Samsung Electronics' preliminary operating profit more than triples in Q4

Alsharq Tribune-Otaify 

South Korea's tech giant Samsung Electronics said Thursday that its preliminary operating profit more than tripled in the fourth quarter of last year.

Samsung's preliminary operating profit stood at 20 trillion won (13.8 billion U.S. dollars) in the October-December quarter of 2025, up 208.2 percent from a year earlier.

It surpassed the previous quarterly high of 17.57 trillion won (12.1 billion dollars) tallied in the third quarter of 2018, slightly beating market estimates of about 19.6 trillion won (13.5 billion dollars).

Preliminary revenue advanced 22.7 percent from a year earlier to reach a record high of 93 trillion won (64.2 billion dollars) in the fourth quarter.

For the whole year of 2025, Samsung's preliminary operating profit rose 33.0 percent to 43.53 trillion won (30.0 billion dollars) compared to the previous year, while its preliminary revenue expanded 10.6 percent to 332.77 trillion won (229.5 billion dollars).