Samsung Heavy Industries Q1 2026 Operating Profit Jumps 122% to 273.1 Billion Won

By SHIN JIA Posted : April 30, 2026, 16:27 Updated : April 30, 2026, 16:27
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Samsung Heavy Industries said it extended its first-quarter earnings improvement on a larger share of higher-margin vessels.

The company on Wednesday reported preliminary first-quarter 2026 results of 2.9023 trillion won ($2.9 trillion won) in revenue and 273.1 billion won in operating profit, according to a regulatory filing. Revenue rose 16% from a year earlier, while operating profit surged 122%.

In shipbuilding, a higher proportion of construction for high-margin vessels such as LNG carriers, along with a strategy to diversify global production, supported results, the company said. In offshore operations, revenue also increased as work accelerated on FLNG projects including Malaysia’s ZLNG, Canada’s Cedar and Mozambique’s Coral.

On that trend, Samsung Heavy said it expects to meet its annual revenue target of 12.8 trillion won.

A company official said revenue is expected to rise further starting in the second quarter as production volumes increase. The official added the company will strengthen a stable profit structure based on an order backlog secured for more than three years.



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