Sony's operating income from continuing operations rose to ¥1.45 trillion in the year to March 2026

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On May 8, 2026, Sony Group filed a Form 6-K, the report a foreign company files with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, with its consolidated financial summary for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026. For continuing operations, which leave out the Financial Services business, sales were ¥12.48 trillion, against ¥12.03 trillion a year earlier. Operating income rose to ¥1.45 trillion from ¥1.28 trillion, and Sony counts its share of profit or loss from equity-method investments in that figure. Sony re-presented the year-earlier figures to match the current presentation.1^,2^,3^,4^,5^,6^,7^,8

Net income from continuing operations attributable to Sony's stockholders was ¥1.03 trillion for the year, down from ¥1.07 trillion. Counting the Financial Services business as well, the consolidated net loss was ¥302.5 billion, and the net loss attributable to stockholders ¥326.9 billion. Within discontinued operations, Sony recorded a ¥1.38 trillion loss when it reclassified the Financial Services business's accumulated other comprehensive income as part of the spin-off. The filing says this reclassification moves amounts between items within equity and does not affect total equity, cash flows, or profit or loss for continuing operations. The spin-off took effect on October 1, 2025: Sony paid shareholders a dividend in kind of Sony Financial Group shares, one for each Sony share, and held 16.40% of Sony Financial Group's shares as of that date.9^,3^,10^,11^,12^,13^,14^,15

Game & Network Services, the segment that covers digital software and add-on content, network services and home gaming products, reported operating income of ¥463.3 billion for the year, up from ¥414.8 billion. Its sales to external customers of digital software and add-on content rose to ¥2.42 trillion from ¥2.29 trillion, and network services sales rose to ¥763.1 billion from ¥669.9 billion. Sales to external customers of hardware and others, which includes home gaming consoles, packaged software, peripherals and first-party software for third-party platforms, fell to ¥1.39 trillion from ¥1.58 trillion. In the three months to March 31, 2026, the segment's operating income was ¥54.1 billion, against ¥92.7 billion in the same period a year earlier.16^,17^,3^,18^,19^,20^,21^,22^,23

In the same filing, Sony forecast sales of ¥12.3 trillion, operating income of ¥1.6 trillion and net income attributable to its stockholders of ¥1.16 trillion for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027. Its board also approved, on May 8, 2026, a buyback of up to 230 million shares for up to ¥500 billion, to run from May 11, 2026 to May 10, 2027. The summary is exempt from audit, the filing says, and it points readers to the earnings presentation disclosed the same day for an overview of the operating results, the forecast and the progress of Sony's mid-range plan.24^,1^,25^,26^,27^,28