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10 stories tagged “analysts”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
An Analyst 'Leaderboard' We Called Ranked Turned Out to Be Alphabetical
We published an article calling an analyst Korea's '#1-ranked' by score. The rank field we read was sorting 74 names alphabetically, not by performance. We're correcting it and showing how we caught it.
The Same Analyst Dataset That Mislabeled a Rank Would Also Let You Rank Firms on 3 Data Points
Grouping the September 18 analyst snapshot by brokerage firm gives averages from 16.7% to 54.2% accuracy. The lowest belongs to the firm of the analyst our earlier article wrongly called 'ranked #1' — driven by a three-person sample.
Korea's #1-ranked stock analyst has a stated 0 percent accuracy score
Among 74 ranked analysts on a Korean brokerage-research leaderboard, 27 — more than a third, including the top-ranked name — carry a 0 percent accuracy figure. Rank score and accuracy correlate only loosely (r=0.72).
Goldman's KOSPI upside went from 80% to 71.5%
Goldman Sachs kept its 12,000 KOSPI target unchanged. The 'upside' headline moved anyway — from about 80% to 71.5% — because two outlets, writing the same day, measured it against closes one 4.61% session apart.
A stock forecaster's low-end misses keep growing
A Korean outlet scores its own weekly KOSPI price forecasts against what actually happened. Three straight weeks: high forecasts stayed accurate, low forecasts missed by more each week — 2.89%, 6.61%, 8.10%.
The stock rating that has no downside
Korean brokers issue tens of thousands of ratings and almost never say sell — 89 sell calls in twelve years. When a scale only points one way, what does a 'buy' actually tell you? We count the ratings and question the scale.
A third of Korea's listed companies drew an analyst report this year — research piles on a short list
In our archive of 6,372 single-stock broker reports in 2026, 939 of 2,819 listed companies drew at least one. The busiest name drew 100; most drew none. It measures attention, not coverage, and is not advice.
In Korea, the brokers that promise the most upside hit their targets the least
Score 19,495 broker targets against the stock a year on and a pattern appears: the more upside a house promised, the less often it was reached — a −0.46 correlation. Hanwha aimed for 45% and hit 17%; DB aimed 29% and hit 49%.
Korean brokers say Buy on four reports in five, and almost never say Sell
Across 6,372 broker reports in 2026 the market rated Buy on 79.7% and Sell on 0.06%. Of 13 houses that rated 200-plus reports, 10 issued no Sell at all. The Sell rate has sat near zero for over a decade.
Korean brokerages' price targets are met about one time in five
Score every target against the stock twelve months later. Across 19,495 rated reports, 21.6% of price targets were reached. Brokers promised 38% upside on average; the shares delivered 10%.