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Sony (SNE) Competitors

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SNE vs. VZIO, KN, SONO, ARLO, GNSS, UEIC, KOSS, SYNX, IMTE, and SONY

Should you be buying Sony stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sony include VIZIO (VZIO), Knowles (KN), Sonos (SONO), Arlo Technologies (ARLO), Genasys (GNSS), Universal Electronics (UEIC), Koss (KOSS), Silynxcom (SYNX), Integrated Media Technology (IMTE), and Sony Group (SONY).

Sony vs.

VIZIO (NYSE:VZIO) and Sony (NYSE:SNE) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.

VIZIO currently has a consensus price target of $11.08, suggesting a potential downside of 1.92%. Given VIZIO's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe VIZIO is more favorable than Sony.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
VIZIO
0 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Sony
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

66.2% of VIZIO shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.8% of Sony shares are held by institutional investors. 44.7% of VIZIO shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Sony shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

VIZIO has a beta of 2.03, indicating that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sony has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Sony received 566 more outperform votes than VIZIO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.60% of users gave Sony an outperform vote while only 45.78% of users gave VIZIO an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
VIZIOOutperform Votes
38
45.78%
Underperform Votes
45
54.22%
SonyOutperform Votes
604
72.60%
Underperform Votes
228
27.40%

Sony has a net margin of 11.34% compared to VIZIO's net margin of 0.10%. Sony's return on equity of 19.06% beat VIZIO's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
VIZIO0.10% 0.39% 0.19%
Sony 11.34%19.06%3.99%

In the previous week, VIZIO had 4 more articles in the media than Sony. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for VIZIO and 0 mentions for Sony. VIZIO's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Sony's score of 0.00 indicating that VIZIO is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
VIZIO Positive
Sony Neutral

Sony has higher revenue and earnings than VIZIO. Sony is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VIZIO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
VIZIO$1.68B1.36$28.20M$0.011,130.00
Sony$75.99B0.30$5.36B$4.244.46

Summary

VIZIO beats Sony on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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SNE vs. The Competition

MetricSonyHousehold Audio & Video Equipment IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$23.09B$12.07B$8.22B$19.88B
Dividend Yield0.39%1.17%2.75%3.52%
P/E Ratio2.71127.9818.9942.94
Price / Sales0.302.397.5819.18
Price / Cash13.8035.3115.4717.86
Price / Book0.522.715.475.52
Net Income$5.36B$646.16M$265.65M$986.45M

Sony Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SNE
Sony
N/A$18.92
-0.3%
N/A-78.4%$23.09B$75.99B2.71111,700High Trading Volume
VZIO
VIZIO
0.6447 of 5 stars
$11.30
+0.1%
$11.08
-1.9%
+64.8%$2.29B$1.68B1,130.00900
KN
Knowles
1.421 of 5 stars
$18.16
+0.2%
$19.00
+4.6%
+10.8%$1.60B$707.60M-7.767,100
SONO
Sonos
1.1603 of 5 stars
$12.95
+0.4%
$15.00
+15.8%
-9.6%$1.57B$1.52B0.001,867
ARLO
Arlo Technologies
2.599 of 5 stars
$11.72
-1.8%
$19.00
+62.1%
+28.4%$1.18B$491.18M-46.88350Positive News
GNSS
Genasys
3.6465 of 5 stars
$3.85
+0.8%
$5.08
+32.0%
+126.5%$171.71M$46.66M-5.27170News Coverage
UEIC
Universal Electronics
3.8158 of 5 stars
$11.70
+2.6%
$14.50
+23.9%
+43.9%$148.52M$420.46M0.004,177
KOSS
Koss
0.3131 of 5 stars
$6.98
+0.7%
N/A+147.5%$64.80M$12.27M0.0030
SYNX
Silynxcom
N/A$2.60
-3.7%
N/AN/A$8.54M$7.63M0.00N/A
IMTE
Integrated Media Technology
0.1734 of 5 stars
$1.20
+2.6%
N/A-55.8%$4.01M$370,000.000.0015Gap Up
SONY
Sony Group
3.7576 of 5 stars
$19.17
+1.3%
$24.00
+25.2%
+447.5%$114.42B$90.19B15.69113,000Analyst Downgrade
Gap Up
High Trading Volume

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This page (NYSE:SNE) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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