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Why Are People Buying KB Shares?

This afternoon we watched KB Financial rise 8.1% to a price of $91.07 per share. The Large-Cap Commercial Banking company is now trading -14.98% below its average target price of $107.12. Analysts have set target prices ranging from $107.117516 to $107.117516 per share for KB Financial, and have given the stock an average rating of buy.

The stock has a very low short interest at 0.2%, and a short ratio of 2.84. At 0.0%, the company's rate of insider ownership does not indicate that management is heavily invested in the corporation. Finally, we also note that a very small number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 5.8% of KB Financial's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in KB Financial

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2025-03-31 Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 1% 2,494,535 $227,177,301
2025-03-31 Blackrock Inc. 0% 1,619,429 $147,481,398
2025-03-31 Lazard Asset Management LLC 0% 1,527,731 $139,130,461
2025-03-31 Northern Trust Corporation 0% 957,093 $87,162,459
2025-03-31 Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership 0% 967,817 $88,139,093
2025-03-31 Morgan Stanley 0% 947,450 $86,284,271
2025-03-31 Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd 0% 844,377 $76,897,413
2025-03-31 Bank of America Corporation 0% 774,702 $70,552,110
2025-03-31 American Century Companies Inc 0% 634,875 $57,818,066
2025-03-31 Todd Asset Management LLC 0% 575,721 $52,430,911

Besides an analyst consensus of some upside potential, other market factors point to there being mixed market sentiment on KB Financial.

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