{"id":12727,"date":"2026-05-11T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/12727\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:15:50","slug":"posco-holdings-2025-profit-drops-leverage-rises-pkx-sec-filing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/12727\/","title":{"rendered":"POSCO Holdings 2025 profit drops, leverage rises | PKX SEC Filing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/g24127txp5g1.jpg\" alt=\"LOGO\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.5pt\">3 <br \/>2025 Consolidated<br \/>\nBusiness Performance <br \/>Despite recovery in Steel, OP declined due to weak performance in Rechargeable Battery Mtrls. and Construction; <br \/>2026 profits expected to grow with commercial-scale lithium production and non-profit asset sales <br \/>Income Revenue Operating Profit -+-OP Margin Ratio (KRWbil., %) Financial Structure Net Debt EBITDA -+- Net Debt Ratio (KRWbil., %)<br \/>\n<br \/>YoY YoY <br \/>Revenue <br \/>8,063 <br \/>Net Debt <br \/>63,593 7,376 +1,705 <br \/>OP Margin Ratio Net Debt Ratio <br \/>.L.0.4%p <br \/>Operating Profit EBITDA <br \/>.6347 .L.17 4 <br \/>&#8211; 2025 CAPEX: (Consolidated) KRW7.0 tril., (Separate) KRW1 .3tril. <br \/>Performance before lntercompany Transaction Adjustment <br \/>Revenue Operating Profit Net Profit<br \/>\n<br \/>(KRWbillion) <br \/>2023 2024 2025 2023 2024 2025 2023 2024 2025 <br \/>Consolidated Income 77,127 72,688 69,095 3,531 2,174 1,827 1,846 948 50431 <br \/>Steel 63,539 62,201<br \/>\n59,411 2,557 1,637 1,960 1,241 691 1,154 <br \/>POSC011 38,972 37,557 35,011 2,083 1,473 1,780 1,180 902 1,143 <br \/>Overseas 20,494 20,713 19,663 194 39 91 6137 6149 6230 <br \/>Rechargeable Battery Mtrls. 4,822 3,830<br \/>\n3,338 6161 6277 6441 6236 6635 6592 <br \/>POSCO FUTURE M21 4,760 3,700 2,939 36 33 4 6231 37 <br \/>Infrastructure 57,157 56,872 53,006 1,533 1,326 682 1,078 446 49 <br \/>POSCO INTERNATIONAL21 33,133<br \/>\n32,341 32,374 1,163 1,117 1,165 680 503 637 <br \/>POSCO E&amp;C21 10,166 9,469 6,903 201 62 6452 117 51 6478 <br \/>1) Separate 2) Consolidated, POSCO INTERNATIONAL performance includes POSCO Energy <br \/>3)<br \/>\nIntroduction of Consolidated Tax Return in 2025 assessed deferred tax liability, registering a one-time non-cash corporate tax expense (+KRW 349 bil.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 2025 Consolidated Business Performance Despite recovery in Steel, OP declined due to weak performance in Rechargeable Battery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[380],"tags":[3993,9443,816,9189,2880,809,9445,442,460,813,9444],"class_list":["post-12727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-posco","tag-2025-results","tag-lithium-production","tag-net-debt","tag-net-profit-decline","tag-operating-margin","tag-pkx","tag-portfolio-divestments","tag-posco","tag-posco-holdings","tag-rechargeable-battery-materials","tag-steel-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}