Year-End Dividend for FY2025
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KS005930, KS005935, SMSN, SMSD) announced that its Board of
Directors, at their meeting on January 28, 2026, approved a dividend plan for the fourth quarter of 2025, payable to the shareholders of record at the close of business on December 31, 2025, as follows:
1. Dividend per share (dividend yield)
- Common shares: KRW 566 (0.5%)
- Preferred shares: KRW 567 (0.7%)
※ Dividend yield is calculated by dividing dividend per share by the average stock price for the week prior to two
days before the record date based on KRX guidelines.
2. Total payout: KRW 3,753.5 billion
3. Record date: December 31, 2025
※ Dividend payments will be made to only those shareholders who were shareholders of record at the close of
business on December 31, 2025, as listed on the shareholders' registry on the record date.
4. Other information:
- Number of Independent Directors present at the BOD meeting: 6 (100%)
- Attendance of Audit Committee: Y
- Under the 3-year period shareholder return policy from 2024 to 2026, the annual total amount of
regular dividend is KRW 9.8 trillion, equivalent to KRW 2.45 trillion per quarter.
- For the current year-end dividend, the Board has resolved to add KRW 1.3 trillion to the regular
quarterly dividend, resulting in a total KRW 3.75 trillion, considering tax reforms and anticipated
dividend resources.
- Dividend payments will be made within 30 days of the date of the Annual General Meeting of
Shareholders ("AGM"), in accordance with Article 464 Paragraph 2 of the Commercial Act,
and are subject to the result of audit by an external auditor and approval by a vote of shareholders
at the AGM.
- AGM date is to be determined.