Who owns Hyundai?
Hyundai is owned by Hyundai Motor Group (South Korea, KRX: 005380).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Hyundai Motor Company Annual Report 2025, 20 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Hyundai Motor Company reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇰🇷 South Korea, Seoul
- Origin
- 🇰🇷 South Korea, Seoul
- Founded
- 1967
- Category
- Automotive › Cars › Mass-market cars
- Parent ticker
- KRX: 005380
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Hyundai
Hyundai entered America in 1986 with cars so unreliable the brand became a joke, and answered it in 1998 with a ten-year warranty that competitors could not match. Its name means modernity in Korean. The group builds its own steel and ships as well as cars, a degree of vertical integration that almost no other carmaker retains.
Ownership timeline of Hyundai
- Current owner Hyundai Motor Group [1] reported
Where Hyundai sits in Hyundai Motor Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Hyundai Motor Group
Hyundai Motor Group controls 3 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in automotive.
Also in automotive
Other brands in mass-market cars, and who owns them
The 53 brands in mass-market cars on Brandtree belong to 24 owners. The largest is Stellantis, with 9; Hyundai Motor Group has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Chrysler | Stellantis | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| GWM Pickup | Great Wall Motor | 🇨🇳 China |
| CHERY | Chery | 🇨🇳 China |
| BDS Suspension | Fox Factory | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Buick | General Motors | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Roewe | SAIC Motor | 🇨🇳 China |
| Daihatsu | Toyota | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| SEAT | Volkswagen Group | 🇩🇪 Germany |
About the owner: Hyundai Motor Group
Hyundai Motor Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 1967. Brandtree records 3 brands under its control, and it is listed as KRX: 005380.
Hyundai and Kia are the same group, holding cross-shareholdings that make them a single business competing against itself in showrooms. Together they are among the three largest carmakers in the world, having moved from a byword for cheapness to genuine engineering credibility within thirty years.
Hyundai Motor Group: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇰🇷 Hyundai and other South Korean brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 185 brands that began in South Korea. 7 of them (4%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Hyundai is not one of them.
- 4DX — CJ CGV 🇰🇷
- A Café La — Binggrae 🇰🇷
- A-Solution — Aekyung 🇰🇷
- Absolute — Maeil Dairies 🇰🇷
- Aero K — Aero K 🇰🇷
- Air Premia — Air Premia 🇰🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Hyundai?
The parent company of Hyundai is Hyundai Motor Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in South Korea.
Is Hyundai South Korean?
Yes. Hyundai originated in South Korea in 1967 and its owner, Hyundai Motor Group, is also headquartered in South Korea.
Is Hyundai still owned by Hyundai Motor Group?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Hyundai is still owned by Hyundai Motor Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Hyundai Motor Company Annual Report 2025 — Hyundai Motor Company, Annual report, published 20 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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