Bookook Steel

026940 · KOSPI · ₩026940 · 부국철강

₩1,909▼ ₩1 (0.05%)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

₩2,441

vs the current price (₩1,909)

Enterprise value
₩11B
Equity value
₩49B
WACC
7.3%

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
₩1,007
−47.3%
Base
₩2,441
+27.8%
Bull
₩5,408
+183.3%

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 (1.1%).

Revenue growth

  • -5%

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

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

  • -1%

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

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

  • 1%

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

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

Business

  • 1.1%

    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.

  • 0.4%

    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).

  • 0.5%

    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).

  • 32.2%

    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 0.31, 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)
₩192B
Net debt (borrowings and leases − cash and deposits)
−₩15B
+ Stakes and investments
₩23B
Associates, long-term financial assets and deposits (book value)
Shares
20,000,000
Share price
₩1,909
Market cap
₩38B

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₩191B₩182B₩180B₩182B₩177B₩175B₩177B₩182B
Growth−8.7%−5.0%−1.0%−5.0%−3.0%−1.0%1.0%3.0%
EBIT₩2.4B₩96M₩262M₩2B₩1.9B₩1.9B₩1.9B₩2B
EBIT margin1.3%0.1%0.1%1.1%1.1%1.1%1.1%1.1%
After-tax EBIT₩1.8B₩69M₩190M₩1.5B₩1.4B₩1.4B₩1.4B₩1.5B
+ Depreciation———₩728M₩706M₩699M₩706M₩727M
− Capital spending₩236M₩416M₩2B₩910M₩883M₩874M₩883M₩909M
− Working capital−₩2.1B−₩4.8B₩14B−₩3.1B−₩1.8B−₩569M₩563M₩1.7B
Free cash flow———₩4.4B₩3B₩1.8B₩669M−₩437M
Discount factor———0.9320.8680.8090.7540.703
Present value———₩4.1B₩2.6B₩1.4B₩504M−₩307M

Terminal value ₩4B, worth ₩2.8B today: 25% 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 ₩6,528 a share)Now 0.29×₩2,0980.32×₩3,0360.47×₩4,1720.64×
Price / earnings (last 12 months: ₩111 a share)Now 17.2×₩9478.51×₩2,04218.3×₩3,61032.4×

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%
6.3%₩2,863₩2,696₩2,488₩2,222₩1,873
6.8%₩2,800₩2,648₩2,462₩2,231₩1,936
7.3%₩2,747₩2,608₩2,441₩2,236₩1,983
7.8%₩2,701₩2,574₩2,422₩2,241₩2,019
8.3%₩2,662₩2,544₩2,407₩2,244₩2,048

Now (TTM)

Market cap
₩38B
Enterprise value
₩24B
P/E
17.2×
P/B
0.3×
P/S
0.2×
EV/EBITDA
—
Dividend yield
4.2%

Over time (at each year end)

20252024202320222021
Price₩2,075₩2,395₩4,250₩3,205₩4,265
Market cap₩42B₩48B₩85B₩64B₩85B
P/E19.3×20.5×23.4×9.0×9.7×
P/B0.3×0.4×0.6×0.5×0.7×
P/S0.2×0.3×0.4×0.3×0.4×
EV/EBITDA———6.9×8.4×
Dividend yield3.9%3.1%———

Versus similar companies

CompanyP/EP/BP/SEV/EBITDADividend yield
Bookook Steel17.2×0.3×0.2×—4.2%
POSCO Holdings16.1×0.4×0.3×7.7×3.7%
Korea Zinc18.6×1.6×0.9×—2.3%
Hyundai Steel—0.2×0.1×—1.9%
Poongsan8.0×0.7×0.3×5.9×3.0%
SeAH Besteel Holdings11.5×0.5×0.3×9.2×4.2%
Sama Aluminium—4.0×2.9×—0.0%
Similar companies (median)13.8×0.6×0.3×7.7×2.6%

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

Also known as: Bookook Steel / 부국철강 / 026940 / KRX:026940

Source: KRX statistical information