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logic56 said:
kowenicki said:

Not sure everyone is aware of the last 12 months financial shenanigans...

A year ago Sony projected a profit for this year of $963m

By Jun 2011 they revised to a loss of $1.12bn

By Feb 2012 they revised to a loss of $2.76bn

In April 2012 this was revised to a $6.4bn loss

 

Thats weird.

it's not weird at all, they didn't expect the yen/euro situation which effected almost all companies in Japan and no one could foresee the tsunami, and the last revision was writing off the tax credit that they lost

Dont forget the massive flooding in Thailand where Sony, and lot of Japanese offshore manufacturing is located...which S&P noted when they downgraded....Not trying to make excuses for the bad numbers but you have some extreme one off events that happened in the last year for many Japanese companies which are not going to repeat themselves.