三星電子第三季度盈利或下滑60%
Samsung Electronics warned that its third-quarter earnings would fall 60 per cent from a year earlier as cheaper China competitors sent its smartphone division reeling.
三星電子(Samsung Electronics)警告説,由於其智能手機部門受到了中國廉價競爭對手的衝擊,第三季度其盈利將同比下滑60%。The reversal in fortunes for the Korean group prompted some to draw parallels with once-dominant producers such as Nokia and Motorola.
這家韓國集團盈利下滑,令部分人將它與諾基亞(Nokia)和摩托羅拉(Motorola)等曾經如日中天的生產商相提並論。“Samsung is getting closer to the fate of its peers,” Richard Windsor, analyst at Edison, said. “If market share continues to fall . . . Samsung will come closer to joining the long-suffering ranks of every other Android handset maker.”
Edison分析師理查德•温莎(Richard Windsor)表示:“三星正日益走上其同代生產商的老路。如果市場份額繼續下跌……三星將越來越類似於其他陷入長期困境的Android手機制造商。”
Samsung’s earnings have been on a slide over the past year, culminating in yesterday’s preliminary guidance that operating profit for the three months to September 30 would be Won4.1tn ($3.8bn), the weakest figure for more than three years.
過去一年裏三星的盈利一直在下滑,這種趨勢在昨天該公司發佈的初步指引中達到頂峯。根據指引,在截至9月30日的三個月裏,該公司的營業利潤將為4.1萬億韓元(合38億美元),這將是三年多來的最低水平。It is struggling against the threat from Chinese competitors such as Huawei, Lenovo and Xiaomi, which are enjoying growing sales across Asia.
目前,該公司正在艱難應對華為(Huawei)、聯想(Lenovo)和小米(Xiaomi)等中國競爭對手的威脅,這些中國品牌在亞洲的銷量正在不斷增長。Samsung’s smartphone market share was 25 per cent in the second quarter, down from the 32 per cent share reported a year ago, according to the research group IDC.
根據研究集團IDC的數據,今年第二季度三星在智能手機市場的佔有率為25%,低於一年前的32%。