Industry: Entertainment: Electronics: Video: Gaming (intendo Co. Ltd. Profile", 2011)
CEO [Current}: Satoru Iwata (intendo Co. Ltd. Profile", 2011)
Revenue [Fiscal Year Ended 31 March 2011]: US$12.91 billion ("Nintendo Co. Ltd. Key Statatistics", 2011).
Net Income [FY Ended 31 March 2011]: US$988.27 million ("Nintendo Co. Ltd. Key Statatistics", 2011).
Net Margin on Revenues [FY Ended 31 March 2011]: 7.7% (calculated from data obtained from "Nintendo Co. Ltd. Key Statatistics", 2011).
Summary: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=NTDOY.PK+Key+Statistics
Detailed: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/index.html
Nintendo Co. Ltd., as a going concern, is more than 120 years old. The Company is based in Japan; however, it has established wholly-owned subsidiaries, such as Nintendo of America, Inc., in major markets around the world. In the second decade of the 21st century, Nintendo competes generally in the entertainment sector of the global economy, with a specific focus on electronics-based entertainment in the video games industry. The Company has had industry-leading products from time-to-time; however, over the longer term, Nintendo's top products in term of market share have been in third place trailing the leading video games products of Sonly and Microsoft (Cool, 2011; Liu, 2010). The graphic presented below on this page illustrates this point.
As the data reflected in the graphic indicate, Nintendo's Game Cube trailed Sony's Play Station 2 and Microsoft's X-Box for most of the 2000-2007 period, while Nintendo's Wii trailed Sony's Play Station 3 and Microsoft's X-Box 360 through 2011. Nintendo is a much smaller (in terns of net total assets and revenue generation than is either of the Company's major competitors. Further, the source of almost all of Nintendo's revenue generation is the video games business. For Microsoft, however, the video games business is an important contr...