Samsung's chip & Galaxy S7 sales help push Q4 revenues over the top despite Note 7 disaste...
In spite of the major financial hit it took after the Galaxy Note 7, Samsung Electronics on Tuesday said it managed a 50 percent boost in operating profits during the December quarter, thanks to a combination of high chip sales and other phones filling in the gap.
Operating profits rose to $7.93 billion, in fact the company's best Q4 performance in more than three years, Reuters reported. This is largely because earnings from memory chips jumped 77 percent year-over-year to about $4.25 billion, an all-time high.
In the company's mobile division, operating profits rose 12 percent during the quarter to about $2.15 billion, buoyed by sales of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, as well as some other phones.
The two recalls and discontinuation of the Note 7 will ultimately cost Samsung over $5 billion. Earlier this week the company announced the conclusion of its own investigation, finding that fires were the product of two separate battery defects, one prior to the first recall and the second after.
The company is adopting stricter precautions for future products, such that the Galaxy S8 will miss a debut at February's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona -- typically, where Samsung prefers to show off new Galaxy S phones. It's not clear when the device will actually ship.
Reports have suggested that Samsung rushed the Note 7 to market to win more sales ahead of the September launch of Apple's iPhone 7, which was expected to be a minor upgrade and hence weaker competition.
Operating profits rose to $7.93 billion, in fact the company's best Q4 performance in more than three years, Reuters reported. This is largely because earnings from memory chips jumped 77 percent year-over-year to about $4.25 billion, an all-time high.
In the company's mobile division, operating profits rose 12 percent during the quarter to about $2.15 billion, buoyed by sales of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, as well as some other phones.
The two recalls and discontinuation of the Note 7 will ultimately cost Samsung over $5 billion. Earlier this week the company announced the conclusion of its own investigation, finding that fires were the product of two separate battery defects, one prior to the first recall and the second after.
The company is adopting stricter precautions for future products, such that the Galaxy S8 will miss a debut at February's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona -- typically, where Samsung prefers to show off new Galaxy S phones. It's not clear when the device will actually ship.
Reports have suggested that Samsung rushed the Note 7 to market to win more sales ahead of the September launch of Apple's iPhone 7, which was expected to be a minor upgrade and hence weaker competition.
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Most of the losses due to the Note 7 problem were accounted for in the 3rd quarter, not the 4th quarter. In that quarter revenues for Samsung's IM segment (which includes their mobile devices) fell from $22.84 billion to $19.35 billion YoY while operating profit fell from $2.06 billion to .$09 billion. Also, while the operating profit for that segment increased YoY in the 4th quarter, revenue fell from $21.46 billion to $20.27 billion even though the S7 and S7 Edge seem to have been popular models.
I have got to go the crystal ball shop, I am missing out.
I think what @lkrupp meant is that, the fact that the Note 7 had problems (exploding phones) will not deter either reviewers from touting 8 as the greatest ever, nor will it deter people from buying them.
He isn't implying that the Note 8 will explode.
You can skip the trip to the crystal ball shop. They are running a scam show.