KB Securities said on the 5th that on a consolidation basis for 2025, annual revenue was tentatively tallied at 1.41482 trillion won and operating profit at 911.5 billion won. Those figures rose 30.61% and 16.75%, respectively, from a year earlier. Net profit was 682.4 billion won, up 15.59% from a year earlier.
On a consolidation basis for the fourth quarter last year, revenue was 519.69 billion won and operating profit was 243.6 billion won. Those figures rose 88.47% and 437.72%, respectively, from a year earlier. Net profit was 179.9 billion won, up 376.77% from a year earlier.
The company said "growth in brokerage institutional sector fee revenue and an increase in the operating institutional sector's performance drove earnings growth," adding that "by revenue, operating profit, and net profit, all were record highs."
Specifically, in the WM institutional sector, total client assets surpassed 200 trillion won and total operating profit topped 1 trillion won. In the investment banking (IB) institutional sector, in the ECM field, it handled 11 listings, including the listing of LG CNS, and conducted nine paid-in capital increases. In addition, in the M&A institutional sector, it completed nine domestic and overseas acquisition financing refinancings.
The trading group said it expanded profitability through asset allocation and the operation of strategic assets such as mezzanine. It added that the wholesale institutional sector maintained the No. 1 share in the domestic institutional equities market on the back of growth in equity funds and net balances in stock lending balances (AUM).