Reasons why Sony won't go bankrupt.

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ImmortalHelixFossil said:

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Sony's end seems unavoidable.
Certainly the Sony as we know it now.


This is a list of electronics companies by market capitalization (the company's total price if you want to buy the whole company.)

(All monetary values are in billions of dollars)

Rank Company Industry Market cap Headquarter

1. Apple Inc Electronics $453.03 Cupertino, CA
2. Google Internet $380.64 Mountain View, CA, USA
3. Microsoft Software $312.38 Redmond, WA, USA
4. IBM Computer services $187.95 Armonk, NY, USA
5. Samsung Electronics $183.97 Seoul,South Korea
6. Amazon.com Internet $160.49 Seattle, WA, USA
7. Toshiba Hardware/Software $125.83 Tokyo, Japan
8. Intel Semiconductor $119.1 Santa Clara, CA, USA
9. HP Hardware $32.46 Palo Alto, CA, USA
10. Hitachi Software Services $28.46 Japan
11. Foxconn Electronics $27.2 New Taipei, Taiwan
12. Dell Hardware $22.97 Austin, TX, USA
13. Panasonic Electronics $22.7 Osaka, Japan
14. Sony Electronics $17.6 Tokyo, Japan



Sony used to be on top of this list.
Besides, there is no bright plan that gives Sony a good prospect as a worldwide consumer electronics company.

This is a large article about Sony:


How Sony is turning into a ghost in Japan and around the world

http://kotaku.com/5960411/how-sony-is-turning-into-a-ghost-in-japan-and-around-the-world

"For some people in Japan, Sony is already dead. The only question they have is how did Sony die, or who killed it, and how long will the spectre of Sony remain haunting Japan. It's a pessimistic view of the company but it's one reality in this island country."

 

At my parents house we've always only had Sony tv's. So do I now. They day Sony stops making tvs, is the day the old Sony is officially dead, no matter how you want to deny it. Maybe Sony can prosper in a much smaller form in other market segments, but that will be a different Sony.

The XB division is worth 17 billion dollars. Just 600 million dollars less then Sony as whole company. 

(source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-08-29/xbox-spinoff-seen-more-likely-with-ballmer-exit-real-m-and-amp-a)

Don't tell me that the Playstation brand is worth less than the Xbox brand? Or, Whatsapp is worth 1,4 billion dollars more then Sony? Makes total sense for me!

Take it the way you want. The market cap of Sony is the market cap of Sony whatever you may think of it.

Sony market cap today: 18.18B for Feb. 27, 2014 https://ycharts.com/companies/SNE/market_cap

 

There is more than just market cap and market caps do change of course. The whole picture consists of more than the total value of a company on the stock market. But, its this "whole picture" that the investors are not happy about that gives Sony their current worth as a company. 

Samsung being worth 10 times Sony would have been laughed at in the year 2000. And now Sony is not trying to become as big as Samsung or bigger again. They are trying to stop losing money and survive. These are the facts. I dont make this up.