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RVDondaPC on 09 April 2010
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marc said:

#1 - Bitter? I was crushed because I loved games and I thought Sony would be my dream job. They were just bullies playing favorites and if you showed even a little talent they became hostile. The environment showed me the bad side to corporate behavior. I was just out of college at the time.

#2 - I took dividends into account for all my calculation. Even with the dividends, their business has performed poorly since '78. The Nasdaq index also pumps out dividends it just doesnt show up on most graph because its an index.

#3 - I was measuring Sony as a company not video games specifically. This thread was about the possibility of Sony going under. The author did not specify what part of Sony. I am fairly certain that he meant Sony as in the corporation not just the game division.

From a financial perspective they are a failure. Whevenever you can invest in 6% CD's and outperform a stock over 20 years, that company has serious issues.

You mean to tell me you sat there and calculated today's value for all 50+ dividend payments from Sony stock? And how did you calculate today's value? Did you use just inflations, did you use the Dow Jones average increase assuming investment in another stock, did you assume reinvestment into more Sony stock, or did you assume happiness was purchased with these dividends?

 

@#3 yeah it was and that was fine until you started to compare Sony as a whole to MSFT and Nintendo as a whole to determine whether or not it's been under performing in its "sector. " Financially it can't compete, but Sony is in a lot of highly competitive, low margin industries while MSFT is mostly in an extremely rare high margin market, which was borderline monopolistic.