Hong Kong-Samsung predicts its benefits rose almost 26% last quarter. That recommends interest for large numbers of its items has kept up during the Covid pandemic even as it faces extreme rivalry in the smartphone market.

The South Korean combination said Friday that it hopes to post working benefit of around 9 trillion Korean won ($8.2 billion) for the October-December quarter, an expansion contrasted with a similar period a year sooner yet off to some degree from investigator gauges.

The organization anticipated deals of about 61 trillion Korean won ($56 billion), in accordance with the assumptions for experts surveyed by Refinitiv.

Samsung’s (SSNLF) stock rose about 1.8% in Seoul on Friday.

The organization didn’t expound on profit, yet it will report full outcomes for the final quarter toward the finish of this current month.

While interest for a portion of Samsung’s hardware and different parts, for example, show boards, will probably stay strong, the organization faces extreme rivalry in the cell phone market. Chinese opponent Huawei quickly outperformed Samsung a year ago to turn into the world’s No. 1 smartphone merchant, while Apple just dispatched a 5G-upheld iPhone.

All things being equal, examiners anticipate that income in 2021 should be solid as deals of cell phones and memory chips increase. Daiwa examiner SK Kim highlighted the impending arrival of the Samsung Galaxy S21 as a brilliant spot.

“We see [Samsung] dispatching the Galaxy S arrangement, its key leader line, sooner than before by end-January 2021, which we accept will drive a sharp bounce back in smartphone shipment,” Kim wrote in an examination note recently.