Samsung puts its third-quarter operating profit at about ₩107.4 trillion, nearly nine times the ₩12.17 trillion of a year earlier

Samsung Electronics released preliminary guidance on 8 October (Korean time) for July to September 2026: consolidated sales of about ₩195 trillion and consolidated operating profit of about ₩107.40 trillion. It gives ranges of ₩194–196 trillion and ₩107.3–107.5 trillion, and notes: “Please note that Korean disclosure regulations do not allow earnings estimates to be offered as a range.” The headline figures are the midpoints.

Samsung's own table compares that with ₩89.49 trillion of operating profit on ₩171.5 trillion of sales in the second quarter of 2026, and ₩12.17 trillion on ₩86.06 trillion in the third quarter of 2025.

The guidance has no division breakdown and does not mention memory or AI. The Korea Herald reports that “analysts estimate its memory business generated about 110 trillion won in operating profit”, and that the quarter makes Samsung “the first technology company worldwide to cross the 100 trillion won mark in quarterly operating profit.” Those are the newspaper's and analysts' figures, not Samsung's.

Samsung makes memory chips, including the high-bandwidth memory that sits beside AI accelerators. Full results are due later in October.

• Confirmed Samsung guides Q3 2026 operating profit to about ₩107.40 trillion (range ₩107.3–107.5tn) on sales of about ₩195 trillion. Samsung Semiconductor Newsroom
• Confirmed Operating profit was ₩89.49 trillion in Q2 2026 and ₩12.17 trillion in Q3 2025. Samsung Semiconductor Newsroom
• Reported Analysts estimate the memory business made about ₩110 trillion in operating profit, the Korea Herald reports. The Korea Herald