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sorry I wasn't looking at an updated graph. I see one now, and income is about 70% down.
But even so, They are still making money.

In the portino where you describe the two best scenarios for sony, I believe that both of them are taking place as we speak.



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theprof00 said:
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/viewer/07q4/
I'm not doubting your sources NJ5.
What I'm saying is that every report has one specific purpose, and that putting together only some reports leaves a lot of information out of the loop.

For example: your margin shows a lower income ratio, but you don't have a graph showing exactly what those numbers are.

According to sony global expectations for 2008, profit is down 22% but that doesn't mean they are losing money.

As far as the 4x thing, I was talking about operating income. profit from 06 to 07 was 126 billion yen to 369 billion yen, so almost tripled the income. which follows a trend set by your margin graph. Almost three times the margin from 2006.

However, if you notice, 2008 expectation profit is only down 22% even though margin is down about 80%. Logically profit would be down 80% according to your graph, but that does not follow from the actual numbers.

Sales are up, costs are down.
Also, according to x-rates.com
http://www.x-rates.com/d/JPY/USD/hist2007.html
Japanese yen is dropping slowly against both the US dollar and the Euro. That will be helping in the near future.
According to the graph in the link, the yen got violently strong against the other currencies, and is now lulling a bit because of their economy.

Why are you using old information? The estimates have been heavily revised.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/08revision_sony.pdf

And even this report was made before the economic collapse.

 



Yeah I know, I apologized, I though I clicked on one IR page, but I didn't somehow.

However, a quick look at exchange rates shows that the yen is down 5%, which will help.



Maybe Sony should raise the price to 599 U.S. Dollars and give us a game with giant enemy crabs.



theprof00 said:

Yeah I know, I apologized, I though I clicked on one IR page, but I didn't somehow.

However, a quick look at exchange rates shows that the yen is down 5%, which will help.

That was a one day movement, there have been plenty of ups and downs lately:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=USDJPY=X#symbol=USDJPY=X;range=3m

As far as I can see, the value of the USD in Yen is tracking the American stock market. When the stock market goes up, the USD goes up (which is good for Sony), when it goes down the USD gets weaker (which is bad for Sony).

Look at the graph linked above and then this one which is the Dow index of the American stock market:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^DJI#chart1:symbol=^dji;range=3m;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined

 



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