Asiana Airlines아시아나항공
020560 · KOSPI · ₩020560 · 아시아나항공
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.
| FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₩7.6T | ₩8.3T | ₩7.3T | ₩7.2T | ₩7.5T | ₩7.9T | ₩8.1T | ₩8.4T |
| Growth | 22.8% | 9.1% | −12.6% | 5.4% | 4.8% | 4.2% | 3.6% | 3.0% |
| EBIT | ₩620B | ₩276B | −₩345B | ₩158B | ₩166B | ₩173B | ₩179B | ₩185B |
| EBIT margin | 8.1% | 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 | — | — | — | 0.954 | 0.910 | 0.868 | 0.828 | 0.789 |
| 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:
| Low | Typical | High | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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/B | 2.2× | 2.4× | 3.4× | 4.2× | 8.2× |
| P/S | 0.2× | 0.3× | 0.3× | 0.5× | 0.9× |
| EV/EBITDA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dividend yield | 0.0% | — | — | — | — |
Versus similar companies
| Company | P/E | P/B | P/S | EV/EBITDA | Dividend 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