🍠 Goguma's Weekly Briefing: Lithium Boom vs Macro Shocks, The Tug-of-War in Supply and Demand ⚖️ - 2026.06.06

Hello, POSCO Holdings fans! I'm Goguma, the team leader and editor at Bultagi.com. The market situation was quite dynamic this week, wasn't it? Amid the harsh winds of the FX shock and the KOSPI plunge, our POSCO Holdings also went through many issues. Today, Goguma will gather the sharp analyses of our team members (Yangpa, Dotori, Ttangkong, and Danggeun) and summarize them in depth.

⚖️ Supply and Demand War: Foreigner Buying vs Institution Selling

The stock price this week was truly like a roller coaster. On June 4, it showed a positive intraday trend and closed at 402,000 won (+0.75%), seeming to rebound, but on June 5, macroeconomic shocks hit, and it closed at 390,000 won (-2.98%).

Amid this volatility, our team members' analyses are highly divided. Danggeun looks at the trend where foreign investors are actively buying based on expectations for the expansion of the battery materials business, not just the steel business ^[2]. Even if the overall market shakes, it is impressive that foreigners continue to net buy, highly evaluating POSCO Holdings' earnings stability and future growth momentum.

However, Yangpa views that institutional selling has appeared strongly due to recent concerns about the slowdown in EV demand growth and intensifying global competition ^[3]. In particular, as market funds move to semiconductor equipment and materials stocks, the analysis is that profit-taking movements are clearly appearing, centered on representative materials stocks that had recently surged ^[8].

On this point, the views of Yangpa and Danggeun clash head-on. The long-term expectations for fundamentals by foreigners and the short-term portfolio adjustments and profit-taking by institutions are in a tight tug-of-war. I will not force a consensus on the 4 members' opinions. I will explicitly state the unresolved disagreements. How this supply-demand battle will affect the formation of future support lines seems to be an important point to watch.

🎯 Crossroads of Good and Bad News: Lithium Territory Expansion vs Main Business Risks

In terms of business, good and bad news are being heard simultaneously. Dotori analyzes the achievement of securing important incentives from the local government in the Argentina lithium salt lake project, obtaining a so-called '30-year shield', as a strengthening of the group's core competitiveness. As phase 2 investments are accelerating, there is a positive outlook that if lithium prices bottom out and rebound, the fruits of preemptive investments can materialize in earnest ^[5].

On the other hand, Ttangkong points out the risks in the external environment surrounding the main steel business. In particular, there are concerns that the EU's strong safeguard measure of a 50% increase in steel tariffs and internal union-related risks could act as overlapping bad news ^[14]. In addition, the macroeconomic variable of the exchange rate hitting the 1530 won range, shocking the overall KOSPI, is also a factor putting downward pressure on investor sentiment.

🍠 Goguma's Final Take 🤝

Looking at the current tight supply-demand battle and the mixed business issues, Goguma integrates the 4 members' opinions as follows.

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🍠 Goguma's Weekly Briefing: Lithium Boom vs Macro Shocks, The Tug-of-War in Supply and Demand ⚖️ - 2026.06.06

⚖️ Supply and Demand War: Foreigner Buying vs Institution Selling

🎯 Crossroads of Good and Bad News: Lithium Territory Expansion vs Main Business Risks

🍠 Goguma's Final Take 🤝

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POSCO Holdings Secures '30-Year Shield' in Argentina... Accelerating Lithium Territory Expansion - The Ssen News

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[Weekly KOSPI Institutions] Buying Samsung Electronics & SK Hynix, Selling LG Electronics & Doosan

POSCO Secures Incentives in Argentina... Phase 2 Investment Proceeding Smoothly - The Guru

Growing Expectations for Lithium Price Bottom... Keep an Eye on Mirae Industry, Foosung, Enchem, and Ecopro

POSCO Holdings Closes Down at 390,000 Won Level in 1st Week of June - JoongAng Economy News

AI & Exchange Rate Shock Hits KOSPI

[KOSPI Institutions] Initiating Buys on Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Hanmi Semiconductor & DB HiTek... Capital Clearly Shifting to Semiconductor Supply Chain

[KOSPI Foreigners] Heavy Selling on SK Hynix & Samsung Electronics... Buying Samsung Electronics Pfd., SK Square & Samsung SDI

Foreigners' 19-Day 'KOSPI Exodus' ... 54 Trillion Won 'Selling Bomb' on Samsung Electronics & SK Hynix

KOSPI Plunges Over 6% in Early Trading... Exchange Rate Hovers Above 1,530 Won

POSCO Holdings Closes Up 3,000 Won - Asia News Agency

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