Kakao net drops 38 percent in 2022 on service outage costs
Kakao saw a 38 percent decline in net profit to 1.02 trillion won ($811 million) in 2022, according to the company’s regulatory filing Friday.
The figure missed the analyst estimate of 1.62 trillion won compiled by FnGuide.
Annual operating profit shrank 2.4 percent to 580.5 billion won. Sales rose 15.8 percent to 7.11 trillion won.
For the fourth quarter, Kakao reported a 5.8 percent on-year decrease in quarterly operating profit to 100.4 billion won partly due to the service outage caused by a fire in its data center in Pangyo last October.
The quarterly net swung to red to a net loss of 539.3 billion won in the October-December period, compared to the previous year’s net profit of 224 billion won.
BY SHIN HA-NEE [shin.hanee@joongang.co.kr]