This year, the entertainment market has many fluctuations, especially HYBE saw its stock value change every day after the acquisition of SM earlier this year and BTS's m̴i̴l̴i̴t̴a̴r̴y̴ enlistment issue over the past year. Many people believe that this will cause HYBE's stock value to seriously decline, but recently, according to CXO statistics, this prediction is completely wrong.
Even with the year-end report of 2024 on the list of individual shareholders with stock äṩṩets exceeding 10 billion won, HYBE's president, Bang PD, still maintains his number 1 position with an unbelievably large stock value. Meanwhile, all 7 BTS members are still on this list along with many other veteran names even after they have enlisted.
Below is the list of 34 richest people in cultural content stocks, compiled by the CXO Research Institute:
On December 18th, the CXO Research Institute specializing in ḳöŕệän business analysis announced the survey results "The report of individual shareholders owning 10 billion won worth of stock among the listed share categories from popular culture companies across the country". The survey subjects are individual shareholders whose valuation of stocks exceeding 10 billion won among domestic listed companies related to content such as movies, dramas, music, webtoons, and web novels (excluding companies that produce games, entertainment characters, tourism, etc.).
Of course, companies producing or distributing content related to K-pop all appear in high positions. The total value of the shares of these 34 people was recently determined to be 4.6748 trillion won, a sky-high level compared to the general situation. Among them, the No. 1 position belongs to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of HYBE, Bang Si-hyuk, who holds more than 3 trillion won in shares as of the 18th of this month, accounting for 65.8%.
It is 6.1 times larger than 2nd place Park Jin-young (501.8 billion KRW), Chief Creative Officer (CCO) and 18.3 times larger than 3rd place - founder of YG Entertainment (YG) Yang Hyun-seok (168.5 billion KRW). Besides, all 7 members of BTS are on the list of 34 shareholders owning shares worth more than 10 billion won. They are also the youngest on this list besides the big CEOs of the entertainment industry.
Specifically, BTS members, all born in the 90s, own from 52,385 to 68,385 HYBE shares. In particular, SUGA, Jimin, V and Jungkook all own 68,385 shares, thereby valuing the shares of these 4 individuals in excess of 16 billion won. Next, j-hope and RM own 62,784 shares and 58,000 shares, worth 14.6 billion won and 13.5 billion won, respectively. Finally, Jin owns 52,385 shares, with a stock value of 12.2 billion won. Compared to the survey on February 10, BTS's personal stock äṩṩets have increased nearly 20%.
Even when BTS entered a period of hiatus and enlisted in the army, their stock value was still among the top in the entertainment industry and Bang PD still showed the power of the HYBE giant. That shows that the gap in m̴i̴l̴i̴t̴a̴r̴y̴ enlistment is not large when BTS has prepared plans and content before they enlist for this period of time.
Netizens cannot help but admire the great äṩṩet value that Bang PD and BTS hold:
- Wooow, that is so impressive, the most notable thing is value of Bang PD's stock
- D#mn they are rich rich
- BANG PD RICH NOW GIVE ME FREE MERCH BANG PD
- BTS really made Bang PD rich and vice versa
- They got success together from the zero base
- Now, Bang PD and BTS top of the chart. They have 10 years for achieving this milestone
- I admire of their effort and career. The deserve the best thing in this world
- Wow, evenwhen BTS don't go to work, they still have a mountain of money
- BTS, young and rich. Bang PD is the richest father
- Look at how Bang PD owns more than 1/2 of valuation of cultural content stock. So wonderful
- It shows their fortune and power in this industry, let's go more Bang PD, BTS
