Preliminary figures for the third Quarter of 2013
While Samsung, according to preliminary numbers may report record profit for the third quarter of 2013, HTC has to accept the first quarterly loss in corporate history. Samsung can expect 40.3 billion euros and 6.9 billion euros in sales revenue line, HTC expects some 74.3 million euro loss.
Samsunginvestors reacted behave on the record result, the share price rose by only 0.2 percent. As Bloomberg already at the numbers reported for the previous quarter, analysts expect a slowdown of the rapid growth of Samsung in the smartphone market, which could be felt especially in the high-priced equipment.
with HTC, a declining demand already hinted at in the summer. So far, the new flagship of HTC One could not change that. The turnover for the previous quarter was 1.2 billion euros compared to 1.5 billion the previous year. In the second quarter of 2013, HTC was nevertheless still show a small profit of 32.3 million euros. The market share of HTC in the third quarter shrank by more than 50 percent.
While HTC had problems, the HTC one time to bring to the market and had also expected higher than actual sales, Samsung reported successes with mid-priced smartphones like the Galaxy Mini Golden and S4 in emerging markets such as India and China . In addition, Samsung has benefited from rising prices as the chip manufacturer. The Group sells chips among other things, to rival Apple.
According to a report by the industry service Bloomberg today Microsoft is currently negotiating with HTC to convince the company to bring its Android devices in a Windows Phone version 8 (WP8) on the market. Microsoft sweetened the offer allegedly with the total or partial waiver of license fees for its own mobile operating system.
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