In January, a citizen is reading a stock-related book at Kyobo Bookstore in Jongno-gu, Seoul. News 1
Last year, the number of shareholders holding shares of Samsung Electronics increased by nearly 2.35 million. Thanks to the enthusiasm of individual investors to invest in stocks, the size of shareholders in all listed companies surged by nearly 50% compared to the previous year.
According to the “Status of 2,352 listed corporations listed for December settlement,” announced by the Korea Securities Depository on the 16th, among the listed companies in Korea, the company with the most owners was Samsung Electronics.
Compared to 2019 (61,274 people), the scale increased by a whopping 2.35 million in one year, four times more than Hyundai Motor (692,374), the second-largest owner. Assuming that the total population of Korea is 50 million, 6 out of 100 citizens own Samsung Electronics stock.
The total number of listed companies (excluding duplicate owners) was 9.19 million, an increase of 3,055 (48.5%) from the previous year. The total number of shares owned by these stock owners was about 99.1 billion, which was found to hold an average of 1,779 shares per person.
By owner, individual owners (9.1 million) accounted for 99.1% of the total. Corporate owners (0.4%) and foreign owners (0.2%) followed. However, the average number of stocks held per capita was the largest in about 1.16 million corporations.
By age, shareholders in their 40s accounted for the largest number of 2.21 million (24.3%). This was followed by those in their 50s (21.7%) and in their 30s (19.9%). However, in terms of the number of shares held, the 50s had the largest share with 16.4 billion shares (33.1%). After that, they were in their 40s (25.3%) and in their 60s (20.1%). In their thirties, they invested more in stocks than in their sixties, but their stocks were 9.9% of the total, falling to their sixties.
In addition, the ratio of male shareholders was 57.3% (5.2 million), which was 14.6 percentage points higher than that of females (42.7%). As for the number of shares owned by regional shareholders, Seoul was the largest with 56.7 billion shares (57.2%). Among them, a man in his 50s living in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, owns 1.14 billion shares, which is the highest number of shares in the country.
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