SK Telecom (SKM)

• Market cap: $8.43B
• 1 day: 1%
• 5 days: 2.12%
• 1 month: -0.98%
• 3 months: 0.68%
• 6 months: 2.31%
• Year to date: 4.77%
• 1 year: -8.5%
• 5 years: -41.38%
• 10 years: -44.98%
• Sector: Communication Services
• Industry: Telecom Services

About: SK Telecom is South Korea's largest wireless telecom operator, with 32 million mobile customers. The firm also owns SK Broadband (formerly Hanaro Telecom), which has 7.2 million broadband customers and 9.6 million pay TV customers (6.8 million IPTV and 2.8 million Cable TV). While the firm also purchased stakes in businesses in security and semiconductor memory production as well as developing e-commerce and internet platform businesses, these were all spun off into the separate, SK Square business in November 2021. The company was formed after SK Group purchased KT's mobile business in 1994.

Employees: 24,224

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

15% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $559M [Q1] → $640M (+$81.4M) [Q2]

11% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 71 | Existing positions reduced: 64

5% less funds holding

Funds holding: 197 [Q1] → 188 (-9) [Q2]

5.15% less ownership

Funds ownership: 12.24% [Q1] → 7.09% (-5.15%) [Q2]

10% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 27 | Existing positions closed: 30