BTS members Jin, J-Hope and RM sell Rs. 63 crore worth of HYBE shares
South Korean juggernaut BTS members, Jin, J-Hope and RM, have sold shares in their management agency HYBE, realizing profits worth around 10 billion won ($8.49 million/Rs. 63 crore) in the last two months, according to the company’s announcement on DART, the Financial Supervisory Service’s electronic disclosure board, on December 2.
According to a detailed reported in The Korea Herald, three members of BTS dumped a total of 9.95 billion won worth of stocks during regular trading sessions, which were gifted from the agency ahead of its market debut on South Korea’s main board Kospi market in October in 2020. As per the report, Jin sold 16,000 common shares at 302,688 won on October 19; J-Hope offloaded 5,601 common shares at 332,063 won three days after. RM, the leader of group, cashed in the most amount of gains by dumping his shares seven times from October 13 to November 9. The member’s lowest and highest selling prices were 282,500 won and 381,750 won, respectively, during the trading sessions of October 13 and November 9.
HYBE founder and Chairman Bang Si-hyuk evenly distributed 478,695 common shares of the agency to the seven members a month before the company went public. The gift was a token of the long-term partnership between the company and the artists, according to HYBE. By owning 68,385 common shares each, the members’ individual gifted stocks were valued at nearly 9.2 billion won at the time.
The agency’s stock had been trapped between the 200,000 won and 300,000 won-mark in the latter half of this year but the shares started showing an upward trend from mid-October, spurred by the news that the boy group’s offline concerts would resume. The firm refreshed its 52-week high of 421,500 won during intraday trading on November 17. The shares of HYBE closed at 330,000 won Thursday, down 6.38 percent or 22,500 won, from the previous session’s close. Based on the stock’s closing price, the value of stock held by the group’s members Suga, Jimin, V and Jungkook stood at 22.6 billion won each. The valuation of J-Hope and RM’s stocks worth 20.7 billion won and 19.1 billion won, while Jin’s stock value came to 17.3 billion won.
Meanwhile, BTS will not be able to attend the 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards scheduled for December 11, due to the latest change in the Korean government’s quarantine rules, implemented to curb the spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19. Instead, the group will appear in a brief video message for its fans, according to an official of Mnet, the cable channel that hosts the annual event.
The septet is required to undergo a 10-day mandatory self-quarantine upon returning from Los Angeles where it held its first in-person concerts, “Permission to Dance on Stage,” in two years.
