Samsung Stock Falls 3% Even as Profit Tops $80 Billion: Is a Record Quarter Not Enough?

Samsung shares fell 2.69% to 235,500 won by 10:11 a.m. Korea time Thursday, after the company reported record quarterly operating profit of KRW 107.4 trillion, about $80 billion. Samsung had already estimated that profit on Oct. 8, so the results detailed divisional performance. Revenue was KRW 195.3 trillion, up 14% from the prior quarter. The Device Solutions chip division earned KRW 106.5 trillion in operating profit, with record memory sales and profit and higher HBM4 sales, while the Device eXperience unit covering phones, TVs and appliances lost KRW 0.8 trillion. Samsung declared a third-quarter dividend of KRW 4,601 per share, KRW 30 trillion total, and said KRW 55–75 trillion of its 2026 return budget would remain.