# Jb Financial (175330.KO)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/175330.KO

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:38:24.656Z. Financial observations: FY2016–FY2025.

Listing currency: KRW. Reporting currency: KRW.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: pass; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: KRW 26,650.00 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low KRW 33,003.97 per share, central KRW 41,254.96 per share, high KRW 55,006.61 per share. Buy at or below the central value KRW 41,254.96 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:38:24.656Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 12.2% at the stated quote. About 12.2% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; KR 10-year bond 4.2% + 4 points).

## Checklist

### understandable: pass

- Financial history: 10 years

- Profitable years in the last ten: 10

- Required profitable years: 9

- Return on common equity variation (informational): 0.22×

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: KRW 143B

- FY2017: KRW 185B

- FY2018: KRW 242B

- FY2019: KRW 319B

- FY2020: KRW 345B

- FY2021: KRW 488B

- FY2022: KRW 582B

- FY2023: KRW 586B

- FY2024: KRW 678B

- FY2025: KRW 710B

### moat: fail

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- median return on common equity below threshold

- Bank / P&C ROTE, median of available years: 10.9%

- Required median return: 12.0%

- Return uses tangible common equity: Yes

- Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: 8.2%

- Years with reported combined ratio: 0

Chart: Return on tangible common equity; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 6.8%

- FY2017: 8.3%

- FY2018: 8.2%

- FY2019: 9.6%

- FY2020: 9.6%

- FY2021: 12.2%

- FY2022: 13.2%

- FY2023: 12.2%

- FY2024: 12.6%

- FY2025: 12.5%

### economics: pass

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 20.1%

- Book return interval: 9 years

- Starting book value per share: KRW 7K

- Ending book value per share: KRW 29K

Chart: Annual book + dividend return; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: 142.5%

- FY2018: -25.0%

- FY2019: 23.9%

- FY2020: 23.3%

- FY2021: 13.7%

- FY2022: 10.3%

- FY2023: 12.7%

- FY2024: 19.1%

- FY2025: 10.9%

### management: pass

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: -4.6%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 0.2%

- Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: -4.6%

- Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0.2%

- Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0

- Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: 1.50×

- Book value created per share: KRW 22K

- Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: KRW 15K

Chart: Shares (first year = 100); fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 100

- FY2017: 44

- FY2018: 79

- FY2019: 72

- FY2020: 65

- FY2021: 65

- FY2022: 67

- FY2023: 68

- FY2024: 66

- FY2025: 66

### accounting: pass

- Financial accounting warning count: 0

- Known restatement years: 0

## Holders

## Price story

The price assumes profits grow 3.8% a year forever · net income +4.9%

Story as of 2026-10-16T10:00:09.919Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

The price assumes profits grow 3.8% a year forever

### Net income · FY2025

net income +4.9%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2016: KRW 143B 

- FY2017: KRW 185B 

- FY2018: KRW 242B 

- FY2019: KRW 319B 

- FY2020: KRW 345B 

- FY2021: KRW 488B 

- FY2022: KRW 582B 

- FY2023: KRW 586B 

- FY2024: KRW 678B 

- FY2025: KRW 710B 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Operates in regional banking; annual sales are KRW 2.5 trillion.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/175330.KO.json#2025-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:38:24.656Z); FY2025: revenue 2542637000000.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); 175330.KO: JB Financial Group Co., Ltd., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of financial services in South Korea and internationally. It is involved in banking business for smaller enterprises, merchants, and households; and installment financing, rental of facilities business. The company also offers asset management in the energy and resources fund markets; venture investment; finance, microfinance; new technology; and securities business. JB Financial Group Co., Ltd. was founded in 2013 and is based in Jeonju-si, South Korea.

### Why customers stay

It earns 10.9% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:38:24.656Z); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2016,0.06755345673382233],[2017,0.08250776084947363],[2018,0.08160890529608468],[2019,0.09626710153443281],[2020,0.09556872468134704],[2021,0.12158766476124963],[2022,0.13205573079655825],[2023,0.12192846312511951],[2024,0.12607622665833995],[2025,0.12485846809841938]]; median 0.10892738314784123. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years; bought back KRW 106.3 billion of shares.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:38:24.656Z); Dividend observations: [[2016,20530000000],[2017,20530000000],[2018,31055000000],[2019,58048000000],[2020,77026000000],[2021,91408000000],[2022,158456000000],[2023,188825000000],[2024,220359000000],[2025,246799000000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/175330.KO.json#2025-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:38:24.656Z); FY2025: cash repurchases 106346000000 KRW.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 28.3% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); 175330.KO SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 28.273 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price assumes profits grow 3.8% a year forever.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:38:24.656Z); Price 26650; FX 1; original perpetual distributable cash 1650.1982797046683; discount 0.1; growth 0.03807886380095054. Same book-value model and 4× ceiling; no ten-year operating fade applies. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (KRW per share)

- 2016-10: KRW 5,940.00 per share

- 2016-11: KRW 5,720.00 per share

- 2016-12: KRW 5,780.00 per share

- 2017-01: KRW 5,600.00 per share

- 2017-02: KRW 5,680.00 per share

- 2017-03: KRW 5,960.00 per share

- 2017-04: KRW 6,050.00 per share

- 2017-05: KRW 6,190.00 per share

- 2017-06: KRW 6,360.00 per share

- 2017-07: KRW 6,930.00 per share

- 2017-08: KRW 6,220.00 per share

- 2017-09: KRW 6,000.00 per share

- 2017-10: KRW 5,890.00 per share

- 2017-11: KRW 5,970.00 per share

- 2017-12: KRW 6,070.00 per share

- 2018-01: KRW 6,600.00 per share

- 2018-02: KRW 6,350.00 per share

- 2018-03: KRW 6,190.00 per share

- 2018-04: KRW 6,150.00 per share

- 2018-05: KRW 6,060.00 per share

- 2018-06: KRW 5,570.00 per share

- 2018-07: KRW 5,950.00 per share

- 2018-08: KRW 6,210.00 per share

- 2018-09: KRW 6,030.00 per share

- 2018-10: KRW 5,490.00 per share

- 2018-11: KRW 5,700.00 per share

- 2018-12: KRW 5,700.00 per share

- 2019-01: KRW 6,210.00 per share

- 2019-02: KRW 5,940.00 per share

- 2019-03: KRW 5,570.00 per share

- 2019-04: KRW 5,690.00 per share

- 2019-05: KRW 5,580.00 per share

- 2019-06: KRW 5,910.00 per share

- 2019-07: KRW 5,510.00 per share

- 2019-08: KRW 5,490.00 per share

- 2019-09: KRW 5,620.00 per share

- 2019-10: KRW 5,340.00 per share

- 2019-11: KRW 5,400.00 per share

- 2019-12: KRW 5,490.00 per share

- 2020-01: KRW 5,110.00 per share

- 2020-02: KRW 5,010.00 per share

- 2020-03: KRW 4,475.00 per share

- 2020-04: KRW 4,835.00 per share

- 2020-05: KRW 4,750.00 per share

- 2020-06: KRW 4,740.00 per share

- 2020-07: KRW 4,600.00 per share

- 2020-08: KRW 4,290.00 per share

- 2020-09: KRW 4,520.00 per share

- 2020-10: KRW 5,100.00 per share

- 2020-11: KRW 5,470.00 per share

- 2020-12: KRW 5,640.00 per share

- 2021-01: KRW 5,180.00 per share

- 2021-02: KRW 5,830.00 per share

- 2021-03: KRW 6,550.00 per share

- 2021-04: KRW 7,300.00 per share

- 2021-05: KRW 7,690.00 per share

- 2021-06: KRW 7,530.00 per share

- 2021-07: KRW 7,740.00 per share

- 2021-08: KRW 8,290.00 per share

- 2021-09: KRW 8,930.00 per share

- 2021-10: KRW 8,870.00 per share

- 2021-11: KRW 8,030.00 per share

- 2021-12: KRW 8,350.00 per share

- 2022-01: KRW 8,130.00 per share

- 2022-02: KRW 8,220.00 per share

- 2022-03: KRW 8,450.00 per share

- 2022-04: KRW 8,950.00 per share

- 2022-05: KRW 8,940.00 per share

- 2022-06: KRW 7,350.00 per share

- 2022-07: KRW 7,460.00 per share

- 2022-08: KRW 7,590.00 per share

- 2022-09: KRW 6,960.00 per share

- 2022-10: KRW 7,180.00 per share

- 2022-11: KRW 8,420.00 per share

- 2022-12: KRW 7,890.00 per share

- 2023-01: KRW 10,140.00 per share

- 2023-02: KRW 9,250.00 per share

- 2023-03: KRW 8,740.00 per share

- 2023-04: KRW 8,360.00 per share

- 2023-05: KRW 8,500.00 per share

- 2023-06: KRW 8,470.00 per share

- 2023-07: KRW 8,560.00 per share

- 2023-08: KRW 9,710.00 per share

- 2023-09: KRW 9,960.00 per share

- 2023-10: KRW 10,100.00 per share

- 2023-11: KRW 10,390.00 per share

- 2023-12: KRW 11,390.00 per share

- 2024-01: KRW 11,440.00 per share

- 2024-02: KRW 13,160.00 per share

- 2024-03: KRW 13,200.00 per share

- 2024-04: KRW 13,310.00 per share

- 2024-05: KRW 14,620.00 per share

- 2024-06: KRW 14,640.00 per share

- 2024-07: KRW 14,440.00 per share

- 2024-08: KRW 14,160.00 per share

- 2024-09: KRW 15,310.00 per share

- 2024-10: KRW 17,910.00 per share

- 2024-11: KRW 19,680.00 per share

- 2024-12: KRW 16,280.00 per share

- 2025-01: KRW 19,770.00 per share

- 2025-02: KRW 17,240.00 per share

- 2025-03: KRW 17,410.00 per share

- 2025-04: KRW 17,070.00 per share

- 2025-05: KRW 18,870.00 per share

- 2025-06: KRW 20,550.00 per share

- 2025-07: KRW 23,100.00 per share

- 2025-08: KRW 23,500.00 per share

- 2025-09: KRW 22,950.00 per share

- 2025-10: KRW 22,450.00 per share

- 2025-11: KRW 24,100.00 per share

- 2025-12: KRW 25,650.00 per share

- 2026-01: KRW 25,150.00 per share

- 2026-02: KRW 31,750.00 per share

- 2026-03: KRW 29,700.00 per share

- 2026-04: KRW 27,300.00 per share

- 2026-05: KRW 23,900.00 per share

- 2026-06: KRW 24,800.00 per share

- 2026-07: KRW 26,450.00 per share

- 2026-08: KRW 28,350.00 per share

- 2026-09: KRW 29,100.00 per share

- 2026-10: KRW 28,200.00 per share

## Annual estimated value (KRW per share)

- FY2017: low KRW 12,749.03 per share, central KRW 14,023.93 per share, high KRW 15,582.15 per share

- FY2018: low KRW 5,568.25 per share, central KRW 6,960.31 per share, high KRW 9,280.41 per share

- FY2019: low KRW 6,919.82 per share, central KRW 8,649.77 per share, high KRW 11,533.03 per share

- FY2020: low KRW 10,784.83 per share, central KRW 13,481.04 per share, high KRW 17,974.72 per share

- FY2021: low KRW 14,694.43 per share, central KRW 18,368.04 per share, high KRW 24,490.72 per share

- FY2022: low KRW 16,781.45 per share, central KRW 20,976.82 per share, high KRW 27,969.09 per share

- FY2023: low KRW 20,024.54 per share, central KRW 25,030.67 per share, high KRW 33,374.23 per share

- FY2024: low KRW 22,909.81 per share, central KRW 28,637.27 per share, high KRW 38,183.02 per share

- FY2025: low KRW 30,480.22 per share, central KRW 38,100.28 per share, high KRW 50,800.37 per share

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

Prior published observations retained from 2026-10-15T06:44:22.259Z where newer inputs omit a numeric field or fiscal period.

## Sources

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.
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Jb Financial

175330 · KO

KOSPI 200

Not a wonderful business

1 quality test fails. A lower price would not fix the business.

Share price
KRW 26,650.00
Buy up to
KRW 41,254.96
Expected / yr
12.2% at today's price (10.0% at central value)

The business

How it makes money
Why customers stay
Where the cash goes
Are managers owners
What the price says

1. Is this a good business?

Evidence only; not required for Buy

Profits were positive in 10 years (at least 9 needed).

10y median
KRW 416B
Worst year
KRW 143B
Latest · 2025
KRW 710B

Earned a median 10.9% on tangible equity (minimum 12%).

10y median
10.9%
Worst year
6.8%
Latest · 2025
12.5%

Book value plus dividends grew 20.1% a year (minimum 7%).

9y median
13.7%
Worst year
-25.0%
Latest · 2025
10.9%

Ordinary share growth was -4.6% over the full period and 0.2% over five years (either must be at most 2% a year).

10y median
67
Worst year
100
Latest · 2025
66

0 accounting warnings were found (none allowed).

accounting warnings
0
Passing bar
≤ 0

Profit record · pass 0 loss years in 10 (at most 2), three-year average earnings per share 3,321.67 KRW.

2. Is the price low enough?

Price & return math
Value rangeKRW 33,003.97 – KRW 55,006.61
Buy at or belowCentral value KRW 41,254.96
Discount to value1 − 26650.00 / 41254.96 = 35.4%
Return / yearAbout 12.2% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%)
Cash-flow inputsBook KRW 31384.74/share; ROE 11.3%; first payout KRW 1650.20/share, growing 6.0% perpetually (4× book payout cap applied).
Required return10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value
Net incomeKRW 710B
710B020162025
FY2016 · Net income: KRW 143B; FY2017 · Net income: KRW 185B; FY2018 · Net income: KRW 242B; FY2019 · Net income: KRW 319B; FY2020 · Net income: KRW 345B; FY2021 · Net income: KRW 488B; FY2022 · Net income: KRW 582B; FY2023 · Net income: KRW 586B; FY2024 · Net income: KRW 678B; FY2025 · Net income: KRW 710B
Net income
Book / shareKRW 29K
29K020162025
FY2016 · Book / share: KRW 7K; FY2017 · Book / share: KRW 17K; FY2018 · Book / share: KRW 13K; FY2019 · Book / share: KRW 15K; FY2020 · Book / share: KRW 19K; FY2021 · Book / share: KRW 21K; FY2022 · Book / share: KRW 22K; FY2023 · Book / share: KRW 24K; FY2024 · Book / share: KRW 27K; FY2025 · Book / share: KRW 29K
Book / share
Dividend / shareKRW 1K
1K020162025
FY2016 · Dividend / share: KRW 68.77; FY2017 · Dividend / share: KRW 155.57; FY2018 · Dividend / share: KRW 132.44; FY2019 · Dividend / share: KRW 269.39; FY2020 · Dividend / share: KRW 396.34; FY2021 · Dividend / share: KRW 470.34; FY2022 · Dividend / share: KRW 789.88; FY2023 · Dividend / share: KRW 936.74; FY2024 · Dividend / share: KRW 1K; FY2025 · Dividend / share: KRW 1K
Dividend / share
Return on tangible equity12.5%
13.2%0.0%20162025
FY2016 · Return on tangible equity: 6.8%; FY2017 · Return on tangible equity: 8.3%; FY2018 · Return on tangible equity: 8.2%; FY2019 · Return on tangible equity: 9.6%; FY2020 · Return on tangible equity: 9.6%; FY2021 · Return on tangible equity: 12.2%; FY2022 · Return on tangible equity: 13.2%; FY2023 · Return on tangible equity: 12.2%; FY2024 · Return on tangible equity: 12.6%; FY2025 · Return on tangible equity: 12.5%
Return on tangible equity
Diluted shares196M
299M020162025
FY2016 · Diluted shares: 299M; FY2017 · Diluted shares: 132M; FY2018 · Diluted shares: 234M; FY2019 · Diluted shares: 215M; FY2020 · Diluted shares: 194M; FY2021 · Diluted shares: 194M; FY2022 · Diluted shares: 201M; FY2023 · Diluted shares: 202M; FY2024 · Diluted shares: 197M; FY2025 · Diluted shares: 196M
Diluted shares
Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2025