Is the business good?
How good a business is SONY?
Sony Group Corporation earns 12% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
12%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.0 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 11%
Operating margin · Technology median 8.0% · fiscal year to FY2025
- Cash conversion
- 1.73×
Cash conversion · 0.90× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −1.6%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | 11% |
| FY2022 | 12% |
| FY2023 | 12% |
| FY2024 | 9.3% |
| FY2025 | 11% |
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- Gross marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 34%
- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 11%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 8.8%
- Free cash flow margin
- 15%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 5.7%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $12.96T
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.97T
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $1.14T
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 12%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
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