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title: "Inside The Samsung Group: The Companies Behind a Household Name"
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# Inside The Samsung Group: The Companies Behind a Household Name

Most people know the name Samsung from their phones or TVs. But the name reaches much further than that. The Samsung Group is a South Korean business group made up of affiliated companies, many of them publicly listed in their own right, that make memory chips and batteries, sell life insurance, build ships and offshore platforms, and manufacture medicines for many of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.

The group’s scale is easiest to see in South Korea’s stock market. Samsung Group companies make up roughly one-third of South Korea’s listed market value, about $1.5 trillion in combined market capitalization.1 Five of the 10 largest companies on the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) are Samsung Group companies.1

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**One Name, Many Businesses**

**Technology.** Samsung Electronics is the group’s largest company and South Korea’s most valuable, with about $1.2 trillion in market value, more than a quarter of the country’s stock market.1 It was the No. 1 smartphone maker in the first half of 2026, with 22% of global shipments,2 and the No. 1 maker of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) chips in the second quarter of 2026, with 39% of global DRAM revenue.3 It has also been the world’s leading TV brand every year since 2006.4

Other group companies supply the hardware behind AI and electrification. Samsung Electro-Mechanics makes the package substrates and capacitors used in AI servers, and its second quarter 2026 operating profit rose 107% from a year earlier.5 Samsung SDI makes batteries for data center backup power and grid-scale energy storage, including a deal worth more than $1.4 billion to supply U.S. energy storage starting in 2027.6

**Financial services.** Samsung Life Insurance has been South Korea’s No. 1 life insurer since the 1960s.7 The group’s financial affiliates also span property and casualty insurance, brokerage and credit cards.

**Industrials.** Samsung Heavy Industries builds ships and offshore platforms. In 2026 through mid-September, it won 44 ship and offshore orders worth $11.7 billion.8 Samsung C&T’s businesses include engineering and construction.

**Life sciences.** Samsung Biologics manufactures medicines for 17 of the world’s 20 largest pharmaceutical companies.9

**Consumer and services.** Group companies also provide IT services (Samsung SDS), physical security (S-1 Corporation) and hospitality (Hotel Shilla).

**Why the Group Has Been Hard to Own from the U.S.**

Samsung Group companies are listed in South Korea, trade in Korean won, and have no U.S. listings or registered ADRs. Investors looking for exposure often turn to broad South Korea funds, but those funds are built around the whole market, not one business group.

In the largest U.S.-listed South Korea ETF,10 Samsung Electronics makes up 23.5% of the fund and the nine other Samsung Group companies it holds add up to 8.4%. The remaining 68.1% is invested in everything else.11

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**Introducing SMNG**

The xETFs Samsung Group ETF (SMNG) is the first U.S.-listed ETF focused on Samsung Group companies. It is actively managed, trades on Nasdaq in U.S. dollars, and at launch holds 16 Samsung Group companies, in one ticker. Samsung Electronics is a 20% target holding at launch.

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SMNG is concentrated by design. It invests in a limited number of Samsung Group companies and does not seek broad market exposure. The fund is not currency hedged, so its returns will be affected by changes in the value of the South Korean won.

**More Samsung. One ticker.**

Learn more and view the prospectus at **www.xETFs.com/SMNG**

 

**Sources**

*1 Bloomberg, Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) and Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (KOSDAQ) ranking by market capitalization, as of Sept. 22, 2026; converted at 1,355.95 KRW per USD.*

*2 Counterpoint Research, global smartphone shipments, Sept. 14, 2026.*

*3 Counterpoint Research, global DRAM revenue rankings, Aug. 3, 2026.*

*4 Samsung Electronics press release, “Samsung Electronics Marks 20 Consecutive Years as the World’s #1 TV Brand,” Mar. 8, 2026.*

*5 Samsung Electro-Mechanics Q2 2026 results.*

*6 Samsung SDI News, Dec. 10, 2025.*

*7 Samsung Life Insurance, half-year report filed Aug. 14, 2026 (company statement).*

*8 Seoul Economic Daily, Sept. 14, 2026.*

*9 Samsung Biologics Newsroom, Nov. 3, 2025.*

*10 Bloomberg, largest U.S.-listed South Korea ETF by assets, as of Sept. 24, 2026.*

*11 iShares MSCI South Korea ETF, published fund holdings as of Sept. 24, 2026.*

 

**Carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risk factors, charges and expenses before investing. This and additional information can be found in the Fund’s Prospectus and Summary Prospectus, which may be obtained by visiting www.xETFs.com/smng. Read the Prospectus and Summary Prospectus carefully before investing.**

For current holdings, visit **www.xETFs.com/smng**

New Fund Risk. The Fund is a recently organized investment company with no operating history. As a result, prospective investors have no track record or history on which to base their investment decision.

Samsung Group Risk. The Fund’s assets are concentrated in companies affiliated with a single South Korean business group. The Fund’s performance will depend significantly on the overall condition, performance, and reputation of the Samsung Group and, in particular, of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and other large group affiliates that are expected to represent a substantial portion of the Fund’s assets. Samsung Group Companies are interconnected and adverse developments affecting one Samsung Group Company may negatively affect other members of the group and the value of the Fund’s portfolio as a whole, even where those members’ businesses are otherwise unrelated.

Foreign Securities Risk. Investments in non-U.S. securities involve certain risks that may not be present with investments in U.S. securities. These risk factors can make investments in the Fund more volatile and potentially less liquid than other types of investments.

Single Country Risk. Because the Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in companies in a specific country and region, the Fund is subject to greater risks of adverse developments in that country, region and/or the surrounding regions than a fund that is more broadly diversified geographically.

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The Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Samsung or any Samsung Group company.

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