Samsung Electronics reported Thursday a bigger-than-expected decline in fourth quarter earnings as its mainstay smartphone and semiconductor businesses suffer amid weakening global demand for consumer electronics.Samsung's net profit for the October-December period plunged 40 percent from a year earlier to 3.2 trillion won ($2.7 billion)
The latest results reflect additional challenges for Samsung as its semiconductor business, which helped offset declining earnings from smartphones since mid-2014, joined the mobile division in a profit slowdown.
Weakening global demand for smartphones and other consumer electronics products is taking a toll on Samsung's sales of mobile components to companies such as Apple, as well as sales of Samsung's own mobile devices.
The company is the world's largest maker of memory chips that are used in PCs and mobile devices. It is also the world's largest maker of smartphones and television sets.
For the full year, it earned 19.1 trillion won ($15.8 billion or roughly Rs. 1,07,641 crores), down 19 percent from the previous year and the lowest level in four years. It was the second year in a row with a decline in annual net income after the company's earnings peaked at 30.5 trillion won in 2013.
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