I need hardly say how many "connoisseurs of big business," speculated on stock quotes, prophesying its long-awaited Apple's end. Ironically, the Samsung came like a black bar, and if you apply the same logic, and the South Korean giant shines kirdyk... However, the analogy with Apple turns out not so straight.
Hastening to the preliminary results of the current fiscal quarter, the Samsung thereby caused disappointment of investors, which resulted in a 4-percent drop in the company's shares. Although the South Korean manufacturer has their own records (operating profit for the year increased to $ 8.3 billion, up 47%), articulated by the number still came in below the expected $ 8.89 billion. Moreover, the results of the June quarter was another disappointment Samsung investors, which is only in the last month It lost 15% of the market.
The problem is compounded by the fact that the ever increasing degree of dependence on their Samsung smartphone business, which accounts for 70% of total revenue. At the same time, sales of the iPhone makes Apple just half of the total fund.
Between the frustration of investors, it would seem, a record quarter, Samsung and Apple problem plaguing "fruit company" after the launch of the iPhone 5, there is a clear parallel. In the fourth quarter of 2012 fingoda Apple also announced a 25-percent increase in profit, but shares fall AAPL is still not completely stopped, as investor concern the future of the company is still high.
However, if this fall Apple has every chance to fully satisfy its shareholders about the Samsung so sure yet. The South Korean giant is constantly focuses on the volume of shipped devices, prudently but says nothing about the number of smartphones, which fell into the hands of end users. That is why in February it happened that while the figures and Samsung has been the undisputed leader in the market, 70% of the general market profits "kidnappedĀ» Apple. Now we see how the "volume leader" teir not only in money but also in sales. And because the market is closely watching the results of the III and IV quarters that had started already in the second quarter of negative dynamics of many make significantly revise their forecasts and expectations.
As noted on the site Patently Apple, a significant discrepancy profits Samsung expected results of the quarter shows that the old trick with a sales volume only works for some time. Now, however, "a plastic leader" once again found himself in the role of catch-up, but with his hand Wall Street clearly made it clear that to be a technology leader - is more than the shipment of large quantities of mediators products.
- Based on materials by Reuters, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, Patently Apple and AppleInsider.