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KKR & Co. Inc.

$KKR·$91B·Asset Management·Financial Services
$100.94-1.8%YTD-21.7%1Y-31.6%
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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

KKR & Co. Inc. is a prominent global investment powerhouse, deeply engaged in both private equity and real estate. The firm's diverse investment strategies encompass direct capital deployment as well as fund-of-funds approaches, specializing in corporate acquisitions, leveraged and management buyouts, growth equity, and a range of special situations including credit, distressed assets, and turnarounds. They also target mature and mezzanine financing opportunities, spanning companies across the lower and middle market segments. While opportunistic across all industries, KKR exhibits a keen focus on technology sectors, including software, cybersecurity, semiconductors, consumer electronics, the Internet of Things (IoT), internet services, IT infrastructure, and FinTech. Their extensive portfolio also encompasses energy, infrastructure, and a broad array of real estate ventures. Furthermore, the firm actively invests in a wide range of service industries, such as business services, intelligence, and leading franchises in natural resources, containers, packaging, agriculture, transportation infrastructure (airports, ports), forestry, utilities, textiles, luxury goods, digital media, insurance, various distribution and retail formats (including supermarkets and grocery stores), food, beverage, tobacco, healthcare facilities, entertainment, publishing, capital goods, and specialized financial services. Specifically within energy and infrastructure, KKR targets upstream oil and gas operations, equipment, minerals, royalties, and related service verticals. In the real estate domain, the firm pursues investments in both private and public securities, covering property equity, debt, special situations, companies with substantial real estate assets, and oil and natural gas properties. Additionally, they allocate capital to the expansive asset services sector, which includes a wide range of B2B, B2C, and B2G offerings such as asset-based services, transport, logistics, hospitality, resource and utility support, and mission-critical environmental services. KKR's geographic investment strategies often feature tailored sector focuses. In the Americas, key interests lie in consumer products, chemicals, metals, mining, energy, natural resources, financial services, healthcare, industrials, media, communications, retail, and technology. European investments concentrate on consumer and retail, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrials, chemicals, media, digital, and telecom technologies. Across Asia, their portfolio interests span consumer products, energy, resources, financial services, healthcare, industrials, logistics, media, telecom, retail, real estate, and technology. Beyond traditional investments, KKR is also committed to impact investing, identifying and backing enterprises with a demonstrably positive social or environmental footprint. In Mainland China, the firm actively targets mid to high-end residential developments, and undertakes other projects through direct ownership, joint ventures, or mergers. Demonstrating a truly global reach, KKR's investment activity spans Australia, developed and emerging markets across Asia (including Southeast Asia, Japan, Taiwan, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and South Korea), the Middle East, Africa, the Nordics, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, the broader Latin America, and North America, with a particular focus on the United States. In the United States and Europe, KKR frequently engages in buyouts of substantial publicly traded companies. The typical investment size ranges from $30 million to $717 million, targeting entities with enterprise values between $500 million and $2.389 billion. The firm is flexible, participating in both debt and public equity instruments, and often co-invests with strategic partners. KKR actively pursues board representation in its portfolio companies, aiming for controlling ownership or significant strategic minority stakes, especially in Asian private equity deals or when forming large investor consortia. Investments are generally held for a duration of five to seven years, or longer, with exit strategies commonly involving initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary market sales, or divestments to strategic purchasers. Founded in 1976, KKR & Co. Inc. is headquartered in New York, New York, supported by a global network of offices throughout North America, Europe, Australia, Sweden, and Asia.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Asset Management sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $KKR.

Asset Management · Financial Services

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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
32.0How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
18.0%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
16.3%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
7.6%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
4.5Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
9.9%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
41.7%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
1.8Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026May 5, 2026$1.39$1.26+10.3%
Q4 2025Feb 5, 2026$1.12$1.14-1.8%
Q3 2025Nov 7, 2025$1.41$1.30+8.5%
Q2 2025Jul 31, 2025$1.18$1.14+3.5%
Next earningsThu, Jul 30·consensus EPS $1.43

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$4.0B+31.0%99.5%5.1%$0.41$1.9B
Q4 FY25$5.5B+72.5%35.6%40.0%$1.24$2.3B
Q3 FY25$5.5B+15.5%24.7%9.4%$0.97$2.4B
Q2 FY25$5.0B+21.8%21.0%6.5%$0.53$371.4M

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 5 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$11.9B$11.8B – $12.0B$6.07$5.74 – $6.275
FY27$13.9B$13.3B – $14.3B$7.34$6.91 – $7.585
FY28$16.3B$15.4B – $17.2B$8.60$8.12 – $9.083
FY29$9.7B$9.2B – $10.3B$9.75$9.03 – $10.492

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

KKR & Co. 'D' Mandatory Convertible Preferred: Remains A Buyseekingalpha.com·17h agoThomson Reuters and KKR Announce Joint Venture for Thomson Reuters Global Print Businessprnewswire.com·4d agoKKR Leads A$400 Million Financing Solution for Ampolbusinesswire.com·5d agoQiagen draws early takeover interest from EQT, Advent & KKR, Bloomberg News reportsreuters.com·9d agoKKR Launches Allyntra, an Engineered Solutions Platform for Medical Technology and Precision Industriesbusinesswire.com·9d ago

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