KEP Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Korea Electric Power | NYSE:KEP)

Korea Electric Power Corp is an electric utility company in which the government of South Korea holds a controlling stake. The firm operates in the following segments: Transmission and distribution, Electric power generation (Nuclear), Electric power generation (Non-Nuclear), Plant maintenance & engineering service, and Others. The majority of the energy produced by the company comes from its nuclear and coal-fired assets. Korea Electric Power generates revenue through the Transmission and distribution segment. Geographically, it derives maximum revenue from Domestic operations.

Korea Electric Power trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol KEP.

As of June 8, 2026, KEP stock price declined to $12.07 with 1,928,192 million shares trading.

KEP has a beta of 1.94, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. KEP has a correlation of 0.18 to the broad based SPY ETF.

KEP has a market cap of $15.50 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, KEP traded as high as $23.41 and as low as $5.93.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that KEP belongs to (by Net Assets): VXUS, AVEM, SPDW, VEU, DFAE.

KEP has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +11.2% while the SPY ETF gained +25.9%. KEP has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -27.2% and -7.8%, respectively, while the SPY returned +8.8% and -0.9%, respectively.

KEP support price is $12.00 and resistance is $12.78 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that KEP shares will trade within this expected range on the day.