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Photo illustration showing the Samsung Group company logo displayed on a smartphone screen. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Samsung Electronics ' operating profit and revenue beat analysts' estimates Wednesday, as sales of its flagship Galaxy S25 smartphones and as well as memory chips rose. The South Korean company posted a record quarterly revenue, up 10% from a year earlier, while its first-quarter operating profit climbed 1.
5%. Here are Samsung's first-quarter results compared with LSEG SmartEstimates, which are weighted toward forecasts from analysts who are more consistently accurate: Revenue : 79.1 trillion Korean won vs.
78.1 trillion Korean won Operating profit : 6.7 trillion Korean won vs.
6.4 trillion Korean won First-quarter revenue marginally topped Samsung's forecast of 79 trillion won, while operating profit also came in higher than the company's expectations of 6.6 trillion Korean won.
Samsung is a leading manufacturer of memory chips, which are utilized in devices such as laptops and servers, and is also the world's second-largest smartphone maker. The company flagged macroeconomic uncertainties due to trade tensions and a slowdown in global growth. Samsung expects performance to improve in the second half of the year, "assuming that the uncertainties are diminished.
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