NYSE:KB - KB Financial Group Stock Price, Forecast & News

KB Financial Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "KB."

KB Financial Group declared an annual dividend on Tuesday, April 9th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 28th will be paid a dividend of $1.375 per share on Tuesday, April 16th. This represents a dividend yield of 3.46%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 27th. View KB Financial Group's Dividend History.

KB Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:KB) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 14th. The bank reported $2.02 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The bank had revenue of $2.76 billion for the quarter. KB Financial Group had a net margin of 17.16% and a return on equity of 10.86%. View KB Financial Group's Earnings History.

KB Financial Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, March 10th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for KB Financial Group.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for KB Financial Group in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for KB Financial Group.

Headlines about KB stock have trended somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. KB Financial Group earned a daily sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for KB Financial Group.

KB Financial Group saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 365,500 shares, an increase of 63.7% from the December 31st total of 223,300 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 121,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.0 days. Approximately 0.1% of the company's shares are short sold. View KB Financial Group's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to KB Financial Group include Banco Santander (SAN), Westpac Banking (WBK), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), Bank of Montreal (BMO), ANZ (ANZBY), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Grp (SMFG), ICICI Bank (IBN), ING Groep (ING), HANG SENG BK LT/S (HSNGY), Banco Santander Brasil (BSBR), CR AGRICOLE S A/ADR (CRARY), Barclays (BCS), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), Boc Hong Kong (BHKLY) and Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other KB Financial Group investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), AbbVie (ABBV), Micron Technology (MU), QUALCOMM (QCOM), JD.Com (JD), PepsiCo (PEP), Xilinx (XLNX), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), CVS Health (CVS) and HUYA (HUYA).

KB Financial Group's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Trinity Street Asset Management LLP (0.31%), Henry James International Management Inc. (0.01%), Gilman Hill Asset Management LLC (0.01%), Eqis Capital Management Inc. (0.00%) and Advisor Partners LLC (0.00%).

KB stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Eqis Capital Management Inc. and Gilman Hill Asset Management LLC.

KB stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Trinity Street Asset Management LLP, Henry James International Management Inc. and Advisor Partners LLC.

Shares of KB can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of KB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $39.74.

KB Financial Group has a market capitalization of $16.62 billion and generates $14.54 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $2.75 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.99 on an earnings per share basis. View Additional Information About KB Financial Group.

The official website for KB Financial Group is http://www.kbfg.com/.

KB Financial Group's mailing address is 26 Gukjegeumyung-ro 8-gil Yeongdeungpo-gu, SEOUL M5, 07331. The bank can be reached via phone at 82-2-2073-2824 or via email at [email protected]