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KORN FERRY KFY
KORN FERRY (KFY) earns a Piotroski F-score of 8/9 (strong financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the safe zone. It pays a dividend yielding 2.79% (safety: safe). FY2026 revenue was $2.9B at a 9.4% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Analyst price target
Recent analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-24 | UBS | Neutral (main) |
| 2026-06-24 | Baird | Outperform (main) |
| 2026-06-09 | Truist Securities | Buy (main) |
| 2026-04-09 | UBS | Neutral (main) |
| 2026-03-10 | UBS | Neutral (main) |
| 2026-03-10 | Truist Securities | Buy (main) |
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
Smart money · insiders, last 12 months
Open-market insider purchases minus sells (SEC Form 4) — real buying with their own money is a bullish “smart money” signal; grants and option exercises are excluded.
How it ranks in Services · percentile among 982 companies
Percentile vs other Services companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 8/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · safe zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | 0.227 |
| Retained earnings / assets | 0.433 |
| EBIT / assets | 0.092 |
| Equity / liabilities | 0.949 |
Sector peers · similar-size Services companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KFY | KORN FERRY | 8/9 | 4.52 | 13.5 | +6.4% |
| JOB | GEE Group Inc. | 6/9 | 1.76 | — | -9.8% |
| BIYA | Baiya International Group Inc. | 4/9 | 6.57 | — | +28.6% |
| CLIK | Click Holdings Ltd. | 1/9 | 6.85 | — | — |
| GOOG | Alphabet Inc. | 5/9 | 6.79 | 31.1 | +15.1% |
| MSFT | MICROSOFT CORP | 6/9 | 4.49 | 20.7 | +17.8% |
| META | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 4/9 | 5.34 | 23.1 | +22.2% |
About KORN FERRY
Korn Ferry, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of organizational consulting services worldwide. The company offers consulting services for talent strategies, organizational structures, and workforce capabilities; and develops, integrate, and commercializes with Korn Ferry Talent suite, as well as enabling technology across Korn Ferry's other solution areas. The company operates cloud human resources platforms comprising Korn Ferry Architect, for providing organization and talent planning architecture for an agile and future-focused workforce; Korn Ferry Assess, for empowering leaders to take actions that lead to business success; Korn Ferry Listen, for deploying engagement surveys and benchmark employee engagement; Korn Ferry Sell, for developing and replicating sales strategies; and Korn Ferry Pay, a self-service pay solution, that provides global data and insights needed in real-time to make decisions on employee compensation programs. It serves public and private companies, consumer markets, government and public services, financial services, healthcare, education, life sciences, industrial, technology, and specialties sectors. The company was formerly known as Korn/Ferry International and changed its name to Korn Ferry in January 2019. Korn Ferry was founded in 1969 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
FAQ
Is KFY financially healthy?
KORN FERRY's Piotroski F-score is 8/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the safe zone.
Does KFY pay a dividend, and is it safe?
Yes. KORN FERRY pays a dividend yielding about 2.79% with a 37.7% payout ratio, rated “safe” for safety.
How profitable is KFY?
In FY2026, KORN FERRY had a net margin of 9.4% and a return on equity of 14.0%.
Is KFY overvalued or undervalued?
KORN FERRY trades at about 16.0× trailing earnings — below its 10-year norm (10-year range 10.3×–31.3×, median 20.4×). Stocktoria reports the data, not buy/sell advice.
What is the analyst price target for KFY?
The average Wall-Street price target for KORN FERRY is $81.00, about 2.8% below the recent price, from 4 analysts (consensus: strong buy).
Is KFY a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on KORN FERRY: a Piotroski F-score of 8/9, an Altman Z″ in the safe zone, a P/E of about 13.5×, a dividend yield of 2.79%. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2026-04-30. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.