As Samsung announced in a brief statement, the company expects for the fourth quarter of last with a profit of 8.3 trillion won, or approximately $ 7.8 billion.

Thus, the result is likely to come to be well below the previous year's result, as another 9 trillion won were retracted. Also, analysts side the message was received with disappointment: The Market observers of "Bloomberg" surveyed expecting on average a profit of 9.6 trillion won.
Also, the expected revenue, estimated the Samsung 59 trillion won is indeed lower than 5 percent above the previous year's result, but also does not correspond to the forecasts of market analysts who had expected an average of 60.4 trillion won.
The final figures for the fourth quarter, Samsung will on 24 January give known.