KakaoBank Stock at Nubank’s Multiple, Half the Growth: My Check
Figures: price, market cap, PER, PBR, ROE, and dividend data from Kiwoom data as of the July 31, 2026 close.
Entries on Korean listed banks, brokers, insurers and other financial companies — earnings, orders, shareholder returns and valuation, read from public disclosures. Not investment advice.
Figures: price, market cap, PER, PBR, ROE, and dividend data from Kiwoom data as of the July 31, 2026 close.
Every market has one company that value investors describe as “the Berkshire of” that country.
I had July 28 circled on my calendar for a different bank — yet I ended the session buying Woori Financial stock.
Samsung Fire stock lost more than 14% in a single session on July 20, and the first thing I opened was not the sell…
Three numbers on the Samsung Life stock page don’t sit together comfortably. A market cap around $42B (₩63T).
On July 16, Hana Financial stock touched 142,500 won — about $94 at the roughly ₩1,520-per-dollar rate tracked by T…
On Monday I read a Korean scoop — Money Today, one of Korea’s financial dailies — reporting that Shinhan Financial…
Korean value-up stocks have been the loudest story in Seoul this year, but the coverage clusters around the giants…
No Korean brokerage had ever earned more than ₩1 trillion of net profit in a single quarter.
Here is the number that stopped me. NH Investment & Securities pays the fattest dividend yield in the Korean br…
Writing this series, I’ve kept all five brokers up on my screen one at a time.
A few weeks ago Kiwoom Securities traded above ₩480,000 (~$348). Today it’s near ₩340,000.