KT Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (KT | NYSE:KT)

KT is South Korea's largest fixed-line telecom operator, with around 11.5 million fixed-line broadband customers and 9.5 million IPTV customers, and is the second-largest wireless operator with 28 million subscribers. Additionally, it has a number of nontelecom businesses, including real estate, payment processing, artificial intelligence, and IDC/cloud services, many of which are the focus of its growth strategy. The company was formed from the previously government-owned, monopoly telecom business and was listed in 1998. After selling its mobile business in 1994 (forming its mobile competitor, SK Telecom) KT created its own mobile operator in 1997.

KT trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol KT.

As of February 3, 2026, KT stock price climbed to $20.90 with 1,315,586 million shares trading.

KT has a beta of 0.26, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. KT has a correlation of 0.06 to the broad based SPY ETF.

KT has a market cap of $10.08 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, KT traded as high as $21.61 and as low as $11.04.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that KT belongs to (by Net Assets): EMOP, RGEF, TOUS, CGNG, NXTG.

KT has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +21.0% while the SPY ETF gained +16.6%. KT has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +11.8% and +7.1%, respectively, while the SPY returned +1.2% and +1.8%, respectively.

KT support price is $20.42 and resistance is $20.96 (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 KT shares will trade within this expected range on the day.