SK Hynix Inc. – ADR’s (NASDAQ:SKHY) blistering rally on Wall Street is amplifying a scarcity-driven dislocation between the new listing and the home-market stock, with the U.S. line now trading at more than a 50% premium to Seoul.
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SKHY Debut and Price Action
SK Hynix’s American depositary receipts (ADR) began trading on Nasdaq last Friday in a record-setting U.S. equity offering that raised about $26.5 billion, the largest-ever listing by a foreign company.
The ADRs were priced at $149 and opened at $170, quickly drawing in U.S. investors eager for direct exposure to the world’s leading supplier of high‑bandwidth memory used in AI servers.
In the subsequent sessions, the ADRs have continued to climb, with shares closing up 27.29% at $193.92 on Tuesday, just three trading days after their debut.
The surge has come despite recent volatility in global chip names, underscoring the market’s conviction that SK Hynix is a core structural winner from AI infrastructure spending rather than a short‑term momentum story.
Scarcity Premium Over Seoul
The rally has blown out the gap between the U.S. and Korean lines: SK Hynix’s ADRs now trade at more than a 50% premium to the Seoul‑listed shares, far above the typical cross‑listing spread and nearly double the offshore premium for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (NYSE:TSM).
Several structural factors are feeding the premium, including limits on converting Seoul stock into ADRs and strong demand from U.S. institutions that previously had no clean way to own SK Hynix in size.
SKHY Stock Price Activity: SK Hynix shares were down 1.76% at $190.50 during after-hours trading after climbing more than 27% in Tuesday’s regular session, according to data from Benzinga Pro.
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