First of all, we say that Sony may just be a company under the Mitsui consortium, Samsung we generally do not only refer to Samsung's cell phones, or Samsung's electronics, but refers to the whole of Samsung, so from this point of view, Samsung Electronics compared to a Sony is obviously too much bigger.
As we all know, Samsung's presence in South Korea is very strong, and occupies the position of leader in various industries in the country, while in the field of semiconductor electronics and in the world's leading state. And many people also laugh that a Korean life is not able to escape taxes and Samsung.
And Samsung is also covered, including heavy industry, semiconductor hardware and some service industries, it can be said that Samsung is almost the South Korean economy, including a microcosm of industry.
For Sony, it may just be that the consumer electronics and sensors part of the world ranking is far from being pulled away from Samsung. If it is Sony's parent company, the Mitsui Group, then it can be completely and Samsung hard, such as we in the financial and insurance, commercial business real estate construction, mineral metallurgy, automotive, ship and oil, chemical machinery manufacturing, electronics and communications, light industrial distribution and warehousing, scientific research and intelligence transportation and so on, the Mitsui Group has a lot of enterprises in these industries!
So after Samsung Electronics occupies half of South Korea, we look at the Mitsui Group, we will find another behemoth, the Samsung Group has three of the world's top 500, respectively, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Property and Casualty. But if we compare the Mitsui Group, we will find that the world's top 500 companies are Toyota Motor Mitsui, Sumitomo Financial Group, Mitsui & Co. Toshiba, but also includes Sony and so on 8 top 500 companies.
At the same time, both of their respective fields have actually achieved the top level, for example, Samsung Electronics in the electronics industry is the absolute leader, but the Mitsui Group's Toyota in the automotive industry is also a world-class enterprise. However, the Mitsui Group has Sumitomo Mitsui Financial and Mitsui & Co. which are far inferior to Samsung.
The Korea-Japan semiconductor we also found the Korean semiconductor although very strong, but many key materials are still from Japan, which makes Samsung, including some of the South Korean semiconductor companies, in fact, is very difficult.
So if you take Sony alone to compare with Samsung, then of course Sony is at a disadvantage, you lie in saying that you are only an important branch in the Mitsui Group, which can be counted as one of the top eight, but the Mitsui Group also has seven Sony-level important enterprises. From the overall influence, including the core competitiveness, the Mitsui consortium are above Samsung.
Who is strong in terms of overall strength among Samsung, Sony, and Apple?
This is quite a level-headed question to ask, because all three are super companies, and they are loud and clear in the world, and even an ordinary person should have heard of these three names.
If these three companies are to be ranked, it's really hard to rank them.
First of all, Samsung is not the Samsung cell phone that we see, it also contains other industries, such as heavy industry, semiconductor, service industry and so on, it can be said that it is a super complex.
Samsung refers to a group, there are many branches below, and one of the largest is Samsung Electronics, that is, we are usually very familiar with that, mainly to cell phones, etc., one-sixth of South Korea's GDP is created by the Samsung Group, even if it is the South Korean government is also to Samsung respect and courtesy to the existence of three, Samsung a cough South Korea has to shake a little.
Samsung's three subsidiaries were selected by the U.S. "Fortune" magazine as the world's top 500 companies.
Secondly, Sony is also a powerful enterprise, Sony is the world's audio-visual, electronic games, communications products and information technology and other areas of the pioneer, but also the world's earliest research and development of portable digital products pioneers.
Three of the biggest: one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers, one of the three giants of the world's video game industry, and one of the six major U.S. Hollywood studios, all three of which are at the leading edge of the world.
But now the most familiar Sony phones have faded away, and Sony's lens sensors are one of the best in existence, and the ones we're most familiar with.
It's not for nothing that Sony has been dubbed "Sony Dafa" by the internet.
On July 19, 2018, the Fortune 500 list was released, and Sony was ranked 97th.
Finally, there's Apple, whose market capitalization surpassed $1 trillion in 2018 alone, and whose stock price set a new all-time high of $203.57.
Apple's main business is computer hardware, computer software, consumer electronics, digital publishing, cell phone digital and so on, now Apple's cell phone has become an arcade in the country, almost everywhere, and even some years ago, there are people in order to sell their kidneys for the sake of the iPhone, and queuing up all night is a child's playground.
In July 2019, it was selected as one of the 2019 Fortune 500, and for 11 consecutive years it has been honored on Fortune magazine's "World's Most Admired Companies" list.
If you had to rank these three companies, who do you think comes out on top, if I had to pick it would be Samsung, the empire.
Samsung > Sony > Apple!
Sony really brilliant this year, with 48 million Sony camera, captured the hearts of how many Chinese cell phones. However, even if it is excellent, Samsung immediately gave a better product, whether it is the Redmi note 8 pro will soon use 64 million Samsung camera, or the future of the 100 million 800 megapixel camera, Samsung really can not be ignored in terms of technology.
So is Samsung > Sony > Apple really accurate? We all know Samsung Electronics, not all of Samsung. Samsung Electronics is just a part of the Samsung Group, and for us, the most we know is just Samsung Electronics.
But you can't ignore the fact that this company, which started out selling fish, is now a behemoth, and this behemoth is not something that can be compared to ordinary businesses.
There is such a paragraph, describing Samsung, Samsung Group has 85 companies under the umbrella of nearly 70 countries and regions to establish nearly 300 legal persons and offices, with a total of more than 200,000 employees, its business involves a variety of fields, such as electronics, finance, machinery, chemistry, etc., look at a Samsung Group of companies classified:
Of course, we say that Sony is better than Samsung, and it is not that. Sony's shareholders are no match for Samsung. Yes, Sony also has shareholders, that is, the Mitsui Group, although the Sony Group is not the little brother of the Mitsui Group, but as the predecessor of the Sony Group, the Mitsui Group is indeed hidden among the strong, not weaker than Samsung.
And Sony, one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers, one of the world's three giants of the video game industry, one of the six major U.S. Hollywood studios, the actual performance is not as good as Samsung, but you can not ignore its achievements.
And why Apple is at the bottom of the list, because I think Apple is like Nokia at the moment, it will be replaced by emerging companies, and now Apple's decline, you can slowly see the end.
All you need to know is that Jobs' idol was Akio Morita, and that Jobs' ultimate ambition was to "build Apple into a company like Sony"!
I guess the subject's intention is certainly not to compare Apple's cell phone business, Samsung's cell phone business, and Sony's cell phone business, that's not comparable, it must be Apple & gt; Samsung & gt; Sony, where only revenue, profits, influence, not sales.
And if the comparison is Apple, Samsung Group, Sony Group. If this comparison is Samsung & gt; Sony & gt; Apple.
Let's start with the Samsung Group, which can be described in one sentence, that is, up to the aircraft and rockets, down to the tanks and submarines, as well as cannons, cell phones, chips, cars, which can be produced, as well as biomedicine, cosmetics, household goods, etc., it can be said that there is no Samsung can not be manufactured.
At present, the Samsung Group, including Samsung Electronics **** 79 companies, more than 230,000 employees, while the Samsung Group has three of the world's top 500 companies, respectively, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Insurance, Samsung C& T Corporation, respectively, ranked in the world's top 500, 15th, 426th, 444th.
In addition to this, the Samsung Group also has Samsung SDI, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Samsung Corning, Samsung Networks, Samsung Fire, Samsung Securities, Samsung Property & Casualty, Samsung Heavy Industries, Samsung Engineering, Samsung Aerospace, Samsung Military Industries, and Samsung Life.
And Sony's parent company, the Mitsui Group, is also the same existence as the Samsung Group, involved in finance and insurance, business and commercial real estate construction, mineral metallurgy automotive, ship and oil, chemical and mechanical manufacturing, electronics and communications, light industrial distribution and warehousing, scientific research, intelligence and transportation, and so on.
Everyday we understand Sony, just similar to the position of Samsung Electronics in the Samsung Group, only to do cell phones, CMOS chips, cameras and other digital electronic products.
As for Apple, although the market value is very high, but mainly cell phones are strong, in addition to the iOS series, iPad, macbook, etc., to be compared with the Samsung Group, Sony's parent company, the Mitsui Foundation, is a little worse.
Apple, Sony, Samsung as the U.S., Japan and South Korea star enterprise, its influence is even comparable to some countries. You can feel it from the 19-year earnings data.
Apple revenue of 1.84 trillion yuan, net profit of 390.2 billion yuan, market capitalization of 1.4 trillion U.S. dollars;
Samsung revenue of 1.37 trillion yuan, net profit of 164.7 billion yuan, market capitalization of 320 billion U.S. dollars;
Sony revenue of 551.1 billion yuan, net profit of 61.4 billion yuan, market capitalization of 76.9 billion U.S. dollars;
On the market value, Apple is hanging over Samsung. market capitalization, Apple is hanging over Samsung and Sony. But the business world is not purely about market capitalization. Here's a look at the hard and soft power of the big three.
Samsung
Samsung was founded in 1938, and today revenue accounts for 33% of all corporate revenue in South Korea, and 20% of South Korea's GDP.
Samsung phones, as we know them, belong to Samsung Electronics, part of the Samsung Group, which has 85 subsidiaries.
These include Samsung Life, the largest life insurance company in South Korea; Samsung Property & Casualty, the largest construction company in South Korea, a name you're not familiar with it's okay, but its works you must know: the Burj Dubai, the Kuala Lumpur Twin Towers, the Taipei 101 Building; what is even more frightening is that South Korea's largest arms dealer is also Samsung, yes, meaning that Samsung can also build tanks, armored vehicles, fighter jets.
There are three things a Korean cannot avoid: death, taxes, and Samsung.
A Korean's life looks like this: born in a Samsung hospital, attend a Samsung school, use Samsung electronics, work for a Samsung company, and die in a Samsung hospital ......
It's just that after 17 years, the Samsung empire seems to be going downhill, with profits plummeting; and recently exposed a lot of negative news, the myth can continue is not yet known.
Sony
Electronic products can rise to the level of user beliefs, in addition to Apple's estimate is only Sony, "Sony Dafa" really fragrant.
Although for various reasons, Sony's cell phone is almost dying, but Sony's other products are still flourishing.
From the smallest headphones to the largest broadcast trucks, if you want to buy, there is nothing that Sony can't make, and it's both useful and valuable.
It is said that in those days, with Sony's Walkman, the beautiful girls in the class will talk to you a few more words;
On the headset, whether it's noise-canceling, or Bluetooth, all kinds of lists are almost all the shadows of Sony;
5,000 dollars towards the top of the TV, Sony's sales are also far ahead of the game;
In addition, Sony's heavy weight circle of fans of God's weapon, the PS. When the game bully Nintendo pulled down the throne of the legendary host; I heard that the PS5 will soon be released, Sony fans can prepare the money bag;
Sony, not only electronic products, but also engage in audio and video oh. Many big IP rights are in the hands of Sony, such as Spider-Man, James Bond series, in addition to Sony music also with massive copyright, lying money.
As a result of the collapse of the cell phone business, and the elimination of products such as the Walkman, the ability of Sony electronics to enter the public eye is difficult to compare with Apple.
Apple
Not much more needs to be said about Apple. It's a company that constantly redefines various industries, computers, MP3s, cell phones, pads, watches, headphones ......
In many areas, it's not a pioneer, but every time it enters, a certain field tends to undergo a sea change.
If you want to talk about market capitalization, Apple is undoubtedly the first, and if you talk about the actual value, among the three companies, Samsung is undoubtedly the first. For the country and society, the least rooted is Apple. Samsung's importance in South Korea need not be mentioned, Sony's support for the world's electronics industry is not dispensable, the United States can not do without Loma, Boeing, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, but there is no Apple has nothing to do. After all, in addition to building consumer products, Apple does not have the ability to influence the country's economy and people's livelihood.
Apple is the best in terms of profit and market capitalization
Apple's cell phone shot
In recent years, Sony has been on a downward spiral, and frankly, it is not qualified to compete with the first echelon of Apple and Samsung. In terms of revenue and profits, Sony has long been second tier.
What are you comparing? Are you going to compare Apple and the entire Samsung group, Sony's entire group? Then there is no comparison, because Samsung, Sony, involved in too many industries.
Samsung involved in the industry: communications, electronics, chips, medical, education, construction, real estate, marine, aviation, livelihood, finance, e-commerce, agriculture and so on very many industries.
Sony is involved in the following industries: electronics, chips, communications, optical imaging, medical, aviation, finance and so on.
Apple is involved in a single industry.
You can only say that Apple is better than Samsung and Sony's subsidiaries in the same industry (market capitalization, earnings, revenue), but if you go and compare with Samsung and Sony's entire group, it makes no sense to take.
Say a little gossip, South Korean companies Samsung Group, the strength of the largest shareholder is the United States of America's major financial institutions and consortia on Wall Street.