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SONY Stock Decline – Reasons Behind Today's Drop

This afternoon we watched Sony drop -1.8% to a price of $22.59 per share. The Large-Cap Consumer Electronics company is now trading -8.67% below its average target price of $24.73. Analysts have set target prices ranging from $23.0 to $27.54 per share for Sony, and have given the stock an average rating of buy.

The stock has a very low short interest at 0.1%, and a short ratio of 2.52. At 0.03%, the company's rate of insider ownership does not indicate that management is heavily invested in the corporation. Finally, we also note that a very small number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 8.0% of Sony's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in Sony

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2024-09-30 Primecap Management Company 2% 106,354,615 $2,402,018,882
2024-09-30 Aristotle Capital Management, LLC 1% 53,440,200 $1,206,946,868
2024-12-31 Fisher Asset Management, LLC 1% 45,420,092 $1,025,812,736
2024-09-30 Harding Loevner LLC 0% 26,024,670 $587,767,148
2024-09-30 Bank of America Corporation 0% 24,915,340 $562,712,931
2024-09-30 Blackrock Inc. 0% 24,039,795 $542,938,748
2024-09-30 Morgan Stanley 0% 22,163,505 $500,562,740
2024-09-30 Mondrian Investment Partners Ltd 0% 11,062,380 $249,843,842
2024-09-30 Fiduciary Management, Inc. 0% 10,813,610 $244,225,371
2024-09-30 Goldman Sachs Group Inc 0% 7,346,935 $165,930,520

Besides an analyst consensus of some upside potential, other market factors point to there being mixed market sentiment on Sony.

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