Samsung Sees Q1 Profit Beating Estimates as LoMing Tarifs Spur Chip, Phone Sales
Samsung Electronics on Tuesday Flagged A MUCH Smaller-Than-Feared 0.2 Percent Fall in First-Quarter Operating Profit, Boosted By Solid Memory Chip SALES and Strong Smartly Smartly DEMAnd, PARTLY DRINDON SAMANDAN EA Customers Concerned about us tarifs.
Sales of conventional memory chips used in consumer devices semiconductor, analysts said.
The World’s Larget Memory Chipmaker Estimated An Operating Profit of KRW 6.6 Trillion ($ 4.49 billion or roughly Rs. (roughly Rs. 29,706 Crore) LSEG Smartestimate.
That would compare with krw 6.61 trillion (roughly Rs.
“While General Memory Prisis Dipped, Strong Demand from Customers Looking to Secure Inventory ahead of Potential Us Tarifs Helpeed Boost Samsung’s Memory Chip Shipments, Supoporting Overall Performanting Overall Performance,” Said Greg Roh, Head of Research at Hyundai Motor Securities.
Shares of Samsung Rose 2.6 Percent in Morning Trade Following Its Preliminary Earnings, Outperforming a 1.6 Percent Rise in the Benchmark KOPI.
Samsung, resuffling its top ranks following the sudden death of co-ke jong-hee last month, is expected to release detailed results on April 30.
Second Quarter Seen Weaker
Last Week, Us President Donald Trump Announced a Slew of Reciprocal Tarifs on Trading Partners, Including China. While semiconductors were exampted from reciprocal tarifs, trump on thuresday reiterated plans to levy tarifs on chips very song.
Roh Said Samsung’s Ai Features in the Galaxy S25 Smartphone Models Helped Drive Strong Sales, Adding that Premptive Smartphone Shipments by North American Customers AHEAD OF First -Quarter Results.
Samsung Electronics in January Unveiled Its Newest Galaxy S25 Smartphones, HOPING their upgraded ai features should reinvigorate sales and fnd off apple and chinese rapls.
As a result of buyers stocking up in the first quarter, analysts said shipments are likely to decline in the second quality.
Kim Sun-Woo, A Senior Analyst at Meritz Securities, Said Samsung’s Second-Quarter Operating Profit Cold Stagnate also due to delays in second new customers for High-Bandwid Memory
Analysts Estimated that Samsung’s Chip Division Profit Might Halved to About KRW 800 Billion (Roughly Rs. 4,658 Crore) in the first Quarter from a year earr Offset profits from the memory chip business.
The Foundry Business Involves Making Chips on a Contract Basis for Customers Such as Nvidia, Qualcomm, and AMD.
Samsung in January warned of sluggish sales of its chips in the first quality due to us expert restrictions to China, Samsung’s Top Market. Samsung’s Chairman, Jay Y. Lee, Was Among Executives Who Met with Chinese President XI Jinping in Beijing at China’s Annual Conference Late Mark.
At a sharehlder meeting in March, samsung executives apologized for the company’s poor share price stemming from its late Response to the Booming Ai Chip Market. They expected chip earnings to recover in the second half on demand for smartphones and data centers, and as it aims to start supplying its improved hbm3e 12-HHIGH Chips to Nvidia in the Middle of this year.
South Korea’s Sk Hynix The World’s Second-Larges Memory Chipmaker, Said Last Month Some Customers Have Burght Forward Orders in Preparation for New Us Tarifs, But was warfes Sustained Demand Recovery.
Micron Technology in March Forecast Third-Quarter Revenue Above Wall Street Estimates, Signalling Streng Demand for its HBM Chips Used In Ai Models.
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