28 Korean companies report Q3 results on 26–30 October. Eight of them drew no report in our broker list
Korea's earnings week runs from IBK and BNK on Monday to Kia and Hyundai Mobis on Friday. Our list of 710 broker reports holds 46 company reports on 20 of the 28. Targets were cut 11 times and raised 9 times. Every rating was Buy.
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Korea’s third-quarter reporting peaks this week. SK hynix reports on Wednesday 28 October, Samsung Electronics’ full results come on Thursday 29 October, and the U.S. Federal Reserve decides in the same days. The KOSPI went into the week at 5,550.30 (Friday’s close, as reported by Korean wires), more than 40% below its June high.
We took the earnings calendar published by The Asia Business Daily on 25 October and checked every name against our archive of broker reports, the target-change tape.
The week, day by day
| Day | Reporting | Company reports in our list | Target cut | Raised |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 26 Oct | HD Construction Equipment, IBK, BNK Financial | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Tue 27 Oct | HD Hyundai Electric, JB Financial, iM Financial, LG Innotek, Samsung Card, Shinhan Financial, Hanwha Systems | 8 | 2 | 1 |
| Wed 28 Oct | SK hynix, LG Electronics, OCI, SKC, Samsung C&T, Doosan Fuel Cell, Samsung Electro-Mechanics | 16 | 3 | 2 |
| Thu 29 Oct | Samsung Electronics, KB Financial, SK Innovation, Doosan Robotics, Samsung SDI, Samsung Heavy Industries, Hanwha Aerospace | 11 | 2 | 3 |
| Fri 30 Oct | Kia, APR, Hyundai E&C, Hyundai Mobis | 9 | 4 | 2 |
| Total | 28 companies | 46 | 11 | 9 |
The other 26 reports were 9 unchanged targets, 13 with no prior target listed, and 4 with no target at all.
Eight companies with nothing in the list
BNK Financial, JB Financial, iM Financial, Samsung Card, SKC, Doosan Robotics, Samsung SDI and Hanwha Aerospace drew no company report in our list for the month. That does not mean nobody covers them. The list has 12 publishers, and several of Korea’s biggest brokers are not among them. It does mean the free, public record we can count says nothing about them going into results.
Four of the eight are financial companies. The whole week’s seven financial reporters drew four company reports between them.
Where the cuts landed
Friday’s carmakers took the most cuts: two on Hyundai Mobis, one on Kia, one on APR (Mobis and Kia in detail). On Tuesday, two of four HD Hyundai Electric reports cut the target, and three of the four named the exchange rate in their title (the exchange-rate count).
The most-covered company of the week was not a memory maker. It was Samsung Electro-Mechanics, with six reports (details). SK hynix and Samsung Electronics had four each (yesterday’s count).
One thing did not vary
Of the 46 reports, 42 carried a rating. Every one of the 42 was Buy: 30 written as “Buy”, 11 as the Korean word for it, one as “Strong Buy”. The four without were three Meritz notes and one Hanwha note.
These are counts of published targets, not forecasts. This is statistics, not a view on any company.
Related: LS Electric, the most-covered stock of the month · Hyundai Rotem targets halved · which brokers cut and which held. More from the same data: As KOSPI slid in October, Korean analysts cut more target prices than they raised — and still said Buy · Analysts cut target prices on HYBE, YG and JYP in October · A third of Korea’s listed companies drew an analyst report this year — research piles on a short list.
Data & Verification Notes
- Data as of
- Sources
- Hankyung Consensus (markets.hankyung.com) — Broker report list collected 24 October 2026, 07:23 KST: 710 reports from 12 publishers, dated 28 September to 23 October 2026, with date, publisher, rating, target price and prior target price as listed.
- The Asia Business Daily (view.asiae.co.kr), 25 October 2026 — Q3 earnings calendar for 26–30 October 2026, as published in the weekly market preview.
- Financial News (fnnews.com) and MoneyToday (mt.co.kr), 23 and 25 October 2026 — KOSPI close of 5,550.30 on 23 October 2026; KB Securities' figure of 9,385.59 for the June intraday high, as reported by MoneyToday.
- Cross-checks
- Earnings calendar (Asia Business Daily, 25 Oct): 3 companies on 26 Oct, 7 on 27 Oct, 7 on 28 Oct, 7 on 29 Oct, 4 on 30 Oct. 28 in all.
- Company reports in our list on the 28: 46. Target cut 11, raised 9, unchanged 9, no prior target listed 13, no target given 4.
- No company report in our list (8 of 28): BNK Financial, JB Financial, iM Financial, Samsung Card, SKC, Doosan Robotics, Samsung SDI, Hanwha Aerospace.
- Most reports: Samsung Electro-Mechanics 6; HD Hyundai Electric, SK hynix and Samsung Electronics 4 each.
- Excluded figures
- Brokers outside the 12 publishers in the Hankyung Consensus list. Most of Korea's largest brokers are not in it, so 'no report' means no report in this list, not no coverage.
- Industry reports, which often cover chips, banks and autos as groups.
- Share prices and earnings estimates. We count what analysts changed, not whether they were right.
- This is not investment advice.
- Instruments
- 024110, 267270, 267260, 000660, 009150, 005930, 010140, 000270, 012330
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