{"id":656864,"date":"2013-05-08T17:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T21:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=496207"},"modified":"2013-05-08T17:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T21:30:54","slug":"soaring-profits-leave-samsung-with-a-40-billion-cash-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656864","title":{"rendered":"Soaring profits leave Samsung with a $40 billion cash pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/08\/samsung-cash-pile-40-billion\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/jk-shin1.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung Cash Pile $40 Billion\" title=\"Samsung Cash Pile $40 Billion\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Given that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/07\/apple-samsung-smartphone-profit-q1-2013\/\">Samsung is one of only two smartphone vendors in the world to post significant profits<\/a>, it&#8217;s not surprising that it has been accumulating a massive pile of cash that it can plug into research and development or even return to shareholders as part of increased dividend payments. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424127887323798104578454440307100754-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwNzEwNDcyWj.html\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> notes<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/05\/samsung-earnings-q1-2013-preannouncement-416757\/\">latest earnings report<\/a> shows that the company now has almost $40 billion in cash and cash equivalents, while its net cash position minus debt is around $28.5 billion. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/08\/samsung-cash-pile-40-billion\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/13YvNDvlZdc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that Samsung is one of only two smartphone vendors in the world to post significant profits, it&#8217;s not surprising that it has been accumulating a massive pile of cash that it can plug into research and development or even return to shareholders as part of increased dividend payments. The Wall Street Journal notes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}