SK Hynix ADR vs GDR (HY9H): Why the ADR Fee Can Be Up to 25x
SK Hynix’s GDR (Luxembourg HYXS, Frankfurt HY9H) charges $0.02 a share per dividend. The SKHY ADR’s cap is $0.05 per ADS, and one share is ten ADSs.
SK Hynix’s GDR (Luxembourg HYXS, Frankfurt HY9H) charges $0.02 a share per dividend. The SKHY ADR’s cap is $0.05 per ADS, and one share is ten ADSs.
Samsung Electronics rose 0.22% on August 7 while SK Hynix fell 4.88% — the same index, the same industry, opposite signs.
SK Hynix reports Q3 2026 results Oct. 28 at 9 a.m. Seoul (Oct. 27, 8 p.m. ET), per its DART filing. Plus ADR premium math, dividend and ₩40tn buyback.
In the last week of July 2026 the KOSPI printed a −10.84% session and its largest one-day gain on record (+17.91%) inside five trading days — travelling 36.9 percentage points to finish down 1.42%. And the month headlines called the worst ever ranks third on month-end closes, behind October 1997 and October 2008.
On July 31, 2026 the KOSPI rose 17.91% — its largest one-day gain ever. In the same KRX session Korean retail investors net sold ₩8.25 trillion while foreigners net bought ₩7.22 trillion. What Korean investors were writing while they sold, why SK Hynix stopped at 29.95%, and why naming the cause of this rally is a trap.
Record Q2 operating profit of ₩60.5tn. A 24-point intraday swing, a 7.54% close, and a two-day drop of 22.5%. The market didn’t reject the quarter — it hasn’t bought the second half.
Only about a dozen Korean companies trade as US ADRs — so most of Korea looks unbuyable from a US account. It isn’t.
SK Hynix reports Q2 on July 29. An analyst just cut the estimate to ₩60.4tn (from a ~₩65tn consensus) — yet kept the price target.
Korea’s stock market swung −9%, +6%, −6% in four days, then the Bank of Korea hiked for the first time since 2023.
SK Hynix’s Nasdaq ADR (SKHY) dropped ~21% in its first full week. Read the Seoul tape next to the New York tape and most of that decline wasn’t the…