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Company snapshot — Kakao Corp

035720.KS in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Kakao runs the KakaoTalk messaging app in South Korea and a group of linked services built around it: Kakao Pay for payments, Kakao Bank for banking, Kakao Mobility for ride and delivery services, and separate units for games, entertainment, webtoons and enterprise cloud, including an in-house artificial-intelligence unit called Kakao Brain. It is headquartered in Jeju-si and reaches most of the domestic messaging and payments market through the same app.
Where it sits in the stack
Kakao holds no seat in Rubin, the diary's AI build-out index, so it does not sit in a hardware or infrastructure layer we track for that build-out. It belongs instead to the diary's Communication Services sleeve, tracked among South Korea's scored internet and platform names.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group draws on scored Communication Services names, among them Meta Platforms, Alphabet, NetEase and Reddit, grouped for sector rather than for a shared AI role. The market's own comparison is domestic, against Naver, the other large Korean internet platform.
Why Closelook tracks it
Kakao carries a Closelook score, strongest on valuation and weakest on momentum, and holds no seat in Rubin or in any other Closelook index. The Morning 10 has quoted it once, noting it as one of two Korean internet names trading higher while regional AI-linked names fell.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether Kakao's momentum reading recovers as its financial and mobility units perform, given the weak momentum score sits against a stronger valuation reading.

Kakao Corp (035720.KS) trades on the KO exchange in South Korea, classified under Communication Services.

The Closelook company score reads 43/100 composite (momentum 6, quality 42, valuation 61) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for 035720.KS, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Communication Services · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Communication Services

Scored names in the same sector from the Closelook universe.

Compared against 035720.KS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Versus its index Agentic Winners 40 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelook index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Agentic Winners 40 · as of 2026-09-17

DayWeekMonth3 months
035720.KS+0.1%−3.9%−10.4%−14.7%
Endpoints−1.5%−2.3%−6.1%—
Agentic Winners 40+0.4%+2.1%+0.5%—

Against the index: 6.0 pts behind on the week, 10.9 pts behind on the month; against its Endpoints sleeve 4.3 pts behind on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sector × region Communication services in emerging markets: −2.9% week · −3.8% month · −3.8% quarter · −3.1% year (approximated)The Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from EM:CN+TW+IN+KR+BR+SA+MX+ZA+ID+TH+MY+OTHER; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-16
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Kakao Corp (035720.KS)?

Kakao Corp trades as 035720.KS on the KO exchange (South Korea) and is classified under Communication Services in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is 035720.KS in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Kakao Corp is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

What is Kakao Corp's Closelook composite score?

43 out of 100, with momentum 6, quality 42 and valuation 61 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-18. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does 035720.KS trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -7.9% vs the 50-day and -28.8% vs the 200-day average, 51.9% below the 52-week high and +3.9% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is 035720.KS doing against its Closelook index?

Over the past month Kakao Corp is −10.4% against +0.5% for the Agentic Winners 40 — 10.9 points behind its index, as of 2026-09-17. Its Endpoints sleeve is −6.1% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

What does Kakao Corp do?

Kakao runs the KakaoTalk messaging app in South Korea and a group of linked services built around it: Kakao Pay for payments, Kakao Bank for banking, Kakao Mobility for ride and delivery services, and separate units for games, entertainment, webtoons and enterprise cloud, including an in-house artificial-intelligence unit called Kakao Brain. It is headquartered in Jeju-si and reaches most of the domestic messaging and payments market through the same app. Closelook's peer group draws on scored Communication Services names, among them Meta Platforms, Alphabet, NetEase and Reddit, grouped for sector rather than for a shared AI role. The market's own comparison is domestic, against Naver, the other large Korean internet platform.

Where does Kakao Corp sit in the AI build-out?

Kakao holds no seat in Rubin, the diary's AI build-out index, so it does not sit in a hardware or infrastructure layer we track for that build-out. It belongs instead to the diary's Communication Services sleeve, tracked among South Korea's scored internet and platform names. Kakao carries a Closelook score, strongest on valuation and weakest on momentum, and holds no seat in Rubin or in any other Closelook index. The Morning 10 has quoted it once, noting it as one of two Korean internet names trading higher while regional AI-linked names fell.

Where has Closelook written about Kakao Corp?

Kakao Corp appears in 1 Closelook piece, most recently Morning 10: Kospi jumps 4% on OpenAI’s new model: SK hynix +7%, Kioxia +9%, SoftBank +10% — while gold and bitcoin slide on the rate-hike odds (2026-09-07). What Closelook said most recently: The Asian members of the Agentic Winners 40 are going the other way this morning: freee −8.2% at ¥3,805, Money Forward −7.1% at ¥6,235, Appier −3.7%, Kingdee −5.2%; only the two Korean internet names are up, Naver +2.1% and Kakao +1.2%. (Morning 10, 2026-09-07). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for 035720.KS, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 1 piece · newest: Morning 10, “Kospi jumps 4% on OpenAI’s new model: SK hynix +7%, Kioxia +9%, SoftBank +10% — while gold and bitcoin slide on the rate-hike odds” (2026-09-07)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where 035720.KS appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

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