SKM Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (SK Telecom Co. Ltd. | NYSE:SKM)

SK Telecom is South Korea's largest wireless telecom operator, with 32 million mobile customers. The firm also owns SK Broadband (formerly Hanaro Telecom), which has 7.2 million broadband customers and 9.5 million pay TV customers (6.7 million IPTV and 2.8 million Cable TV). While the firm also purchased stakes in businesses in security and semiconductor memory production as well as developing e-commerce and internet platform businesses, these were all spun off into the separate, SK Square business in November 2021. The company was formed after SK Group purchased KT's mobile business in 1994.

SK Telecom Co. Ltd. trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol SKM.

As of January 7, 2026, SKM stock price climbed to $20.65 with 426,139 million shares trading.

SKM has a beta of 0.20, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SKM has a correlation of 0.04 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SKM has a market cap of $7.92 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, SKM traded as high as $24.58 and as low as $18.26.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that SKM belongs to (by Net Assets): KOMP, AVEM, DFEM, DFAX, AVES.

SKM has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -1.7%, while the SPY ETF gained +17.5%. In the last 3 month period, SKM fell short of the market, returning -3.7%, while SPY returned +3.4%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks SKM has outperformed the stock market by returning +3.8%, while SPY returned +0.6%.

SKM support price is $20.38 and resistance is $20.74 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that SKM shares will trade within this expected range on the day.