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Sony (SNE) Competitors

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

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

Sony vs.

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

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Sonos$1.52B1.15-$38.15M-$0.33-43.51
Sony$75.99B0.33$5.36B$4.244.87

85.8% of Sonos shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.8% of Sony shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Sonos shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Sony shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Sonos currently has a consensus price target of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.46%. Given Sonos' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sonos is more favorable than Sony.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Sonos
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 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

In the previous week, Sonos had 11 more articles in the media than Sony. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Sonos and 0 mentions for Sony. Sonos' average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Sony's score of 0.00 indicating that Sonos is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Sonos Neutral
Sony Neutral

Sonos has a beta of 1.99, meaning that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sony has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Sony received 315 more outperform votes than Sonos when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.60% of users gave Sony an outperform vote while only 69.14% of users gave Sonos an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
SonosOutperform Votes
289
69.14%
Underperform Votes
129
30.86%
SonyOutperform Votes
604
72.60%
Underperform Votes
228
27.40%

Sony has a net margin of 11.34% compared to Sonos' net margin of -2.51%. Sony's return on equity of 19.06% beat Sonos' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Sonos-2.51% -4.97% -2.51%
Sony 11.34%19.06%3.99%

Summary

Sony beats Sonos on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SNE vs. The Competition

MetricSonyHousehold Audio & Video Equipment IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$25.18B$13.95B$8.62B$20.04B
Dividend Yield0.39%2.06%2.85%3.61%
P/E Ratio2.962.9014.6241.77
Price / Sales0.332.966.6917.47
Price / Cash13.8030.0415.3917.54
Price / Book0.573.376.035.86
Net Income$5.36B$696.55M$274.28M$1.01B

Sony Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SNE
Sony
N/A$20.64
+1.5%
N/A-79.2%$25.18B$75.99B2.96111,700High Trading Volume
SONO
Sonos
0.671 of 5 stars
$14.40
-0.8%
$15.00
+4.2%
-14.3%$1.75B$1.52B-43.641,708High Trading Volume
KN
Knowles
0.7594 of 5 stars
$19.36
-0.4%
$19.00
-1.9%
+21.1%$1.71B$801M-8.277,000Short Interest ↑
ARLO
Arlo Technologies
2.3215 of 5 stars
$11.32
-1.3%
$19.00
+67.8%
+35.6%$1.14B$524.41M-45.28350News Coverage
Gap Down
UEIC
Universal Electronics
4.6306 of 5 stars
$9.90
+0.7%
$14.50
+46.5%
+19.9%$128.98M$382.02M-4.833,940
GNSS
Genasys
4.6103 of 5 stars
$2.73
+1.1%
$5.33
+95.4%
+70.8%$122.66M$24.01M-3.79170Positive News
KOSS
Koss
0.8958 of 5 stars
$7.04
-4.0%
N/A+122.1%$65.83M$12.09M-58.6630News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
SYNX
Silynxcom
N/A$4.08
-2.6%
N/AN/A$12.90M$9.89M0.00N/A
IMTE
Integrated Media Technology
N/A$1.35
+6.7%
N/A-52.8%$4.63M$113,200.000.0010News Coverage
Positive News
SONY
Sony Group
3.6117 of 5 stars
$20.23
-0.6%
$24.00
+18.6%
+421.0%$122.34B$13.15T16.55113,000Positive News
ABNB
Airbnb
3.7215 of 5 stars
$128.85
-0.6%
$139.32
+8.1%
-3.4%$81.69B$10.84B45.216,810Short Interest ↓
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