Sony Corporation operates within the Household audio and video equipment sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Sony with three other audio-visual equipment producers in Asia: Foster Electric Company, Limited (2020 sales of 107.30 billion Japanese Yen [US$1.03 billion] of which 60% was Speaker Business), Maxell Holdings Ltd (145.04 billion Japanese Yen [US$1.40 billion] of which 38% was Industrial material), and LG Electronics Incorporated which is based in KOREA (SOUTH) (63.26 trillion Korean Won [US$57.44 billion] ).

Sales Analysis. During the year ended March of 2020, sales at Sony were ¥8.26 trillion (US$79.63 billion). This is a decrease of 4.7% versus 2019, when the company's sales were ¥8.67 trillion. The sales level in 2020 was fairly close to the level five years ago: in 2015, Sony had sales of ¥8.22 trillion. Contributing to the drop in overall sales was the 28.3% decline in Other, from ¥299.81 billion to ¥215.00 billion. There were also decreases in sales in Game&network Service (down 13.7% to ¥1.92 trillion) . However, these declines were partially offset by the increase in sales of Financial Services Business (up 2.0% to ¥1.30 trillion) and the Movie Business (up 2.6% to ¥1.01 trillion) and Imaging Products and Solution (up 49.0% to ¥985.26 billion) and Music Business (up 5.5% to ¥838.59 billion) and Eliminations and Corporate (up 67.1% to ¥20.83 billion) .