With the third Commercial Act revision making corporations' cancellation of treasury shares mandatory, Samsung Electronics will cancel 87 million treasury shares in the first half of this year.

Samsung Electronics disclosed its plan for handling treasury shares in its business report released on the 10th, following a change in disclosure standards.

On the 8th, as Samsung Electronics announces preliminary results of 93 trillion won in sales and 20 trillion won in operating profit for last year's fourth quarter on a consolidation basis, a Samsung flag flutters in the wind on the flagpole at the Samsung Electronics Seocho Building on Seocho-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul./Courtesy of News1

Samsung Electronics, which held 105.43 million treasury shares at the end of 2025, plans to cancel 87 million shares in the first half of this year to enhance shareholder value. Based on the closing price that day (about 190,000 won), this amounts to about 16 trillion won.

Samsung Electronics announced a 10 trillion won treasury share buyback plan in Nov. 2024, and in Feb. 2025 it canceled in full the first-tranche 3 trillion won worth of treasury shares to enhance shareholder value.

In addition, Samsung Electronics piloted an option for executives in 2024 to receive shares in 10% increments within a 0%–50% range as performance incentives (OPI), and from 2025 expanded stock compensation to all employees.

The number of retail shareholders holding Samsung Electronics stock in 2025 fell short of 5 million.

According to the Samsung Electronics business report, as of the end of December last year, there were 4,195,927 retail shareholders of Samsung Electronics. That is an 18.7% decrease compared with 5,160,210 at the end of 2024.

Of Samsung Electronics' 5,919,630,000 total shares outstanding, retail shareholders own 66.04%.

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