Samsung’s Q3 2025 Earnings Exceed Industry Estimates, Thanks to Memory Boost

Samsung today released its preliminary earnings guidance for the third quarter of 2025, and the figures look promising. The company achieved a strong recovery, with sales reaching KRW 86 trillion and an operating profit of KRW 12.1 trillion. The numbers were much higher than industry estimates, bringing positive sentiment among investors.

Samsung saw a major boost in sales and profit in Q3 2025

Earlier this year, Samsung’s financial outlook was relatively modest. In the first quarter of 2025, the company recorded an operating profit of KRW 6.7 trillion, while in the second quarter, it reported KRW 4.7 trillion. Finally, the firm surpassed the KRW 10 trillion figure, a major boost over the last two quarters. When compared to the same period last year, sales increased by 8.72%, and operating profit by 31.81%.

Samsung says that these results are provisional and based on the Korean International Financial Reporting Standards (K-IFRS). This gives investors an early look at its financial statements before the company publishes its final earnings report, expected later this month.

So, which business division contributed greatly to this solid growth in sales and profit? While Samsung has yet to announce, market watchers expect that the Device Solutions (DS) division played a big role in the recovery. The division recorded its highest quarterly sales in seven years during the third quarter of 2025. In September alone, sales reached their highest monthly level thanks to strong demand for memory chips. The company raised DRAM prices while also increasing shipments of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips.

Meanwhile, non-memory segments, including Foundry and System LSI, also made significant recoveries. Analysts expect that Samsung managed to narrow the losses to less than KRW 1 trillion. As a result, the DS division’s overall operating profit could reach between KRW 5 trillion and KRW 6 trillion. If it pans out, this will be a big turnaround from the previous quarter’s modest KRW 400 billion. We will let you know when the Korean firm announces financial results for Q3 2025.