78/100BSony Group company profile
- CEO
- Hiroki Totoki
- Employees
- 94,900
- Headquarters
- 1-7-1 Konan, Tokyo, TY 108-0075, JP
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Consumer Electronics
- IPO date
- 1 Dec 1958
- Stock exchange
- NYSE
- ISIN
- US8356993076
Website:sony.com
About the company
Sony Group Corporation is a global conglomerate engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and distribution of diverse electronic equipment, instruments, and devices. Its offerings serve consumer, professional, and industrial segments across Japan, the United States, Europe, China, the Asia-Pacific region, and other international territories. Beyond hardware, Sony is a major player in interactive entertainment, offering home and portable game consoles, packaged software, and peripheral devices. It also leverages digital networks for the distribution of software titles, add-on content, and various online services encompassing gaming, video, and music. The company further maintains a robust entertainment division, encompassing the development, production, marketing, and distribution of recorded music, alongside music publishing. It also creates and disseminates animated content, game applications, and a spectrum of services supporting its music and visual offerings. Moreover, Sony's extensive media operations include producing, acquiring, and distributing a wide array of motion pictures—both live-action and animated—for cinematic release. It also develops and broadcasts numerous television programs, including scripted and animated series, unscripted reality shows, light entertainment, daytime serials, game shows, TV movies, and miniseries. Supporting these endeavors, Sony operates visual effects and animation departments, manages studio facilities, and runs television and digital networks, along with post-production services. Sony's technological prowess is evident in its research, development, design, production, marketing, distribution, sales, and servicing of a broad spectrum of specialized electronics. This portfolio features televisions, audio/video equipment, a range of cameras (interchangeable lens, compact digital, consumer, and professional video), projectors, and medical devices. Additionally, it offers mobile phones, tablets, accessories, and applications, alongside crucial semiconductor components such as metal oxide semiconductor image sensors, charge-coupled devices, and integration systems. Furthermore, Sony diversifies its offerings with Internet broadband network services, various recording and storage media products, and a suite of financial services including life and non-life insurance and banking. It also develops and disseminates digital content tailored for personal computers and mobile platforms. Established in 1946, the entity initially operated as Sony Corporation before adopting its current designation, Sony Group Corporation, in April 2021. The global headquarters for the conglomerate are situated in Tokyo, Japan.
Employees
Sony Group had about 94,900 employees at the end of fiscal year 2025 (31 March 2026), by its annual report. That is 15.5% fewer than a year before.
Employees at each fiscal year end, as the company reports them in its annual report (10-K); revenue and net income per employee are the fiscal year's over that count.
Who owns Sony Group
Institutions such as funds, banks and insurers held 7.9% of Sony Group's shares on 30 June 2026, 780 of them reporting holdings to the SEC; the rest is held by individual investors and other shareholders.
Shares free to trade
Closely held shares belong to insiders, founders and owners of more than 5%, and seldom change hands. The free float is the rest: the shares anyone can buy and sell.
Common questions about Sony Group
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