STOCK REPORT · 000080 · KOSPI
Hite Jinro
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Overall grade
39 pointsLower-middle bandOverall 39 points · Grade C, 11 points to Grade B
Financial summary
Hite Jinro (000080) has an overall grade of C from financial statements, with a score of 39 out of 100. Category scores are Earnings 34 (Grade C), Financial health 28 (Grade D) and Dividends 61 (Grade B). Data as of Oct 23, 2026.
Reported figures: ROE 3.6%, Operating margin 6.9%, Revenue growth -3.87%, Debt-to-equity ratio 186.52%, Current ratio 62.78%, Interest coverage 3.76x, Dividend yield 3.7%, Payout ratio 117.86%, Dividend streak 11 yrs. Valuation: PER 27.04x, PBR 0.97x, Market cap ₩1.1T.
The earnings metrics come from the 2025 annual report filed with the Financial Supervisory Service of Korea (DART). The share price was collected from the Korea Exchange on Oct 23, 2026. PER and PBR divide the market cap by the year-end figures. How the grades are calculated is set out in the grading methodology.
This summary restates reported financial figures. It does not forecast share prices or returns.
Valuation
52-week range
Now at 37% of rangeWithin their own 52-week ranges, 70.7% of major Korean stocks sit lower than this one.
About these metrics
- PER
- Price to earnings ratio (market cap ÷ annual net profit). A lower value means a lower price relative to profit.
- PBR
- Price to book ratio (market cap ÷ net assets). Below 1x, the market value is below book value.
- Market cap
- Share price × shares outstanding. The value the market puts on the whole company.
- 52-week high
- The highest share price over the past year.
- 52-week low
- The lowest share price over the past year.
Scores by category
Each metric out of 100 · category score is the average of threeEarnings
40% of overall · Lower-middle bandEach metric is scored out of 100, and the 34 above is the average of the three scores.
Metrics with values3 of 3
Fiscal year 2025 results
About these metrics
- ROE
- Return on equity. How much profit the company made on its own capital (equity).
- Operating margin
- Operating profit as a share of revenue: what the core business keeps.
- Revenue growth
- How much revenue changed compared with a year earlier.
Financial health
35% of overall · Bottom bandEach metric is scored out of 100, and the 28 above is the average of the three scores.
Metrics with values3 of 3
Interest coverage is divided by the interest expense adjustment in the cash flow statement.
Fiscal year 2025 results
About these metrics
- Debt-to-equity ratio
- Liabilities as a share of equity. A lower ratio means the company relies less on debt.
- Current ratio
- Assets that can turn into cash within a year, as a share of debts due within a year. At 100% or more they cover those debts.
- Interest coverage
- How many times operating profit covers interest expense. Below 1x, operating profit does not cover interest.
Dividends
25% of overall · Middle bandEach metric is scored out of 100, and the 61 above is the average of the three scores.
Metrics with values3 of 3
Fiscal year 2025 results
About these metrics
- Dividend yield
- Dividends paid over a year as a share of the current share price.
- Payout ratio
- The share of profit paid out as dividends. A very high ratio can be hard to keep up.
- Dividend streak
- How many years in a row the company has paid a dividend.
Metric scores are shown rounded to one decimal place, so a category score can differ by up to 1 point from a plain average of the three shown.
Strengths · Weaknesses
Strengths
- Has paid dividends for 11 yrs in a row
- Trades below book value (PBR 0.97x)Below the median 3.6x of 25 Consumer defensive stocks
Weaknesses
- Low profit relative to equity (ROE 3.6%)Below the median 14.4% of 25 Consumer defensive stocks
- Revenue is shrinking (-3.87% year on year)
- Heavy debt burden (debt-to-equity ratio 186.52%)Above the median 82.6% of 25 Consumer defensive stocks
- Tight short-term liquidity (current ratio 62.78%)
- Pays more in dividends than it earns (payout ratio 117.86%)
Only metrics that stand out as clearly good or weak against general benchmarks are listed. Where a comparison is possible, the position against the median of stocks in the same sector is shown too. The stock count on each sector line covers only stocks with that metric, so it differs by metric.
Metrics that moved the overall score
- Dividend streak+3.4 pts
- Dividend yield+2.8 pts
- Operating margin-0.1 pts
- Interest coverage-0.4 pts
- ROE-2.5 pts
- Debt-to-equity ratio-3.2 pts
- Payout ratio-3.3 pts
- Revenue growth-3.5 pts
- Current ratio-4.1 pts
Metric scores run up to 100, and the middle score is 50. If all nine metrics scored 50, the overall score would also be 50. Each bar is the contribution of one metric: how far its score sits from the 50 baseline, converted by that metric weight. Right means it raised the overall score, left means it lowered it.
Adding the nine contributions above to the baseline gives 39.1 points, and this stock's overall score is 39. The overall score is calculated from unrounded metric scores and then truncated, while the contributions here are rounded to one decimal place, so the two can differ by up to 1 point. Metrics that are not measured values still carry a contribution, because their scores did go into the overall score and hiding them would hide part of the basis of the grade.
| Metric | Hite Jinro | Sector median | Rank in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| PER | 27.0x | 23.1x | |
| PBR | 1.0x | 3.6x | |
| ROE | 3.6% | 14.4% | |
| Operating margin | 6.9% | 15.2% | |
| Debt-to-equity ratio | 186.5% | 82.6% | |
| Dividend yield | 3.7% | 2.8% |
Grey values on the right are sector medians
Metric ranks in sector
Closer to 1st sits further left- PERRank 17 of 25, top 68%
- PBRRank 5 of 25, top 20%
- ROERank 21 of 25, top 84%
- Operating marginRank 17 of 27, top 63%
- Debt-to-equity ratioRank 20 of 25, top 80%
- Dividend yieldRank 8 of 27, top 30%
On the rank strip, the left end is 1st. PER, PBR and debt-to-equity ratio are ranked from the lowest value, and ROE, operating margin and dividend yield from the highest.
Consumer defensive stocks close in market cap rank
Sector medians cover the 27 Consumer defensive stocks listed on Jupick. Typical levels differ by sector, so this is reference information for a simple comparison and not a basis for investment decisions.
About these metrics
- PER
- Price to earnings ratio (market cap ÷ annual net profit). A lower value means a lower price relative to profit.
- PBR
- Price to book ratio (market cap ÷ net assets). Below 1x, the market value is below book value.
- ROE
- Return on equity. How much profit the company made on its own capital (equity).
- Operating margin
- Operating profit as a share of revenue: what the core business keeps.
- Debt-to-equity ratio
- Liabilities as a share of equity. A lower ratio means the company relies less on debt.
- Dividend yield
- Dividends paid over a year as a share of the current share price.
Where this score sits
10.5% of the major stocks graded by Jupick score lower than this. Stocks in the same Grade C: 126.
- S172.8%
- A14524.2%
- B28948.2%
- CThis stock12621%
- D233.8%
The Grade C band runs from 30 to 49 points, 20 points wide. This stock's 39 points sit 9 points above the lower boundary, and 11 points remain to 50, where Grade B starts.
Within the Consumer defensive sector alone, it ranks No. 26 of 27 stocks with an overall score, and the median overall score of the sector is 62.
Unlike metric values, the overall score uses the same baseline for every market and currency, so Korean and US stocks share one sample. The grade boundaries of 85, 70, 50 and 30 points apply equally to every stock, so the counts above are how the sample actually splits at those boundaries. Because one point can decide a grade, two stocks with different grades can be closer in score than two stocks with the same grade. The shares and ranks here describe only the major stocks Jupick covers, not every listed stock.
Stocks with similar score profiles
| Stock | Earnings | Financial health | Dividends |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hite Jinro (000080, this stock) | 34 | 28 | 61 |
| CHyosung TNC | 27 | 28 | 58 |
| CCJ CheilJedang | 27 | 31 | 58 |
| CCJ | 36 | 29 | 49 |
| CGS Retail | 31 | 37 | 56 |
Hite Jinro (000080) has category scores of Earnings 34 · Financial health 28 · Dividends 61. These are the four major stocks graded in all three categories whose profiles come closest, and no category differs by more than 12 points.
The three scores are given by Jupick from public financial metrics, each out of 100. A similar profile means similar grading results only. It does not mean the share prices move alike.
Ratios as amounts
Base ₩10,000Every ratio metric of this stock, restated on the same amount. If each line used a different base, the amounts could not be compared, so every line starts from ₩10,000.
For every ₩10,000 of revenue: operating profit ₩690.Operating margin 6.9%
- For every ₩10,000 of equityyearly net profit ₩360
- If last year's revenue was ₩10,000this year's revenue ₩9,610
- For every ₩10,000 of equitydebt owed ₩18,650
- For every ₩10,000 of debt due within a yearassets turning into cash within a year ₩6,280
- For every ₩10,000 of interestoperating profit ₩38,000
- For every ₩10,000 worth of sharesdividends over the last year ₩370
- For every ₩10,000 of net profitdividends paid to shareholders ₩11,790
- For ₩10,000 of net profitmarket value ₩270,000
- For ₩10,000 of book equitymarket value ₩10,000
The ₩10,000 base is an assumption chosen for easy reading, not this company's actual revenue or equity. The values multiply the ratios shown as they are and round to the nearest won, so they can differ from the source by a few won. Metrics that make no sense as amounts are left out: values that are not measured, values that cannot be confirmed as measured, and loss-making cases where the base amount does not hold.
Metrics that decide the grade
Overall 39 · Grade CThe overall score recalculated with just one of the nine metrics set to the middle score of 50. Only one metric changes at a time, and the other eight stay as they are.
With any single metric at 50, the overall score stays in Grade C.
The metric closest to a boundary is Dividend streak. With only this metric at 50, the overall score would be 35.6, 5.6 points from the 30 point boundary. Dividends · metric 90.4 · contribution +3.4
The scores above add up this stock's metric scores again with one of them set to 50. They are not new grades, and this stock's grade stays at C. Metric scores and contributions are rounded to one decimal place, so a change within 1 point of a boundary is not reported as a grade change. Changing two or more metrics at once was not calculated.
Where the share price enters the grade
The grade above turns 9 metrics into scores and combines them. Counting how many of them use the share price shows whether the grade moves when the price moves.
The 9 graded metrics stay the same when the share price moves.
- Earnings grade metrics (3)Does not use the share price0 of 3 metrics use the share price
- Financial health grade metrics (3)Does not use the share price0 of 3 metrics use the share price
- Dividends grade metrics (3)Does not use the share price0 of 3 metrics use the share price
- PER and PBRCome from the share price but are not scoredNot graded
For Korean stocks, Dividend yield is taken as stated in the disclosure, so it is not recalculated when the share price changes. What changes the grade is the next financial filing, not the share price.
Stocks with a value for each metric
The grade above uses 9 metrics. Each line shows how many major stocks have a value for that metric, so you can tell whether a blank is specific to this stock or common to most stocks.
All 9 graded metrics have values.
- ROEHas a value567 of 600 stocks have a value
- Operating marginHas a value562 of 600 stocks have a value
- Revenue growthHas a value570 of 600 stocks have a value
- Debt-to-equity ratioHas a value559 of 600 stocks have a value
- Current ratioHas a value545 of 600 stocks have a value
- Interest coverageHas a value278 of 600 stocks have a value
- Dividend yieldHas a value519 of 600 stocks have a value
- Payout ratioHas a value507 of 600 stocks have a value
- Dividend streakHas a value595 of 600 stocks have a value
All 9 metrics of this stock are measured values.
Position in the market distribution
Korean stocksWhere the value of Hite Jinro sits when the Korean stocks on Jupick are lined up from the smallest value, ignoring sector. Left is smaller, right is larger, and the shaded part is the middle half.
The thin lower axis counts the position again within the same sector (Consumer defensive) only. 2 of the metrics with a lower axis sit in a different band from the whole market. On those lines, the bracket under the upper axis marks the middle half that the sector's stocks take on the market axis, and the short line inside is their middle.
- PER27.0xOn the upper axis, the middle half of these 8 stocks sits between 41% and 50.2%, with the middle at 46.5%.
- PBR1.0x
- ROE3.6%
- Operating margin6.9%
- Debt-to-equity ratio186.5%
- Dividend yield3.7%On the upper axis, the middle half of these 9 stocks sits between 59.4% and 79.9%, with the middle at 66.2%.
Won and dollar stocks have different metric levels, so they are counted in separate samples. This is only where a value sits in a line-up, not a sign of good or bad and not an investment judgement. Stocks without the metric, and loss-making stocks where PER or PBR does not hold, are left out of the sample. The remaining sample size is shown on each line. The sector axis is not drawn when the same-currency, same-sector sample has fewer than 8 stocks.
Korean and US yardsticks
Consumer defensive sectorWhere one value of Hite Jinro sits among Korean stocks in the same sector, and among US stocks. Only ratio metrics that compare across currencies are used.
4 of the 6 compared metrics sit in different bands on the two yardsticks.
- PBR 1.0x Korean 9 stocks · lower middle · 44.4% have a smaller value US 16 stocks · lowest quarter · 0% have a smaller value Gap between yardsticks 44.4 pp
- PER 27.0x Korean 8 stocks · highest quarter · 87.5% have a smaller value US 17 stocks · upper middle · 52.9% have a smaller value Gap between yardsticks 34.6 pp
- ROE 3.6% Korean 9 stocks · lower middle · 33.3% have a smaller value US 16 stocks · lowest quarter · 6.3% have a smaller value Gap between yardsticks 27 pp
- Debt-to-equity ratio 186.5% Korean 9 stocks · highest quarter · 88.9% have a smaller value US 16 stocks · upper middle · 68.8% have a smaller value Gap between yardsticks 20.1 pp
Only metrics with at least 8 stocks on both sides are compared.
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