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Samsung Q2 2026 Operating Profit Hits Record $58.4B, Up 19-Fold — Revenue Misses at 171T Won, Shares Fall 6.8%

Samsung Electronics posted a preliminary Q2 2026 operating profit of 89.4 trillion won ($58.4 billion), a 19-fold year-over-year increase that set a new all-time corporate record and beat the LSEG SmartEstimate of 87.3 trillion won. Revenue came in at 171 trillion won, up 129% year-over-year but short of the 172.2 trillion won consensus. Shares fell as much as 6.8% in Seoul as some traders had expected profit to top 100 trillion won before bonus provisions, dragging Micron and SanDisk lower in US premarket.

Samsung Q2 2026 Earnings Preview: Operating Profit Seen at 84.6–86 Trillion Won, Up 18x YoY — HBM Progress Is the Only Variable That Matters

Samsung Electronics releases preliminary Q2 2026 results Tuesday, with consensus operating profit forecasts ranging from 80 to 92 trillion won — a potential 18-fold year-over-year surge driven by a 44% rise in DRAM prices and 53% rise in NAND prices during the quarter. The result could briefly surpass Nvidia's Q1 profit of $53.54 billion. Samsung shares gained 4% on Monday to 325,000 won. Investors are focused less on the headline beat and more on HBM certification progress with Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform.

Anthropic Explores Samsung 2nm Foundry Deal for Custom AI Chip — Samsung Foundry Backlog Targets 50 Trillion Won

Anthropic is in early-stage talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI chip using Samsung Foundry's 2-nanometer process and advanced packaging technology, according to The Information. The deal would add Anthropic to Samsung Foundry's growing AI client list alongside Tesla, Meta, and Nvidia. The development pressures Nvidia's dominant position in AI inference and signals a broader industry shift toward proprietary ASIC alternatives, echoing OpenAI's recent Broadcom 'Jalapeño' inference chip announcement.

SK Hynix Market Cap Hits $1.35B Trillion, Overtakes Samsung — First Change in Korea's Top Spot Since 2000

SK Hynix shares jumped 5.7% to push its market capitalization to roughly $1.35 trillion, briefly overtaking Samsung Electronics as South Korea's most valuable company for the first time in 26 years. The milestone reflects SK Hynix's dominant 61% share of the high-bandwidth memory market that supplies Nvidia's AI accelerators, with shares up more than 340% year-to-date. The move reinforces bullish sentiment toward US memory peer Micron Technology and AI infrastructure names.