SK hynix plans ~KRW 100T shareholder returns in FY2026 on AI-driven memory boom
firstadopter · x · 2026-10-28
firstadopter shares an SK hynix shareholder-return slide with the quip "100 trillion here, 100 trillion there. Sooner or later you're talking real money." The slide details a plan to return roughly KRW 100 trillion in FY2026: at least KRW 30T in cash dividends (KRW 14T Q3 payout, DPS of KRW 20,000 including a special dividend largely from realized Kioxia investment gains) and about KRW 60T in share buybacks/cancellations (KRW 20T this quarter, KRW 10T counted toward shareholder returns). The scale underscores how the AI/HBM demand surge is flooding memory makers with profits.
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