SAMSUNG Fourth quarter earnings fall short estimates because ARE demand remains strong

Samsung Electronics Since expected on Friday the fourth quarter revenue, even the benefit of its operation fell significantly from the previous three months due to higher R & D expenses and its chip segments.

Here are the results in Samsung’s fourth quarter compared to the Smartestimim, which is weighted in the face of more accurate analysts:

• Sekly: 75.8 billion Korean wins ($ 52,200 million) vs. KRW 75.4 trillion
• Earn profits: KRW 6.5 trillion vs. KRW 6.8 billion

The income rose by about 12% from the same period last year, the year of exploitation that grew by about 130%. However, the exploitation profit fell by almost 30% and the income slid over 4% in quarter in quarter.

Samsung shares fell by 2.2% South Korean Friday morning.

Fourth quarter income Samsung Krw 75 billion’s own guidance, exploitation benefit from the company’s forecast.

Samsung Memory is the most important fries used in devices such as laptops and servers, and the smartphone is the second largest player in the market.

“Although the fourth quarter income and the operation of the operation in the quarter (QOQ), the annual income was secondary, only passed in 2022,” Samsung said its statement.

For the rest of the year, Samsung exchanged Krw 300.9 billion in revenue and earning KRW 32.7 billion. In 2023, the company KRW 258.94 trillion annual income and KRW 6,57 billion won.

In the current quarter, Samsung said the profit could be limited by the weakness of his semiconductor, but it would increase through the AI ​​phone and other devices.

“In 2025. The company intends to improve the Air Advantages, and follow the future demand for high value-added products and marks sales growth in premium segments,” he added.

Samsung Electronics’ chip business won the fourth quarter Krw 2.9 billion. numbers were entered below SK Hynix.

Although Samsung’s memory business obtained the fourth grade for 30.1 trillion, he helped the request of advanced memory used for AI applications.

“(O) Earning compared to the previous quarter compared to the previous quarter to ensure future technology leadership, as well as the initial ramps to ensure production capacity for the initial nodes,” Samsung said.

The Samsung and SK Hynix offers both drams or random access memory, products – a type of semiconductor required for data processing.

However, Sk Hynix left behind Samsung behind HBM, or high-bandwidth memory, a dram type, which chips are stacked to save space and reduce energy consumption.

According to Samsung, his memory is reducing its heritage products, better align with market demand and increasing the proportion of value-added products, such as HBM.

“In 2025, the general demand for memory market is expected to recover in the second quarter,” Samsung said that his profits is expected to remain weak in the current quarter.