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Kakao Corp (035720.KS) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for 035720.KS, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index Agentic Winners 40 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Agentic Winners 40 · as of 2026-09-28

DayWeekMonth3 months
035720.KS−1.0%+0.9%−7.0%−1.3%
Endpoints−1.3%−2.8%−10.0%—
Agentic Winners 40−1.4%−3.0%−8.4%—

Against the index: 3.9 pts ahead on the week, 1.4 pts ahead on the month; against its Endpoints sleeve 3.0 pts ahead on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 1 piece · newest: Morning 10, “Kospi jumps 4% on OpenAI’s new model: SK hynix +7%, Kioxia +9%, SoftBank +10% — while gold and bitcoin slide on the rate-hike odds” (2026-09-07)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where 035720.KS appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 55, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-28
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +8.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-28
  • Sector × region Communication services in emerging markets: −2.6% week · −3.4% month · +1.5% quarter · +2.8% year (approximated)The Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from EM:CN+TW+IN+KR+BR+SA+MX+ZA+ID+TH+MY+OTHER; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-28
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
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Peer group

Internet Content & Information

Names in the same industry from the Closelooknet universe; scored names rank on their Closelooknet score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against 035720.KS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Kakao Corp

035720.KS in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Kakao runs the KakaoTalk messaging app in South Korea and a group of linked services built around it: Kakao Pay for payments, Kakao Bank for banking, Kakao Mobility for ride and delivery services, and separate units for games, entertainment, webtoons and enterprise cloud, including an in-house artificial-intelligence unit called Kakao Brain. It is headquartered in Jeju-si and reaches most of the domestic messaging and payments market through the same app.
Where it sits in the stack
Kakao holds no seat in Rubin, the diary's AI build-out index, so it does not sit in a hardware or infrastructure layer we track for that build-out. It belongs instead to the diary's Communication Services sleeve, tracked among South Korea's scored internet and platform names.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group draws on scored Communication Services names, among them Meta Platforms, Alphabet, NetEase and Reddit, grouped for sector rather than for a shared AI role. The market's own comparison is domestic, against Naver, the other large Korean internet platform.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Kakao carries a Closelooknet score, strongest on valuation and weakest on momentum, and holds no seat in Rubin or in any other Closelooknet index. The Morning 10 has quoted it once, noting it as one of two Korean internet names trading higher while regional AI-linked names fell.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether Kakao's momentum reading recovers as its financial and mobility units perform, given the weak momentum score sits against a stronger valuation reading.

Kakao Corp (035720.KS) trades on the KO exchange in South Korea, classified under Communication Services.

The Closelooknet company score reads 44/100 composite (momentum 15, quality 44, valuation 60) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.22%, annual · last 75.00 KRW on 2026-03-09

Dividends and capital return

What 035720.KS pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 75.00 KRW per share · a 0.22% yield on the 2026-09-28 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-09-28
  • Change on the year +10.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 68.00 KRW per share
  • Last distribution 75.00 KRW per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-03-09
  • By calendar year 2024: 61.00 KRW (partial) · 2025: 68.00 KRW · 2026: 75.00 KRW to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2024-02-28
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 38.9 bn KRW 6% of earnings
  • Share count −36.4% in FY2025 42.9 bn KRW of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 38.9 bn KRW · 5% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-29

Quick answers

What is Kakao Corp (035720.KS)?

Kakao Corp trades as 035720.KS on the KO exchange (South Korea) and is classified under Communication Services in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-29.

Is 035720.KS in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Kakao Corp is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-29.

What is Kakao Corp's Closelooknet composite score?

44 out of 100, with momentum 15, quality 44 and valuation 60 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-29. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does 035720.KS trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -5.9% vs the 50-day and -26.5% vs the 200-day average, 50.9% below the 52-week high and +5.9% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-28 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is 035720.KS doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Kakao Corp is −7.0% against −8.4% for the Agentic Winners 40 — 1.4 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-09-28. Its Endpoints sleeve is −10.0% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

Where has Closelooknet written about Kakao Corp?

Kakao Corp appears in 1 Closelooknet piece, most recently Morning 10: Kospi jumps 4% on OpenAI’s new model: SK hynix +7%, Kioxia +9%, SoftBank +10% — while gold and bitcoin slide on the rate-hike odds (2026-09-07). What Closelooknet said most recently: The Asian members of the Agentic Winners 40 are going the other way this morning: freee −8.2% at ¥3,805, Money Forward −7.1% at ¥6,235, Appier −3.7%, Kingdee −5.2%; only the two Korean internet names are up, Naver +2.1% and Kakao +1.2%. (Morning 10, 2026-09-07). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does Kakao Corp do?

Kakao runs the KakaoTalk messaging app in South Korea and a group of linked services built around it: Kakao Pay for payments, Kakao Bank for banking, Kakao Mobility for ride and delivery services, and separate units for games, entertainment, webtoons and enterprise cloud, including an in-house artificial-intelligence unit called Kakao Brain. It is headquartered in Jeju-si and reaches most of the domestic messaging and payments market through the same app. Closelooknet's peer group draws on scored Communication Services names, among them Meta Platforms, Alphabet, NetEase and Reddit, grouped for sector rather than for a shared AI role. The market's own comparison is domestic, against Naver, the other large Korean internet platform.

Where does Kakao Corp sit in the AI build-out?

Kakao holds no seat in Rubin, the diary's AI build-out index, so it does not sit in a hardware or infrastructure layer we track for that build-out. It belongs instead to the diary's Communication Services sleeve, tracked among South Korea's scored internet and platform names. Kakao carries a Closelooknet score, strongest on valuation and weakest on momentum, and holds no seat in Rubin or in any other Closelooknet index. The Morning 10 has quoted it once, noting it as one of two Korean internet names trading higher while regional AI-linked names fell.

Does Kakao Corp pay a dividend?

Kakao Corp has paid 75.00 KRW per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 0.22% on the 2026-09-28 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 75.00 KRW on 2026-03-09. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 38.9 bn KRW in dividends, 5% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 36.4% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

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A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for 035720.KS, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

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