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The Biggest Event of the Summer: SK Hynix Lists on Nasdaq in 4 Days -$29 Billion IPO and Book-Building Begins Today

This is without question the most important AI infrastructure stock event of the summer, and the window to position ahead of it is closing very, very rapidly. Here is everything the community needs to know that will play out over the next four days.

SK Hynix officially commences its Nasdaq ADR book-building process today -Monday, July 6. Final pricing occurs July 9. The stock is expected to begin trading July 10 under ticker symbol SKHY.

This offering seeks to raise up to $29 billion, which would mark the largest foreign company IPO in US history, topping Alibaba’s $21.8 billion offering in 2014.

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup and Bank of America are heading the deal with a fee of roughly 0.5%, an astonishingly low fee for a transaction of this magnitude.

It is critical to restate the core investment story behind this listing for everyone to digest-as this narrative does not change no matter the market noise. SK Hynix commands a 58% global market share in HBM, the high-bandwidth memory that is completely irreplaceable in any Nvidia AI accelerator. It has already supplied samples of its HBM4 products to customers, with production capacity for 2026 sold out entirely. Shortages are expected to persist through 2027, and the company posted a 72% operating margin in the first quarter of 2026, a record for the company’s quarterly performance, with revenue exceeding 52 trillion won for the first time.

The Nasdaq listing resolves the single greatest structural impediment to international investors gaining access to this company. Historically, SK Hynix has traded at a discount of around 35% to Micron for reasons entirely unrelated to technology, market position or margins-simply because of friction. US-based institutional investors are only able to invest in US dollar-denominated securities traded on American exchanges, and thus they could not easily invest in SK Hynix until now. This ADR completely removes that barrier starting July 10.

What happens immediately following the listing is a major part of the story. SKHY is widely anticipated to be added to the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) following its debut, automatically driving purchasing from every ETF tracking that index. Moreover, inclusion in the Nasdaq-100 index is highly probable on a rapid timeline given SK Hynix’s substantial market capitalization.

Each of these index inclusions leads to substantial automatic passive buying-regardless of active investment decisions.

This mechanical demand is one of the most powerful post-IPO market events.

The valuation metrics are the primary area where analysts are focused. A note from HSBC calculated a 20% premium on the ADR offering price, citing the accessibility gain as sufficient justification prior to any fundamental valuation re-rating. If one takes Micron, with approximately 25% of HBM market share, trading at about $1.4 trillion, a valuation for SK Hynix at 58% HBM market share, while accounting for the dual listing discount and country risk, suggests fair value far exceeds current prices on Korean exchanges once US institutional investors have unfettered access.

Gate’s Korean stock trading allows you access to SK Hynix today through USDT before the Nasdaq listing. SK Hynix is trading on the Korea Exchange right now and is accessible through the same Gate account that you use for BTC and ETH. The four-day window from book-building today through the Nasdaq debut next Thursday is the pre-listing opportunity.

Four days. Largest foreign IPO in US history. Book-building starts today.

With SK Hynix book-building opening today and SKHY listing on Nasdaq in 4 days – are you establishing a pre-listing position through Gate Korean stocks now, planning to buy SKHY directly on Nasdaq July 10, or watching from the sidelines while staying focused on crypto through this volatile period?

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