"My Assets Hit 5.1 Billion Won in Three Weeks"... The Super Retail Investor Who Put 4 Billion Won All Into SK hynix

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\r\n[Financial News] As SK hynix keeps breaking all-time highs and proving the power of the so-called semiconductor super cycle, a post showing an individual investor's massive gains is heating up online.
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According to the financial investment industry on the 26th, a shareholder who had been certified as a "1 billion won-plus asset holder" on Toss Securities revealed the return on his SK hynix investment account the previous day. The investor is believed to have put in about 3.89 billion won in one shot when SK hynix was trading at around 1.55 million won per share.
As SK hynix shares have since surged by more than 30%, the investor's stock holdings are now valued at 5.11192 billion won. With the stock price jumping from the 1.4 million won range just three weeks ago, the investor has booked unrealized gains of more than 1.1 billion won in less than a month.
According to Korea Exchange (KRX) and other sources, SK hynix closed at 2.081 million won, up 7.21% from the previous session, showing its strength. Shortly after the market opened, it briefly climbed as high as 2.087 million won, up 7.52%, setting another all-time high.
SK hynix's market capitalization jumped to 1,483.1336 trillion won, up by nearly 100 trillion won from the previous trading day, according to Yonhap Infomax. At this pace, if it rises just 1.6% more, it will become the second Korean company, after Samsung Electronics, to join the "1 trillion-dollar market cap club." The stock has already soared 219.7% so far this year.
Despite the explosive rally, securities firms at home and abroad are raising their target prices for SK hynix, citing the semiconductor boom driven by the expansion of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) market.
Korea Investment & Securities Co., Ltd. and Shinhan Securities both set a new target price of 3.8 million won, the highest among domestic brokerages. Nomura Securities, an overseas investment bank, went even further and issued a target of 4 million won.
The earnings outlook is equally striking. Shinhan Securities expects SK hynix's revenue this year to surge 262.8% from a year earlier to 352.4731 trillion won, while operating profit is projected to rise 465.5% to 266.9306 trillion won.
Kim Hyung-tae, a researcher at Shinhan Securities, said, "Earnings momentum will strengthen further, with second-half revenue and operating profit expected to rise 53.7% and 59.4%, respectively, from the first half." He added, "As the environment of gross margins above 80% continues, the company is expected to maintain top-tier profitability in the semiconductor industry. In particular, the NAND segment is seeing a sharp increase in profit contribution thanks to solid demand for enterprise solid-state drives (eSSD)."
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moon@fnnews.com Moon Young-jin Reporter