South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has posted record breaking earnings on Thursday. The company is on track to beat rival Apple in operating profits.
The development is all the more important especially keeping in mind the Galaxy Note 7 recall and the South Korean corruption scandal involving the company.
The quarterly financial earning reports show that Samsung has soared with the highest profits in the company’s history. Its operating profit of $12.7 billion and $9.7 billion in net profit sets it higher when compared with forecasts of $10.6 billion in operating profits for Apple.
The remarkable performance of Samsung this quarter can be attributed to rising prices in memory chips, as well as huge sales of the Galaxy S8 smartphone.
The firm also predicts another blockbuster in the next three months.
Samsung is expected to post another record profit in the third quarter at around 15 trillion won.
Bryan Ma, a technology industry analyst at IDC categorized the success of Samsung due to the following factors:
The S8 has indeed helped get Samsung back onto its feet, hopefully putting the Note7 debacle behind it.
But we also have to keep in mind that a lot of Samsung´s momentum is from memory and displays too, so it´s not all about the S8, either.
No doubt that is time of the year is not usually for Apple, things will get steady for Apple with the release of new iPhone series.
Samsung’s semiconductor division earned to $7.2 billion operating profit whereas the mobile division generated $3.7 billion in operating profit thanks to the Galaxy S8 series.
However, Greg Roh, an analyst at HMC Investment Securities, told AFP:
“Samsung has surpassed its rivals for now but Apple usually sees little fluctuation in its profits whereas Samsung´s profits fluctuate largely on memory chip prices.”
Samsung has been trying to make us forget the last year when the exploding battery crisis flared up, which cost the company heavily in monetary terms and reputation as well.
Also Samsung’s vice-chairman and heir Lee Jae-Yong was charged in connection with the national corruption scandal for bribing the president Park Geun-Hye, so that he could seek favors from the government.
Lee has been in custody for corruption scandal
Via Telegraph, AndroidAuthority
Samsung is the most valuable smart phone brand in the world. unmatched smart phones, specially Note & S Series.
Yes. Like Note 7. You could use it as a phone or a gernade. Dual purpose!
*Grenade.
Samsung is a very nice company of South Korea and will give very tough time to other top end companies especially Apple
Samsung’s major profit comes from the sale of memory chips and it is poised to beat intel, however as far as mobiles are concerned apple’s profits are way ahead of Samsung or any other brand (nearly 79% of the global smartphone profits on 2016) so any comparison must highlight this as here we are talking about specific products and not comparing Oranges with Apples ;)
I think we are talking about Samsung and Apple as a whole. Not focusing on individual profits of different devices sold. Apple also profits from its watches, iPads and Macbooks.
Anyway, things will change a bit with the launch of iPhone 8 and Samsung’s launch of Note 8.
Answer is simple… Samsung provides their employees good relaxation thats why they work more hard.