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Listed Korean consumer and beauty companies as investable names and their reported financial performance.
Mirae Asset's top 1% of traders made Samsung Electro-Mechanics their biggest net buy on Oct. 2, a day after it was their heaviest net sale. Analysts expect AI component sales to outrun a falling won-dollar rate, but this cohort reverses positions quickly.
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The board set the ratio on book net assets and a December 17 shareholder vote. Holders end up owning two separately priced Korean tech balance sheets instead of one.
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Yuanta Securities Korea raised its Samsung Electronics target 18.9% to 630,000 won, about 124% above the 281,500 won quote, on an argument that HBM is eating into general-purpose DRAM capacity and pushing the end of the supply squeeze further out.
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Core CPI at 0.3% for August pushed futures to 86% from 69% on a September Fed hike, and Seoul's open took SK hynix down 5.24% to 1.717 million won. Philadelphia's semiconductor index had closed 1.81% higher on the 11th.
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The KOSPI closed at 6,909.91 on the 11th, back below 7,000 but still up 3.33% for the week, and the memory names that led the advance fell again in New York on a day Brent dropped 2.81%.
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The KOSPI closed above 7,000 for the first time in 33 sessions on the 9th and gave the level back within two days, with Brent above $100 a barrel and the US 10-year at 4.97% ahead of next week's FOMC.
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Mirae Asset's best-performing clients net sold Samsung common shares and bought the preferreds as the gap stretched to 29.3% against an 18% three-year average. Dividend policy is the stated reason.
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Kolmar Korea's operating profit rose 50.2% in the second quarter and all three of Korea's big contract manufacturers set records. The margins say something more complicated.
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