Signage at the SK Hynix Inc. booth at the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. The expo runs through Nov. 10. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
South Korea's SK Hynix on Wednesday reported record full-year profit for 2025, more than doubling its operating earnings as shortages of AI-related memory chips pushed prices higher and helped it beat market expectations.
The memory chip maker also posted record revenue and profit in the December quarter, as it competes with rival Samsung for the title of the world's top memory producer.
Meanwhile, SK Hynix announced additional dividends of 1 trillion won, or 1,500 won per share, lifting its total dividend payout for fiscal 2025 to 2.1 trillion won.
Here are the company's quarterly results versus LSEG SmartEstimates, which are weighted toward forecasts from analysts who are more consistently accurate:
Revenue: 32.827 trillion won ($23 billion) vs. 32.132 trillion won expected
Operating profit: 19.17 trillion won vs. 17.729 trillion won expected
Revenue rose about 66% in the December quarter from a year earlier, while operating profit surged 137% over the same period.
SK Hynix makes memory chips used to store data, which are found in everything from servers to consumer devices such as smartphones and laptops.
The company has benefited from a boom in artificial intelligence as a key supplier of high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, used in chipsets for AI data centers like those from Nvidia .
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