Why Korn Ferry’s (KFY) Stock Is Up 5.66%

By Jenna Brashear
August 01, 2026
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Avoid the stress of overpaying for a stock or missing an opportunity by using the right tools and insights to evaluate Korn Ferry before investing.

In this article, we go over a few key elements for understanding Korn Ferry’s stock price such as:

  • Korn Ferry’s current stock price and volume
  • Why Korn Ferry’s stock price changed recently
  • Upgrades and downgrades for KFY from analysts
  • KFY’s stock price momentum as measured by its relative strength

About Korn Ferry (KFY)

Before we jump into Korn Ferry’s stock price, history, target price and what caused it to recently rise, let’s take a look at some background.

Korn Ferry, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of organizational consulting services worldwide. The company offers consulting services for talent strategies, organizational structures, and workforce capabilities; and develops, integrate, and commercializes with Korn Ferry Talent suite, as well as enabling technology across Korn Ferry's other solution areas. The company operates cloud human resources platforms comprising Korn Ferry Architect, for providing organization and talent planning architecture for an agile and future-focused workforce; Korn Ferry Assess, for empowering leaders to take actions that lead to business success; Korn Ferry Listen, for deploying engagement surveys and benchmark employee engagement; Korn Ferry Sell, for developing and replicating sales strategies; and Korn Ferry Pay, a self-service pay solution, that provides global data and insights needed in real-time to make decisions on employee compensation programs. It serves public and private companies, consumer markets, government and public services, financial services, healthcare, education, life sciences, industrial, technology, and specialties sectors. The company was formerly known as Korn/Ferry International and changed its name to Korn Ferry in January 2019. Korn Ferry was founded in 1969 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

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Korn Ferry’s Stock Price as of Market Close

As of July 31, 2026, 4:00 PM, CST, Korn Ferry’s stock price was $82.270.

Korn Ferry is up 0.19% from its previous closing price of $82.110.

During the last market session, Korn Ferry’s stock traded between $80.755 and $82.330. Currently, there are approximately 50.93 million shares outstanding for Korn Ferry.

Korn Ferry’s price-earnings (P/E) ratio is currently at 15.8, which is low compared to the Professional Services industry median of 22.1. The price-earnings ratio gauges market expectation of future performance by relating a stock’s current share price to its earnings per share.

Korn Ferry Stock Price History

Korn Ferry’s (KFY) price is currently up 23.57% so far this month.

During the month of July, Korn Ferry’s stock price has reached a high of $85.690 and a low of $67.160.

Over the last year, Korn Ferry has hit prices as high as $85.690 and as low as $58.950. Year to date, Korn Ferry’s stock is up 24.61%.

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What Caused Korn Ferry Stock’s Price to Rise?

Stock prices are primarily based on seller supply and buyer demand. But have you ever wondered about what other factors affect a stock's price?

When an analyst changes their opinion of a stock by upgrading or downgrading their rating, it often leads to a sudden stock price adjustment. As of July 31, 2026, there was 1 analyst who downgraded Korn Ferry’s stock and 0 analysts who upgraded over the last month.

Additionally, you'll want to evaluate Korn Ferry’s financial health and valuation. Investors can use AAII's Value Grade, which combines six key valuation metrics like P/E and P/S ratios for a comprehensive analysis to conduct analysis on Korn Ferry’s valuation and financial health. This approach mitigates the limitations of single-metric evaluations.

Korn Ferry’s current valuation based on AAII’s Value Grade is a B, which means it is considered to be Value.

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Lastly, news and media coverage as well as recent press reports about the company or its industry may cause stock prices to fluctuate. You can check out the most recent news articles about Korn Ferry (KFY) by visiting AAII Stock Evaluator.

Relative Price Strength of Korn Ferry

Relative price strength measures a stock's performance against the market, helping investors identify stocks that are outperforming benchmarks.

For AAII’s Momentum Grade, a weighted relative price strength is calculated. Follow this link to learn more about the Momentum Grade.

As of July 31, 2026, Korn Ferry has a weighted four-quarter relative price strength of 4.13%, which translates to a Momentum Score of 68 and is considered to be Strong.

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Korn Ferry Stock Price: Bottom Line

As of July 31, 2026, Korn Ferry’s stock price is $82.270, which is up 0.19% from its previous closing price.

AAII advises against making stock decisions based solely on price or past returns. Instead, consider a variety of metrics, fundamentals, and analytics to evaluate a stock like Korn Ferry stock prices are influenced by market supply and demand and offer just a snapshot of a company's overall health.

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