Company Research Homework 2
• Company Name: SONY
• Stock symbol: SNE
• Industry : consumer electronics and gaming systems.
• Exchange where the stock trades: Tokyo, Main Headquarters
• 52 week high: 57:19
• 52 week low: 35:62
• Average daily volume: 848,493
• Weekly closing price for the last 5 weeks: 36.80
• General information about the company : Sony Corporation (Sony) is the ultimate parent company of the Sony Group. The Company is primarily focused on Electronics, such as audiovisual/ information technology products & components; Game, such as PlayStation; Entertainment, such as motion pictures and music, and Financial Services, such as insurance and banking sectors.
• Recent developments: Sony showed its fall lineup of Blu-ray disc players and recorders as it prepared for its first holiday season after winning a format battle against HD-DVD.
• Prospects: Sony Pictures Imageworks' and Sony Pictures Animation's IPAX education program announced that the launch of its new online mentor program which will begin in the winter of 2009, and will leverage Animation Mentor's unique learning model and state-of-the-art online technology. The three-month program will pair top students from 18 IPAX member schools from around the world with top Sony Pictures Imageworks and Sony Pictures Animation artists who will provide individual online mentoring, training, and guidance. Animation Mentor's innovative
• Personal appraisal: Sony is a great corporation that has been in great shape in every aspect, I love their products from consumer electronics to computer games. They are very popular world wide and their sales were over 83 billion dollars in the last 12 months. Looking at their stocks and profits in the past few years, the ...