Samsung Electronics’ revenue rose 10.9% to a record KRW 333.6 trillion in 2025, according to its annual business report, after falling to KRW 258.9 trillion in 2023. Operating profit rose to KRW 43.6 trillion, and the chip division (DS) supplied KRW 24.9 trillion of it, 57%, against a loss of KRW 14.9 trillion two years earlier.
How we source: the figures in the boxes and charts on this page come from Samsung Electronics’s own annual filing, with the period stated next to each number. Data checked 17 October 2026. The original article below may quote earlier periods. Our methodology.
Consumer Electronics (“CE”): The CE division includes digital TVs, monitors, air conditioners, and refrigerators.
Information technology & Mobile communications (“IM”): This division includes mobile phones, communication systems, and computers.
Device Solutions (“DS”): DS division includes semiconductor products such as memory, foundry, and system LSI (“Semiconductor”), and display products such as LCD and OLED panels (“DP”)
And Harman: it includes connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation solutions and connected services.
The Company is domiciled in the Republic of Korea and is located in Suwon, the Republic of Korea.
Google (now Alphabet) primarily makes money through advertising. The Google search engine, while free, is monetized with paid advertising. In 2021 Google’s advertising generated over $209 billion (beyond Google Search, this comprises YouTube Ads and the Network Members Sites) compared to $257 billion in net sales. Advertising represented over 81% of net sales, followed by Google Cloud ($19 billion) and Google’s other revenue streams (Google Play, Pixel phones, and YouTube Premium).
Microsoft has a diversified businessmodel, spanning from Office to gaming (with Xbox), LinkedIn, search (with Bing), and enterprise services (with GitHub). In 2021, Microsoft made over $198 billion in revenues, of which over $67 billion came from Server products and cloud services, and $44.8 billion came from Office products and cloud services. Windows generated $24.7 billion, Gaming generated over $16 billion, LinkedIn over $13 billion, and search advertising (through Bing) over $11.5 billion. Enterprise (GitHub) generated $7.4 billion, and devices (PC) generated almost $7 billion.
Facebook, the main product of Meta is an attention merchant. As such, its algorithms condense the attention of over 2.91 billion monthly active users as of June 2021. Meta generated $117.9 billion in revenues, in 2021, of which $114.9 billion from advertising (97.4% of the total revenues) and over $2.2 billion from Reality Labs (the augmented and virtual reality products arm).
Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur (for example, How to Digitize a Family Business in Europe) and HackerNoon. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
