Despite stellar earnings, Samsung's stock slumps
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🗓️ 7 July 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Samsung just reported a whopping 1,800% profit increase for the second quarter of this year. But its stock price fell nearly 7% in response to the news. What gives? In short, high expectations got in the way of actual growth. Also in this episode: Baby boomers begin to transfer family businesses to the next generation, buy now, pay later giant Klarna applies for a U.S. banking license, and the telehealth boom is more than super-fast prescriptions from your couch.
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| 0:00.0 | On the program today, corporate fortunes the rest of the year, small business fortunes the next five or ten years, some other stuff, too. |
| 0:11.6 | From American public media, this is MarketClance. |
| 0:25.3 | In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizzdahl. |
| 0:27.3 | It is Tuesday, today, 7 July. |
| 0:29.0 | Good as always, Debbie Long, everybody. |
| 0:30.4 | Fair is fair. |
| 0:33.0 | One likes it to be in business and economic coverage. |
| 0:38.2 | So just as we started yesterday with a decidedly consumer-oriented couple of minutes. |
| 0:45.1 | So today we go corporate because later this week, second quarter earnings season is going to be upon us, starting with PepsiCo on Thursday. |
| 0:48.6 | Best guesses are they'll be okay, not spectacular. |
| 0:55.1 | Then Delta Airlines on Friday, which is expected to have beaten estimates in spite of the spike in jet fuel costs since President Trump started bombing Iran. |
| 0:57.7 | Expensive seats being bought by premium travelers, if you're looking for a how'd they do that |
| 1:02.3 | right there. |
| 1:03.5 | The real rush then comes next week with a slew of big Wall Street banks. |
| 1:07.7 | January through March, that is Q1. |
| 1:10.0 | Companies in the S&P 500 reported earnings up more than |
| 1:12.9 | 28% year over year. That's according to facts it. So with firm reliance on the fact that while |
| 1:18.8 | the stock market is not the economy, it is related. So what do you suppose is in store this |
| 1:24.8 | time around? Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman gets us going. |
| 1:28.2 | It's not like the second quarter has been all smooth sailing for the U.S. economy or corporate America. |
| 1:34.2 | Well, there's that old saying that the market likes to climb a wall of worry. |
| 1:38.8 | Sam Stovall is chief investment strategist at CFRA research. |
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