KB Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:KB) H1 2025 Earnings Call July 24, 2025 3:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Bong Kwon – Senior MD & Head of IR Department
Sang-Rok Na – MD & CFO
Jong-Min Lee – Chief Financial Officer of Kookmin Bank
Nam Che Kang – Head of the Global Division
Conference Call Participants
Jae Woo Kim – Samsung Securities Co. Ltd., Research Division
Jun-Sup Jung – NH Investment & Securities Co., Ltd., Research Division
Do Ha Kim – Hanwha Investment & Securities Co., Ltd., Research Division
Jaewoong Won – HSBC Global Investment Research
Doosan Baek – Korea Investment & Securities Co., Ltd., Research Division
Bong Kwon
Greetings. I am Peter Kwon, Head of the KBFG IR division. We will now begin the 2025 first half business results presentation. Thank you very much for participating in today’s earnings release. We have here with us executives from the group, including CFO, Sang-Rok Na; and other executives from the group.
First, our Group CFO will cover 2025 first half major performance highlights. After that, we will have a Q&A session. Like in the previous quarter, please note that after our real-time Q&A session, we have set aside additional time for management team to answer questions that were previously submitted by our shareholders. I will now invite our group CFO to walk us through the first half business results of 2025.
Sang-Rok Na
Good afternoon. I am Sang-Rok Na, CFO of KB Financial Group. Thank you all for joining the first half 2025 earnings release presentation. Today, I will walk through key results of the first half and update you on the shareholder value and return, then move on to the details of our earnings.
First, Page 1. Q2 net profit reported KRW 1,738.4 billion with first half cumulative profit reporting KRW 3,435.7 billion and
