Could Apple end up buying Sony?

[Grampy]

Million said:

Grampy said:

If Sony was a lean targeted company like Nintendo with a few thousand employees and no excess divisions in areas where you have no interest; I could see this as a possibility. But of course, these are the very reasons Nintendo isn't even remotely available.

To buy into a company with 160,000 employees, big debt, and a gazillion product lines in which you have no interest, and several are competitiive, to get a trademark that is at the moment somewhat tarnished and a few studios, not unless they were totally insane. Besides Apple doesn't want anybody else's brand anyway, they want their own, and Playstation doesn't even start with "I".

 I'm sorry but the above is either exagerated or straight ridiculous .

Which part did you think was exaggerated ?

	Quarterly (Sep '08)	Annual (2008
	Sony	Nintendo	Sony	Nintendo
Net Profit Margin	0.78%	9.06%	2.96%	15.38%
Operating Margin	0.51%	31.76%	4.07%	28.49%
EBITD Margin			12.34%	28.93%
Return on Average Assets	0.51%	8.25%	2.17%	15.23%
Return on Average Equity	2.38%	12.22%	10.81%	22.07%
Employees	185,800	3,977
Current Market Capitalization	22.91 Billion (USD)	51.79 Billion (USD)

source: Goggle Financial