Receives over 1 trillion won in dividends from Samsung Electronics’ investment ants

Input 2021.02.21 10:14

Last year Samsung Electronics (005930)It is estimated that the total dividend received by individual investors who invested in is over 1 trillion won. That’s more than three times more than a year ago. Samsung Electronics increased its settlement dividends by implementing special dividends, and ants intensively bought Samsung Electronics’ stocks, resulting in a sharp rise in the stake, and more dividends were shared.

According to the financial investment industry on the 21st, it was revealed that the total of dividends received by individual minority shareholders of Samsung Electronics (hereinafter referred to as common stock) last year amounted to about 1.14 trillion won. This is an increase of about 204% compared to the dividend of 377 billion won in 2019. This is an estimate based on the disclosure of the Securities Information Portal (SEIBro) of the Korea Securities Depository.

In the wake of the’Donghak ant’ craze last year, individual investors bought more Samsung Electronics than usual. According to the Korea Exchange, last year, individuals purchased shares of Samsung Electronics worth 9,595 billion won. Accordingly, Samsung Electronics’ individual investor share was 6.49%, up 2.86 percentage points (P) compared to 3.62% at the end of 2019. Individual investors gained the effect of increasing their dividend by about 428 billion won by 60% by increasing their stake in Samsung Electronics last year.

In addition, the dividend of individual investors increased significantly as Samsung Electronics released a regular dividend of 354 won per share per quarter and a special dividend of 1578 won per share from the settlement dividend in the fourth quarter of last year. If the share of individual minority shareholders last year was the same as in 2019, it is estimated that the total dividends received by individual investors will reach 718 billion won.