KB Financial Group announced on the 28th that it received the "Deputy Prime Minister's Award for Outstanding Corporations in Value-Up" at the "Value-Up Outstanding Corporations Awards Ceremony" held at the Korea Exchange on the 27th.
KB Financial Group received excellent evaluations in various qualitative categories, including quantitative indicators (Total Shareholder Return (TSR), Price-to-Book Ratio (PBR), Return on Equity (ROE)), disclosure completeness (board participation, adherence to guidelines), and efforts to enhance corporate value (shareholder return performance, market evaluation).
The efforts by KB Financial Group to enhance corporate value positively impacted its stock price, with the PBR improving to 0.65 times, and the market capitalization increasing from 21.8 trillion won at the end of 2023 to 40.1 trillion won as of the 27th.