How Smart Investors Look at Sony (SONY).

By Naomi Wentworth • Friday, July 18 15:19 • Permanent Link

Sony logged a -2.0% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $23.92 per share. The S&P 500 index moved -0.0%. SONY's trading volume is 2,267,671 compared to the stock's average volume of 5,618,063.

Sony trades -19.26% away from its average analyst target price of $29.62 per share. The 6 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $24.19 to $34.06, and on average have given Sony a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in SONY, you'll want to know the following:

Sony's current price is -99.8% below its Graham number of $10153.96, which implies the stock has a margin of safety
Sony has moved 26.9% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 10.6%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 1.26, Sony has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 19.0 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
SONY has a forward P/E ratio of 20.1 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $1.19 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 0.02 compared to its sector average of 3.03
Sony Group Corporation designs, develops, produces, and sells electronic equipment, instruments, and devices for the consumer, professional, and industrial markets in Japan, the United States, Europe, China, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally.
Based in Tokyo, the company has 112,300 full time employees and a market cap of $144.39 Billion. Sony currently returns an annual dividend yield of 81.9%.

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