Dividends or buybacks: Samsung, SK hynix divide on AI windfall

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix have unveiled their largest-ever shareholder return programs, moving to share more of the windfall from the artificial intelligence chip boom with investors. The two chipmakers are taking sharply different routes. Samsung is leaning on dividends, while SK hynix is pursuing a massive sha

As demand far outstrips supply in the memory-chip market, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics are generating outsize profits and throwing off huge free cash flow. Now both companies plan to return lots of this to shareholders

Samsung Plans Biggest-Ever Buyback Amid AI Windfall  WSJ

Samsung Electronics plans shareholder returns totaling 90 trillion won to 110 trillion won, including about 30 trillion won in third-quarter cash dividends.