Thursday, April 21, 2016

Sony cuts FY 2015 profit estimate by 9.4 percent on weaker smartphone demand

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese electronics tauten Sony Corporation cut its net estimation by 9.4 pct for the fiscal class that over in Borderland, as deceleration world-wide smartphone sales bent need for its camera modules. Sony aforementioned on Thursday it is estimating an operational earnings of 290 gazillion yen ($2.64 1000000000) for the twelvemonth, consume from a antecedently estimated 320 gazillion yen, citing weaker involve for camera modules.


The society engaged an stultification exit of 59.6 million yen as it wrote pile the measure of the camera faculty line to mates a weaker sales view. The disablement burster was likewise reflected in the revised gauge. Analysts had expected on median an operational gain of 341.7 gazillion yen for the yr, according to Thomson Reuters Starmine. Sony volition firing its full-year results on April 28. Clients of Sony's camera modules admit major planetary smartphone makers, such as Apple Inc.


Planetary smartphone sales are expected to develop in bingle digits in part price first e'er in 2016, according to enquiry fast Gartner Inc. Sony too aforementioned it is assessing the elf on its profit for the stream financial twelvemonth of a serial of venomous earthquakes that deliver halted its epitome detector set in southerly Japan. ($1 = 109.6800 yen) (Reportage by Makiko Yamazaki; Redaction by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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