SONYSony Group Corporation
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (A), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$13.7M, 90 days to Oct 9, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -51% · now 20% below its 52-week high.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can SONY take a bad year?
Sony Group Corporation carries $1.07T of net debt at 0.42× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.42×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.87× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 19.4×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 31%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $4.20T
- Cash and short-term investments
- $3.13T
- Net debt
- $1.07T
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.56T
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.41T
- Debt / equity
- 0.51×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.64×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 31%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −51%
- Below its 52-week high
- 20%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.