by Lee Changhwan
Published 09 Feb.2026 10:27(KST)
Mirae Asset Securities, which announced record-high earnings on the back of a stock market boom, is surging during intraday trading.
As of 10:23 a.m. on the 9th, Mirae Asset Securities was trading at 51,300 won, up 6.88% from the previous trading day. At one point during the session, it climbed as much as 9.79% to 52,700 won.
Mirae Asset Securities announced that on a consolidated basis its pre-tax profit for last year came to 2.08 trillion won, an increase of about 70% from a year earlier.
Last year’s net profit was 1.5936 trillion won and operating profit was 1.915 trillion won, up 72% and 61% year-on-year, respectively, both marking all-time highs. Its annualized return on equity (ROE) was 12.4%, remaining in double digits for three consecutive quarters. Total assets under management (AUM) reached 602 trillion won (518 trillion won in Korea and 84 trillion won overseas), an increase of about 120 trillion won in just one year.
By business segment, the overseas subsidiaries achieved their best performance since the launch of the company’s global business. Pre-tax profit rose about 200% from the previous year to 498.1 billion won, accounting for roughly 24% of total pre-tax profit.
Principal investment (PI) recorded a profit for the fourth consecutive quarter and generated valuation gains of about 645 billion won. Over the past year, Mirae Asset Securities has continued to deliver results by investing in innovative companies such as SpaceX and x.AI.
All of its core business divisions, including brokerage, wealth management (WM), and trading, also achieved record-high results. Brokerage commission income increased 43% year-on-year to 1.011 trillion won, financial product sales commission income rose 21% to 342.1 billion won, and trading and other financial gains climbed 14% to 1.2657 trillion won.
Pension assets were tallied at 57.8 trillion won, up 35% from the previous year. Over the past year, the company attracted 4.4159 trillion won in defined contribution (DC) pension inflows, equivalent to 19.1% of total DC market inflows, jumping from 4th place in the DC segment across all financial sectors in 2024 to 1st place in 2025.
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