Corporate Health of Sony, Nintendo and MS

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Eddie_Raja said:

SpokenTruth said:

Company	Nintendo*	Sony*	Microsoft
Cash and Short Term Investments	$7.6 Billion	$15.7 Billion	$96.5 Billion
Total Assets	$11.3 Billion	$132.0 Billion	$176.2 Billion
Total Liabilities	$1.5 Billion	$107.6 Billion	$96.1 Billion
Total Debt	$103,000	$18 Billion	$7.5 Billion

So I want to highlight two big things here that I have known, and no one else ever seems to get:

1) Yes Nintendo has a ton of cash on hand, and no debts.  But Sony has WAY more cash, and if they got into trouble they have 12x the assets to sell off if they need help staying afloat.

Sony also has about 70x the liabilities and about 175x the debt. Sony's asset-liability ratio is the lowest from the three as well. Nintendo is a tiny company compared to Sony and Microsoft: about 5,000 employees versus 130,000 employees and 118,000 employees respectively so Sony might have more cash than Nintendo but it also has more bills and wages to pay.

Going off of these figures alone, I'd argue Nintendo is in the best shape and Sony in the worst shape. I'm not a business major though so my opinion is pretty worthless.

Eddie_Raja said:

If they run out of money they are screwed!

This applies to any company. If any company runs out of money, it is screwed.