UPDATE 1-Samsung Elec says Q2 profit likely jumped 23% on solid chip demand, one-off gains
UPDATE 1-Samsung Elec says Q2 profit likely jumped 23% on solid chip demand, one-off gains
One-off gains from its display business also helped boost operating profit, the company said.
The South Korean tech giant said operating profit was likely 8.1 trillion won ($6.80 billion) in the quarter ended June, far above the 6.4 trillion won analyst forecast by Refinitiv SmartEstimate.
Revenue likely fell 7% to 52 trillion won from a year earlier, it said.
Work-from-home orders and growth in online learning is underpinning chip demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic and pushing up DRAM memory chip prices. U.S. DRAM supplier Micron Technology Inc forecast strong quarterly revenue last month.
Analysts, however, warned that increases in memory chip prices may not continue in the second half of the year as data centre customers are likely to be conservative in stockpiling chips given the resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the United States and other countries
While prices jumped 14% on average in the quarter, they were flat in June versus May, data from DRAMeXchange showed.
Shares of Samsung Electronics have dropped 1.4% so far this year versus the wider KOSPI market's 0.4% fall.
Samsung released only limited data in Tuesday's regulatory filing ahead of the release of its detailed earnings figures later this month.
(Reporting by Heekyong Yang and Hyunjoo Jin; Editing Richard
Pullin)
((Heekyong.Yang@thomsonreuters.com; +82 2 6936 1470;)
SEOUL, July 7 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Tuesday second-quarter operating profit likely rose 23%, beating analysts' estimates as solid chip sales to data centres bulking up in a work-from-home economy during the coronavirus pandemic offset weak demand for smartphones and TVs.
One-off gains from its display business also helped boost operating profit, the company said.
The South Korean tech giant said operating profit was likely 8.1 trillion won ($6.80 billion) in the quarter ended June, far above the 6.4 trillion won analyst forecast by Refinitiv SmartEstimate.
Revenue likely fell 7% to 52 trillion won from a year earlier, it said.
Work-from-home orders and growth in online learning is underpinning chip demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic and pushing up DRAM memory chip prices. U.S. DRAM supplier Micron Technology Inc forecast strong quarterly revenue last month.
Analysts, however, warned that increases in memory chip prices may not continue in the second half of the year as data centre customers are likely to be conservative in stockpiling chips given the resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the United States and other countries
While prices jumped 14% on average in the quarter, they were flat in June versus May, data from DRAMeXchange showed.
Shares of Samsung Electronics have dropped 1.4% so far this year versus the wider KOSPI market's 0.4% fall.
Samsung released only limited data in Tuesday's regulatory filing ahead of the release of its detailed earnings figures later this month.
(Reporting by Heekyong Yang and Hyunjoo Jin; Editing Richard
Pullin)
((Heekyong.Yang@thomsonreuters.com; +82 2 6936 1470;)
首爾，7 月 7 日（路透社）-三星電子有限公司週二表示，第二季度營業利潤可能上升 23％，超過了分析師的估計，因為在冠狀病毒大流行期間在家工作經濟中，數據中心的穩固芯片銷售額增長了，抵消了對智能手機和電視的疲弱需求。
該公司表示，其顯示業務的一次性收益也有助於提高經營利潤。
這家韓國科技巨頭表示，截至 6 月底的季度，營業利潤可能為 8.1 萬億韓元（約合 6800 億美元），遠高於瑞菲尼蒂夫 SmarTestimate 的 6.4 萬億韓元分析師預測。
據稱，與去年同期相比，收入可能下降 7% 至 52 萬億韓元。
在 COVID-19 大流行期間，在家工作的訂單和在線學習的增長是芯片需求的基礎，並推動了 DRAM 內存芯片的價格。美國 DRAM 供應商美光科技公司預測上個月的季度收入強勁。
然而，分析師警告說，由於美國和其他國家 COVID-19 案例的復甦，數據中心客戶可能在儲存芯片方面保持保守，下半年內存芯片價格的上漲可能不會繼續下降
雖然本季度價格平均上漲 14％，但它們在 6 月與 5 月份持平，但 DrameXChange 的數據顯示。
今年迄今為止，三星電子的股價下跌了 1.4%，而 KOSPI 市場的 0.4% 下跌。
在本月晚些時候發布其詳細收益數據之前，三星在周二的監管備案中僅發布了有限數據。
（楊熙慶和金孝珠的報導；編輯理查
拉（拉）
((Heekyong.Yang@thomsonreuters.com；+82 二 6936 1470;)
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