Woori Financial Group Inc.
WFQUIET ISSUERQUIETWoori Financial Group Inc. reads as an Quiet Issuer (composite 39/100); Consistent Strategic Buyer deploying $156M across 3 disclosed transactions, down 60% vs the prior cycle · primary market Regional Banking.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$156M
vs $386M in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
3
3/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Consistent Strategic Buyer
Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.
Composite score
39
Quiet Issuer dominates · Quiet
Behavioral posture, nine reads.
Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.
Active Acquirer
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $3.8B disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 34d
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- Control-process language
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- Control-process filings
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- Missing recent 10-Q
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 1 NT late filing
- Latest event 4.1y ago; discounted
Capital Velocity
Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $66.6B
- 5 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.
Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $268M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | 1 | $156M | $156M | N/A |
| 2023 | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | $118M | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | $268M | N/A | N/A |
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Horizontal Consolidation25%
- Geographic Expansion25%
- Bolt On25%
- Platform25%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- horizontal_consolidation
- geographic_expansion
- bolt_on
- platform
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“a number of significant mergers and acquisitions in the financial industry have also taken place in Korea in recent years”
“A number of significant mergers and acquisitions in the financial industry have also taken place in Korea in recent years”
“Moreover, the Korean financial industry is undergoing significant consolidation”
“We expect that consolidation in the Korean financial industry will continue”
“consolidation in the Korean financial industry will continue”
Market context.
Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.
Primary market
Regional Banking
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $245.7B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $72.8B
- Recent vs prior
- +238%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
WF trades at a +7.2-turn premium to the Regional Banking peer median of 12.3×.
- EV / Revenue
- 6.5×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- N/A
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.3×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-11
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Woori Financial Group Inc.WF | 19.5× | 6.5× | N/A | $10.2B | $156M |
| 16.7× | 3.7× | -0.9× | $13.7B | $12.7B | |
| 13.9× | 3.0× | -0.7× | $58.4B | $126.1B | |
| 10.7× | 3.2× | -2.1× | $3.4B | $7B | |
| 9.3× | 2.2× | -0.3× | $14.5B | $72.6B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Regional Banking. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
Target landscape.
Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.
No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.
Stated target categories
No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.
Filing activity & signal stream.
Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.
Filing cadence
- 10-K (annual)252026-04-22
- 10-Q (quarterly)0N/A
- 8-K (event)0N/A
- Proxy / DEF 14A0N/A
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A
Signals on file
- watch
Late-filing notice
2022-05-021 NT 10-K/10-Q filing on file.
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- info
Signal
Recent transaction activity
Audited corpus.
No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.
This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.