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Profile - Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 31Price hit new 52-week low ($44.50)
July 26Conference call: Sony Earnings (Q1 2001)
Location
7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-Chome
Shinagawa - Ku
Tokyo 141-0001 Japan, Japan
Phone: (212) 833-6800
Fax: (212) 833-6938
Employees (last reported count): 181,800
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 ·Sector: Consumer Cyclical
 ·Industry: Audio & Video Equipment
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 1%
·Institutional: 4% (4% of float)
(344 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 2.06M shares (+4.87%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Sony Corporation is the ultimate parent company of the Sony group. In the Electronics business, Sony is engaged in the development, design, manufacture and sale of various kinds of electronic equipment, instruments and devices. In the Game business, Sony develops, produces, manufactures, markets and distributes home-use entertainment hardware and related software. In the Music business, Sony is engaged in the development, production, manufacture, marketing and distribution of recorded music. In the Pictures business, Sony is engaged in the development, production, marketing, distribution and broadcasting of image-based software, including film, video, television and new entertainment technologies. In the Insurance business, Sony conducts insurance operations primarily through Sony Life and Sony Assurance Inc. In addition, Sony is engaged in other businesses, such as banking, leasing and credit financing, satellite broadcasting and location-based entertainment.
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Financial Summary
Sony Corp. develops, designs, manufactures and sells electronic equipment, instruments and devices. SNE also develops, produces, manufactures and distributes recorded music and imaged based software, and is engaged in insurance and financing. For the three months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 5% to Y1.638T. Net loss before acctg. change totaled Y36.06 billion vs. an income of Y12.03 billion. Results reflect higher demand for electronic products, offset by losses on films.
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Officers

Position
Nobuyuki IdeiChairman, CEO
Kunitake AndoPres, COO, Director
Minoru MorioVice Chairman and Exec. Representative, Technology
Ken KutaragiDirector, Pres and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
Teruhisa TokunakaExec. Deputy Pres, CFO, Director
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:SNEAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 31-Aug-2001
$44.50 
Recent Price$44.90 
52-Week High
on 21-Sep-2000
$116.313
Beta1.05 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)813.7K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)303.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-60.9%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-47.6%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$40.7B
Shares Outstanding906.0M
Float897.0M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 25-May-2000
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$20.96 
Earnings (ttm)$0.60 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.33 
Sales (ttm)$63.80 
Cash (mrq)$6.16 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)2.14 
Price/Earnings (ttm)75.08 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.70 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$62.2B
EBITDA (ttm)$6.67B
Income available to common (ttm)$604.5M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)1.3%
Operating Margin (ttm)2.6%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsMar 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)1.26%
Return on Equity (ttm)3.25%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.28 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.63 
Total Cash (mrq)$5.66B
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short1.19M
Percent of Float0.1%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
1.37M
Short Ratio2.69 
Daily Volume443.0K
ADR Information
Shares/ADR1
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001);   dollar amounts based on an exchange rate of 118.8 Yen/Dollar

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