SKM

Key Takeaways

• SK Telecom is South Korea's largest wireless carrier, a mature cellular and fixed-line operator now pushing into AI data centers and AI services as its growth narrative, with the legacy telecom business as the cash base. • The price pays only about 7 times operating income, low enough that it sits below what even a slow decline in operating profit would justify, the deep-value telecom pattern of a stable cash generator the market is not asking to grow. • The defining recent event is the April

Institutional ownership

237 institutional managers reported holding SKM in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 15% of the company; the top 10 hold 9%. 72 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Millennium Management, among others. On the short side, 4.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (1.1 days of typical volume to cover).

Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.

Capital returns

It pays a dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $1.17B in dividends.

Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.

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