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Foreign ownership of Samsung Electronics falls to lowest level since 2008
Foreign investors held 46.38% of South Korean chipmaker Samsung Electronics on Oct.
8.
The figure had fallen to 46.37% two days earlier, its lowest level since January 2008, during the global financial crisis.
This comes despite Samsung reporting record third-quarter operating profit of 107 trillion won.
Foreign ownership of Samsung had reached 52.40% early this year before falling amid a broader retreat by overseas investors.
The selling has also affected SK Hynix, where foreign ownership was 49.59% on Oct.
8, below 50% for eight trading days in a row.
Foreign investors have sold more than 197 trillion won worth of South Korean stocks this year, and their holdings in the country's electrical and electronics sector have declined.
Market attention is on whether the foreign selling will continue.
Samsung Electronics’ foreign ownership fell to 46.37% on October 6, its lowest level since January 2008.
The rate was 46.38% on October 8, as foreign investors continued selling shares.
The decline continued despite the company recording a record operating profit of 107 trillion won in the third quarter.
Foreign ownership of SK Hynix and the KOSPI electrical and electronics sector also fell.
Foreign investors had net sold more than 197 trillion won in KOSPI shares this year.
- Who
- Foreign investors and Samsung Electronics.
- What
- Samsung’s foreign ownership fell to its lowest level since January 2008.
- When
- It reached 46.37% on October 6, 2026, and was 46.38% on October 8.
- Where
- South Korea’s stock market.
- Why
- The article says continued foreign selling drove the decline; it does not state why investors were selling.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
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Samsung’s foreign ownership rose alongside the KOSPI.
Samsung’s foreign ownership reached 52.40%.
Global markets were hit after war between the United States and Iran broke out, and Samsung’s foreign ownership fell below 50%.
Samsung’s foreign ownership remained in the 48% range as the KOSPI crossed 7,000 and 8,000.
Samsung’s foreign ownership fell below 47%.
The rate dropped to 46.37%, its lowest level since January 11, 2008.
- Samsung foreign ownership, October 6
- 46.37%
- Samsung foreign ownership, October 8
- 46.38%
- Previous low
- 46.35% on January 11, 2008
- Third-quarter operating profit
- 107 trillion won
- SK Hynix foreign ownership, October 8
- 49.59%
- Foreign net selling in KOSPI shares this year
- More than 197 trillion won
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