Shareholders of December-Closing Listed Companies Increase by 10% Year-on-Year... Samsung Electronics Has 610,000 Shareholders, ShillaJen 160,000

[Asia Economy Reporter Oh Ju-yeon] The Korea Securities Depository announced on the 10th that the number of stock investors (owners) of listed companies with fiscal year-end in December last year was approximately 6.19 million, an increase of 10.3% compared to the previous year.

The total number of shares held by all owners was about 94.4 billion shares, with an average of 15,251 shares held per shareholder.

By type, individual shareholders accounted for 6.12 million people, or 98.9%, followed by corporate shareholders (0.4%) and foreign shareholders (0.3%). The average shares held were 1,309,761 shares per corporation, 720,000 shares per foreign shareholder, and 7,221 shares per individual.

In the KOSPI market, the largest holding proportion was by corporate shareholders (44.9%), while in the KOSDAQ market, individual shareholders held the largest proportion (65.1%).

In the KOSPI market, the company with the most owners was Samsung Electronics (612,740 people), followed by Korea Electric Power Corporation (432,306 people) and Celltrion (226,061 people).

In the KOSDAQ market, the order was ShillaJen (168,762 people), Celltrion Healthcare (122,565 people), and HL Biopharma (118,192 people).

By age group, those in their 40s were the largest at 1.58 million people (25.8%), the largest number of shares held was by those in their 50s with 14.8 billion shares (33.5%), and by region, 50-year-old males in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, held the most with approximately 1.17 billion shares.

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