Name: Samsung Electronics and SK hynix drew only eight broker reports in a month. Samsung targets run 460,000–610,000 won
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Published: 2026-10-25T00:00:00.000Z
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Samsung Electronics and SK hynix carry the KOSPI. In the month to 24 October they drew four company reports each in the Hankyung Consensus list. LS Electric drew nine (the most-covered list).

Memory is mostly covered in industry reports, which this count leaves out. Here is what the company reports said.

Samsung Electronics

Date	Broker	Rating	Prior target (won)	Target (won)	Title
29 Sep	Eugene	Strong Buy	560,000	560,000	긴 호흡으로 (take the long view)
2 Oct	IBK	Buy	—	460,000	분기 영업이익 100조 시대가 열렸다 (the 100-trillion-won quarterly profit era has begun)
6 Oct	SK	Buy	300,000	610,000	현저한 저평가 (markedly undervalued)
7 Oct	Meritz	Buy	500,000	500,000	2027년 메모리 판가·실적 상향 조정 (raising 2027 memory prices and earnings)

SK Securities more than doubled its target, the largest single change in either company’s list. The four targets now run from 460,000 to 610,000 won, a spread of a third between the lowest and highest.

SK hynix

Date	Broker	Rating	Prior target (won)	Target (won)	Title
28 Sep	Daishin	Buy	3,900,000	3,200,000	소음보다 방향성에 (direction over noise)
7 Oct	IBK	Buy	—	4,000,000	실적에 수급을 더한다 (flows on top of earnings)
12 Oct	Meritz	Buy	—	3,200,000	3Q26 OP 80.1조원 실적 서프라이즈 예상 (expects an 80.1-trillion-won Q3 operating-profit surprise)
20 Oct	Hanwha	—	—	—	SK하이닉스 솔리다임 상장 (on the Solidigm listing)

Daishin’s cut, from 3.9 million to 3.2 million won, is the only change with a prior target listed. The three targets run from 3.2 million to 4.0 million won.

How to read it

Two companies that make up a large share of the KOSPI drew eight company reports between them in a month, the same as Hyundai Rotem alone (its targets were halved). The Meritz title gives one firm’s expectation for SK hynix’s third-quarter operating profit, 80.1 trillion won. It is a forecast, not a result.

Data & Verification Notes

Data as of

Oct 24, 2026, 7:23 AM KST · Oct 23, 2026, 6:23 PM ET

Sources

Hankyung Consensus (markets.hankyung.com) — Broker report list for 23 September–24 October 2026 (710 reports, 12 publishers): date, publisher, rating, title, target price and prior target price as listed. Collected 24 October 2026, 07:23 KST.

Cross-checks

Samsung Electronics (005930): 29 Sep Eugene Strong Buy 560,000 (prior 560,000); 2 Oct IBK Buy 460,000 (no prior listed); 6 Oct SK Buy 610,000 (prior 300,000); 7 Oct Meritz Buy 500,000 (prior 500,000).
SK hynix (000660): 28 Sep Daishin Buy 3,200,000 (prior 3,900,000); 7 Oct IBK Buy 4,000,000 (no prior); 12 Oct Meritz Buy 3,200,000 (no prior); 20 Oct Hanwha, no rating or target (report on the Solidigm listing).

Excluded figures

Share prices: we compare published targets with each other, not with the market.
Reports from brokers outside this list, and reports filed under industry rather than company.
Whether the prior 300,000-won Samsung target predates a capital change: the list does not say.
This is not investment advice.

Instruments

005930, 000660

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