Samsung’s profits jump 19x in a year and you don’t need AI to figure out why
Share price down sharply, apparently amid fears the bubble is getting bigger
Samsung has delivered guidance for its second quarter results and forecast profits 19 times higher than it managed in the same period of 2025.
In Q2 last year, the Korean giant’s sales totalled ₩75.7 trillion ($49.7 billion) and operating profit landed at ₩4.68 trillion ($3.1 billion).
Fast forward a year, and Samsung told investors that once its accountants finish their work, they’ll report sales of ₩170 trillion to ₩172 trillion ($111.9 billion) and operating profit between ₩89.3 trillion and ₩89.5 trillion ($58.4 billion).
Samsung’s guidance announcements are very brief, and don’t offer any explanation for its performance, but in its Q1 results announcement the company said its memory business set all time revenue and profit records and attributed that result to “technological leadership in the memory market, as well as higher average selling price.”
Neither of those factors...
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