Samsung Statistics 2026: Revenue, Market Share and AI Chip Surge

Samsung Electronics posted ₩171.5 trillion in consolidated revenue in the second quarter of 2026, another all-time quarterly high, and operating profit also reached another all-time high at ₩89.5 trillion. The DS Division posted ₩127.5 trillion in consolidated revenue and ₩89.2 trillion in operating profit for the second quarter, which leaves about 99.7% of the quarter’s operating profit with the memory and chip business. Those two numbers anchor the Samsung statistics below.

Samsung still sells phones, TVs and appliances, but its earnings now rise and fall with memory prices. IDC counted 62.7 million Samsung smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2026, a 22.7% share. The sections that follow also track annual revenue, TV share, HBM chips, R&D spending, and a workforce of 259,149 employees.

Key Takeaways

• The DS Division generated about 99.7% of Samsung’s Q2 2026 operating profit, up from about 8.5% in Q2 2025.
• DS operating profit in Q2 2026 alone came to about 2 times Samsung’s entire FY 2025 operating profit.
• First-half 2026 operating profit totaled ₩146.7 trillion, about 3.4 times the full-year 2025 figure.
• The MX and Networks Businesses reported an operating loss of ₩0.7 trillion for the second quarter, even though revenue grew year-on-year on solid sales of the Galaxy S26 series.
• IDC puts Samsung’s Q2 2026 smartphone share at 22.7%, while Counterpoint puts it at 24%, and both rank Samsung first.
• Q2 2026 revenue was about 2.3 times the Q2 2025 level.

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• Q2 2026 revenue: ₩171.5 trillion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 28%.
• Q2 2026 operating profit: ₩89.5 trillion, another all-time high.
• FY 2025 revenue: ₩333.6 trillion, with ₩43.6 trillion in operating profit.
• Earnings per share: up 52% to ₩10,849 for both common and preferred shares.
• Global TV share: 29.1% of the global TV market in 2025, according to Omdia.
• Employees: 259,149 as of year-end 2025.

Samsung Statistics: Revenue and Operating Profit by Quarter

• Revenue grew 43% quarter-on-quarter in the first quarter of 2026, and the second quarter added a further quarter-on-quarter increase of 28%.
• The Q3 2025 print posted an increase of 15.4% compared to the previous quarter, per Samsung’s earnings release.
• Revenue fell 5.8% compared to the previous quarter in Q2 2025, and operating profit decreased to ₩4.7 trillion.
• In Q4 2025, revenue rose 9% quarter-on-quarter, and operating profit was also an all-time high.
• Samsung’s earnings guidance put Q2 2026 consolidated sales at approximately ₩171 trillion and operating profit at approximately ₩89.4 trillion, so the final result landed at the top of the guided range.
• The Q1 2025 quarter was an all-time quarterly high at the time, on the back of strong sales of flagship Galaxy S25 smartphones.

Source: Samsung Electronics quarterly earnings releases, Q4 2024 to Q2 2026

About This Data

The figures on this page are compiled from 24 sources: 19 company disclosures, 4 industry trackers and brand rankings, and 1 news report. Their publication dates run from October 2024 to September 2026. Only primary filings, company releases, and named research firms qualified. Figures are reviewed on a rolling basis and updated when sources publish new editions.

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Samsung Semiconductor Operating Profit by Quarter

• The DS Division posted a QoQ sales increase of 56%, with the Memory Business setting an all-time high for quarterly revenue and operating profit in Q2 2026.
• Samsung’s Memory Business solidified market competitiveness via industry-leading products, with server revenue achieving a record-high share of the sales mix.
• In the first quarter, the DS Division posted a QoQ sales increase of 86%.
• Samsung began the industry’s first mass product sales of HBM4 and SOCAMM2 for NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform during Q1 2026.
• A year earlier, DS contributed about 8.5% of company operating profit in Q2 2025; by Q2 2026 the share was about 99.7%.
• In Q4 2025, despite limited supply availability, the Memory Business achieved record highs in quarterly revenue and operating profit.

Recent Developments

• September 8, 2026: Samsung and ASML announced an expansion of their long-standing strategic partnership, and Samsung plans to introduce High NA EUV lithography into future DRAM high-volume manufacturing by 2028.
• August 28, 2026: IDC reported that the global smartphone market shrank 7.4% year-on-year to 276.3 million units in the second quarter of 2026.
• August 6, 2026: Samsung began Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Fold8 and Flip8 sales on Aug 7 in select markets, after pre-orders increased by more than 30% compared with the previous generation.
• August 5, 2026: At FMS 2026, Samsung introduced its V10 BV-NAND with 400-plus layers, an industry first.
• July 30, 2026: Samsung’s Q2 results showed the VD and DA Businesses posted ₩14.5 trillion in consolidated revenue and recorded a slight operating loss even as TV revenue benefited from major sporting events.
• July 13, 2026: Counterpoint said Samsung reclaimed its global No.1 position with a 24% share in Q2 2026.

Samsung Annual Revenue and Operating Profit

• FY 2024 revenue reached the second-highest on record, surpassed only in 2022, according to Samsung’s FY 2024 results.
• FY 2025 revenue grew about 10.9% year over year, while operating profit rose about 33.3%.
• The DX Division recorded ₩187.9673 trillion in 2025 sales and ₩12.8526 trillion in operating profit, excluding Harman and SDC.
• The DS Division recorded ₩130.1281 trillion in 2025 sales and ₩24.8580 trillion in operating profit on the same basis.
• First-half 2026 revenue came to ₩305.4 trillion, already more than Samsung’s full-year revenue for 2024.
• The DA Business will drive HVAC growth through its synergies with FläktGroup, arising from Samsung Electronics’ recent acquisition of the European HVAC company.

Source: Samsung Electronics FY 2024 and FY 2025 earnings releases

How much does Samsung make a year?

Samsung Electronics reported ₩333.6 trillion in annual revenue and ₩43.6 trillion in operating profit for fiscal year 2025. The first half of 2026 alone brought in ₩305.4 trillion, so the current year is running far ahead of 2025 on both revenue and profit.

Samsung Revenue by Business Division

• The MX and Networks Businesses posted ₩38.1 trillion in consolidated revenue and ₩2.8 trillion in operating profit for the first quarter, before slipping to a loss in Q2.
• The broader DX Division posted a QoQ sales decrease of 9% in Q2 2026.
• Samsung Display (SDC) posted ₩0.7 trillion in operating profit for the second quarter.
• Harman posted ₩4.6 trillion in consolidated revenue and ₩0.3 trillion in operating profit in the fourth quarter of 2025.
• In Q4 2025, the VD and DA Businesses posted ₩14.8 trillion in consolidated revenue and ₩0.6 trillion in operating loss.

Worth noting: The MX and Networks Businesses reported an operating loss of ₩0.7 trillion for the second quarter, as earnings declined due to elevated component cost pressures across the industry. The memory prices that lifted the DS Division are the same costs squeezing the phone unit, so one side of Samsung pays the other.

Source: Samsung Electronics Q1 and Q2 2026 earnings releases

Samsung Smartphone Market Share in 2026

• IDC found Samsung and Apple both grew shipments and widened their lead, lifting their share by 3.2 and 3.9 percentage points, respectively.
• Counterpoint said Samsung recorded the strongest growth among top five brands, with the Galaxy S26 Ultra variant emerging as the standout performer.
• By value, Samsung ranked second with a 16% revenue share in Q2 2026, as revenue grew 9% YoY, according to Counterpoint.
• Apple hit its highest-ever second-quarter revenue share of 49% in the same period.
• Global smartphone revenue grew 7% YoY in Q2 2026 to a record high of $109 billion, with average selling prices up 17% YoY to a second-quarter record of $400.
• Rising memory prices sit behind the split: memory costs are up nearly 300% from a year ago, and now account for over 65% of BOM at the low end, per IDC.
• Brand share counts devices by manufacturer; the iPhone vs Android data tracks the same market by operating system.

Key finding: IDC’s final historical data puts Samsung at 22.7% of Q2 2026 shipments, while Counterpoint’s preliminary estimates, based on sell-in, give Samsung a 24% share. The two firms disagree by more than a point on the size of the lead, yet both name Samsung the global leader for the quarter.

Samsung Smartphone Shipments

• Samsung’s shipments grew 8.1% year over year in Q2 2026, while Apple’s grew 14.9%, per IDC’s tracker.
• Samsung shipped about 7.0 million more smartphones than Apple in the quarter.
• Xiaomi’s shipments fell 26.4%, OPPO’s 17.1%, and vivo’s 19.6%.
• The total market shrank from 298.3 million units in Q2 2025 to 276.3 million in Q2 2026.
• Counterpoint measured a steeper drop: global smartphone shipments tumbled 11% YoY in Q2 2026, reaching the lowest second-quarter levels since 2013.
• Outside the top five, Huawei posted 19.9% YoY growth by holding prices steady in China.
• Apple’s side of the same quarter is broken out in our iPhone unit sales figures.

Samsung TV Market Share

• Samsung ranks as the world’s No.1 TV brand for the 20th consecutive year, a position held since 2006.
• The company led the premium segment priced over $2,500 with a 54.3% market share, driven by Neo QLED, OLED, and lifestyle TVs.
• It also maintained its lead in the segment over $1,500, holding a 52.2% market share.
• In 2024, Samsung led the ultra-large category (75-inch and above) with a 28.7% market share.
• SW Yong, President and Head of the Visual Display Business, said, “When consumers choose a TV, they’re choosing a brand they can trust for years to come,” in the 20-year announcement.
• In Q2 2026, the VD Business saw revenue and earnings increase YoY as a result of high demand from major sporting events.

Source: Samsung Newsroom citing Omdia, February 2025 and March 2026

Samsung HBM Memory Specifications

• Samsung has begun mass production of its industry-leading HBM4 and has shipped commercial products to customers, announced in February 2026.
• HBM4 delivers a consistent processing speed of 11.7 gigabits-per-second (Gbps), exceeding the industry standard of 8Gbps by approximately 46%.
• Performance can be further enhanced up to 13Gbps, and total memory bandwidth per single stack is increased by 2.7x compared to HBM3E, to a maximum of 3.3 terabytes per second.
• Samsung offers HBM4 in capacities ranging from 24 gigabytes (GB) to 36GB through 12-layer stacking, and HBM4 achieves a 40% improvement in power efficiency.
• The successor HBM4E delivers memory bandwidth of up to 3.6 terabytes-per-second (TB/s) per stack and is offered in a 48-gigabyte (GB) capacity, representing more than a 30% increase over the previous generation.
• Samsung scaled up HBM4 sales and shipped the industry’s first HBM4E samples to major customers during Q2 2026.
• Samsung’s HBM ramp sits inside a wider accelerator race tracked in our AI chip market data.

By the numbers: Samsung’s HBM4E delivers a stable pin speed of 14 gigabits-per-second (Gbps), with performance scalable up to 16Gbps. HBM4 represents a 1.22x increase over the maximum pin speed of 9.6Gbps of its predecessor, HBM3E. Each generation adds bandwidth that AI accelerator buyers pay a premium for.

Samsung R&D Spending and Facility Investment

• Samsung spent a record ₩37.7 trillion ($25.6 billion) on research and development in 2025, according to its annual business report.
• That figure represented a 7.8% increase from the previous year’s ₩35 trillion.
• Fourth-quarter R&D investments totaled ₩10.9 trillion, representing a QoQ increase of ₩2 trillion.
• The 2026 Sustainability Report lists R&D expenditure of ₩37.8 trillion, a slightly different figure from the business report’s total.
• R&D equaled about 11.3% of FY 2025 revenue.
• The company funneled ₩52.7 trillion into facility investment last year, ₩5 trillion more than its earlier investment plan.

Samsung Employees by Region and Job Type

• Samsung operates in 76 countries with 2,473 suppliers, per the facts and figures in its 2026 Sustainability Report.
• Its network includes 33 manufacturing sites, 40 R&D centers and 89 sales offices, out of 221 sites in total.
• Korea accounts for about 48.1% of the workforce.
• By rank, Samsung counted 158,359 working-level employees, 99,363 manager-level employees, and 1,427 executive-level employees in 2025.
• The full headcount history, including hiring trends, sits in our Samsung headcount analysis.

Source: Samsung Electronics Sustainability Report 2026

How many employees does Samsung have?

Samsung Electronics had 259,149 employees as of year end 2025, excluding those dispatched by partner companies, on leave, interns, and full-time students, by the count in its 2026 Sustainability Report. Korea employed 124,564 of them, the largest single region.

Samsung Brand Value

• Interbrand’s 2025 list kept Samsung as the only Asian company to remain in the global top five since 2020.
• Samsung’s Interbrand brand value fell about 10.2% between the 2024 and 2025 editions.
• In the 2024 edition, Samsung’s brand value grew by 10% year-on-year.
• Samsung Electronics has experienced an impressive 62% growth over four years since its first top five ranking.
• In Brand Finance’s 2026 global ranking, Samsung Group placed #8, with brand value up 8%.
• Samsung aimed to make Galaxy AI available on 400 million devices within the year, one of the factors Interbrand cited.
• Our consumer loyalty coverage across Apple, Samsung and gaming platforms shows ecosystem lock-in predicting retention better than brand scores alone, so a lower brand valuation does not by itself signal weaker demand.

Source: Samsung Newsroom on Interbrand, October 2024 and October 2025; Brand Finance Global 500 2026

Samsung Sustainability Statistics

• The DS Division adopted a Water Positive approach, restoring approximately 240,000 tonnes of water resources.
• Samsung expanded the scope of third-party audits to include 122 first-tier suppliers and 39 second-tier suppliers.
• The DX Division’s renewable push is part of its goal to achieve net zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030.
• Its water target is to replenish 100% of global water consumption by 2030.
• The SSAFY program helped train approximately 2,000 young software professionals.

Smartphone Market Outlook for Samsung

• IDC expects worldwide smartphone shipments to fall to just over 1 billion units this year.
• Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Fold8 and Flip8 became available in 106 markets worldwide starting August 7.
• For H2 2026, the MX Business plans to expand flagship-led sales with the competitiveness of new products.
• Counterpoint found Apple avoided price hikes during the quarter, a pricing gap Samsung faces into the second half.
• Samsung’s foldables and Galaxy A phones also carry much of the wider Android statistics picture.

Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker forecast, August 2026

Is Samsung bigger than Apple in smartphones?

By units, yes. Counterpoint says Samsung reclaimed its global No.1 position with a 24% share in Q2 2026, while Apple’s market share climbed to a record 20%, and IDC’s final data shows the same order.

By value, no. Apple hit its highest-ever second-quarter revenue share of 49%, while Samsung captured a 16% revenue share. Apple sells fewer phones at far higher prices, a gap detailed in our Apple sales figures.

Conclusion

Samsung posted ₩171.5 trillion in consolidated revenue and ₩89.5 trillion in operating profit in its latest quarter, both all-time highs, and about 99.7% of that profit came from the DS Division. Memory customers and chip suppliers gain most from that mix, while phone buyers absorb the same memory costs through higher prices.

The next test is supply: IDC expects smartphone units to keep falling, and the High NA EUV plan with ASML stretches the DRAM roadmap further out. These figures will move with each quarterly release.