Samsung marketing cap slips 6% on weak smartphone sales rumor

07 June, 2013
Investors are fearing that the company is focusing on gaining more market share than on accumulating profit.

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  • Anonymous
  • PIQ
  • 07 Jun 2013

Lol this is what happens when fanboys just keep on believing the hype Samsung sells you. Truth comes out eventually, Samsung is being hammered by its more innovative rivals.

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    • Anonymous
    • 3dv
    • 07 Jun 2013

    "Samsung has yet to prove its 'creative' innovation, that is, launching a product or a market segment that has not existed before in addition to prowess in manufacturing technology," Fitch said. ($1 = 1115.8500 Korean won)

    (Additional reporting by Hyunjoo Jin and Joyce Lee; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)

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      • AnonD-153357
      • Rxe
      • 07 Jun 2013

      Guys, that's not marketing cap, it's market cap, which stands for market capitalisation which is a measure for market value of a company through it's share price. Market and marketing are two very different things in this context.

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        • AnonD-143704
        • Kg$
        • 07 Jun 2013

        Samsung is stealing money, tehy sell phones way of price, even a lumia 720 can take beyter pictures than what it can. Imagine it cost 1/3 s4 price. Nokia invested billions to get better camera and selling it cheaply.

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          • troyboy
          • MVg
          • 07 Jun 2013

          iphone is losing their mojo now and this news comes as a god send to all sony fans, sony are moving up

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            • skyp
            • N9@
            • 07 Jun 2013

            as expected the s4 felt so cheap with it's plastic body work from start to finish samsung shares will countinue to fall until they start making good quality phones with high premium materials

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              • Anonymous
              • thf
              • 07 Jun 2013

              AnonD-27765, 07 Jun 2013I highly doubt this phone will sell 100 million units. No s... moresgs3 reached 60 million i believe. it has already reached 50m last feb. :)

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                • AnonD-143704
                • Kg$
                • 07 Jun 2013

                AnonD-27765, 07 Jun 2013I highly doubt this phone will sell 100 million units. No s... moreBeat the sale of 3310 of 150 million

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                  • Anonymous
                  • Im4
                  • 07 Jun 2013

                  It's the economy stupid, don't ever believe these "clowns" called analysts. They are the ones who are manipulating the stock market for their own gains, only people who do not invest in stocks would not know how this works, buy low, then build the stock up, then downgrade it, sell high before it drops "make a nice profit", then buy again when price is low, and the game continues.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • thf
                    • 07 Jun 2013

                    AnonD-124528, 07 Jun 2013Haha..Nokia and htc is gaining their momentum again..Samsun... moreno as you can see in the news. for sony maybe :)

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                      • AnonD-27765
                      • t7X
                      • 07 Jun 2013

                      I highly doubt this phone will sell 100 million units. No smartphone has sold more the 60 million yet, not even those cheap ones. The iPhone 4S still holds the record as the best-selling smartphone of all time and I believe only an iPhone can beat that, perhaps the 5 or the 5S.

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                        • AnonD-124528
                        • wcf
                        • 07 Jun 2013

                        Anonymous, 07 Jun 2013that escalated quickly. hahaha before that nokia and htc sh... moreHaha..Nokia and htc is gaining their momentum again..Samsung is the one is losing it..every great thing will always have an end..

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                          • Lell0
                          • 9xJ
                          • 07 Jun 2013

                          Ryan, 07 Jun 2013When apple got extremely greedy a wished they would get a w... moreIn my country it costs 580$, check ur countries taxes before speaking.

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                            • nonyhaha
                            • SvB
                            • 07 Jun 2013

                            AnonD-153344, 07 Jun 2013That's Expected!! Galaxy S4 could have been best phone of ... moreWtf are you saying there? Your phrase has no sense.

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                              • AnonD-69883
                              • Ru3
                              • 07 Jun 2013

                              Samsung will still keep the market share in 2013/2014. What they need to do to make investors STFU is limit the availability of the low-end smartphones in the US and they will be alright with that, and send them over to China/India.

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                                • Ryan
                                • Sgv
                                • 07 Jun 2013

                                When apple got extremely greedy a wished they would get a wake up call and hoped Samsung would take over but now they are exactly the same as apple charging £600 for s4. Gsmarena published an article a few months back showing how much each phone costs to make in parts and labour, galaxy s4 took £122 so you know who the people being conned are.

                                Note 2 is much better that s4 in all hardware departments apart from maybe camera, it has much better speaker, better microphones for call clarity .

                                Samsung have got far 2 greedy and deserve every lose comes there way now. They got very lazy with the s4.
                                2013 is the year htc is back where is belongs

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • thf
                                  • 07 Jun 2013

                                  Anonymous, 07 Jun 2013They're gone! For sure this time! The S4 is selling too s... morethat escalated quickly. hahaha before that nokia and htc should be dead. :p

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                                    • Loly
                                    • SXn
                                    • 07 Jun 2013

                                    Lmao i can't at these comments!
                                    Yeah Samsung is done! Lol
                                    Only competition they have is... Samsung! I mean other Samsung smartphones.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • 3dv
                                      • 07 Jun 2013

                                      They're gone! For sure this time! The S4 is selling too
                                      slow and the market trent has moved towards other makers. Samsung is now headed towards a financial collapse... it's really sad!!!!

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                                        • AnonD-80584
                                        • Mfx
                                        • 07 Jun 2013

                                        i can believe this. Samsung is boring and people aren't excited for thier products like they were 2 years ago.
                                        Not to mention, people are more excited and waiting for iOS 7, WP8.1, Tizen, Jolla Sailfish, Firefox OS, and more updates to BB10.