Dow Jones Newswires: Sony profit up 15%, boosted by image sensors, music business

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Sony Group Corp. said Friday that its fourth-quarter net profit rose 15% from a year earlier as greater earnings from its image sensors and music businesses helped offset weakness in the games and entertainment tech businesses.

The Japanese entertainment and electronics company SONY JP:6758 said that net profit for the quarter ended March 31 rose to 128.16 billion yen ($956.4 million) from Y111.08 billion a year earlier. That beat the estimate of Y71.23 billion from a poll of analysts by Visible Alpha.

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