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Samsung Electronics a Must own

Shayne Heffernan Ph.D.
Last updated: July 7, 2021 12:21 am
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South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics forecast a 53.37 percent rise in second-quarter operating profit Wednesday, thanks to strong chip prices and operations resuming at a key US factory after a shutdown.

The world’s biggest smartphone maker said in an earnings estimate that it expected operating profit of around 12.5 trillion won ($11 billion) for April to June, up from 8.15 trillion won a year earlier.

Samsung Electronics is the flagship subsidiary of the giant Samsung group, by far the largest of the family-controlled empires known as chaebols that dominate business in South Korea, the world’s 12th largest economy.

The conglomerate’s overall turnover is equivalent to a fifth of the national gross domestic product.

The coronavirus has wreaked havoc with the world economy, with lockdowns and travel bans imposed around the globe for many months.

But the pandemic — which has killed around four million people worldwide — has also seen many tech companies boom.

Coronavirus-driven working from home has boosted demand for devices powered by Samsung’s chips, as well as home appliances such as TVs and washing machines.

Analysts say the company has had a particular boost from memory chip price hikes.

Taipei-based market researcher TrendForce last month expected prices of memory chips, especially DRAM — widely used in servers and mobile phones — to rise through the third quarter of this year as the “severe undersupply situation persists”.

Samsung’s earnings “will remain solid, mostly due to increased demand for memory chips, rising DRAM prices,” Tom Kang, a research director at market researcher Counterpoint, told AFP.

– Factory shutdown –

Power outages across Texas in the US — caused by a severe winter storm — shut down semiconductor factories clustered around Austin in February, including Samsung’s.

The firm lost more than 300 billion won due to the suspension, South Korean Yonhap news agency reported.

But Samsung has said the production line in Texas was “fully normalised in the second quarter”, and Kim Woon-ho, an analyst at IBK Investment & Securities, said the factory’s resumption had been positive for April-June earnings.

But the company’s smartphone shipments are estimated to have dropped as sales slowed for its latest flagship product, the Galaxy S21 series, launched in January.

“It is estimated that Samsung’s mobile production lines in Vietnam and India did not operate properly due to Covid lockdown,” Kim said in a report.

Vice President at Moody’s Investors Service Gloria Tsuen shared a positive outlook for the firm for the second half of the year.

“The key earnings driver for Samsung will still be semiconductors,” she told AFP.

But the company faces legal challenges. Its de facto leader Lee Jae-yong is currently on trial, charged with manipulating a takeover in order to smooth his succession at the top of the Samsung group.

Lee was jailed in January over a sprawling corruption scandal that brought down former president Park Geun-hye.

South Korea’s corporate leaders and some scholars say a leadership vacuum could hamper the firm’s decision-making on future large-scale investments, previously key to its global rise.

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Shayne Heffernan Ph.D. Economist at Knightsbridge holds a Ph.D. in Economics and brings with him over 40 years of trading experience in Asia and hands on experience in Venture Capital, he has been involved in several start ups that have seen market capitalization over $500m and 1 that reach a peak market cap of $15b. He has managed and overseen start ups in Crypto, Mining, Shipping, Technology and Financial Services.
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