Rumors of BTS becoming HYBE's 5th largest shareholder are receiving a lot of attention. Accordingly, in this report, BTS members currently own 1.1% of HYBE's total shares, making them the fifth largest shareholder. According to the post on social network X, the personal stake of each BTS member is larger than that of all the CEOs of the group's subsidiaries.
However, this could be a false rumor. According to AllKpop, according to statistics on HYBE's website, the 5 major shareholders are currently Bang Si Hyuk (31.6%), Netmarble (12.1%), Korea National Pension Service (8.2%) and Dunamu Inc (5.5%), and 5.7% of "other people".
HYBE's ownership distribution is provided in more detail on financial websites, including Bloomberg. These sources show that the fifth largest shareholder in the company is Scooter Braun, CEO of HYBE America. This makes the information that BTS members own more shares than all of HYBE's subsidiary CEO's is untrue.
The public figures also show that Jungkook is in the top 10 shareholders with 68,385 shares accounting for 0.16%. This is the stock that Bang Si Hyuk gave to Jungkook and other BTS members since 2020.
BTS's 1.1% stake will only be valid if all 7 members hold all of the stakes donated by Bang Si Hyuk in 2020. However, in 2021, Jin, RM, and J-Hope sold some personal stocks.
According to HYBE's 2021 "Stock holdings change report", Jin has sold 16,000 shares, RM has sold 10,385 shares and J-Hope has sold 5,601 shares. Therefore, according to statistics, the 7 members of BTS no longer seem to hold the original number of shares, the collective ownership requirement of 1.1% is almost no longer valid.
