NASDAQ:ATVI - Activision Blizzard Stock Price, Forecast & News

Activision Blizzard trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ATVI."

Activision Blizzard announced an annual dividend on Wednesday, February 13th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, March 28th will be given a dividend of $0.37 per share on Thursday, May 9th. This represents a yield of 0.83%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, March 27th. This is a positive change from Activision Blizzard's previous annual dividend of $0.34. View Activision Blizzard's Dividend History.

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The company reported $0.32 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.23 by $0.09. The business had revenue of $1.21 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.15 billion. Activision Blizzard had a return on equity of 13.91% and a net margin of 23.66%. The company's revenue was down 27.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.52 earnings per share. View Activision Blizzard's Earnings History.

Activision Blizzard is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Activision Blizzard.

Activision Blizzard will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 6th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Activision Blizzard issued an update on its FY 2019 After-Hours earnings guidance on Monday, November, 25th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.60-2.17 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.21. The company issued revenue guidance of $$6.325-6.325 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $$6.37 billion.

27 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Activision Blizzard's stock. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $72.00. On average, they anticipate Activision Blizzard's share price to reach $61.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.0%. View Analyst Price Targets for Activision Blizzard.

27 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Activision Blizzard in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings, 20 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Activision Blizzard.

Headlines about ATVI stock have trended positive on Friday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Activision Blizzard earned a news impact score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Activision Blizzard.

Activision Blizzard saw a drop in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 25,340,000 shares, a drop of 6.3% from the December 15th total of 27,050,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 6,120,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.1 days. Currently, 3.4% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Activision Blizzard's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Activision Blizzard include Electronic Arts (EA), TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE (TTWO), Zynga (ZNGA), Glu Mobile (GLUU) and Rosetta Stone (RST).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Activision Blizzard investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Walt Disney (DIS), Micron Technology (MU), Netflix (NFLX), Paypal (PYPL), Starbucks (SBUX), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Adobe (ADBE) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Activision Blizzard's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include DNB Asset Management AS (0.28%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.28%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.07%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.05%), Community Trust & Investment Co. (0.04%) and Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.04%). Company insiders that own Activision Blizzard stock include Brian G Kelly, Brian M Stolz, Christopher B Walther, Collister Johnson, Dennis M Durkin, Riccardo Zacconi, Robert J Corti, Robert J Morgado and Stephen G Wereb. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Activision Blizzard.

ATVI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Manning & Napier Group LLC, Artemis Investment Management LLP, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Community Trust & Investment Co., IFM Investors Pty Ltd, First Hawaiian Bank, IFP Advisors Inc and Calamos Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have sold Activision Blizzard company stock in the last year include Brian M Stolz, Christopher B Walther, Collister Johnson and Robert J Morgado. View Insider Buying and Selling for Activision Blizzard.

ATVI stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including DNB Asset Management AS, Grassi Investment Management, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Penn Davis Mcfarland Inc., Deane Retirement Strategies Inc., Ingalls & Snyder LLC, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Appleton Partners Inc. MA. View Insider Buying and Selling for Activision Blizzard.

Shares of ATVI can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ATVI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $61.01.

Activision Blizzard has a market capitalization of $46.87 billion and generates $7.50 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $1.81 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.39 on an earnings per share basis. Activision Blizzard employs 9,900 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Activision Blizzard.

The official website for Activision Blizzard is http://www.activisionblizzard.com/.

Activision Blizzard's mailing address is 3100 OCEAN PARK BOULEVARD, SANTA MONICA CA, 90405. The company can be reached via phone at 310-255-2000 or via email at [email protected]