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May 21, 2026

๐Ÿšจ Alpha Signal: Korea Electric Power Corporation (015760.KS) ๐Ÿ“ˆ Price Surge 7.0%

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Korea Electric Power Corporation (015760.KS) +7.0% at 2026-05-21 10:40 JST from 2026-05-21 09:30 JST

๐Ÿ•’ Time (Local) ๐ŸŒ English Summary ๐Ÿ“ฐ Original Headline (linked)
2026-05-19 12:29 KST KEPCO shares climbed about 4% intraday even after a Q1 earnings โ€œshockโ€ as investors focused on the expected normalization of nuclear plant utilization and growing prospects for overseas nuclear orders, with brokers highlighting longโ€‘term nuclear momentum as the main driver of the strength. (tokenpost.kr) [\[ํŠน์ง•์ฃผ\] ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „๋ ฅ, ์‹ค์  ์‡ผํฌ์—๋„ 4%๋Œ€ ๊ฐ•์„ธโ€ฆ์›์ „ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€ ์žฌ๋ถ€๊ฐ](https://www.tokenpost.kr/news/economy/361105)
2026-05-15 15:56 KST The industry ministry announced that future overseas nuclear power projects will be pursued through JVs/consortia where KEPCO leads external negotiations and equity investment while KHNP handles construction and operations, a restructuring seen as strengthening KEPCOโ€™s role in lucrative global nuclear exports and potentially positioning it as a future nuclear export holding company. (pulse.mk.co.kr) KEPCO, KHNP to jointly target overseas nuclear projects
2026-05-14 22:03 KST The government unveiled a โ€œnuclear export system efficiency plan,โ€ creating a Nuclear Power Export Planning Committee and naming KEPCO the unified external negotiation channel and main equity investor for overseas nuclear deals, which elevates KEPCOโ€™s strategic importance in upcoming largeโ€‘scale export projects and reduces past coordination risks with KHNP. (seoul.co.kr) ํ•œ์ „ยทํ•œ์ˆ˜์› ์‹ธ์šฐ๋Š” ๊ผด ๋ชป ๋ดโ€ฆ์ •๋ถ€ โ€˜์›์ „์ˆ˜์ถœ๊ธฐํš์œ„โ€™ ์‹ ์„ค
2026-05-14 11:13 KST Meritz Securities reiterated a **Buy** rating on KEPCO with a 65,000 KRW target price (around 60% upside at the time), arguing that investors should look beyond weak Q1 results to structural positives such as progressing nuclear projects and potential value from integrating power generation subsidiaries, while noting that the broader Streetโ€™s target prices for KEPCO have been trending higher. (newspim.com) [[๋ฆฌํฌํŠธ ๋ธŒ๋ฆฌํ•‘]ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „๋ ฅ, โ€˜1Q26 Review: ์‹ค์  ๊ทธ ๋„ˆ๋จธ๋ฅผ ๋ด์•ผํ•  ๋•Œโ€™ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๊ฐ€ 65,000์› - ๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์ธ ์ฆ๊ถŒ](https://www.newspim.com/news/view/20260514000617)
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