Asiana Airlines

020560 · KOSPI · ₩020560 · 아시아나항공

₩6,890▲ ₩130 (1.92%)End-of-day · Oct 27, 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

With these assumptions the model gives no positive value.

Enterprise value
₩2.7T
Equity value
−₩1.9T
WACC
4.8%

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

Why the model and the price differ

The model gives no positive value at these assumptions. What we can see:

  • To match today's price of ₩6,890, the model needs an operating margin of 3.9% every year (it uses 2.2%).
  • Or revenue growth +15.7 points a year higher than assumed in each of the 5 years.
  • Margins ranged from −4.8% to 9.6% over the last 5 years, so this is a cyclical business. The model uses the average; the price may be set by where the cycle is now. Try the margin fade option.
  • In the projection, spending on equipment, software and working capital takes most or all of the after-tax operating profit, so free cash flow is thin. Companies that invest heavily often look like this until spending slows.

Treat the model as a starting point: change the assumptions to the story you believe, and compare with the multiples check below.

Bear / Base / Bull

Bear
—
Base
—
Bull
₩36,069
+423.5%

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 (2.2%).

Revenue growth

  • 5.4%

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

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (5.4% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 4.8%

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

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (5.4% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 4.2%

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

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (5.4% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 3.6%

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

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (5.4% 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 (5.4% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

Business

  • 2.2%

    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.

  • 7%

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

    Default: not in the statements, so 80% of capital spending (most spending replaces equipment that wears out).

  • 8.8%

    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).

  • -10%

    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.

  • 4.11%

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

    Default: Korea Treasury Bond 10-year yield on 2026-10-28.

  • 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 0.24, 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.

  • 5.61%

    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)
₩6.8T
Net debt (borrowings and leases − cash and deposits)
₩4.7T
+ Stakes and investments
₩202B
Associates, long-term financial assets and deposits (book value)
− Minority interests
₩81B
Shares
205,990,711
Share price
₩6,890
Market cap
₩1.4T

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₩7.6T₩8.3T₩7.3T₩7.2T₩7.5T₩7.9T₩8.1T₩8.4T
Growth22.8%9.1%−12.6%5.4%4.8%4.2%3.6%3.0%
EBIT₩620B₩276B−₩345B₩158B₩166B₩173B₩179B₩185B
EBIT margin8.1%3.3%−4.8%2.2%2.2%2.2%2.2%2.2%
After-tax EBIT₩449B₩200B−₩250B₩115B₩120B₩125B₩130B₩134B
+ Depreciation———₩504B₩528B₩550B₩570B₩587B
− Capital spending₩609B₩715B₩709B₩633B₩664B₩692B₩717B₩738B
− Working capital−₩1.9T₩771B−₩277B−₩37B−₩35B−₩32B−₩28B−₩24B
Free cash flow———₩22B₩19B₩16B₩12B₩7.2B
Discount factor———0.9540.9100.8680.8280.789
Present value———₩21B₩17B₩14B₩9.6B₩5.7B

Terminal value ₩3.3T, worth ₩2.6T today: 97% 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 ₩644 a share)Now 10.7×₩1,2371.92×₩2,7434.26×₩8,62913.4×

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%
3.8%———₩7,576₩27,435
4.3%————₩8,277
4.8%—————
5.3%—————
5.8%—————

Now (TTM)

Market cap
₩1.4T
Enterprise value
₩1.3T
P/E
—
P/B
10.7×
P/S
0.2×
EV/EBITDA
—
Dividend yield
0.0%

Over time (at each year end)

20252024202320222021
Price₩7,860₩10,400₩11,160₩14,000₩20,000
Market cap₩1.6T₩2.1T₩2.3T₩2.9T₩4.1T
P/E——20.2×26.1×—
P/B2.2×2.4×3.4×4.2×8.2×
P/S0.2×0.3×0.3×0.5×0.9×
EV/EBITDA—————
Dividend yield0.0%————

Versus similar companies

CompanyP/EP/BP/SEV/EBITDADividend yield
Asiana Airlines—10.7×0.2×—0.0%
Korean Air Lines—0.9×0.4×4.3×2.9%
Jejuair—1.8×0.2×—0.0%
JIN Air—1.6×0.2×—0.0%
Air Busan—3.0×0.3×—0.0%
Trinity Airways—2.5×0.1×—0.0%
Similar companies (median)—1.8×0.2×4.3×0.0%

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

Also known as: Asiana Airlines / 아시아나항공 / 020560 / KRX:020560

Source: KRX statistical information