KEP News and Press, Korea Electric Power Corporation From 10/11/22

Summary Korea Electric Power's most recent quarterly metrics were poor; Q2 2022 operating losses for the company widened on a YoY basis, and its gross financial leverage ratio rose to 179%. But there are positive changes for KEP, as seen with the recent actions taken by the govern...

Summary News is full of nuclear resurgence, be it in the UK, France, South Korea, Belgium, Germany, and of course China, but what is the reality? The global nuclear fleet is aging and some countries (e.g., Belgium, Germany) are actively exiting the industry; others have contradict...

The two largest emerging market ETFs each have over 80% allocated to Asian markets, with over half of that 80% in Greater China alone. The biggest difference between these two ETFs is Korea, which the Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF excludes, and the iShares Emerging Markets ETF include...

KEPCO has a monopoly in power generation, transmission and distribution in South Korea, which is a country with a major fossil fuel-based power component. The South Korean commitment is to decarbonize power, but how KEPCO will manage this is unclear between renewables and nuclear powe...

Korea Electric Power Corporation Files 2021 Annual Report on Form 20-F PR Newswire NAJU, South Korea , April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 29, 2022 , Korea Electric Power Corporation (NYSE: KEP) ("KEPCO") filed its annual report including aud...

Korea Electric Power is expected to remain loss-making in 2022 as a result of rising energy and commodity costs. There could be positive changes in the Korean energy market going forward, which might be beneficial for Korea Electric Power in the long run. KEP stays a Buy-rated nam...

Korea Electric Power (KEP +3.8%) moves higher after saying it will raise electricity tariffs next year on hopes of better earnings, lifting shares more than 7% on the domestic stock market. Kepco said yesterday that utility bills would rise an average 5.6% in 2022 to reflect higher costs of p...

It is a positive surprise that a tariff hike will be implemented in Q4 2021, notwithstanding the fact that this is only a partial pass-through of the fuel cost increase. Further tariff hikes are very likely to be implemented after the March 2022 presidential elections; while the compa...

Korea Electric Power's shares are up in the past two months or so, despite the worst case scenario happening, and this is an indication that negatives are already priced in. The stock currently trades at 0.24 times P/B, which is similar to where it was trading at during the 2008-2009 ...

Gargolas/iStock via Getty Images Korea Electric Power ([[KEP]] -4.7%) shares sink to their lowest in a month after South Korea's government suppressed electricity tariffs to tame rising inflation in the economy, dimming the company's earnings outlook. The government said over the weekend it w...