Evening Digest: Samsung Buybacks Rise as Bitcoin, Oil Rally
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Samsung Electronics has established a shareholder return policy worth up to 110 trillion won by 2026. The core of the plan involves a 30 trillion won dividend and a 15 trillion won share buyback in the third quarter. This decision is based on record operating profits driven by the memory semiconductor boom and aligns with the global semiconductor industry's trend of enhancing shareholder value. However, the after-hours stock price showed a downw…
Samsung Plans as Much as $79 Billion in Shareholder Returns
Evening digest: Samsung buybacks rise as Bitcoin, oil rally
On Friday, Samsung Electronics outlined a potential record shareholder payout as AI-memory demand boosts cash generation. Bitcoin extended its strongest weekly rally in more than two years. Oil prices climbed as fresh US sanctions threats against Iran raised concerns about further supply disruptions. Gold also surged to a more than three-month high as Treasury buybacks pressured the dollar and boosted demand for the precious metal. Samsung plans…
In this sense, the technological giant previews that this figure will multiply by five the previous record reached in 2020 that represented a return for the shareholders of 20.3 billion won (12,530 million euros).
Samsung wanted to reward its shareholders and return some of the proceeds, just as SK Hynix has done, and will do so by breaking all records in the South Korean market. Samsung Electronics’ board of directors has finally approved the dividend-sharing plan for the 2026 financial year, which contemplates an amount for shareholders of between 90 and 110 billion won, about 79 billion dollars. This is the largest amount ever offered by a South Korean…
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