MEDIUMOutside partyCustomer
40%
Marquee and Diamond accounts
“10-K Item 1: 'our 350 Marquee and Diamond accounts represented approximately 40% of consolidated fee revenue'”
KFY · Concentration risk · 10-K extracted
Korn Ferry (KFY) concentration risks
Updated
The most significant concentration Korn Ferry discloses is Marquee and Diamond accounts at 40%, classified MEDIUM by disclosed size. Below: the full set from the latest 10-K — verbatim quotes, filing references, and a synthesis of what these exposures mean together.
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Source: Korn Ferry’s SEC Form 10-K filed — view the filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
At a glance
Disclosed-size breakdown · 1 disclosed concentration
HIGH0
MEDIUM1
LOW0
Disclosed concentrations
Each card carries a disclosed-size chip (HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW — how large the exposure is as a share of revenue, not how dangerous it is) and a nature tag: Built-in(the company’s own model, geography, or products) or Outside party (an external customer, supplier, or distributor it relies on).
TrendMatrix Research · concentration synthesis
What these concentrations mean together
updated 2026-10-18Korn Ferry's only disclosed concentration is a client-tier one. Its 350 Marquee and Diamond accounts represented approximately 40% of consolidated fee revenue, a medium-share exposure with dependency character. This is a deliberate account-management strategy rather than a weakness in itself: the largest relationships tend to be multi-service, repeat engagements, and a broad group of accounts spreads the risk compared with reliance on a few names. Even so, a block of this size means that a pullback in hiring, consulting or talent spending by the biggest corporate clients would flow through to fee revenue more quickly than weakness among smaller accounts. Because the exposure is spread over 350 relationships and not a few counterparties, it behaves more like a cyclical sensitivity to large-enterprise budgets than an idiosyncratic single-customer risk. The extracted claims show no supplier, product or geographic concentration, so there is no second exposure to offset or compound this one. Netting it out, the key question for the verdict is the health of large-corporate demand rather than the loss of any individual client.
For the engine’s reasoning on KFY’s current verdict — including which dimensions drove the score — see the per-dimension breakdown.
Industry peers · Staffing & Employment Services
Peer concentration profile
| Symbol | Name | HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAN | ManpowerGroup | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| BBSI | Barrett Business Services, Inc. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| KFY● | Korn Ferry | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| KELYA | Kelly Services, Inc. | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| KELYB | Kelly Services, Inc. | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| KFRC | Kforce, Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Concentration counts reflect items disclosed in each peer’s most recent 10-K; disclosed-size classification uses TrendMatrix’s internal 10-K extraction taxonomy.