[Featured Stock] NAVER, Highlighted AI Momentum... '↑'

NAVER is on the rise. It is interpreted that the analysis by securities firms highlighting the momentum of artificial intelligence (AI) has had an impact.

As of 10:25 AM on the 10th, NAVER was trading at 230,500 KRW, up 5,000 KRW (2.22%) compared to the previous trading day.

On the 7th of this month, NAVER announced that its consolidated sales for last year were tentatively estimated at 10.7377 trillion KRW, an 11.0% increase from the previous year, and operating profit was 1.9793 trillion KRW, a 32.9% increase from the previous year.

NAVER is the first domestic platform company to achieve sales of 10 trillion KRW. This year, it plans to advance its proprietary AI model, HyperCLOVA X. It also intends to explore collaboration with various external AI models, including large language models (LLM) from global big tech companies.

Junho Lee, a researcher at Hana Securities, said, "This year is a period of improved profitability despite expenditures to secure competitiveness in commerce (e-commerce) and AI, driven by efficient growth in the advertising sector," adding, "We can also expect a stock price increase accompanying the re-rating of big tech within the global AI software (SW) value chain."