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ratings
2 stories tagged “ratings”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
The stock rating that has no downside
Korean brokers issue tens of thousands of ratings and almost never say sell — 89 sell calls in twelve years. When a scale only points one way, what does a 'buy' actually tell you? We count the ratings and question the scale.
Korean brokers say Buy on four reports in five, and almost never say Sell
Across 6,372 broker reports in 2026 the market rated Buy on 79.7% and Sell on 0.06%. Of 13 houses that rated 200-plus reports, 10 issued no Sell at all. The Sell rate has sat near zero for over a decade.