Samsung Electronics expects 200% growth in operating profit for Q4 2025

Samsung Electronics on Thursday estimated its operating profit for the fourth quarter of 2025 at 20 trillion won ($13.8 billion), up about 200 percent from a year earlier, driven by skyrocketing memory chip prices amid surging global demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips. According to the company’s earnings guidance, Samsung is expected to post 93 trillion won in sales and an operating profit of 13.8 trillion won. This marks sales growing 22.71 percent and operating profit surging 208.2 percent from a year earlier. The figures outpace brokerages' consensus estimates of 90.6 trillion won in sales and a 17.8 trillion won operating profit. If finalized, the fourth quarter numbers would be a new quarterly earnings record for Samsung Electronics. It would mark first time the company's quarterly operating profit surpassed 20 trillion won, beating the previous quarterly record of 86 trillion won set three months earlier, and making it the highest level since the third quarter of 2018. Some analysts expect the company's 2025 operating profit to surpass 100 trillion won. As the figures aWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times