What workers rejected was not the wage increase but a shift to paying 60% of annual bonuses in company stock. Brokerages put the pool at roughly $500,000 per person.
The largest union voted down the 2026 wage deal by a 25-vote margin while a separate white-collar union approved its own version, leaving the company negotiating on two tracks.
Digital Frontier and Unitest have won a combined ~$203M in HBM4 wafer-test orders this year, chipping into a market long held by Japan's Advantest.
| Grade | Now | 3M | 6M |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valuation P/E 28.5x, P/B 4.67x against its own 3-year history | C | C+ | B- |
| Growth Revenue +46.8% FY25, +101.9% FY24 | A+ | A+ | A |
| Profitability Operating margin 48.6% FY25 | A | A- | B+ |
| Financial Health Debt/Equity 0.46, cash ₩14.9tn | B+ | B | B |
| Momentum +547% 12m, but −42% from the July peak | A- | B+ | C+ |
The board approved buying ₩40.0tn (~$28.4bn) of its own stock on the open market over 91 days and retiring all of it — 3.3% of market cap. The 24.07m share figure printed in the filing is derived from the current price and shrinks if the stock rises.
SK hynix designs and manufactures memory semiconductors — DRAM, NAND flash and, since 2023, high-bandwidth memory (HBM) stacks used in AI accelerators. It is the second-largest memory maker in the world after Samsung Electronics and the primary HBM supplier to Nvidia. It is majority-controlled by SK Square, part of the SK Group, one of Korea's four largest business groups.
| Sector | Semiconductors | Employees | ~32,000 |
| Market | KOSPI | Founded | 1983 |
| Korean name | 에스케이하이닉스 | Head office | Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea |
| Symbol | Last Price |
|---|---|
| 005930Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | — |
| 042700Hanmi Semiconductor Co., Ltd. | ₩217,500 +4.1% |
| 058470Leeno Industrial Inc. | ₩67,400 +4.3% |
| 240810Wonik IPS Co., Ltd. | ₩112,300 +5.5% |