SONY Sony Group Corp

NEUTRAL Impact: 2/10 Insider Cluster (2 insiders)
Horizon immediate Filed May 19, 2026 Processed 21d 14h ago
Insider cluster: 2 insiders, $9.4M total
Latest settled — T+5d
SONY ▼ -3.73% at T+5d
NEUTRAL call ✗ call lost -3.73% · α vs SPY -5.98% · entry $22.76 → $21.91
Next anchor: T+20d in 7d
Last close $22.15 (close Jun 8) · -2.68% from $22.76 entry
Entry anchored
May 19, 12:26 PM ET
via Databento tick
T+1d
+0.26%
call +0.26% · α -0.78%
$22.82
settled 21d ago
T+5d
-3.73%
call -3.73% · α -5.98%
$21.91
settled 14d ago
T+20d
call — · α —
in 7d
T+60d
call — · α —
in 2mo

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Executive Summary

A Sony director and CDO sold $9.44M in open-market stock on May 18, 2026, following option exercises at much lower strike prices. The director's $9.04M sale is the largest insider sale at Sony in recent memory and represents roughly 0.007% of the $136.8B market cap — a trivial amount for a mega-cap. The cluster is a textbook option-exercise-then-sell pattern, not a sign of bearish conviction. The transactions are immaterial relative to company size and carry no actionable directional signal.

Key Financial Metrics

Direction
selling
Total Value
$9.4M
Insiders
2

Actionable Insight

No actionable bearish signal. This is a routine option-exercise liquidation by two insiders on the same day. The dollar amount is trivial for a $137B company. Ignore for trading purposes.

Key Facts

  • Director Yoshida Kenichiro sold 400,000 shares on May 18 for $9.04M, after exercising 200,000 options at $14.49 and 200,000 at $0 on May 13.
  • CDO Kodera Tsuyoshi sold 17,500 shares for $396K on May 18, after exercising 17,500 options at $4.28 and 17,500 at $0 on May 13.
  • Total open-market sale value of $9.44M equals ~0.007% of Sony's $136.8B market cap — noise level.
  • Both insiders exercised and sold simultaneously, consistent with a planned 10b5-1 or vesting/settlement pattern, not opportunistic selling.
  • Previous model reports on Sony (n=1) had a T+20 -12.2% return, but that single prior is from a different filing type and is not predictive here.

Financial Impact

Total insider selling of $9.44M is ~0.007% of market cap — economically negligible.

insider holdings

Risk Factors

  • No material risks identified from this insider activity.

Market Snapshot

Exchange
OTC
Sector
Household Audio & Video Equipment
Analyst Consensus
94% bullish (31 analysts)

Documents Analyzed

This report is based on 1 SEC document filed with EDGAR.

DocumentAccession Number
CLUSTER Data (Synthetic)cluster-SONY-1779208024748
2 reports for SONY
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May 19, 2026
21d ago
Insider Cluster
NEUTRAL ★ 2/10
$22.76 $21.91▼ −3.73%▼ −5.98%$22.15 (−2.68%)
Feb 28, 2026
14w ago
Institutional Cluster
BULLISH ★ 6/10
$22.69 $21.62▼ −4.72%▼ −3.51%$22.15 (−2.38%)
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