SK HYNIX $SKHY Q2’26 DETAILED EARNINGS HIGHLIGHTS
🔹 Revenue: $54.6B (Est. $57.7B) 🔴; +257% YoY, +51% QoQ
🔹 Operating Profit: $41.6B (Est. $44.2B) 🔴; +557% YoY
🔹 Operating Margin: 76%; +3,500 bps YoY — record high quarterly OPM
Q3 Guide:
🔹 DRAM Bit Growth: ~+10% QoQ
🔹 NAND Bit Growth: Low-single% QoQ, including Solidigm
Q2 Pricing & Volume:
🔹 DRAM ASP: ~+30% QoQ; bit growth high-single% QoQ
🔹 NAND ASP: +mid-50% QoQ; bit growth mid-teen% QoQ
Profitability:
🔹 Gross Margin: 83%; +2,900 bps YoY
🔹 EBITDA: $44.4B; 81% margin; +411% YoY
🔹 Basic EPS: $90.89; vs $8.09 LY
Financials:
🔹 Cash: $60.5B; up from $11.7B LY
🔹 Interest-Bearing Debt: $12.8B; down from $15.0B LY
🔹 Net Debt-to-Equity: -26%; from +6% LY
🔹 Operating Cash Flow: $45.2B
🔹 Total Assets: $240.0B
2026 Market Outlook:
🔹 DRAM Demand Bit Growth: +mid-20% YoY
🔹 NAND Demand Bit Growth: +high-teens% YoY
🔹 2026 CapEx: High $40T KRW range (~$31-34B)
Product & Technology:
🔹 HBM4: Shipments began in Q2, full ramp planned 2H
🔹 HBM4E: 1cnm-based samples supplied to a major customer in 1H
🔹 SOCAMM2: Full supply commenced on 1cnm
🔹 321L NAND: Largest share of NAND production; targeting 50% of domestic capacity by year-end 2026
Business Highlights:
🔹 Long-Term Agreements: ~10 concluded including key customers, with deposit mechanisms and volatility-aware pricing
🔸 Listed ADRs on Nasdaq July 10, 2026 — the largest-ever U.S. IPO by a foreign company
🔸 Reviewing additional shareholder return measures to enhance scale and continuity
🔸 Temporary adjustment in smartphone and PC sales due to challenges securing memory volumes; recovery expected as supply tightness eases
Note:
🔹 Net Profit: $64.6B; +1,243% YoY; includes $43.5B of investment-asset gains
🔸 Net profit exceeds revenue on $42.8B of non-operating profit