LG estimated its profit at $691.11 million which was slightly lower than Wall Street expected. In fact the company would have done better if it had not had a bit of a marketing blow out.
The estimate comes after LG posted its highest profit in nine years in January-March due to robust sales of high profit margin premium TVs. That in turn came after LG ended 2017 with a 33 percent share of the high end TV market, pulling away from Samsung.
Revenue likely climbed 3.2 percent from the same period a year earlier to 15 trillion won, LG said in a regulatory filing. That compared with analysts’ 15.5 trillion won estimate.
LG did not disclose further details of April-June operations and will announce full results at the end of July.