Samsung Electronics earns 36 trillion and distributes 13 trillion… M&A also announced
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Samsung Electronics made the fourth largest operating profit in history despite the Corona 19 incident last year.
We also decided on a 13 trillion won dividend, including special dividends.
In addition to expanding facility investment, it also announced meaningful mergers and acquisitions.
This is reporter Jisoo Kim.
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Samsung Electronics’ operating profit last year was 3,5939 trillion won, an increase of almost 30% from the previous year.
Sales increased by 2.6% to 237 trillion won, which further improved profitability.
It also announced an unprecedented large-scale dividend beyond the increased performance.
We decided to pay 1,932 KRW by adding 1,578 KRW special dividend using the remaining resources to the settlement dividend of KRW 354 per share based on common stock.
It is over 19 times the par value of 100 won, and the total dividend exceeds 13 trillion won, which is more than a third of last year’s operating profit.
Of course, domestic and foreign institutional investors and individuals such as the National Pension System benefit from special dividends, but the dividend of the total family, including vice chairman Lee Jae-yong, who has 42 million shares, also exceeds KRW 1 trillion.
The analysis of stock prices is that it will be used for the inheritance tax of the late Chairman Lee Kun-hee.
Samsung Electronics is short of this special dividend, but plans to increase its dividend in the future.
They announced that they would increase the regular dividend by KRW 900 billion to KRW 9.8 trillion for the next three years, and that they will give back additional funds if the remaining financial resources are generated within 50% of the free cash flow.
Samsung Electronics, which invested KRW 38 trillion last year, is expected to expand investment this year to narrow the gap with Taiwan’s TSMC in memory and system semiconductors.
In particular, it announced that “we will actively utilize our owned resources to expand strategic facility investment and promote M&A,” and predicted the possibility of meaningful mergers and acquisitions soon.
Although there have been several acquisitions of small technology companies by Samsung, this is the first time to officially mention an M&A after acquiring Harman, an automobile electronics company in 2017.
This is Yonhap News TV, Kim Ji-soo.
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