005490 - POSCO Holdings Inc.

POSCO Holdings reports a ₩66.3 billion interim dividend from its steel subsidiary

This is not a dividend to POSCO Holdings shareholders. It is POSCO Holdings disclosing that POSCO, the unlisted steelmaking subsidiary it owns outright, declared an interim dividend of ₩687 per share totalling ₩66.3bn, all of which flows up to the parent. The record date was June 30 and payment is due September 10. Against POSCO Holdings' 2025 net income of about ₩504bn, the transfer is equal to roughly 13% of a year's consolidated profit, though as an intra-group payment it changes where the cash sits rather than how much the group has. The market-price yield field is blank because POSCO is not listed and no market price exists to compute it against.

Q2 Dividend of 2,000 Won a Share, Set Against a 35-40% Annual Payout Target

POSCO declared 2,000 won a share for the second quarter, 151.2bn won in total, with a record date of 24 August and payment on 7 September — within a month of the 7 August board resolution, as Article 165-12 of the Capital Markets Act requires. The note beneath the numbers matters more than the numbers. POSCO says the quarterly amount is set by reference to that quarter's results and business plan, in order to smooth dividend volatility, and that the group runs an annual shareholder return ratio of 35% to 40% against adjusted net income attributable to controlling interests. That is the reverse of how a US industrial works: the payout ratio is the commitment and the per-share rate is the variable. Annualising 2,000 won gives a 2.44% gross yield, but the filing is explicitly telling you not to. Four quarters at this level would be about 605bn won, roughly 26% of annualised first-half attributable profit — below the stated band. Either the later quarters pay more, or the "adjusted" profit base is materially lower than the reported one. For a US holder of the ADR, each ADR receives a quarter of the per-share amount, and Korean withholding at the 15% treaty rate applies.

POSCO Holdings sets August 24 as the record date for a quarterly dividend

The board resolved on August 7, with seven outside directors present, to fix August 24 as the record date for a quarterly dividend to POSCO Holdings' own shareholders. The filing names a date and nothing else — no amount per share, no total, no payment date. Those come in a separate declaration filing. The legal basis cited is Article 56-2 of the company's articles of incorporation, the clause that permits quarterly distributions at all. For a company whose 2025 revenue was ₩69.1tn and net income ₩504bn, against a ₩26.2tn market capitalization, the size of the payment is the part this document deliberately leaves out.

Dividend Declared

Record Date Set for a Dividend