PI Advanced Materials

178920 · KOSPI · ₩178920 · PI첨단소재

₩15,800▼ ₩930 (5.56%)End-of-day · Oct 28, 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

₩18,953

vs the current price (₩15,800)

Enterprise value
₩537B
Equity value
₩557B
WACC
7.6%

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
₩12,897
−18.4%
Base
₩18,953
+20.0%
Bull
₩28,793
+82.2%

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

Start from

Preliminary results are the company's early announcement of a quarter's sales and operating profit, before the full report. Including them swaps that quarter in for the same quarter a year earlier.

Margin path

Every year uses the cycle-average margin (17.4%).

Revenue growth

  • -1.6%

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

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (-1.6% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • -0.4%

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

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (-1.6% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 0.7%

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

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (-1.6% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 1.9%

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

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (-1.6% 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 (-1.6% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

Business

  • 17.4%

    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.

  • 11.6%

    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).

  • 10.4%

    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).

  • 16.1%

    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.

  • 0.64

    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 0.46, 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)
₩268B
Net debt (borrowings and leases − cash and deposits)
−₩20B
Shares
29,366,322
Share price
₩15,800
Market cap
₩464B

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₩218B₩251B₩263B₩264B₩263B₩265B₩270B₩278B
Growth−21.3%15.5%4.8%−1.6%−0.4%0.7%1.9%3.0%
EBIT−₩3.9B₩35B₩43B₩46B₩46B₩46B₩47B₩48B
EBIT margin−1.8%13.9%16.3%17.4%17.4%17.4%17.4%17.4%
After-tax EBIT−₩2.9B₩25B₩31B₩33B₩33B₩33B₩34B₩35B
+ Depreciation₩26B₩29B₩30B₩31B₩31B₩31B₩31B₩32B
− Capital spending₩52B₩14B₩4.9B₩27B₩27B₩28B₩28B₩29B
− Working capital−₩37B₩8.3B−₩11B−₩691M−₩170M₩296M₩810M₩1.3B
Free cash flow₩8.1B₩32B₩67B₩37B₩37B₩36B₩36B₩37B
Discount factor———0.9290.8630.8020.7450.692
Present value———₩35B₩32B₩29B₩27B₩26B

Terminal value ₩561B, worth ₩388B today: 72% 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 ₩12,701 a share)Now 1.24×₩18,0481.42×₩29,2222.30×₩52,1804.11×
Price / earnings (last 12 months: ₩1,231 a share)Now 12.8×₩19,13715.5×₩26,03621.2×₩67,29954.7×
P/E on run-rate earnings (preliminary Q3 2026 × 4: ₩1,266 a share)Now 12.5×₩19,68915.5×₩26,78721.2×₩69,24154.7×

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%
6.6%₩19,784₩21,108₩22,716₩24,713₩27,259
7.1%₩18,284₩19,363₩20,652₩22,219₩24,163
7.6%₩17,008₩17,902₩18,953₩20,209₩21,734
8.1%₩15,910₩16,659₩17,530₩18,554₩19,776
8.6%₩14,955₩15,590₩16,319₩17,167₩18,164

Now (TTM)

Market cap
₩464B
Enterprise value
₩439B
P/E
12.8×
P/B
1.2×
P/S
1.7×
EV/EBITDA
5.2×
Dividend yield
2.2%

Over time (at each year end)

20252024202320222021
Price₩15,620₩16,890₩30,500₩28,900₩55,100
Market cap₩459B₩496B₩896B₩849B₩1.6T
P/E15.1×21.2×—18.6×25.3×
P/B1.3×1.5×2.8×2.5×5.0×
P/S1.7×2.0×4.1×3.1×5.4×
EV/EBITDA6.2×8.7×44.8×12.5×16.4×
Dividend yield2.2%2.1%———

Versus similar companies

CompanyP/EP/BP/SEV/EBITDADividend yield
PI Advanced Materials12.8×1.2×1.7×5.2×2.2%
Hankook Tire & Technology5.8×0.5×0.3×—4.0%
Kumho Tire3.1×0.6×0.3×—0.0%
Pum-Tech Korea20.1×2.6×2.1×—0.7%
Dongwon Systems9.7×0.7×0.4×5.7×2.8%
Nexen Tire3.5×0.3×0.2×—3.6%
Youlchon Chemical63.7×1.1×0.6×—0.0%
Similar companies (median)7.8×0.6×0.4×5.7×1.8%

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

Also known as: PI Advanced Materials / PI첨단소재 / 178920 / KRX:178920

Source: KRX statistical information