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A Samsung store at a shopping area in Shanghai, China. Photo: REUTERS/Aly Song

Samsung is expected to log 53.39 trillion won (US$44.4 billion) in sales in the April-June period, down 5.5 percent from a year earlier, while operating profit was estimated to drop 2.3 percent on-year to 6.44 trillion won over the period, according to data compiled by Yonhap Infomax, the financial news arm of Yonhap News Agency.

Samsung, the world's largest memory chip and smartphone vendor, earlier expected weak second-quarter earnings, citing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on advanced markets like the US and Europe.

Chips bring in roughly half of Samsung's profit. The rest is mainly smartphones, of which the South Korean firm is the world's largest maker.

"With improved demand, a spike in DRAM prices helped Samsung continue with a solid performance in the second quarter," said analyst Park Sung-soon at Cape Investment & Securities, citing Reuters.

In the first two weeks of June, analysts expected Samsung to post only 50 trillion won in sales and operating income around 6 trillion won.

"Despite earnings decline from its mobile business and widened losses from its display business, Samsung could post estimate-beating earnings results due to a rise in memory chip prices," Lee Seung-woo, an analyst at Eugene Securities, was quoted as saying.

According to market tracker TrendForce, global server shipments in the second quarter are expected to post a 9 per cent increase from three months earlier due to increased non-face-to-face activities including teleconferencing and media streaming.

Analysts predicted that operating profit from Samsung's chip business will exceed 5 trillion won in the second quarter, up from 4 trillion won three months ago.

However, Samsung's display business was expected to stay in the red, with its losses further widened due to a decline in smartphone and TV demand, in which "In smartphones, Hyundai Motor Securities estimated Samsung's operating profit fell 16% in April-June", according to Reuters.

The world's biggest supplier of DRAM and NAND memory chips on Tuesday will announce preliminary April-June revenue as well as operating profit, which it previously expected to show a decline. Photo: The Star

Analysts also estimated a sharp earnings drop in Samsung's mobile business in the second quarter due to sluggish sales of the company's high-end Galaxy S20 smartphone series.

Some industry watchers have expected operating income of Samsung''s mobile business in the second quarter to fall by at least 1 trillion won from the previous quarter.

But the earnings forecast for Samsung's mobile business was still better than analysts'' early estimates as they pointed out global smartphone demand has shown signs of a recovery from June.

"We are raising Samsung's smartphone sales estimate from 50 million units to 55 million units in the second quarter," said Kim Kyung-min, an analyst at Hana Financial Investment.

Samsung was estimated to have sold 59 million smartphones in the first quarter, according to industry tracker Counterpoint Research.

Samsung is the world's largest memory chip and smartphone vendor in the world. Photo: cnbctv18

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