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. Investors of record on Thursday, March 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.37 per share on Thursday, May 9th. This represents a yield of 0.83%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 27th. This is an increase from Activision Blizzard's previous annual dividend of $0.34. View Activision Blizzard's Dividend History.

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The company reported $0.32 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.23 by $0.09. The firm earned $1.21 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.15 billion. Activision Blizzard had a net margin of 23.66% and a return on equity of 13.91%. Activision Blizzard's quarterly revenue was down 27.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business 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 EPS guidance of $1.60-2.17 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus 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 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Activision Blizzard's stock. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $72.00. On average, they expect Activision Blizzard's stock price to reach $61.83 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 3.9% from the stock's current price. 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, 4 hold ratings, 21 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Activision Blizzard.

Media stories about ATVI stock have been trending very negative on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. 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 media sentiment score of -3.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Activision Blizzard.

Activision Blizzard saw a decrease in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 25,340,000 shares, a decrease 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 short-interest ratio is presently 4.1 days. Currently, 3.4% of the shares of the company are sold short. 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 a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include DNB Asset Management AS (0.28%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.28%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.23%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.13%), Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI (0.10%) and KAMES CAPITAL plc (0.09%). 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, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Columbus Circle Investors, Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL, Marathon Asset Management LLP, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including California Public Employees Retirement System, DNB Asset Management AS, Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A., KAMES CAPITAL plc, Grassi Investment Management, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Penn Davis Mcfarland Inc. and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank. 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 $59.51.

Activision Blizzard has a market capitalization of $45.72 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]