Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Last price: ₩262,000
Updated: 1 day ago
52w range:
₩90,200
to
₩374,500
52w change:
190.47%
to
-30.04%
50d average: ₩259,020
(1%)
200d average: ₩232,049
(13%)
Open: ₩269,500
Previous close: ₩268,500
Change: -₩6,500
(-2.42%)
Day high: ₩270,000
Day low: ₩262,000
Volume: 25.25 million
Avg. vol 3m: 23.00 million
Cap: 1.72 quadrillion
KSE
KSE:005930
Shares outstanding: 5.8 billion
Price hint: 2
Price to book:
₩374 dividend 3 months ago
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Summary
(retrieved 3 weeks ago)
005930.KS
Samsung Electronics is a global technology company with major businesses in memory chips, logic and foundry semiconductors, smartphones, consumer electronics, and display panels. It makes money by selling components into the broader electronics supply chain and by shipping branded devices such as Galaxy phones, TVs, and appliances, giving it both component exposure and end-market consumer exposure.
The investment case usually starts with scale, manufacturing depth, and balance across business lines. Samsung has historically been one of the few companies able to compete at the top end of memory, handset hardware, and advanced manufacturing at the same time. That breadth can be a strength because weakness in one segment can be partly offset by another, but it also makes the stock sensitive to several different industry cycles at once.
Using your figures, the shares at 259,500 sit almost exactly on the 50-day average of 259,460 and well above the 200-day average of 217,366.25, which suggests the medium-term trend has improved even after the recent -3.53% move. The stock is also far above the 52-week low of 74,200 but still below the 52-week high of 374,500, so the market appears to be pricing in recovery potential without assuming a full return to peak optimism.
Business quality is high, especially in memory and flagship consumer hardware, where scale, capital intensity, and engineering know-how create meaningful barriers to entry. The company can generate large earnings swings because semiconductors are cyclical, but that same cyclicality can work in shareholders' favor when memory pricing and utilization recover.
The main challenges are execution and cyclicality. Samsung must keep investing heavily to stay competitive in advanced chips, defend smartphone margins against Apple and Chinese vendors, and navigate global trade, customer concentration, and technology-transition risk. Because several of its biggest markets are mature and highly competitive, returns depend not just on volume but on product mix, pricing discipline, and staying ahead in process technology.