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Sony Group Corp. SONY

14 fiscal years on record · JPY · FY2020 reported · SEC filings only
4 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
JPY 9.0T
▲ 9.0% YoY
JPY 1.2T
▲ 101.3% YoY
JPY 837.9B
▼ 7.9% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Sony operates businesses spanning home gaming products and network services, recorded music and music publishing, motion pictures and television productions, imaging, sound and display products, and image sensors. These businesses are organized into the G&NS, Music, Pictures, ET&S and I&SS segments, together with an All Other category. In the G&NS segment, Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC undertakes product research, development, design, marketing, sales, production, distribution and customer service for PlayStation hardware, software, content and network services. Within the Music segment, the Recorded Music business includes the distribution of physical and digital recorded music and revenue derived from artists' live performances and merchandising. In the Pictures segment, the Motion Pictures business includes the worldwide production, acquisition and distribution of live-action and animated motion pictures. The ET&S segment's offerings include interchangeable lens cameras and lenses, headphones and wireless speakers, internet-related services, LCD and OLED televisions and projectors, as well as smartphones, home audio products and medical equipment. In the I&SS segment, SSS and its subsidiary Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation undertake product research, development, design, manufacturing, marketing, sales, production, distribution and customer services primarily for CMOS image sensors, in addition to display devices, lasers, large-scale integration systems and other semiconductors. All Other consists of various operating activities, including the disc manufacturing business outside of Japan and the recording media and storage media businesses.

Written from the business description in Sony Group Corp's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 18 June 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

JPY 9.00T
Revenue, FY2020 · full 14-year series below
Revenue JPY T Net income JPY T
FY2020 · Revenue 9.0 · Net income 1.2
4T8T
200720102013201620192020
Compound annual growth
+1.7%
+2.1%
+2.3%
+33.7%
+51.3%
+35.1%
+51.5%
+26.0%
+22.4%
+29.1%
+36.9%
+9.3%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +2.1% a year over the five years to FY2020 — but profit grew faster: net income at +51.3%, earnings per share at +51.5%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

13 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2020 · Operating 10.8% · Net 13.2%
5%10%-2%-4%-6%
200720132020
ROE
FY2020 · ROE 24.2%
10%20%-5%-10%-15%
200720132020
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin43.6%
Operating margin10.8%
Net margin13.2%
EBITDA·

Each JPY of equity produced 24 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

JPY 61.3B
returned in FY2020 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow JPY B
FY2020 · FCF 837.9
400B800B
200720132020
Net buybacks JPY B Dividends JPY B
FY2020 · Dividends 61.3 · Net buybacks -12.1
100B200BDividendsNet buybacks
20072009201120132015201720192020
Dividends paidJPY 61.3B
Net buybacksJPY -12.1B
Share of profit5.2%
Consecutive raises4 years

JPY 61.3B in dividends — 5% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsJPY 26.35T
EquityJPY 5.58T
CashJPY 1.79T
Gross debtJPY 1.96T
Net debtJPY 174.2B
Current ratio0.92×

Net debt stands at 3% of equity.

The 14-year record

14 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · JPY
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
SONY, 14-year financial record
Metric 20202019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007
Revenue JPY B8999.48259.98665.78544.07603.28105.78215.97767.36795.56493.17181.37214.07730.08871.4
Operating income JPY B971.9845.5894.2734.9288.7294.268.526.5226.5−65.7199.831.8−227.8475.3
EBITDA JPY B◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Income tax JPY B1.0177.245.1151.8124.194.888.794.6140.4316.8425.314.0−72.7203.5
Net income JPY B1171.8582.2916.3490.873.3147.8−126.0−128.441.5−455.0−259.6−40.8−98.9369.4
Free cash flow JPY B837.9910.0946.1991.0474.0373.7538.7380.7149.7133.8362.6574.9−89.0283.1
EPS, diluted JPY 936.90461.23707.74379.7556.89117.49−113.04−124.9938.79−453.42−258.66−40.66−98.59351.10
Dividend / sh JPY 55.0045.0035.0027.5020.0020.00◌25.0025.0025.0025.0025.0042.5025.00
Payout %5946359−10−2060−6−10−61−437
ROE %24.214.827.318.03.06.2−5.5−5.82.0−19.9−9.4−1.4−3.09.9

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 53 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 14 of the 14 fiscal years we could check. Two checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: the share count is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityHousehold Audio & Video Equipment
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code M0
Fiscal year endsMarch 31
Data on record since2007

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