SM Entertainment is one of Korea’s most successful music companies.
The firm’s largest shareholder is Kakao/Kakao Entertainment, while HYBE is also a stakeholder. Yet SM Entertainment also trades on Korea’s stock exchange.
Due to this public listing, the company publishers quarterly and financial results, which inform the data visualization below (in billions of Korean Won).
To understand the chart, first one needs to understand SM’s structure: Within SM Entertainment are two grouped divisions – the core SM Entertainment music business, plus a group of affiliates/subsidiaries including SM C&C, Key East, Dream Maker, and more.
The chart below shows the overall consolidated revenues and operating profit of the SM business (i.e. the core SM Entertainment unit plus the group of affiliates).
It also breaks out the revenues of the core SM Entertainment company and its various income streams (including Albums/digital music royalties, plus concerts and more.)
