Abstract: We analyzed treasury-share repurchases across KOSPI, KOSDAQ and KONEX for the week ended Oct 23rd, based on KRX daily treasury-stock trading notices, covering 146 companies that bought back a total of KRW 2,034 billion. This was 41.0% lower than the prior week's KRW 3,444 billion, with direct purchases accounting for 93.0% of value and trust contracts the remaining 7.0%. SK Hynix led by value with KRW 1,812.4 billion, followed by KB Financial at KRW 63.6 billion and KT&G at KRW 19.5 billion. By repurchase as a share of shares outstanding among companies above US$100 million market cap, KSS LINE topped the list at 1.71%, ahead of Manyo at 0.73% and C&M at 0.66%. No company sold treasury shares on the market during the week.
HYUNDAI ROTEM, SK Hynix, SamsungE&A, KB Financial, KT&G
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