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4 stories tagged “korea stock market”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
Korean preferred shares: 111 on the KOSPI, a median price of 75% of the common, and 36 that trade above it
Korean preferred shares usually trade at a discount to the common. We measured all 111 on the KOSPI: the median sells at 0.748 times its common. None of the 29 worth 100 billion won or more trades above it; 36 small ones do.
As KOSPI slid in October, Korean analysts cut more target prices than they raised — and still said Buy
We counted every report in a month of Korean broker research. Over 15–23 October, target-price cuts outran raises 35 to 21, reversing late September's 10 to 3. Not one of the 728 reports said Sell.
Most Korea market-cap rankings count Samsung twice — here is the list when you do not
Samsung Electronics is 29% of the Korean stock market and SK hynix 21% — nearly half between them. Most rankings count Samsung twice, because its preferred shares list separately, pushing the true tenth firm off the table.
Korea's stock market and trade: the top four are half of everything
How concentrated is the Korean stock market? Rank Korea's stocks, or its export and import partners, and the top four are about half every time — every Gini past 0.9. KOSPI, KOSDAQ and trade, one pattern. Not advice.