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38% of all purchases this year
Purchased 14.5 trillion won, close to 74 trillion won
1 in 3 domestic investors is a shareholder
3% loss compared to the average number of purchases at the beginning of the year
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Individual investors Samsung Electronics (005930)As the unstoppable buying trend continued, the individual’s share of ownership surpassed 15% for the first time. In addition, it was found that about 1 in 3 domestic stock investors owned Samsung Electronics. As domestic investors hold 74 trillion won of wealth through Samsung Electronics only in valuation, Samsung Electronics has emerged as a “national democratic stock” in name and reality.
According to the Korea Exchange on the 16th, from the beginning of the year to the 15th, individual investors have bought 14,552 trillion won of Samsung Electronics (common stock), a total of 178,430,000 shares. As of the end of last year, as compiled by the KSD, the number of shares held by individual shareholders of Samsung Electronics was 733,399,426 shares based on common shares, and 12.27% in ownership.
When the total number of shares purchased by individuals since the beginning of the year is summed up, the total number of shares is 93.87 million, which is 15.14% of the total number of common stocks (59.69.78. As of the end of 2020, it is overwhelmingly more than the National Pension Service (10.70%) and Samsung Life Insurance (8.78%), which are shareholders of 5% or more. The value of Samsung Electronics’ shares held by individuals is 73,937.3 billion won based on the closing price on the 15th.
Since last year’s new coronavirus infection (Corona 19),’Donghak Ant’ has concentrated on buying large domestic high-end stocks including Samsung Electronics, but this year, the intensity of buying especially for Samsung Electronics has grown even stronger.
Since the beginning of the year, individuals have purchased a total of 37,939.4 billion won in net stocks in the KOSPI and KOSDAQ markets, of which Samsung Electronics (14.55 trillion won) accounts for 38.4%. Last year, the annual net purchase amount of Samsung Electronics was 9,585.2 billion won. From the beginning of the year until the 16th, 34 of the 49 trading days were bought for Samsung Electronics.
Although the proportion of holdings is overwhelming, the number of shareholders is superior. As of the end of 2020, out of 9.1 million domestic stock investors, 29,588,682 are Samsung Electronics shareholders. One in three people is holding Samsung Electronics.
In particular, it is analyzed that the par value division played a big role in lowering the barriers to entry for minority shareholders in the fact that Samsung Electronics was able to become a national stock. Samsung Electronics decided to split the face value at 50 to 1 in May 2018. If the par value was not split, ants could have become a’hard to access’ stock at 4.14 million won per share based on the closing price (82,800 won) on the 16th.
The distribution of investors by age group supports this analysis. As of the end of 2020, the proportion of shareholders in their 20s or younger to the total number of shareholders was 5.3% (115,083) and 14.55% (31,3,616) in their 20s. As of the end of 2017, before the face-off split, △ 1.48% (17,153 people) under 20s and △ 5.35% (53,785 people) in their 20s. This is a significant increase in the number of young shareholders under their twenties with relatively little funding.
Above all, brokerage PBs explain that individuals”love of Samsung Electronics’ stems from the experience and belief that’relatively safe stocks’. In addition, the fact that dividend income, which is better than bank interest, is divided into quarters in the era of low interest rates is also interpreted as a factor that attracts conservative investors. Hong Seong-bae, head of the PB team at Ichon-dong WM Center, NH Investment & Securities, said, “Individuals believe that Samsung Electronics is a’Korea’s representative company’ that will not fail unless the country fails. After the end of the year, I was compensated for the rise in the stock price.”
However, due to the recent stock price correction, investors who have hurried to buy Samsung Electronics this year are recording negative returns. The average purchase price of Samsung Electronics this year by individual investors was 85,179 won, which is a loss of 2.79% compared to the closing price of the day (82,800 won). In particular, on the day of recording an all-time high of 96,000 won in early January, a transaction exceeding 8 trillion won broke out, which is a 17% drop compared to this. A PB of a large brokerage company said, “There are many cases of’jurini’ who entered the stock market at the beginning of the year being bitten by high prices. . Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics will hold an online regular shareholders’ meeting on the 17th. For the convenience of shareholders, Samsung Electronics introduced the electronic voting system last year, and this year it will broadcast the shareholders’ meeting online.
/ Reporter Hyejin Lee [email protected]
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