Samsung physics has aforesaid its fourth-quarter profit probably fell thirty seven.4%, confirming expectations for its 1st year of profit decline since 2011 because it struggles to retain its crown as international Smartphone leader.
The South Korean school large lost market share for 3 consecutive quarters up to July-September, and analysts say the trend probably continued within the October-December amount because of competition from Apple’s new iPhones and cheaper Chinese rivals like Xiaomi.
Samsung aforesaid its fourth-quarter in operation profit is probably going to be five.2 trillion won ($4.74 billion), beating a mean forecast of five trillion won from a Thomson Reuters survey of forty four analysts.
The outlook suggests that Samsung’s 2014 profit can most likely be twenty five trillion won, the weakest in 3 years; though it marks a rebound from the third-quarter’s four.1 trillion won profit that was the firm’s lowest quarterly lead to quite 3 years.
Samsung shares were mercantilism a hundred and twenty fifth higher as of 0110 GMT, in line with the broader market, on hopes that quarterly profits have round-bottomed.
“There were issues regarding the mobile division however it’s just like the won recent weakness against the dollar and therefore the Galaxy Note four impact helped,” HMC Investment analyst Greg Roh aforesaid, touching on solid sales of Samsung’s latest flagship phone. I expect profits to continue up through a minimum of the second quarter of 2015.
Several analysts tipped the semiconductor division to own earned quite the money-spinner mobile business in October-December, buoyed by healthy demand for memory chips from personal computers and smart phones.
