Hyundai Elevator (017800) Stock Price, Fundamentals & Analysis

What 017800 does

Hyundai Elevator (017800) designs, manufactures, installs, maintains, and modernizes elevators in South Korea and internationally. The company offers ultra-high speed elevators under THE EL name; high-speed elevators under the i-XEL name; and low and mid-speed elevators under the LUXEN, YZER, and N:EX names, as well as observation, freight, automobile, and marine elevators. It also provides escalators and moving walks, parking systems, and advanced remote maintenance systems. Hyundai Elevator was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Chungju-si, South Korea. It trades on the Korea Exchange in the Industrials sector, under the Specialty Industrial Machinery industry, and is part of the KOSPI 200.

Key numbers explained

• 73,700 KRW is the current share price, the amount you would pay for one share right now.
• -0.54% is today's price change, showing the stock is down slightly on the session.
• 2.66T KRW is the market capitalization, the total value of all outstanding shares.
• The forward P/E ratio of 13 divides the share price by expected future earnings, a common way to compare how cheaply or richly a stock is valued relative to its earnings.
• The dividend yield of 21.72% shows the annual dividend as a percentage of the share price, a high yield that reflects the company returning a large share of earnings to shareholders.
• 148% is the share of earnings paid out as dividends, meaning the payout exceeds current earnings.
• 0.83 is the beta, indicating the stock tends to move less than the overall market.
• 61,800 – 113,400 is the 52-week price range, showing the lowest and highest traded prices over the past year.
• -7.6% is the price change over the last 52 weeks, from one year ago to now.
• 2.47T KRW is the trailing 12-month revenue, the total sales over the past year.
• 8.7% is the year-over-year revenue growth.
• 14.9% is the profit margin, the percentage of revenue that becomes net profit.
• 12.2% is the operating margin, the percentage of revenue left after operating expenses.
• 30.9% is the return on equity, measuring how effectively the company generates profit from shareholders' equity.
• 92.7% is the debt-to-equity ratio, showing the proportion of debt relative to equity used to finance the business.

What to watch

Investors in Hyundai Elevator (017800) often monitor the elevator and industrial machinery sector, including peers like Korea Aerospace (047810), Hanwha (000880), CJ (001040), Hanwha Engine (082740), S-1 (012750), HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (329180), and Sanil Electric (062040). General factors that can affect such stocks include global construction activity, raw material costs, interest rate environments, and currency movements, particularly the Korean won. The high dividend payout ratio of 148% is worth watching to see whether it is sustainable relative to earnings.