April.

• Where is Korn Ferry based?

  Korn Ferry's address is: 1900 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90067

• What is Korn Ferry's ISIN number?

  Korn Ferry's international securities identification number is: US5006432000

• What is Korn Ferry's CUSIP number?

  Korn Ferry's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 500643200