The number of male investors in their 40s living in Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, surpassed Gangnam-gu, Seoul, and rose to the national level with the highest number of stock investors.
According to the Korea Securities Depository on the 18th, among individual investors as of the end of last year, the number of male investors in their 40s residing in Suwon was 34,463, the largest number of investors by ward, city, county, gender and age group nationwide.
Gangnam-gu surpassed men in their 40s (34,187 people).
The total number of shares they owned (26.08 million shares) was less than a quarter of Gangnam (82.513 million shares), but the number of investors was higher.
This is the first time that Suwon’s 40-year-old male has been ranked No. 1 in this category since the Korea Securities Depository has calculated related statistics since 2016.
For four years from 2016 to 2019, the number of male investors in Gangnam’s 40s was the highest.
The number of male investors in their 40s in Suwon was 24,000 in 2018, the fourth in the country.
It was more than 5,000 people different from the number of male shareholders in Gangnam’s 40s (31,161 people), which was the only person at the time that had more than 30,000.
However, at the end of 2019, the number of male shareholders in Suwon in their 40s was 26,126, narrowing the gap with men in their 40s in Gangnam (341), and last year, by a slight margin.
The number of male investors in their 40s in Suwon, which increased last year, reached 8,337 (31.9%).
This is twice the size of Gangnam, which increased by 4,146 people (13.8%).
Last year, the population of men in their 40s in Suwon decreased from the previous year, but the number of investors increased.
According to the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, the number of men in their 40s in Suwon at the end of 2019 was 103,709, but at the end of last year, the number of men in their 40s decreased by 1,467 to 102,242.
An official in the industry said, “Since there are Samsung Electronics and suppliers in Suwon, there are many office workers who are interested in investment and can afford to invest.” said.
In Suwon, not only men in their 40s, but also other age groups were actively investing in stocks last year.
Males in their 30s (38,91) and men in their 50s (29,98) also invested around 30,000, respectively, ranking 6th and 7th.
The number of female investors in their 40s reached 28,08.
In 2019, only men in their 40s were aged over 25,000 investors in the region.
Meanwhile, three out of four men in their 40s in Gangnam are investing in stocks.
As of the end of last year, there were 46,145 men in their 40s in Gangnam, of which 34,463 were shareholders, accounting for 74.7% of investors.
[표] Comparison of the number of male investors in their 40s living in Suwon and Gangnam-gu
(Unit: persons)
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│ Category │ Male in 40s in Suwon City │ Male in 40s in Gangnam-gu │
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│ │ Number of investors │ Overall ranking │ Number of investors │ Overall ranking │
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│ 2020 │ 34,463 │ 1st place │ 34,187 │ 2nd place │
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│ 2019 │ 26,125 │ 2nd place │ 30,041 │ 1st place │
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│ 2018 │ 24,790 │ 4th │ 30,161 │ 1st │
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※ Korea Securities Depository
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