In the latest report from the 2022 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard (European Commission), Samsung Electronics gets the most considerable amount of capital expenditures (CAPEX), including facility investment, in 2021, according to the announcement on Dec. 15.
Samsung Electronics’ CAPEX last year increased by 23.7 percent to 37,076.7 million euros (51.4 trillion won), which is the largest investment among 2,500 companies surveyed.
The Korean tech giant spent more than resource development companies such as PetroChina (36,259.6 million euros) and the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. or Aramco (28.17 billion euros).
In particular, the gap is wide compared to semiconductor companies such as Intel (17,949 million euros) and TSMC (26,758.6 million euros). However, Samsung Electronics’ CAPEX intensity, or the CAPEX to sales ratio, came in at 17.8 percent, falling short of Intel’s 25.7 percent and TSMC’s 52.9 percent.
Meanwhile, in the last period, Samsung Electronics was named the sixth-largest company in the world in R&D investment. The company invested 16,812.8 million euros in R&D, a 6.5 percent increase compared to the previous year. It was the only Korean company to be included in the Top 50.
