Korn Ferry (KFY) Earnings: Q1 Fiscal 2027 Results and Next Report Date

The quarter ended July 31, 2026 and Korn Ferry published the results on September 9, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q1 fiscal 2026, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison. Korn Ferry reports EPS two ways: GAAP, under the accounting rules every US filer follows, and adjusted diluted, which leaves out items the company considers outside its operating results. The release reconciles the two, and when they diverge, the reconciliation says why.

• Korn Ferry's fiscal year ends April 30, so Q1 fiscal 2027 covers May through July 2026.
• Revenue here is total revenue, which is fee revenue plus reimbursed out-of-pocket engagement expenses. Korn Ferry leads its results with fee revenue, $756.5 million in the quarter.
• From fiscal 2027 Korn Ferry reports three geographic segments (Americas, EMEA, APAC) in place of its earlier solution-based segments.
• Korn Ferry completed the $1.2 billion acquisition of AMS on September 1, 2026, after the quarter closed, so AMS is not in Q1 results.

Source: Korn Ferry Q1 fiscal 2027 results, September 9, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How Korn Ferry splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q1 fiscal 2027 against Q1 fiscal 2026. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• Korn Ferry's Americas revenue was $442 million in Q1 fiscal 2027, up 9% from $404 million in Q1 fiscal 2026, 58% of total revenue.
• Korn Ferry's EMEA revenue was $228 million in Q1 fiscal 2027, up 4% from $219 million in Q1 fiscal 2026, 30% of total revenue.
• Korn Ferry's APAC revenue was $86.7 million in Q1 fiscal 2027, up 1% from $85.5 million in Q1 fiscal 2026, 11% of total revenue.
• Korn Ferry's Reimbursed out-of-pocket engagement expenses revenue was $8.1 million in Q1 fiscal 2027, up 17% from $6.9 million in Q1 fiscal 2026, 1% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

From the earnings release

The outlook includes AMS, acquired on September 1, 2026, for September and October. Korn Ferry gives no GAAP EPS outlook.

In its Q1 fiscal 2027 release, Korn Ferry said:

“Q2 FY'27 fee revenue is expected to be in the range of $860 million and $878 million;”

“Q2 FY'27 adjusted EBITDA margin is expected to range from 16.8% to 17.2%; and”

“Q2 FY'27 adjusted diluted earnings per share is expected to be in the range from $1.30 to $1.40.”

Source: Korn Ferry Q1 FY27 release, Sep 9, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Sep 9, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the KFY forecast page.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

GAAP total revenue and diluted EPS, each as first reported in that quarter's release.

Korn Ferry's next report is expected around December 8, 2026, a date estimated from its reporting history that the company has not yet confirmed. This page will show Q1 fiscal 2027 until those results are out and have been checked against the release.

Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q1 fiscal 2027 (this page), reported Sep 9, 2026

Korn Ferry reported fee revenue of $756.5 million in Q1 fiscal 2027, up 7% at both actual and constant currency, and total revenue of $764.6 million including reimbursed engagement expenses. By solution group, Search brought in $307.9 million (up 10.4%), Talent & Organizational Solutions $259.2 million (flat) and Workforce Solutions $189.4 million (up 11.1%). Korn Ferry called it its sixth consecutive quarter of top-line growth. (Korn Ferry Q1 FY27 release, Sep 9, 2026)

Search covers Executive Search and Professional Search; Talent & Organizational Solutions covers Consulting and Digital; Workforce Solutions covers Recruitment Process Outsourcing and Interim. A search fee is generally one-third of the placed candidate's estimated first-year cash compensation, recognized over the course of the search. Consulting revenue is recognized by hours incurred, and in fiscal 2026 Consulting served over 4,300 clients at an average bill rate of $458 per hour. (Korn Ferry Form 10-Q, Q1 FY27, Sep 9, 2026; Korn Ferry Form 10-K, fiscal 2026, Jun 26, 2026)

The Americas grew fastest: fee revenue rose 9% to $442.1 million, with Search and Workforce Solutions each up 14%. EMEA rose 4% to $227.7 million, led by Workforce Solutions (up 8%), and APAC rose 1% to $86.7 million, where a 7% increase in Search offset declines elsewhere. (Korn Ferry Q1 FY27 release, Sep 9, 2026; Korn Ferry Form 10-Q, Q1 FY27, Sep 9, 2026)

Korn Ferry's 350 Marquee and Diamond accounts made up almost 40% of consolidated fee revenue as of July 31, 2026. New business awarded in the quarter was $832.3 million, against $742.2 million a year earlier, and estimated remaining fees under existing contracts were $1,915.0 million, up 14%. (Korn Ferry Form 10-Q, Q1 FY27, Sep 9, 2026; Korn Ferry Q1 FY27 release, Sep 9, 2026)

Korn Ferry's diluted EPS was $1.32 in Q1 fiscal 2027, up 5% from $1.26, and adjusted diluted EPS was $1.43, up 9% from $1.31. The only adjustment this quarter was $7.6 million of integration and acquisition costs, worth $0.15 a share before a $0.04 tax effect; a year earlier the adjustments also included $2.0 million of accelerated depreciation on a digital technology platform being sunset. (Korn Ferry Q1 FY27 release, Sep 9, 2026)

Net income attributable to Korn Ferry rose to $69.0 million, a 9.1% margin, from $66.6 million. Compensation and benefits rose $16.0 million, including $9.8 million more severance-related expense, and other income fell to $5.1 million from $12.8 million. The effective tax rate was 26.2%, against 27.2%. (Korn Ferry Q1 FY27 release, Sep 9, 2026; Korn Ferry Form 10-Q, Q1 FY27, Sep 9, 2026)

Diluted weighted-average shares fell to 51.3 million from 52.4 million. Korn Ferry made no open-market repurchases in the quarter, against 145,770 shares for $9.9 million a year earlier, and raised its quarterly dividend to $0.55 from $0.48. The AMS deal, which closed after quarter end, included 3,118,628 newly issued Korn Ferry shares. (Korn Ferry Q1 FY27 release, Sep 9, 2026; Korn Ferry Form 10-Q, Q1 FY27, Sep 9, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

Korn Ferry gives a one-quarter outlook in its release, on an adjusted basis. For Q2 fiscal 2027 it expects fee revenue of $860 million to $878 million, an adjusted EBITDA margin of 16.8% to 17.2% and adjusted diluted EPS of $1.30 to $1.40. That outlook includes AMS for September and October, along with two months of added amortization, interest expense and shares from the deal. (Korn Ferry Q1 FY27 release, Sep 9, 2026)

AMS, a UK-headquartered recruitment process outsourcing and contingent workforce firm, cost $1.2 billion: $0.9 billion in cash and $0.3 billion in Korn Ferry stock. Korn Ferry says it is not giving a GAAP EPS outlook because it cannot estimate AMS integration and acquisition costs. (Korn Ferry Form 10-Q, Q1 FY27, Sep 9, 2026; Korn Ferry Q1 FY27 release, Sep 9, 2026)

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The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones Korn Ferry's own release and filings put weight on for Q1 fiscal 2027, with the latest reported value for each.

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