Korn Ferry Forecasted to Earn FY2025 Earnings of $4.79 Per Share (NYSE:KFY)

Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) – Investment analysts at William Blair boosted their FY2025 earnings per share estimates for Korn Ferry in a research note issued on Friday, September 6th. William Blair analyst T. Romeo now anticipates that the business services provider will earn $4.79 per share for the year, up from their previous estimate of $4.75. The consensus estimate for Korn Ferry’s current full-year earnings is $4.83 per share. William Blair also issued estimates for Korn Ferry’s Q1 2026 earnings at $1.25 EPS, Q2 2026 earnings at $1.34 EPS, Q3 2026 earnings at $1.31 EPS, Q4 2026 earnings at $1.47 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $5.37 EPS.

KFY has been the subject of a number of other research reports. UBS Group boosted their target price on Korn Ferry from $66.00 to $68.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday, June 7th. Robert W. Baird increased their price objective on shares of Korn Ferry from $72.00 to $79.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, June 14th. Truist Financial restated a “buy” rating and set a $78.00 target price (up previously from $74.00) on shares of Korn Ferry in a report on Friday, June 14th. Finally, StockNews.com upgraded Korn Ferry from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, June 20th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $75.00.

Korn Ferry Price Performance

Shares of Korn Ferry stock opened at $70.15 on Monday. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $69.55 and its 200 day moving average price is $66.18. Korn Ferry has a twelve month low of $44.45 and a twelve month high of $75.30. The company has a current ratio of 2.15, a quick ratio of 1.83 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23. The stock has a market capitalization of $3.63 billion, a P/E ratio of 21.79 and a beta of 1.54.

Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) last released its earnings results on Thursday, September 5th. The business services provider reported $1.18 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.12 by $0.06. The firm had revenue of $682.80 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $663.84 million. Korn Ferry had a net margin of 6.68% and a return on equity of 13.73%. Korn Ferry’s revenue was down 3.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.99 earnings per share.

Institutional Trading of Korn Ferry

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in KFY. New Century Financial Group LLC acquired a new position in Korn Ferry in the second quarter worth $1,098,000. Point72 Asset Management L.P. acquired a new position in shares of Korn Ferry in the 2nd quarter valued at about $665,000. Quarry LP boosted its holdings in shares of Korn Ferry by 149.1% in the 2nd quarter. Quarry LP now owns 1,380 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $93,000 after buying an additional 826 shares during the period. Creative Planning grew its position in shares of Korn Ferry by 62.4% during the 2nd quarter. Creative Planning now owns 16,950 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $1,138,000 after buying an additional 6,510 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Algert Global LLC raised its stake in Korn Ferry by 418.6% during the second quarter. Algert Global LLC now owns 134,781 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $9,049,000 after acquiring an additional 108,791 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 98.82% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity

In related news, CEO Mark Arian sold 5,000 shares of Korn Ferry stock in a transaction on Monday, June 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $66.01, for a total transaction of $330,050.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 91,484 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $6,038,858.84. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Insiders own 1.50% of the company’s stock.

Korn Ferry Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, October 15th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 19th will be given a dividend of $0.37 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 19th. This represents a $1.48 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.11%. Korn Ferry’s payout ratio is currently 45.96%.

Korn Ferry Company Profile

Korn Ferry, together with its subsidiaries, provides organizational consulting services worldwide. It operates through four segments: Consulting, Digital, Executive Search, and Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) & Professional Search. The company provides executive search services to recruit board level, chief executive, other senior executive, and general management talent of organizations.