While Apple smartphone sales rapid fall , Samsung smartphone is doing well. Yesterday's quarterly report Samsung has shown that the model of a new generation devices barely has time to meet the requests for the supply of new products. For the first time since the second quarter of 2014 the company received a significant increase in revenue from sales of smartphones.
Quarterly revenues of the South Korean giant has increased by 5.7% to 49.8 bln out. Operating profit for the first quarter amounted to 6.7 trillion. won ($ 5.84 billion.). Net profit for the period amounted to 5.26 trillion. won ($ 4.6 billion.). Smartphones, as already mentioned above, the company brought substantial dividends. In respect of the annual quarterly sales smartphones increased by 42% to 3.9 trillion out. The company expects that the demand for a new model (the seventh) generation units will continue in the second quarter and, last but not least, due to release a series of low-end models Galaxy A and J.
Projected Supply volumes of (smartphones and handsets) in the second quarter will be slightly less than in the first quarter, when Samsung was able to sell 92 million. Units. The average price of the devices at the same time will increase slightly. As predicted by analysts, the flagship model Galaxy S7 with flat and curved screens for the year achieved sales volumes in the amount of 52 million Pieces. Thus, they promise to break the record of first year sales of Galaxy S4 model, which in the first year after the launch has sold 47 million Pieces.
The semiconductor division showed a decrease in operating profit by 6% to 2.6 trillion out. The decrease was due to falling prices for computer memory, demand for which is reduced as the collapse of the market of personal computers. Display company's business went into minus. A year ago, the division reported revenues of $ 520 billion. Away, while the reported quarter brought a loss of $ 270 billion. Away. This year the company pins hopes with the demand for OLED-panels. It is even possible, Samsung will supply OLED-screens for Apple company.