{"id":109996,"date":"2026-08-05T14:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/109996\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:18:12","slug":"samsung-sk-hynix-pledge-meaningful-boost-to-shareholder-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/109996\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung, SK hynix Pledge Meaningful Boost to Shareholder Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Yonhap News - Seoul Economic Daily Finance News from South Korea\" title=\"Samsung, SK hynix Pledge Meaningful Boost to Shareholder Returns\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto rounded-sm\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785939492_538_news-p.v1.20260802.55dbb27dbcc741dd89efe7f9b4eaa49f_P1.png\"\/>Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Yonhap News<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said it is reviewing plans to expand shareholder returns in a sustainable manner. SK hynix (000660.KS) also signaled it would unveil a plan by year-end to meaningfully increase the scale of its capital returns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">According to Reuters on the 5th, Samsung Electronics said in a statement sent to the news agency that day that it is reviewing ways to strengthen shareholder returns in a &#8220;sustainable manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">SK hynix, in a separate statement sent to Reuters, said it plans to prepare a concrete shareholder return plan by the end of the year, adding that it expects to &#8220;meaningfully expand&#8221; the scale of its capital returns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">The expectations for expanded shareholder returns at both companies stem from record earnings driven by growing artificial intelligence (AI) demand. Samsung Electronics and SK hynix last week announced their highest-ever quarterly operating profits, helped by a memory chip boom centered on high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI servers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">The improved earnings have also significantly strengthened their cash-generating capacity. Securities analysts forecast that Samsung Electronics&#8217; free cash flow (FCF) will reach about 200 trillion won this year, while SK hynix&#8217;s will reach the mid-100 trillion won range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Yonhap News Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said it is reviewing plans to expand shareholder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4286,56507,2645,699,41998,127,276,732,275],"class_list":["post-109996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-samsung-electronics","tag-ai-memory-chips","tag-capital-returns","tag-free-cash-flow","tag-hbm","tag-record-earnings","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-shareholder-returns","tag-sk-hynix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}