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Samsung Q3 Profit Seen Up Nine-Fold, Margins Flat

On air: Hank Ledger on The Asia Desk
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  • First reported by Investing.com: “Samsung’s Q3 profit seen jumping nine-fold, but chip margins may be flat”.
  • Covered on BBN on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at 1:34 AM ET on The Asia Desk, by Hank Ledger.
  • Topics: Samsung.

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  • Investing.comSamsung’s Q3 profit seen jumping nine-fold, but chip margins may be flat

What BBN said about it

  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorInvesting.com reports Samsung's third-quarter profit is seen jumping nine-fold, but chip margins may be flat.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorJoining us from Seoul is economist Marguerite Oyelaran-Finch, author of Everything Happens Eventually.

  3. Marguerite Oyelaran-FinchHank, thank you. I predicted a Samsung profit surge, and also a Samsung profit collapse. Both are in chapter nine.

  4. Marguerite Oyelaran-FinchThe chapter is called Covering Your Bases.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo you predicted everything. Investing.com's angle is that the recovery is real but competitive pressure persists. Where does that land in your book?

  6. Marguerite Oyelaran-FinchPage two hundred twelve, and also page two hundred thirteen, which says the opposite. I call it the flip-flop framework.

  7. Marguerite Oyelaran-FinchIt's available in hardcover and a bonus audiobook.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat is not a framework. That is a coin with two heads and a receipt. Nine-fold profit, flat margins. What does that actually mean?

  9. Marguerite Oyelaran-FinchIt means Samsung sold far more chips for roughly the same cut. Like my book tour.

  10. Marguerite Oyelaran-FinchHuge volume, no margin, and a man in Busan crying near my signing table.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYou said you predicted this. Did you predict it before or after the Investing.com headline ran nine minutes ago?

  12. Marguerite Oyelaran-FinchTechnically after, but spiritually in two thousand nineteen. Please buy the book, Hank. My landlord reads your show.

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