SEOUL (Reuters) -Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Wednesday its second-quarter operating profit likely jumped 53%, beating analysts’ estimates, as strong chip prices and demand lifted earnings.
The world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker said profit for the quarter ended June 30 was likely 12.5 trillion won ($11 billion), above a Refinitiv SmartEstimate of 11.3 trillion won ($10 billion) drawn from 20 analysts.
Revenue rose an estimated 19% from the same period a year earlier to 63 trillion won, Samsung said in a short preliminary earnings release. It is due to release detailed earnings later this month.
Profits at Samsung’s chip division likely jumped by a fifth or more from a year earlier, analysts said, helped by strong memory-chip prices and demand for consumer electronics and from data centre customers.
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(Reporting by Joyce Lee & Heekyong Yang; editing by Richard Pullin)
