Samsung emblem displayed on a telephone display with a binary code mirrored on it, a laptop computer keyboard, a reminiscence card, an adaper and cables are seen on this illustration photograph taken in Krakow, Poland on January 30, 2023. (Photograph by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photographs)
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Samsung Electronics on Wednesday posted a 34.57% drop in working revenue within the fourth quarter from a yr in the past, in step with its steering issued earlier this month.
Listed here are Samsung’s fourth-quarter outcomes versus estimates:
- Income: 67.78 trillion Korean received (about $51 billion), vs. 69.27 trillion Korean received anticipated by LSEG analysts
- Working revenue: 2.82 trillion Korean received, vs. 3.43 trillion Korean received anticipated by LSEG analysts
Samsung’s income for the quarter ending December fell 3.8% from a yr in the past, whereas working revenue dropped 34.57% in the identical interval.
In its earnings steering earlier this month, Samsung mentioned it anticipated working revenue for the October-December quarter to be 2.8 trillion South Korean received ($2.13 billion), down 35% from the identical interval a yr in the past when the agency reported an working revenue of 4.31 trillion received.
Samsung mentioned its fourth-quarter income and working revenue improved from the third quarter because of a restoration in reminiscence chip costs and “continued energy” in gross sales of premium show merchandise.
Samsung is the world’s largest maker for dynamic random-access reminiscence chips that are present in client units equivalent to smartphones and computer systems.
Daiwa Capital Markets in a Jan. 9 report mentioned Samsung’s income and working revenue estimates have been “decrease than our market estimates.”
“We assume that reminiscence enterprise earnings improved sharply on elevated reminiscence cargo and costs,” mentioned SK Kim of Daiwa Capital Markets after Samsung’s preliminary earnings.
As world macroeconomic headwinds persist, Samsung expects its earnings within the first six months of 2024 to indicate a “reasonable enchancment” adopted by “a extra important enchancment” within the second half of the yr.
Reminiscence restoration to proceed in 2024
Reminiscence chip costs plummeted drastically final yr because of inflationary pressures which have brought on customers to chop again on smartphone and PC purchases, in addition to extra inventories of chips that firms stockpiled through the pandemic.
This has hit Samsung’s earnings laborious, with its working revenue plunging 77.6% within the third quarter from a yr in the past. Different chipmakers equivalent to Taiwan’s TSMC and SK Hynix have additionally reported declines in quarterly income.
However the world PC market returned to development within the fourth quarter, posting a modest year-on-year development of three%, in line with world know-how market analyst agency Canalys.
Analysts advised CNBC in October that weak demand within the reminiscence trade has bottomed out, as chipmakers have been operating down extra inventories by means of manufacturing cuts.
“The reminiscence market and demand for IT are anticipated to proceed recovering in 2024, although macroeconomic uncertainties stay to be seen,” mentioned Samsung in a press release on Wednesday.
The agency added that they may meet demand for chips in AI functions, broaden into AI-enabled client product markets in addition to “strengthen its management in premium merchandise and competitiveness in advanced-node semiconductors.”
Samsung is presently manufacturing 3-nanometer chips however has a roadmap to mass produce 2-nanometer chips in 2025. Sometimes, a discount in nanometer measurement can yield extra highly effective and environment friendly chips.
“We anticipate additional value hikes in 1H24 and a marked rebound in earnings for reminiscence makers in 2H24 and 2025,” mentioned Kim of Daiwa Capital Markets on Jan. 4.
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