SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s publicly listed startup firms are increasingly embracing dividend payouts, signaling a strategic shift from a growth-at-all-costs mindset to one more attuned to shareholder value and corporate transparency. Traditionally, young companies have reinvested profits to fund expansion, often overlooking dividends. But amid a rising chorus of retail investor demands [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Major listed companies in South Korea cut their dividends by nearly 14 percent in 2022 from a year earlier amid an economic slump, a corporate tracker said Tuesday. Combined dividends paid out by 50 of South Korea’s top 100 firms in terms of market capitalization came to 15.7 trillion [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Dividend payouts by firms listed on South Korea’s main stock market sank more than 14 percent in 2021 despite a solid rise in their share prices, data showed Tuesday. The combined amount of dividends by top-cap Samsung Electronics Co. and 567 companies listed on the main bourse came to [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Two-thirds of South Korea’s listed firms have sharply increased their 2021 dividends in an apparent bid to appease shareholders amid a bearish stock market, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. About 67 percent of 853 companies, which have announced their 2021 dividends as of Monday, have decided to raise their [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Dividend payouts by South Korea’s major listed firms fell more than 14 percent in 2021, but seven paid out more than 1 trillion won (US$835 million), a corporate tracker said Tuesday. The combined amount of dividends by 53 companies, including top-cap Samsung Electronics Co., stood at 28.55 trillion won [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Dividends by South Korea’s four major financial holding firms are expected to hit an all-time high in 2021 as they have decided to return more of their bumper profits to shareholders, sources said Monday. The combined dividend payout of the four is likely to reach around 3.83 trillion won [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Dividend payouts by South Korean listed companies jumped nearly 24 percent in the first half of the year amid their strong earnings, a corporate tracker said Monday. The combined amount of dividends paid out by 140 firms, including top-cap Samsung Electronics Co., came to 9.3 trillion won (US$7.9 billion) [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean listed companies’ half-year dividends surged to a record high this year as their businesses posted strong performance, market data showed Sunday. A total of 62 local listed firms paid out 4.39 trillion won (US$3.75 billion) in interim dividends in June, up 66.9 percent from a year earlier, [...]
HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ho Chi Minh City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank (HoSE: HDBank) has announced plans to increase its charter capital to more than VND20.273 trillion (US$879.48 million) by paying dividends for 2020 in shares and an employee stock option plan. According to information published by [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Dividends paid to the chiefs of South Korea’s top 50 business groups jumped 37.1 percent last year from a year earlier as major companies delivered more returns to shareholders, industry data showed Tuesday. A total of 39 heads of the nation’s 50 conglomerates received a combined 1.8 trillion won [...]