Naver Overview

  • Founded
  • 1999
Founded
  • Status
  • Public
  • Employees
  • 4,235
Employees
  • Stock Symbol
  • 035420
Stock Symbol
  • Investments
  • 100
  • Share Price
  • $251.68
  • (As of Monday Closing)

Naver General Information

Description

Naver has been the leading search portal in South Korea for many years. The company has also been evolving into an Internet platform providing a variety of Internet services, such as news, dictionary, maps, digital comic content, social networking, e-commerce, videos, fintech services based on online payments, and Cloud services. Naver was also the incubator of Line, the leading mobile messaging app in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia, which has recently been merged with Z Holdings (Yahoo Japan), with Naver now owning 32.5% of the merged entity. Snow, the Snapchat-like mobile app launched in 2015, has also been well received in South Korea, Japan, and other Asian countries.

Contact Information

Website
www.navercorp.com
Formerly Known As
NaverCom Co
Ownership Status
Publicly Held
Financing Status
Corporation
Primary Industry
Communication Software
Other Industries
Publishing
Stock Exchange
KRX
Primary Office
  • NAVER Green Factory
  • 6 Buljeong-ro, Bundang-gu
  • Seongnam, Gyeonggi
  • South Korea
+82 0000-0000
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Naver Stock Performance

(As of Monday Closing)

Stock Price Previous Close 52 wk Range Market Cap Shares Average Volume EPS
$251.68 $270.48 $246.73 - $403.64 $37.6B 149M 585K $99.03

Naver Financials Summary

In Thousands,
USD 		TTM 30-Sep-2021 FY 2020 31-Dec-2020 FY 2019 31-Dec-2019 FY 2018 31-Dec-2018
EV 49,451,416 38,570,735 22,285,729 13,988,670
Revenue 5,669,636 4,492,389 3,735,820 5,083,111
EBITDA 1,889,421 1,807,837 1,624,547 1,236,653
Net Income 14,695,094 848,725 500,013 590,307
Total Assets 27,711,496 15,596,238 10,618,145 8,835,860
Total Debt 3,154,050 799,709 1,800,941 1,038,622
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Naver Valuation & Funding

Deal Type Date Amount Valuation/
EBITDA		 Post-Val Status Debt

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Naver Comparisons

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Employees
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Post Valuation
Last Financing Details
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Naver Competitors (1)

Company Name Financing Status Location Employees Total Raised Last Financing Date/Type Last Financing Amount
00000 Formerly VC-backed Seongnam, South Korea 0000 00000 000000000 00000
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Naver Patents

  • 600

    Total Documents Applications and Grants

  • 000

    Total Patents Families

  • 134

    Granted

  • 79

    Pending

  • 000

    Expiring in next 12 mo

Naver Recent Patent Activity

Publication ID Patent Title Status First Filing Date Technology (CPC) Citations
US-20210342377-A1 Abstractive multi-document summarization through self-supervision and control Pending 30-Apr-2020 0000000000
EP-3905142-A4 Abstractive multi-document summarization through self-supervision and control Pending 30-Apr-2020 0000000000
EP-3905142-A1 Abstractive multi-document summarization through self-supervision and control Pending 30-Apr-2020 0000000000 0
US-20210343043-A1 Adversarial scene adaptation for camera pose regression Pending 29-Apr-2020 00000000
US-20210333124-A1 Method and system for detecting changes in road-layout information Pending 28-Apr-2020 G01C21/3859
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Naver Executive Team (13)

Name Title Board Seat Contact Info
Seong-Sook Han Chief Executive Officer & Board Member
Choi Soo-yeon JD Chief Executive Officer
Kim Nam-sun Chief Financial Officer
In-Hyuk Choi Chief Operating Officer, Operations & Board Member
Lee Jeong-an Leader of Investment and Development
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Naver Board Members (6)

Name Representing Role Since
Dae-Gyu Byun Naver Chairman & Board Member 000 0000
In-Hyuk Choi Naver Chief Operating Officer, Operations & Board Member 000 0000
Jong-Woo Lee Ph.D Self Member of Audit Committee 000 0000
Seong-Sook Han Naver Chief Executive Officer & Board Member 000 0000
Su-Uk Kim Ph.D Self Member of Audit Committee 000 0000
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Naver Signals

Growth Rate

0.80% Weekly
Growth
Weekly Growth 0.80%, 93rd %ile
-35.5%. 530%

Size Multiple

219x Median
Size Multiple 219x, 100th %ile
0.00x 0.95x. 413Kx

Key Data Points

Twitter Followers

5.5k

Similarweb Unique Visitors

15.0K

Majestic Referring Domains

314

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Naver Investors

Investor Name Investor Type Holding Investor Since Participating Rounds Contact Info

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Naver Investments & Acquisitions (100)

Company Name Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Industry Lead Partner
000000 00 03-Mar-2022 00000 0000 0000 Entertainment Software
000 000000000 22-Feb-2022 0000 00000 0000 Business/Productivity Software
000 000000 15-Feb-2022 0000 00000 Media and Information Services (B2B)
00000 0000000 03-Dec-2021 0000000000 00000 Movies, Music and Entertainment
Lunit 24-Nov-2021 Later Stage VC 000.00 Decision/Risk Analysis
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Naver Subsidiaries (6)

Company Name Industry Location Founded
Whoscall Application Software Taipei, Taiwan 2012
0000000000000 Information Services (B2C) Seoul, South Korea 0000
0000000 Social Content Toronto, Canada 0000
00000 0000000000 0 Movies, Music and Entertainment Tokyo, Japan 0000
00000-000 Application Software Osaka, Japan 0000
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Naver Exits (16)

Company Name Exit Date Exit Type Exit Size Status Buyers
000000000 15-Apr-2021 00000 00000 00 00000 Completed
  • 8 buyers
00000000 25-Feb-2021 00000 00000 00 00000 Completed
  • 10 buyers
0000 09-Oct-2019 00000 00000 00 00.00 Completed
  • 41 buyers
000000000 09-Jan-2019 00000 00000 00 0000 Completed
  • 6 buyers
Dynamic Yield 02-Nov-2018 Later Stage VC 0000 Completed
  • 7 buyers
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