Samsung has hit a home run with its operating profit guidance for the first quarter of 2026, showing the kind of explosive growth that would have been unimaginable just a couple of years back, all the while proving that the ongoing memory-driven boom phase is far from a mirage.
Samsung's Q1 2026 operating profit guidance: A story of relentless memory-driven boom
Samsung has now released key guidance for its upcoming Q1 2026 earnings disclosure, blowing away even the wildest of estimates.
For instance, Samsung now expects its total sales for the first quarter of 2026 to amount to 133 trillion won ($88.273 billion) vs. the consensus estimate of 116.81 trillion won.
More astonishing still, Samsung expects to report 57.2 trillion won ($37.8 billion) in operating profit for Q1 2026, which corresponds to an astounding year-over-year growth of 700 percent! What's more, this figure equates to a sequential growth of 184 percent vs. the operating profit of 20.1 trillion won that the South Korean tech behemoth had reported in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Finally, do note that this operating profit guidance is over triple the previous record operating profit that Samsung earned.
Meanwhile, as we reported recently, the memory-driven gravy train for Samsung continues to chug along quite smoothly. After all, Samsung is now supplying DRAM products at a quarter-over-quarter price premium of around 30 percent. Critically, these price increases come on the proverbial heels of a 100 percent year-over-year average price hike in Q1 2026!
It is hardly a surprise, therefore, that analysts at KB Securities now believe Samsung will earn a total operating profit of 327 trillion won in 2026 and an unfathomable 488 trillion won in 2027, thereby becoming the most profitable company globally.
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