KODEX Samsung Group (102780) 🔎 In-depth
Samsung Asset Management · Equity · Korea · Sector · Industry · Price 2026-08-06 · Analysis 2026-07-14
This is an ETF that holds the listed affiliates of the Samsung Group in a single basket. It spreads its money across major group affiliates including Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDI, Samsung Biologics, Samsung C&T and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, so you can track the overall trend of the entire Samsung Group in one holding.
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Price as of 2026-08-06 close
USD values (market cap, AUM, turnover) are converted from KRW at ₩1,423.5 per US$ (2026-08-07); won figures are as reported. Market cap is listed units × market price, while AUM is the fund's net asset value — the two are close but not identical.
Returns & tracking as of 2026-08-06
| Period | ETF (NAV) | Index | Excess |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M | -16.52% | -16.51% | -0.01% |
| 3M | -7.96% | -7.80% | -0.16% |
| 6M | +42.29% | +43.19% | -0.90% |
| 1Y | +138.53% | +138.60% | -0.07% |
| 3Y | +157.83% | +158.54% | -0.71% |
Returns are NAV-based (distributions not reinvested); the index is the provider's price index, and tracking error is the annualized standard deviation of daily NAV-minus-index return differences. Source: data.go.kr securities market-price API.
Fees & distributions
Fees prior fiscal year · Samsung Asset Mgmt official disclosure
Distributions Source: Samsung Asset Mgmt distribution notice·KRX
Distributions vary with fund performance; paying out more than income can reduce principal.
Understanding this ETF
It follows a Samsung Group index built by selecting Samsung Group affiliates listed on Korea's stock market that are above a certain size (₩1 trillion in market capitalization). Each company is held in proportion to the size of its shares actually traded in the market (free-float market cap), and the constituents are regularly reviewed in June and December each year.
It actually holds the shares of Samsung affiliates and tracks their combined trend directly. As a plain product with no multiple attached, it moves at 1x, rising as much as the index rises and falling as much as it falls. Because it invests in domestic stocks, it is not affected by exchange rates.
By diversifying across Samsung affiliates in several industries, it carries less risk than buying just one individual stock. That said, because the affiliates share group governance, brand and strategy, an issue affecting the group as a whole can produce a "co-movement" tendency in which several names move together. It also has weight in industries highly sensitive to the economy and industry cycle, such as semiconductors, batteries and bio, so the index is to some extent driven by the earnings trends of core affiliates including Samsung Electronics.
Heading into 2026, the combined market capitalization of Samsung Group affiliates grew substantially. With the chip leader Samsung Electronics driving the whole group, Samsung SDI narrowed its losses on expanding sales of energy storage systems (ESS) in the US and high-value cylindrical batteries, and a swing to profit in the second half was cited as a possibility, whereas Samsung Biologics showed relatively weak performance amid labor issues and the like, so there were temperature differences among affiliates. When affiliates' circumstances diverge like this, offsetting each other's trends to some degree is a feature of a group-diversified ETF.
In a word, it is a product that invests not in Samsung Electronics alone but in the entire Samsung "group" at once. By spreading across several affiliates and several industries, it effectively tracks the comprehensive report card of the Samsung Group.
Composition
It holds Samsung affiliates across different industries together, from electronics and semiconductors (Samsung Electronics) to batteries (Samsung SDI), bio (Samsung Biologics), trading and construction (Samsung C&T), and insurance and finance (Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance). Because it spans several industries, it has more of a diversification benefit than a sector ETF concentrated in a single industry, but it clearly retains the character of diversification within the single group of "Samsung." The influence of the large-market-cap Samsung Electronics tends to be reflected relatively strongly.
Classification
Notes & cautions
- Although diversified across several industries, it should be viewed as diversification strictly within the single group of "Samsung."
- The constituents and weights are adjusted through regular changes in June and December each year.
ETF terms explained
Korea FSC securities market-price API (data.go.kr) · ETF classification & tagging: our own descriptive categorization
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