Because last month we learned the data of mobile phone manufacturers regarding the profit recorded for sales in Q4 2014, today we are talking about the total portion of the profit attributed to each. According to IDC, the company Apple alone collected 93% of the entire profit of mobile phone manufacturers in Q4 2014, Samsung recording another 9%. The rest of the mobile phone manufacturers sold at a loss in the last three months of last year, but this has been happening for several fiscal quarters now, so few people can be surprised by this.
If we look at the whole year 2014, things are even better for Apple, registering 79% of the total profit of mobile phone manufacturers, Samsung registering 25% and LG 1%. Now if you ask why the values are calculated above 100%, well American analysts attribute the losses of some winners to the profit of others and thus we should have an overview of the evolution of earnings. In this idea, Microsoft was the mobile phone manufacturer with the biggest loss in 2014, exactly 4% of the total.
In total, mobile phone manufacturers recorded a profit of 56 billion dollars in 2014 from the sale of this type of product, 79% of this amount going to the accounts of Apple, the remaining 20% and 1% to those from Samsung and LG .
