Iquest

262840 · KOSDAQ · ₩262840 · 아이퀘스트

₩2,810▼ ₩50 (1.75%)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

₩2,894

vs the current price (₩2,810)

Enterprise value
₩67B
Equity value
₩30B
WACC
6.3%

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
—
Base
₩2,894
+3.0%
Bull
₩9,640
+243.1%

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 (10.9%).

Revenue growth

  • 18.2%

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

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (18.2% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 14.4%

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

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (18.2% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 10.6%

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

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (18.2% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 6.8%

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

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (18.2% 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 (18.2% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

Business

  • 10.9%

    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.

  • 29.1%

    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).

  • 36.3%

    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).

  • -3.9%

    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.

  • 0.84

    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 0.76, 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)
₩44B
Net debt (borrowings and leases − cash and deposits)
₩29B
− Minority interests
₩8.5B
Shares
10,249,759
Share price
₩2,810
Market cap
₩29B

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₩40B₩41B₩44B₩52B₩60B₩66B₩70B₩73B
Growth52.0%1.4%7.2%18.2%14.4%10.6%6.8%3.0%
EBIT₩3.6B₩3.4B₩4.3B₩5.7B₩6.5B₩7.2B₩7.7B₩7.9B
EBIT margin9.0%8.4%9.8%10.9%10.9%10.9%10.9%10.9%
After-tax EBIT₩2.6B₩2.5B₩3.1B₩4.1B₩4.7B₩5.2B₩5.6B₩5.7B
+ Depreciation———₩15B₩17B₩19B₩20B₩21B
− Capital spending₩439M₩7.3B₩39B₩19B₩22B₩24B₩26B₩26B
− Working capital−₩8.3B−₩164,646−₩1.5B−₩313M−₩293M−₩246M−₩175M−₩82M
Free cash flow———₩679M₩711M₩710M₩670M₩592M
Discount factor———0.9410.8850.8320.7830.736
Present value———₩639M₩629M₩590M₩524M₩436M

Terminal value ₩87B, worth ₩64B today: 96% 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 ₩5,547 a share)Now 0.51×₩3,7700.68×₩6,4831.17×₩11,5012.07×
Price / earnings (last 12 months: ₩786 a share)Now 3.58×₩3,4084.34×₩11,20414.3×₩28,99036.9×
P/E on run-rate earnings (Q2 2026 × 4: ₩446 a share)Now 6.30×₩1,9364.34×₩6,36314.3×₩16,46436.9×

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%
5.3%₩3,090₩3,994₩5,171₩6,766₩9,048
5.8%₩2,285₩2,991₩3,882₩5,041₩6,612
6.3%₩1,635₩2,199₩2,894₩3,772₩4,914
6.8%₩1,099₩1,559₩2,115₩2,800₩3,664
7.3%₩649₩1,031₩1,484₩2,032₩2,707

Now (TTM)

Market cap
₩29B
Enterprise value
₩57B
P/E
3.6×
P/B
0.5×
P/S
0.7×
EV/EBITDA
—
Dividend yield
5.0%

Over time (at each year end)

20252024202320222021
Price₩3,656₩4,182₩5,175₩6,175₩10,042
Market cap₩37B₩43B₩53B₩63B₩103B
P/E6.7×11.4×16.7×22.0×29.2×
P/B0.7×0.9×1.2×1.5×2.5×
P/S0.9×1.1×1.3×2.4×6.6×
EV/EBITDA—————
Dividend yield3.8%1.9%———

Versus similar companies

CompanyP/EP/BP/SEV/EBITDADividend yield
Iquest3.6×0.5×0.7×—5.0%
Krafton10.0×1.2×1.9×—1.2%
Hyundai Autoever41.5×4.2×1.7×—0.7%
NC7.0×1.2×2.1×8.5×0.6%
Netmarble7.1×0.5×1.0×—2.6%
PearlAbyss8.1×2.1×3.0×5.3×0.0%
Shift UP9.0×1.8×7.1×—0.0%
Similar companies (median)8.5×1.5×2.0×6.9×0.6%

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

Also known as: Iquest / 아이퀘스트 / 262840 / KRX:262840

Source: KRX statistical information