(Image credit: JHVEPhoto via Getty Images) One reason you can never really predict how well a company or industry is going to do is that there can be so many surprise factors outside of the normal bounds of stocks and revenues. War, as it happens, is one of them. This is a fact that it seems Samsung is discovering as conflicts in the Middle East are causing issues—ones that the company says it is handling, but issues nonetheless. Speaking in an earnings call , Samsung executive VP and CFO Soon-Cheol Park explained: Although the company says it will "maintain a stable power supply system", it admits that oil prices are a problem: "Oil price increases driven by the war are impacting global ocean and air freight costs, which is expanding the risk of higher shipping rates.…