In January, individuals swept 10 trillion won in Samsung Electronics shares.
Exceeding the annual net purchase amount last year
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Tae-jong = In January, individual investors invested more in Samsung Electronics than in the whole last year.
Until the 29th of this month, individuals had net purchase of Samsung Electronics stocks of 10.15 trillion won. It exceeds the annual net purchase (9,5951 billion won) last year. Compared to last year’s January (1.276 trillion won), it is eight times, and March last year, which was the highest on a monthly basis (49587 billion won), doubles.
Such net purchases accounted for 42.2% of the total net purchases of individuals in the securities market (24.35 trillion won) this month.
Individuals’ net purchases of Samsung Electronics this month showed a steady trend. Of the 20 trading days, 16 trading days were net bought.
There were three days of net purchase for more than 10 million weeks a day. In the past year, there were only five cases like this.
In terms of quantity, Samsung Electronics’ shares swept away by individuals this month amounted to 11,673 million shares (1.96% of the total number of issued shares).
This means that it has absorbed all the quantities sold by institutions and foreigners. In January, institutions and foreigners net sold 66.4 million shares of Samsung Electronics and 52.3 million shares, respectively.
Samsung Securities’ investment information team leader Jung Myung-ji said, “Some investors may be single-minded minority shareholders, but the demand to buy stocks based on their belief in Samsung Electronics, quarterly dividends, and not a small total dividend, etc. It can be very conservative,” he said.
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