Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter::Today, Samsung posted its Q2 2023 financial results. The report says Samsung’s profits have dropped considerably compared to last year.

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    2 years ago

    They still made around $1/2 BILLION.

    I love how every headline about their earnings focuses on the drop from before and not on the actual number they made.

    Boo-fucken-hoo the record profits they were making the last few years couldn’t be sustained forever. Oh noes!1!!!

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        2 years ago

        Maybe if it was revenue. Such a drop in profits could be from many ordinary business operations like expansion

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          2 years ago

          It states in the article that it is from less than expected sales, no?

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        2 years ago

        No. Not at all.

        If a company made one penny last quarter, and 10,000,000 this quarter, then their profit is up 10 billion percent. It’s a stupid headline.

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          2 years ago

          Is it your belief that Samsung made hundreds of billions of dollars mysteriously in on huge surge?

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            2 years ago

            Revenue matters more since companies tend to invest in future technology. Most serious business analysts would never talk about profit in percentages. This is clickbait. Hence why the stock price (determined by investors not Reddit tech refugees) is not suffering.