South Korean semiconductor supplier and large memory chip maker specializing in DRAM and NAND flash memory.
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SK Hynix: Company identity, ownership, reported financial performance, balance sheets, and corporate actions.
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SK Hynix Profile & Fundamentals
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Company and Market Context
Company Profile & Ownership
SK hynix Inc. through its subsidiaries, engages in research, develops, manufactures, distributes, and sells semiconductor devices in Korea, China, rest of Asia, the United States, Europe, and internationally. It offers DRAM, such as server memory, graphics memory, mobile memory, PC memory, consumer memory; NAND flash memory; SSD; and MCP products. It also engages in foundry business, produces non-memory semiconductors. The company serves its products for server, networking, mobile, personal computer, consumer, and automotive applications. The company was formerly known as Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and changed its name to SK hynix Inc. in March 2012. SK hynix Inc. was incorporated in 1949 and is headquartered in Icheon-si, South Korea.
Company profile record
SK Hynix Inc
Common Stock · Information Technology · Semiconductors
Company
- Company / asset
- SK Hynix Inc
- Security type
- Common Stock
- Sector
- Information Technology
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- HQ
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- Head office
- 2091, Gyeongchung-daero, Icheon-si, South Korea, 17336
Leadership & scale
- Chief executive
- Dr. Noh-Jung Kwak
- CEO year born
- 1965
- Full-time employees
- 36K
- Fiscal year end
- December
Fundamentals snapshot
- Market Cap
- KRW 1212.73T
- P/E
- 7.5x
- Revenue (Q2 26)
- KRW 79.32T
- Profit (Q2 26)
- KRW 93.82T
- Dividend Yield
- 0.1%
- Revenue (FY 25)
- KRW 97.15T
- Shares in public float
- 567.4M
- Insider ownership
- 20.21%
Reporting & identifiers
- Symbol
- 000660.KRX
- Listing
- 🇰🇷 South Korea | Dividend Tax: 22%
- Ticker Currency
- KRW
- Income Statement Currency
- KRW
- Balance Sheet Currency
- KRW
- Cash Flow Currency
- KRW
- EPS Currency
- KRW
- Contract Type
- SPOT
- ISIN
- KR7000660001
- Asset ID
- equity_33682f19-0654-5b05-bc70-c313647fbfd2
Ownership
Shares Outstanding
Latest: 684.0M | Max: 706.1M | Min: 684.0M
Latest reported ownership snapshot
As of Oct 1, 2026Float Shares
82.95%
567.4M latest reported shares
Insider Ownership
20.21%
Latest reported insider stake
Short Float
--
Latest reported short interest / float
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Shares Outstanding
Annual reported shares outstanding; up to 10 reporting dates.
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| Reporting date | Shares outstanding |
|---|---|
| 2017-01-01 | 706,120,300 |
| 2018-01-01 | 684,001,800 |
| 2019-01-01 | 684,001,600 |
Top Holders
Available reported ownership records.
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Earnings, Profitability & Valuation
Earnings, Profitability & Valuation
Earnings & Revenue
Earnings and Revenue Trajectory
AI Review
The company has demonstrated extraordinary revenue and earnings expansion, highlighted by fiscal 2025 revenue reaching 97.1 trillion KRW and operating income surging to 47.2 trillion KRW. This explosive performance accelerated into 2026, driven by insatiable demand and premium pricing for high-bandwidth memory used in artificial intelligence hardware. However, headline financial results conceal an important nuance: second-quarter 2026 net income was heavily boosted by non-operating investment gains, including revaluations linked to Kioxia holdings. While core chipmaking operations generated remarkable trailing free cash flow near $60 billion, investors must separate recurring operational cash flow from temporary accounting windfalls when evaluating long-term earnings power.
The company has demonstrated extraordinary revenue and earnings expansion, highlighted by fiscal 2025 revenue reaching 97.1 trillion KRW and operating income surging to 47.2 trillion KRW. This explosive performance accelerated into 2026, driven by insatiable demand and premium pricing for high-bandwidth memory used in artificial intelligence hardware. However, headline financial results conceal an important nuance: second-quarter 2026 net income was heavily boosted by non-operating investment gains, including revaluations linked to Kioxia holdings. While core chipmaking operations generated remarkable trailing free cash flow near $60 billion, investors must separate recurring operational cash flow from temporary accounting windfalls when evaluating long-term earnings power.
Revenue, Net Income, and Free Cash Flow
Latest: KRW 97.15T | Max: KRW 97.15T | Min: KRW -9.11T
Valuation
P/E Ratio (TTM)iPublished valuation snapshots use the earnings basis recorded with each observation. Source tables retain that basis.
Latest: --
No history available.
Profitability & Margins
Margins and Operating Efficiency
AI Review
Profitability has staged a dramatic recovery from the 2023 memory downturn, with gross margins widening past 60% and operating margins reaching an extraordinary 76% in mid-2026. This surge reflects near-monopolistic pricing leverage in specialized AI memory stacks combined with tight global supply across standard server memory. History demonstrates that profit margins above 50% are cyclical rather than permanent in the hardware industry. As competing manufacturers resolve packaging hurdles and overall industry production capacity expands over the next two years, average selling prices will soften, naturally pulling operating margins back toward a sustainable mid-cycle range of 30% to 35%. Modern memory demand remains structurally higher, but economic cycles will continue to govern profitability.
Profitability has staged a dramatic recovery from the 2023 memory downturn, with gross margins widening past 60% and operating margins reaching an extraordinary 76% in mid-2026. This surge reflects near-monopolistic pricing leverage in specialized AI memory stacks combined with tight global supply across standard server memory. History demonstrates that profit margins above 50% are cyclical rather than permanent in the hardware industry. As competing manufacturers resolve packaging hurdles and overall industry production capacity expands over the next two years, average selling prices will soften, naturally pulling operating margins back toward a sustainable mid-cycle range of 30% to 35%. Modern memory demand remains structurally higher, but economic cycles will continue to govern profitability.
Profitability Margins
Latest: 60.4% | Max: 62.5% | Min: -27.8%
Latest Profitability Ratios as of 2025-12-31
Gross Margin
60.4%
Gross profit / revenue
Operating Margin
48.6%
Operating income / revenue
Net Margin
44.2%
Net income / revenue
FCF Margin
25.5%
Free cash flow / revenue
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Revenue, Net Income, and Free Cash Flow
Annual reported results, using the source statement's recorded USD conversion. Up to 10 reporting periods; missing values are not estimated.
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| Period end | Revenue (USD) | Net income (USD) | Free cash flow (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-31 | 14,245,460,795.52 | 2,446,675,943.87 | Not reported |
| 2017-12-31 | 28,208,729,786.95 | 9,969,750,229.53 | 4,475,819,295.85 |
| 2018-12-31 | 36,296,388,764.25 | 13,946,074,665.71 | 4,718,580,274.61 |
| 2019-12-31 | 23,367,183,807.04 | 1,743,000,857.09 | -7,021,576,181.53 |
| 2020-12-31 | 29,382,079,929.26 | 4,379,716,498.88 | 1,331,092,096.42 |
| 2021-12-31 | 36,166,941,717.77 | 8,076,842,716.19 | 5,330,372,538.63 |
| 2022-12-31 | 35,359,500,451.69 | 1,766,771,795.81 | -3,937,084,964.42 |
| 2023-12-31 | 25,300,541,287.66 | -7,036,297,932.14 | -2,741,712,353.1 |
| 2024-12-31 | 44,777,919,837.65 | 13,386,559,107.05 | 8,884,319,296.47 |
| 2025-12-31 | 67,433,934,694.78 | 29,792,233,205.15 | 17,210,494,786.97 |
Published P/E Ratio
Published valuation snapshots retain each observation's earnings basis.
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Profitability Margins
Matching annual reporting dates. Values are percentages.
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| Period end | Gross margin (%) | Operating margin (%) | Net margin (%) | Free cash flow margin (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-31 | 37.28 | 19.05 | 17.18 | Not reported |
| 2017-12-31 | 57.81 | 45.57 | 35.34 | 15.87 |
| 2018-12-31 | 62.47 | 51.54 | 38.42 | 13 |
| 2019-12-31 | 30.25 | 10.05 | 7.46 | -30.05 |
| 2020-12-31 | 33.89 | 15.71 | 14.91 | 4.53 |
| 2021-12-31 | 44.08 | 28.86 | 22.33 | 14.74 |
| 2022-12-31 | 35.02 | 15.26 | 5 | -11.13 |
| 2023-12-31 | -1.63 | -23.59 | -27.81 | -10.84 |
| 2024-12-31 | 48.08 | 35.45 | 29.9 | 19.84 |
| 2025-12-31 | 60.41 | 48.59 | 44.18 | 25.52 |
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