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 North America: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (2020 sales of $25.50 billion ), Cisco Systems Incorporated ($49.30 billion of which 55% was Infrastructure Platforms), and Nokia Oy ($25.09 billion ).

Sales Analysis. During the year ended March of 2020, sales at Sony were $76.24 billion. This is a decrease of 2.4% versus 2019, when the company's sales were $78.08 billion. The sales level in 2020 was fairly close to the level five years ago: in 2015, Sony had sales of $74.52 billion. Contributing to the drop in overall sales was the 26.5% decline in Other, from $2.70 billion to $1.98 billion. There were also decreases in sales in Game&network Service (down 11.6% to $17.72 billion) . However, these declines were partially offset by the increase in sales of Financial Services Business (up 4.5% to $12.00 billion) and the Movie Business (up 5.1% to $9.33 billion) and Imaging Products and Solution (up 52.6% to $9.09 billion) and Music Business (up 8.1% to $7.74 billion) and Eliminations and Corporate (up 71.2% to $192.30 million) .