The stock value of HYBE these days seems to have a slight fluctuation after the surprise deal to acquire SM. But of course, many people still believe that BTS are the ones who have the most influence on the rise and fall of HYBE stock.

Not only does it affect the stock value, but the 7 BTS members are also the owners of many shares in this group since it was listed on the stock exchange. With the contributions of BTS, they have held a number of shares of HYBE and now, the value of their shares has reached a huge value, ranking among the few shareholders of entertainment companies. shares worth 10 billion KRW.

BTS is also the youngest person on this list besides the big CEOs of the entertainment industry. Information revealed by CXO Research Institute has made fans admire about BTS's fortune:

On February 15, the CXO Research Institute specializing in Korean business analysis announced the analysis/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".

Survey subjects are individual shareholders with a stock value of more than 10 billion won among domestic listed companies engaged in the production or distribution of pop culture content such as movies and music, dramas, webtoons, online novels (excluding game production companies, entertainment characters, tourism, etc...). Of course, in it, companies that own the entertainment category related to K-pop appear in high positions.

According to the survey results, as of February 10, there were 34 individual shareholders owning listed shares from domestic pop culture content production companies owning a stock value of more than 10 billion won. The total value of the stocks of these 34 people is 4,117.4 trillion won.

All 7 BTS members belong to the above 34 individual shareholders, all owning a stock value of over 10 billion won. SUGA, Jimin, V and Jungkook all own 68,385 HYBE shares with a value of 13.3 billion won. j-hope owns 62,784 shares, total value is 12.2 billion won; RM owns shares worth 11.3 billion won and Jin owns shares worth 10.2 billion won.

Before HYBE listed shares on the stock exchange, Chairman Bang Shi-hyuk gave 68,385 HYBE shares to 7 BTS members. It is also known that j-hope, RM, and Jin have sold off some of the HYBE shares they currently own.

Chairman Bang Shi-hyuk topped the list of 34 shareholders above, owning a stock value of more than 2500 billion won. Following him are the two founders of JYP Entertainment - Park Jin Young and YG Entertainment - Yang Hyun Suk.

Although currently, Chairman Bang is the owner of the most shares and huge value among the shareholders of the entertainment industry, but in the current context, Chairman Bang has not reached the highest share value that he used to have. On October 15, 2020, right from the first time the company listed shares under the name of Bighit Entertainment, the stock value surpassed the 300 billion won mark. By the end of the year even though the stock value had dropped to only 1,000 billion won, but thanks to BTS's popularity, in mid-November 2021, the stock rebounded and surpassed 5.444 billion won.

After that, with the fluctuations of HYBE related to BTS's military service, Kim Garam's controversy when he first debuted, the acquisition of SM, ... Chairman Bang's stock value dropped to only nearly Half of its peak.