Small shareholders in Samsung nearly triple this year

Seoul: The number of small shareholders in global tech giant Samsung Electronics nearly tripled this year amid massive stock investment by local retail investors, data showed on Tuesday.

Some 1.45 million investors held a stake of less than 1 per cent in the top-cap company as of the end of June, 2.6 times the tally six months earlier, according to the data from Samsung.

That means the number of small investors in Samsung Electronics increased by as much as some 886,000 in the first half of the year.