Kakao Corp.: debt-to-equity, ROE and more
KOSPI, Legal name Kakao Corp.
Latest figures are the FY2025 consolidated summary statements.
Latest fiscal year ratios (computed here)
- Debt/equity
- 82.5%
- Equity ratio
- 54.8%
- ROE
- 3.4%
- Op. margin
- 9.0%
- Rev. growth
- 2.9%
- Interest coverage
- n/a
Condition flags
- Operating profit for 5 straight years.
- Total equity is above paid-in capital. Not capital-impaired.
Interest coverage and dividends (OpenDART)
Interest expense and dividends come from DART's OpenDART annual-report filings, not the FSC summary statements used above. The source differs from the other tables on this page.
Interest coverage = operating profit ÷ interest expenseNo interest expense value yet for this company. Most companies fold interest expense into a single finance-costs line on their income statement, so it cannot be pulled out separately. Interest coverage is not computed here.
Dividends, last 3 fiscal years
| Fiscal year | Cash dividend per share | Payout ratio |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | ₩75 | 6.7% |
| 2024 | ₩68 | 54.0% |
| 2023 | ₩61 | n/a |
Cash dividends for 3 straight years (only the 3 years OpenDART returns).
Source values from the OpenDART (금융감독원 전자공시) annual report. Report fiscal year 2025.
Ratios by year (computed here)
Debt-to-equity = total liabilities ÷ total equity × 100Equity ratio = total equity ÷ total assets × 100ROE = net income ÷ year-end total equity × 100Operating margin = operating profit ÷ revenue × 100Revenue growth = (this year − last year) ÷ last year × 100
Computed from the source figures above with these formulas. Where the source's own debt-to-equity differs from ours, both are shown for that year.
| Fiscal year | Debt/equity | Equity ratio | ROE | Op. margin | Rev. growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 consolidated | 67.9% | 59.6% | 12.1% | n/a | n/a |
| FY2022 consolidated | 69.9% | 58.9% | 7.9% | n/a | n/a |
| FY2023 consolidated | 81.7% | 55.0% | -13.1% | 6.1% | n/a |
| FY2024 consolidated | 84.8% | 54.1% | -1.2% | 5.8% | 4.2% |
| FY2025 consolidated | 82.5% | 54.8% | 3.4% | 9.0% | 2.9% |
Source figures (FSC summary statements)
Amounts are the source values, shortened. A cell reported as zero may be blank in the source, so it is not used in any ratio.
| Fiscal year | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 0 | 0 | ₩7.56T | ₩7.87T | ₩8.10T |
| Operating profit | ₩587.9B | ₩569.4B | ₩460.9B | ₩460.2B | ₩732.0B |
| Pre-tax income | ₩2.29T | ₩1.27T | -₩1.65T | -₩2.8B | ₩621.5B |
| Net income | ₩1.64T | ₩1.07T | -₩1.82T | -₩161.9B | ₩518.0B |
| Total assets | ₩22.78T | ₩22.96T | ₩25.18T | ₩25.77T | ₩27.78T |
| Total liabilities | ₩9.22T | ₩9.45T | ₩11.32T | ₩11.83T | ₩12.56T |
| Total equity | ₩13.57T | ₩13.52T | ₩13.86T | ₩13.94T | ₩15.22T |
| Paid-in capital | ₩44.6B | ₩44.6B | ₩44.5B | ₩44.4B | ₩44.3B |
| Debt/equity (source value) | 67.9% | 69.9% | 81.7% | 84.8% | 82.5% |
Company outline (FSC)
- Market
- KOSPI
- Fiscal year end
- Dec
- Founded
- 1995-02-16
- Listed
- 17/07/10
- Employees
- 3,922
- Auditor
- 삼정회계법인
- Audit opinion
- 적정의견
- Corporate reg. no.
- 1101111129497
- Outline updated
- 2026-09-24
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