Samsung stock falls after record quarter as payout details slip to January

Samsung Electronics shares fell 4.13% to 232,000 won on Thursday even as the company reported record third-quarter operating profit of 107.44 trillion won, up 783.1% from 12.2 trillion won a year earlier and, Samsung said, the first time a tech company exceeded 100 trillion won in quarterly operating profit. Analysts blamed a shareholder payout plan delayed until a late-January 2027 board meeting, where Samsung will decide how to distribute 55 trillion to 75 trillion won remaining from its 2026 return target, and its forecast that memory supply will stay tight through 2028, two years earlier than SK Hynix’s outlook. Samsung’s board approved a third-quarter dividend of 4,601 won per share, totaling 30 trillion won and due Nov. 27.