SK Telecom

017670 · KOSPI · ₩SKT · SK텔레콤

₩75,400▼ ₩1,200 (1.57%)End-of-day · Oct 30, 2026 · End-of-day prices.
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Valuation model · Discounted cash flow (DCF)

We use a 5-year discounted cash flow: the value of the cash the business is expected to produce, in today's money.

Fair value per share

₩70,542

vs the current price (₩75,400)

Enterprise value
₩23T
Equity value
₩15T
WACC
6.2%

Model estimate based on the assumptions shown. Not a price target and not a buy or sell signal. This is not financial advice.

Bear / Base / Bull

Bear
₩23,606
−68.7%
Base
₩70,542
−6.4%
Bull
₩157,067
+108.3%

Bear: revenue growth 3 points lower every year, EBIT margin 2 points lower, WACC 1 point higher. Bull: the opposite.

Assumptions

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Cycle options

Margin path

Every year uses the cycle-average margin (8.8%).

Revenue growth

  • -0.4%

    How much sales grow that year, compared with the year before.

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (-0.4% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 0.5%

    How much sales grow that year, compared with the year before.

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (-0.4% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 1.3%

    How much sales grow that year, compared with the year before.

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (-0.4% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 2.2%

    How much sales grow that year, compared with the year before.

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (-0.4% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 3%

    How much sales grow that year, compared with the year before.

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (-0.4% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

Business

  • 8.8%

    Operating profit as a share of revenue.

    Default: through-the-cycle average of the last 12 months and the last 5 annual reports' operating margins.

  • 27.5%

    Share of operating profit paid as corporate tax.

    Default: Korea's top corporate tax rate (25%) plus 10% local income tax.

  • 20.2%

    The non-cash cost of wearing out equipment, added back to cash flow (% of revenue).

    Default: average of the last 3 annual reports (cash flow statements; equipment and intangibles).

  • 15.1%

    Money spent on factories, equipment, software and other long-term assets (% of revenue).

    Default: average of the last 3 annual reports (cash flow statements; equipment and intangibles).

  • -7.4%

    Stock and unpaid customer bills, less unpaid supplier bills, as a % of revenue. Each year's extra revenue ties up this much more cash.

    Default: working capital (current assets less cash and deposits, minus current liabilities other than borrowings) as a share of revenue, averaged over the last 3 years.

Discount rate

  • 2%

    How fast cash flows keep growing every year after year 5.

    Default: about Korea's long-run inflation plus real growth.

  • 4.01%

    Yield on Korea's 10-year government bond: the return with almost no risk.

    Default: Korea Treasury Bond 10-year yield on 2026-10-30.

  • 0.6

    How much the share moves when the market moves: 1 means just like the market.

    Default: 105 weeks of weekly returns against KOSPI (official index); raw beta 0.35, adjusted toward 1 and kept between 0.6 and 2.0.

  • 5.5%

    The extra return investors want for owning shares instead of bonds.

    Default: a typical premium for Korean shares.

  • 5.51%

    The interest rate the company would pay to borrow.

    Default: the 10-year yield plus a 1.5% credit spread.

Starting point

Revenue (TTM to H1 2026)
₩17T
Net debt (borrowings and leases − cash and deposits)
₩8T
Shares
214,790,053
Share price
₩75,400
Market cap
₩16T

TTM = trailing 12 months: the last four reported quarters added together. "TTM to H1 2026" is the 12 months up to the latest quarterly or half-year report (H1 = to the end of June). Year 1 grows from there.

Past years and projection

Grey columns are reported results from the annual reports (after-tax EBIT at the model's tax rate), so you can check the growth and margin assumptions against the past. Years 1–5 are the model.

FY2023FY2024FY2025Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5
Revenue₩18T₩18T₩17T₩17T₩17T₩17T₩18T₩18T
Growth1.8%1.9%−4.7%−0.4%0.5%1.3%2.2%3.0%
EBIT₩1.8T₩1.8T₩1.1T₩1.5T₩1.5T₩1.5T₩1.6T₩1.6T
EBIT margin10.0%10.2%6.3%8.8%8.8%8.8%8.8%8.8%
After-tax EBIT₩1.3T₩1.3T₩778B₩1.1T₩1.1T₩1.1T₩1.1T₩1.2T
+ Depreciation₩3.6T₩3.6T₩3.5T₩3.4T₩3.4T₩3.5T₩3.6T₩3.7T
− Capital spending₩3.1T₩2.6T₩2.3T₩2.6T₩2.6T₩2.6T₩2.7T₩2.7T
− Working capital−₩1.6T₩623B₩1.3T₩5B−₩6.3B−₩16B−₩28B−₩39B
Free cash flow₩3.4T₩1.7T₩614B₩1.9T₩2T₩2T₩2.1T₩2.1T
Discount factor———0.9410.8860.8350.7860.740
Present value———₩1.8T₩1.7T₩1.7T₩1.6T₩1.6T

Terminal value ₩20T, worth ₩15T today: 64% of enterprise value. It assumes spending settles at 110% of depreciation once growth slows to the terminal rate.

Cross-check: what the market has paid before

For cyclical businesses, analysts check a DCF against the multiples the stock has traded at through past cycles. Price / book is the usual anchor for them: P/E looks highest at the bottom of a cycle, when earnings are smallest, and lowest at the top. The price each band would give today:

LowTypicalHigh
Price / book (book value ₩71,868 a share)Now 1.05×₩61,7570.86×₩70,5730.98×₩94,2001.31×
Price / earnings (last 12 months: ₩3,480 a share)Now 21.7×₩24,1796.95×₩35,12010.1×₩94,20027.1×
P/E on run-rate earnings (Q2 2026 × 4: ₩8,764 a share)Now 8.60×₩60,9026.95×₩88,46310.1×₩237,27627.1×

Low, typical and high are the 10th percentile, middle and 90th percentile of month-end multiples since 2021, each against the latest report out by then, per share at today's share count; loss years and P/E above 100 are left out. Run-rate earnings are one quarter × 4, not a forecast. Model estimate based on the assumptions shown. Not a price target and not a buy or sell signal.

Sensitivity

Fair value per share as two inputs change; the middle is the current case.

WACC ↓ · Terminal growth →1.0%1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%
5.2%₩73,092₩83,555₩97,281₩116,074₩143,365
5.7%₩63,659₩71,806₩82,153₩95,727₩114,311
6.2%₩55,978₩62,485₩70,542₩80,774₩94,197
6.7%₩49,589₩54,895₩61,330₩69,298₩79,417
7.2%₩44,183₩48,582₩53,829₩60,194₩68,074

Now (TTM)

Market cap
₩16T
Enterprise value
₩23T
P/E
21.7×
P/B
1.0×
P/S
0.9×
EV/EBITDA
4.9×
Dividend yield
2.2%

Over time (at each year end)

20252024202320222021
Price₩53,500₩55,200₩50,100₩47,400₩57,900
Market cap₩11T₩12T₩11T₩10T₩12T
P/E28.1×9.5×9.8×11.2×5.2×
P/B0.9×1.0×0.9×0.9×1.1×
P/S0.7×0.7×0.6×0.6×0.7×
EV/EBITDA4.1×3.5×1.7×3.4×4.0×
Dividend yield3.1%6.4%———

Versus similar companies

CompanyP/EP/BP/SEV/EBITDADividend yield
SK Telecom21.7×1.0×0.9×4.9×2.2%
KT9.0×0.6×0.4×—5.2%
LG Uplus11.3×0.7×0.4×2.9×0.0%
Hyundai Futurenet36.8×0.5×1.2×—4.8%
NICE Information & Telecommunication5.5×0.8×0.3×1.6×3.1%
Korea Information & Communication8.0×0.8×0.3×2.1×3.8%
Bucket Studio—1.4×8.4×—0.0%
Similar companies (median)9.0×0.7×0.4×2.1×3.5%

Calculated from end-of-day prices and filed financial statements. Not a recommendation. This is not financial advice.

Also known as: SK Telecom / SK텔레콤 / 017670 / KRX:017670

Source: KRX statistical information