# Woori Financial Group (316140.KO)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/316140.KO

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:34:58.293Z. Financial observations: FY2017–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 31,150.00 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low KRW 29,118.62 per share, central KRW 36,398.27 per share, high KRW 48,531.03 per share. Buy at or below the central value KRW 36,398.27 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:34:58.293Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 10.7% at the stated quote. About 10.7% 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: 9 years

- Profitable years in the last ten: 9

- Required profitable years: 9

- Return on common equity variation (informational): 0.18×

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: KRW 1.35T

- FY2018: KRW 1.88T

- FY2019: KRW 1.87T

- FY2020: KRW 1.26T

- FY2021: KRW 2.52T

- FY2022: KRW 3.05T

- FY2023: KRW 2.51T

- FY2024: KRW 3.09T

- FY2025: KRW 3.12T

### 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: 9.0%

- Required median return: 12.0%

- Return uses tangible common equity: Yes

- Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: 6.8%

- Years with reported combined ratio: 0

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

- FY2017: 6.8%

- FY2018: 8.9%

- FY2019: 9.0%

- FY2020: 5.7%

- FY2021: 10.4%

- FY2022: 11.2%

- FY2023: 8.4%

- FY2024: 9.6%

- FY2025: 9.1%

### economics: pass

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 8.8%

- Book return interval: 8 years

- Starting book value per share: KRW 29K

- Ending book value per share: KRW 47K

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

- FY2018: 9.0%

- FY2019: -5.3%

- FY2020: 10.4%

- FY2021: 9.8%

- FY2022: 15.1%

- FY2023: 12.7%

- FY2024: 9.9%

- FY2025: 9.9%

### management: fail

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- book per share gain below retained common earnings per share

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 1.0%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 0.3%

- Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 1.0%

- Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0.3%

- Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0

- Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: 0.96×

- Book value created per share: KRW 17K

- Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: KRW 18K

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

- FY2017: 100

- FY2018: 100

- FY2019: 106

- FY2020: 106

- FY2021: 107

- FY2022: 107

- FY2023: 108

- FY2024: 109

- FY2025: 108

### accounting: pass

- Financial accounting warning count: 0

- Known restatement years: 0

## Holders

## Price story

The price assumes profits grow 5.3% a year forever · net income +1.2%

Story as of 2026-10-16T10:00:03.232Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

The price assumes profits grow 5.3% a year forever

### Net income · FY2025

net income +1.2%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1264136/000119312526168715/d82423d20f.htm; observed 2026-04-22.

- FY2017: KRW 1.35T 

- FY2018: KRW 1.88T 

- FY2019: KRW 1.87T 

- FY2020: KRW 1.26T 

- FY2021: KRW 2.52T 

- FY2022: KRW 3.05T 

- FY2023: KRW 2.51T 

- FY2024: KRW 3.09T 

- FY2025: KRW 3.12T 

## Owner memo

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

### How it makes money

Operates in regional banking; annual sales are KRW 13.3 trillion.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/316140.KO.json#2025-12-31 (filed 2026-04-22); FY2025: revenue 13291571000000.

### Why customers stay

It earns 9% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-04-22); 9-year return on tangible equity observations [[2017,0.06777125726919031],[2018,0.08901482427902854],[2019,0.09038137524641614],[2020,0.056525806783010564],[2021,0.10426253681583247],[2022,0.11249663285499188],[2023,0.08388845973372609],[2024,0.09575970023131311],[2025,0.0914762800517832]]; median 0.09038137524641614. 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 150 billion of shares.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-04-22); Dividend observations: [[2016,168317000000],[2017,514366000000],[2018,484261000000],[2019,598678000000],[2020,554502000000],[2021,434607000000],[2022,746752000000],[2023,978376000000],[2024,878330000000],[2025,927296000000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/316140.KO.json#2025-12-31 (filed 2026-04-22); FY2025: cash repurchases 150000000000 KRW.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 8.4% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); 316140.KO SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 8.416 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price assumes profits grow 5.3% a year forever.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-04-22); Price 31150; FX 1; original perpetual distributable cash 1455.930858598354; discount 0.1; growth 0.053260646593953326. 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 12,500.00 per share

- 2016-11: KRW 12,000.00 per share

- 2016-12: KRW 12,750.00 per share

- 2017-01: KRW 13,100.00 per share

- 2017-02: KRW 13,300.00 per share

- 2017-03: KRW 13,000.00 per share

- 2017-04: KRW 14,950.00 per share

- 2017-05: KRW 15,300.00 per share

- 2017-06: KRW 18,450.00 per share

- 2017-07: KRW 19,100.00 per share

- 2017-08: KRW 18,600.00 per share

- 2017-09: KRW 17,850.00 per share

- 2017-10: KRW 16,400.00 per share

- 2017-11: KRW 16,200.00 per share

- 2017-12: KRW 15,750.00 per share

- 2018-01: KRW 16,850.00 per share

- 2018-02: KRW 16,600.00 per share

- 2018-03: KRW 14,650.00 per share

- 2018-04: KRW 16,050.00 per share

- 2018-05: KRW 15,300.00 per share

- 2018-06: KRW 16,300.00 per share

- 2018-07: KRW 16,900.00 per share

- 2018-08: KRW 16,300.00 per share

- 2018-09: KRW 16,900.00 per share

- 2018-10: KRW 15,750.00 per share

- 2018-11: KRW 15,650.00 per share

- 2018-12: KRW 15,600.00 per share

- 2019-01: KRW 14,800.00 per share

- 2019-02: KRW 14,800.00 per share

- 2019-03: KRW 13,750.00 per share

- 2019-04: KRW 13,850.00 per share

- 2019-05: KRW 13,900.00 per share

- 2019-06: KRW 14,050.00 per share

- 2019-07: KRW 13,100.00 per share

- 2019-08: KRW 11,900.00 per share

- 2019-09: KRW 12,450.00 per share

- 2019-10: KRW 11,750.00 per share

- 2019-11: KRW 11,700.00 per share

- 2019-12: KRW 11,600.00 per share

- 2020-01: KRW 10,150.00 per share

- 2020-02: KRW 9,610.00 per share

- 2020-03: KRW 7,650.00 per share

- 2020-04: KRW 8,440.00 per share

- 2020-05: KRW 9,130.00 per share

- 2020-06: KRW 8,810.00 per share

- 2020-07: KRW 8,500.00 per share

- 2020-08: KRW 8,460.00 per share

- 2020-09: KRW 8,580.00 per share

- 2020-10: KRW 8,890.00 per share

- 2020-11: KRW 9,830.00 per share

- 2020-12: KRW 9,730.00 per share

- 2021-01: KRW 8,800.00 per share

- 2021-02: KRW 9,580.00 per share

- 2021-03: KRW 10,100.00 per share

- 2021-04: KRW 10,700.00 per share

- 2021-05: KRW 11,150.00 per share

- 2021-06: KRW 11,450.00 per share

- 2021-07: KRW 10,850.00 per share

- 2021-08: KRW 11,250.00 per share

- 2021-09: KRW 11,650.00 per share

- 2021-10: KRW 13,250.00 per share

- 2021-11: KRW 12,600.00 per share

- 2021-12: KRW 12,700.00 per share

- 2022-01: KRW 14,650.00 per share

- 2022-02: KRW 14,300.00 per share

- 2022-03: KRW 15,350.00 per share

- 2022-04: KRW 14,750.00 per share

- 2022-05: KRW 14,900.00 per share

- 2022-06: KRW 12,100.00 per share

- 2022-07: KRW 11,900.00 per share

- 2022-08: KRW 12,200.00 per share

- 2022-09: KRW 10,700.00 per share

- 2022-10: KRW 11,750.00 per share

- 2022-11: KRW 13,000.00 per share

- 2022-12: KRW 11,550.00 per share

- 2023-01: KRW 12,790.00 per share

- 2023-02: KRW 12,200.00 per share

- 2023-03: KRW 11,410.00 per share

- 2023-04: KRW 11,730.00 per share

- 2023-05: KRW 11,980.00 per share

- 2023-06: KRW 11,790.00 per share

- 2023-07: KRW 11,650.00 per share

- 2023-08: KRW 11,910.00 per share

- 2023-09: KRW 12,260.00 per share

- 2023-10: KRW 11,900.00 per share

- 2023-11: KRW 13,020.00 per share

- 2023-12: KRW 13,000.00 per share

- 2024-01: KRW 13,880.00 per share

- 2024-02: KRW 14,900.00 per share

- 2024-03: KRW 14,320.00 per share

- 2024-04: KRW 14,230.00 per share

- 2024-05: KRW 14,170.00 per share

- 2024-06: KRW 14,690.00 per share

- 2024-07: KRW 15,740.00 per share

- 2024-08: KRW 16,020.00 per share

- 2024-09: KRW 15,500.00 per share

- 2024-10: KRW 15,430.00 per share

- 2024-11: KRW 16,710.00 per share

- 2024-12: KRW 15,370.00 per share

- 2025-01: KRW 16,100.00 per share

- 2025-02: KRW 16,580.00 per share

- 2025-03: KRW 16,500.00 per share

- 2025-04: KRW 17,710.00 per share

- 2025-05: KRW 19,270.00 per share

- 2025-06: KRW 22,450.00 per share

- 2025-07: KRW 24,700.00 per share

- 2025-08: KRW 24,800.00 per share

- 2025-09: KRW 25,950.00 per share

- 2025-10: KRW 25,400.00 per share

- 2025-11: KRW 26,550.00 per share

- 2025-12: KRW 28,000.00 per share

- 2026-01: KRW 30,250.00 per share

- 2026-02: KRW 36,000.00 per share

- 2026-03: KRW 32,050.00 per share

- 2026-04: KRW 33,350.00 per share

- 2026-05: KRW 29,700.00 per share

- 2026-06: KRW 29,000.00 per share

- 2026-07: KRW 33,600.00 per share

- 2026-08: KRW 33,800.00 per share

- 2026-09: KRW 34,900.00 per share

- 2026-10: KRW 32,000.00 per share

## Annual estimated value (KRW per share)

- FY2019: low KRW 11,983.05 per share, central KRW 14,470.51 per share, high KRW 18,261.18 per share

- FY2020: low KRW 11,159.96 per share, central KRW 13,250.18 per share, high KRW 16,303.84 per share

- FY2021: low KRW 13,918.88 per share, central KRW 16,808.17 per share, high KRW 21,211.22 per share

- FY2022: low KRW 17,421.80 per share, central KRW 21,777.25 per share, high KRW 29,036.33 per share

- FY2023: low KRW 20,598.14 per share, central KRW 25,395.47 per share, high KRW 33,105.86 per share

- FY2024: low KRW 23,694.01 per share, central KRW 29,617.51 per share, high KRW 39,490.01 per share

- FY2025: low KRW 28,882.01 per share, central KRW 36,102.51 per share, high KRW 48,136.68 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 2026-10-15T06:40:44.225Z where newer inputs omit a numeric field or fiscal period.

## Sources

[Original 20-F filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1264136/000119312526168715/d82423d20f.htm); period 2025-12-31, filed 2026-04-22.

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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Woori Financial Group

316140 · KO

KOSPI 200

Not a wonderful business

2 quality tests fail. A lower price would not fix the business.

Share price
KRW 31,150.00
Buy up to
KRW 36,398.27
Expected / yr
10.7% 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 9 years (at least 9 needed).

9y median
KRW 2.51T
Worst year
KRW 1.26T
Latest · 2025
KRW 3.12T

Earned a median 9% on tangible equity (minimum 12%).

9y median
9.0%
Worst year
5.7%
Latest · 2025
9.1%

Book value plus dividends grew 8.8% a year (minimum 7%).

8y median
9.9%
Worst year
-5.3%
Latest · 2025
9.9%

Book value gained 17352.16 per share against 18005.55 kept (must cover the amount kept).

9y median
107
Worst year
109
Latest · 2025
108

0 accounting warnings were found (none allowed).

Filing signals · estimated likelihood
Control weakness4%Auditor change2%Going concern3%Related parties35%
Material weakness in internal control: 4% estimated likelihood. ; Auditor change within the past three years disclosed: 2% estimated likelihood. ; Going-concern uncertainty: 3% estimated likelihood. ; Material related-party transactions: 35% estimated likelihood.
accounting warnings
0
Passing bar
≤ 0

Profit record · pass 0 loss years in 10 (at most 2), three-year average earnings per share 3,943.72 KRW.

2. Is the price low enough?

Price & return math
Value rangeKRW 29,118.62 – KRW 48,531.03
Buy at or belowCentral value KRW 36,398.27
Discount to value1 − 31150.00 / 36398.27 = 14.4%
Return / yearAbout 10.7% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%)
Cash-flow inputsBook KRW 46913.51/share; ROE 9.1%; first payout KRW 1455.93/share, growing 6.0% perpetually (4× book payout cap applied).
Required return10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value
Net incomeKRW 3.12T
3.12T020172025
FY2017 · Net income: KRW 1.35T; FY2018 · Net income: KRW 1.88T; FY2019 · Net income: KRW 1.87T; FY2020 · Net income: KRW 1.26T; FY2021 · Net income: KRW 2.52T; FY2022 · Net income: KRW 3.05T; FY2023 · Net income: KRW 2.51T; FY2024 · Net income: KRW 3.09T; FY2025 · Net income: KRW 3.12T
Net income
Book / shareKRW 47K
47K020172025
FY2017 · Book / share: KRW 29K; FY2018 · Book / share: KRW 31K; FY2019 · Book / share: KRW 29K; FY2020 · Book / share: KRW 31K; FY2021 · Book / share: KRW 33K; FY2022 · Book / share: KRW 37K; FY2023 · Book / share: KRW 41K; FY2024 · Book / share: KRW 43K; FY2025 · Book / share: KRW 47K
Book / share
Dividend / shareKRW 1K
1K020172025
FY2017 · Dividend / share: KRW 756.24; FY2018 · Dividend / share: KRW 711.98; FY2019 · Dividend / share: KRW 828.89; FY2020 · Dividend / share: KRW 767.72; FY2021 · Dividend / share: KRW 597.22; FY2022 · Dividend / share: KRW 1K; FY2023 · Dividend / share: KRW 1K; FY2024 · Dividend / share: KRW 1K; FY2025 · Dividend / share: KRW 1K
Dividend / share
Return on tangible equity9.1%
11.2%0.0%20172025
FY2017 · Return on tangible equity: 6.8%; FY2018 · Return on tangible equity: 8.9%; FY2019 · Return on tangible equity: 9.0%; FY2020 · Return on tangible equity: 5.7%; FY2021 · Return on tangible equity: 10.4%; FY2022 · Return on tangible equity: 11.2%; FY2023 · Return on tangible equity: 8.4%; FY2024 · Return on tangible equity: 9.6%; FY2025 · Return on tangible equity: 9.1%
Return on tangible equity
Diluted shares734M
741M020172025
FY2017 · Diluted shares: 680M; FY2018 · Diluted shares: 680M; FY2019 · Diluted shares: 722M; FY2020 · Diluted shares: 722M; FY2021 · Diluted shares: 728M; FY2022 · Diluted shares: 728M; FY2023 · Diluted shares: 735M; FY2024 · Diluted shares: 741M; FY2025 · Diluted shares: 734M
Diluted shares
Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2025Original filing ↗ ·