SK Telecom Co. Ltd. Common Stock (SKM)

FairStock Score: 29/100 — RISKY

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AI-generated, general educational analysis — not personal investment advice.

SK Telecom is an incumbent Korean telecom with wireless, fixed-line, and other operations. Telecom can be a good business: subscribers need connectivity, cash flow is recurring, and the business description points to sticky service relationships. At 4,840 employees, it is not a sprawling conglomerate, and its beta of 0.71 suggests the shares have been less volatile than the market. The latest filed quarter, 2026-Q2, showed revenue of $4.4T and net income of $470.6B, a 10.80% margin. That is profitable but not spectacular. The returns are my main hesitation: FairStock's ROE is 5.19% and ROCE is 2.58%, and a P/E of 25.12 at the 2026-10-13 close is not a bargain for those returns. The balance sheet carries D/E of 0.66, and an Altman Z-Score of 1.34 warns of financial stress. On the positive side, P/B is 1.15, EV/EBITDA is 1.83, and Piotroski F-Score is 7/9. The Graham Number is listed at $1,494.44 with a 97.70% margin of safety, but that figure is so disconnected from the $34.42 price that I suspect a currency or unit error. The TTM FCF of $1.3T and 8,622.6% FCF yield also look unrealistic as presented. Revenue growth appears near flat and profit growth is sharply positive in the provided data, but the filing periods are not named. FairStock's score is 29/100, and its Lynch category is none because there are only 0 years of filed results, needing 3. I would call it a defensive, asset-supported telecom with an uncertain value signal, not a clear bargain on earnings.

In plain English: SK Telecom is a South Korean phone and internet company. In the quarter labeled 2026-Q2, it was profitable, with revenue of $4.4 trillion and net income of $470.6 billion. The stock looks mixed: it is cheap compared with the company’s assets, but not clearly cheap compared with its profits, and the business is growing slowly.

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Data as of 2026-10-13 close · note generated 2026-10-15 · model deepseek-flash

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