Samsung Electronics` operating profit back to black in Q4

By Lee Youkyung
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of
computer memory chips, flat screens and televisions said Friday that its
fourth-quarter operating income in 2009 swung back into the black from a year
earlier, thanks to higher prices of its key products.
Operating profit reached 3.7 trillion won (US$3.19 billion) in the three months
to December, compared with an operating loss of 740 billion won in the same
quarter of the previous year, Samsung said in a regulatory filing.
The operating income, however, is smaller than the 4.23 trillion won from the
previous quarter.
Sales rose 19 percent from a year ago to 39.24 trillion won over the cited
period. The figures are consolidated, meaning they include financial results from
Samsung's overseas units.
ylee@yna.co.kr
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