Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliates broke ground on September 4 on a $5.8bn electric-arc steel mill in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, due to make 2.7 million tons a year from 2029.
Hyundai Motor Co. (KRX:005380) reported negative ₩5.99tn of cash from operating activities in FY2025 while earning ₩10.36tn of net income. The operating line has been negative in five of the last six years.
Hyundai Motor Co. (KRX:005380) used its August 26 CEO Investor Day to set a 2030 operating margin target of 9% plus alpha, disclosed to the exchange the same day.
Hyundai Motor Co. (KRX:005380) filed production suspension notices covering its Ulsan plant and all Korean sites, escalating from two-hour stoppages in July to a full eight-hour strike on August 21.
HYUNDAI MOTOR CO (005380) recently posted 92 recruitment notices across six divisions, including research and technology, Newsis reported Friday.
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HYUNDAI MOTOR CO (005380) launched a vehicle mechanic training program in Ghana on Thursday, Dailian reported Friday.
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Closed at 32% of the way from its 52-week low (₩214,000) to its 52-week high (₩750,000).
Hyundai Motor (KRX:005380) filed a voluntary disclosure on September 2 confirming it has resumed production at its Ulsan plant and all other Korean sites, closing out the labor stoppage its own filings first flagged on August 24. The affected operations carried ₩78.77 trillion of FY2025 parent-only revenue, or 42.29% of FY2025 consolidated revenue (₩186.25tn) — the same scale the company disclosed when it halted production. The stated reason for resumption is simply that the collective-bargaining strike ended; the filing's own decision date (September 2) is defined as the date the labor talks were finally settled, and fields for a specific resumption date and quantified production impact are both left blank ("-"). The filing recaps a string of partial stoppages through the summer — two-hour halts on July 13, 14 and 15, and a full-day stoppage on August 21 — before the full plant-wide production suspension disclosed August 24. This follows the tentative wage settlement Korean press reported around August 25.
This is Hyundai Motor's monthly wholesale sales disclosure for August 2026, a unit-volume report with no revenue or profit figures. Global sales fell to 288,574 vehicles, down 14.2% from August 2025 and down 9.4% from July 2026. Domestic (Korea) sales were the sharpest decline: 34,333 units, down 41.1% year over year and 28.6% month over month. Overseas sales fell a smaller 8.5% year over year to 254,241 units. Year-to-date through August, cumulative global sales reached 2,575,360 units, down 6.0% versus the same period in 2025, with the domestic figure down 15.0% and overseas down 4.1%. The filing gives no explanation for the decline. It follows a run of production-suspension notices Hyundai filed in July and August covering its Ulsan plant and other Korean sites during a labor dispute that Korean press reported reaching a tentative settlement around August 25 — a timeline consistent with, though not confirmed by this filing to be the cause of, the steep domestic drop.
Hyundai Motor will cancel 1,291,274 common shares and 1,214,332 preferred shares on August 31, drawn from treasury stock it already held rather than bought for the purpose. The preferred block breaks down as 501,923 first preferred, 706,883 second preferred and 5,526 third preferred. Against 204,757,766 common and 60,632,342 preferred shares outstanding, that retires 0.63% of the common and 2.00% of the preferred, worth roughly 1% of an ₩82.0tn market capitalisation. The filing gives two amounts for the same act: ₩789.1bn using the August 25 closing price, and ₩476.4bn at the average cost the shares were originally acquired for. The board describes it as execution of a previously announced shareholder return policy. Six outside directors attended and one was absent.
Hyundai Motor delivered 2,892 of its own common shares to executives on July 31 at ₩388,000 each, ₩1.12bn in total, transferred straight from the company's account into the recipients' personal brokerage accounts. The July 23 material-event report had said 2,747 shares. This result report marks the two as inconsistent and states the reason: the planned figure was calculated on the closing price the day before the board resolution, while the actual number was fixed using the share price on the delivery date. The award is denominated in won, so a lower price on delivery day meant more shares changed hands. After the disposal Hyundai held 2,338,808 common treasury shares (1.1%) and 1,214,332 preferred (2.0%), together 1.3% of the company and carried at ₩761.2bn. That preferred block is exactly the one the board voted on August 26 to cancel.
Hyundai Motor is South Korea's largest automaker and the anchor of the Hyundai Motor Group, which together with its affiliate Kia ranks among the three biggest car groups in the world by volume. It sells roughly four million vehicles a year under the Hyundai and Genesis brands, with the United States its most important profit pool; the Tucson and Santa Fe SUVs, the Ioniq electric range and the Genesis luxury line are its best-known nameplates there. Unlike most automakers it consolidates a large captive finance arm, so a meaningful share of reported revenue and assets comes from lending against its own vehicles rather than from building them. It manufactures in Korea, Alabama, Georgia, Mexico, the Czech Republic, Turkey, India and Brazil, and its Indian subsidiary is separately listed. For a US reader the closest analogue is Honda or Toyota in market position, though Hyundai carries a heavier home-market cost base, more exposure to US trade policy on imported vehicles, and a chaebol ownership structure in which the founding family controls the group through cross-shareholdings rather than direct majority ownership.
| Sector | Autos | Employees | |
| Market | KOSPI | Founded | |
| Korean name | 현대차 | Head office |
| Symbol | Last Price |
|---|---|
| 000270KIA CORPORATION | ₩126,500 -0.7% |
| 012330HYUNDAI MOBIS CO.,LTD | ₩422,000 -0.4% |
| 086280Hyundai Glovis Co., Ltd. | ₩206,000 +2.0% |
| 161390Hankook Tire & Technology Co., Ltd. | ₩65,400 -1.7% |
| 005850SL Corporation | ₩51,400 +1.2% |
| 204320HL Mando | ₩48,500 +1.8% |
| 011210Hyundai WIA | ₩57,600 +0.7% |
| 437730Samhyun Co., Ltd. | ₩32,550 +10.3% |
| 003570SNT Dynamics Co., Ltd. | ₩28,200 -0.9% |
| 064960SNT Motiv | ₩26,250 -2.1% |