Los beneficios de SONY caen un 50%

Leo en Bloomberg.com (pagina especializada en economía), que SONY podría tener unos beneficios un 50% en el tercer cuarto del año... cayendo a 691$ millones desde los 1840$ millones del año pasado... practicamente la calderilla que yo llevo para almolzar todos los días (un poco menos, en realidad ;)).

Aquí os dejo parte de la noticia

Losses from games probably drove net income down to 84.1 billion yen ($691 million) in the three months ended Dec. 31, from a record 168.9 billion yen a year earlier, according to the median estimate of five analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Sales at Tokyo-based Sony, which reports earnings tomorrow, probably rose 9.6 percent to 3 trillion yen.

The results may highlight Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer's failure to fend off Nintendo, whose $250 Wii console outsells the PlayStation 3 by two-to-one. Sony may still exceed its full-year profit target because of a weaker yen, sales of Bravia televisions and growth at its movie unit.

"A drop in third-quarter results is largely expected on the games division. There's no surprise unless the company further reduces its profit forecasts,'' said Mitsushige Akino, who oversees $468 million in assets at Ichiyoshi Investment Management Co. in Tokyo. Akino doesn't recommend investors buy Sony stock "until the company improves its earnings.''