Vieworks, a leading provider of medical and industrial imaging solutions, announced on Thursday its plans to boost corporate value. The company aims to achieve this through securing growth drivers and enhancing shareholder returns, including dividends and share buybacks.
In a public disclosure on Tuesday, Vieworks outlined four key strategies: diversifying its business portfolio to build a stable growth foundation and secure long-term growth drivers; expanding its proprietary software and artificial intelligence (AI) based integrated imaging solutions; improving profitability through enhanced cost competitiveness and operational efficiency; and increasing shareholder value through consistent returns.
To realize these objectives, Vieworks is set to broaden its growth base by venturing into emerging markets such as digital pathology slide scanners and golf simulators, while also expanding its sales network.
The company plans to continually enhance its profit structure by internalizing key component production, optimizing designs, reducing material costs, and improving inventory management. Vieworks also commits to maintaining its shareholder-friendly policies, including higher dividend payouts and ongoing share buybacks and retirements.
Since February, Vieworks has been actively expanding its shareholder return initiatives. The company declared a cash dividend of 6.2 billion KRW (about 4.1 million USD), up 12.4% from the previous year. This resulted in a dividend payout ratio of 28.2% based on controlling shareholder equity, meeting the criteria for high-dividend companies.
Furthermore, Vieworks retired all 388,589 treasury shares (valued at approximately 9.9 billion KRW (about 6.6 million USD)) in February. This brings the cumulative share retirement to about 10.3% of total issued shares since February 2025.
In a move to further enhance shareholder value, Vieworks decided in March to enter into a trust agreement for the acquisition of its own shares worth 10 billion KRW (about 6.6 million USD).
A Vieworks spokesperson stated that following the shareholders’ meeting, it has solidified and disclosed the plans to enhance corporate value. It is committed to expanding shareholder returns in line with the performance recovery and strengthening the long-term growth foundation to drive up the corporate value.