In today’s recent session, 2.55 million shares of the Sony Group Corporation ADR (NYSE:SONY) have been traded, and its beta is 0.97. Most recently the company’s share price was $26.23, and it changed around -$0.33 or -1.24% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $158.04B. SONY at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $26.60, offering almost -1.41% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $15.67, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 40.26% since then. We note from Sony Group Corporation ADR’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 8.29 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 6.51 million.
Sony Group Corporation ADR stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.71. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 8 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 2 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 1 recommended SONY as a Hold, whereas 5 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.
Sony Group Corporation ADR (NYSE:SONY) trade information
Instantly SONY has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -1.24% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 26.60 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 1.39%. The company’s shares are currently up 23.96% year-to-date, but still up 1.67% over the last five days. On the other hand, Sony Group Corporation ADR (NYSE:SONY) is 3.76% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 8.26 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 1.33 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $21, which translates to bulls needing to decrease their stock price by -24.9% from its current value. Analyst projections state that SONY is forecast to be at a low of $20.4 and a high of $21.6.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 7.37%. Sony Group Corporation ADR earnings are expected to increase by -0.80% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 3.10% per year for the next five years.
SONY Dividends
Sony Group Corporation ADR’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-May-13. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 0.25 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.07. It is important to note, however, that the 0.25% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 0.58 per year.
Sony Group Corporation ADR (NYSE:SONY)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.00% of Sony Group Corporation ADR shares, and 7.96% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 7.96%. Sony Group Corporation ADR stock is held by 885.0 institutions, with PRIMECAP MANAGEMENT CO/CA/ being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 1.7576% of the shares, which is about 21.49 million shares worth $1.83 billion.
ARISTOTLE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC, with 0.8779% or 10.73 million shares worth $911.91 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
VANGUARD CHESTER FUNDS-Vanguard PRIMECAP Fund and VANGUARD WINDSOR FUNDS-Vanguard Windsor II Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Dec 31, 2024 . The former held 62.98 shares worth $1.65 billion, making up 1.02% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD WINDSOR FUNDS-Vanguard Windsor II Fund held roughly 14.38 shares worth around $377.56 million, which represents about 0.23% of the total shares outstanding.
