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

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

Activision Blizzard declared an annual dividend on Thursday, February 6th. Investors of record on Wednesday, April 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.41 per share on Wednesday, May 6th. This represents a yield of 0.67%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, April 14th. This is a boost from Activision Blizzard's previous annual dividend of $0.37. View Activision Blizzard's Dividend History.

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 6th. The company reported $1.23 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.19 by $0.04. The firm earned $2.71 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.68 billion. Activision Blizzard had a return on equity of 13.16% and a net margin of 23.18%. The company's revenue was down 4.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.84 EPS. View Activision Blizzard's Earnings History.

Activision Blizzard is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 7th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Activision Blizzard.

Activision Blizzard issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 6th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.85 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $1.81. The company issued revenue guidance of $6.725 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.92 billion.

26 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Activision Blizzard's shares. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $76.00. On average, they expect Activision Blizzard's share price to reach $64.58 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Activision Blizzard.

26 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Activision Blizzard in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 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.

News headlines about ATVI stock have trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Activision Blizzard earned a daily sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Activision Blizzard.

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

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), Adobe (ADBE), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

Activision Blizzard's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (8.87%), State Street Corp (4.34%), Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (0.90%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.81%), Boston Partners (0.70%) and Sands Capital Management LLC (0.68%). 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 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 Ruffer LLP, CI Investments Inc., UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Panagora Asset Management Inc., Oakbrook Investments LLC, Honeycomb Asset Management LP and Fred Alger Management 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Aspex Management HK Ltd, AO Asset Management LP, Boston Partners, AJO LP, State Street Corp, California Public Employees Retirement System and DNB Asset Management AS. 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 $63.52.

Activision Blizzard has a market capitalization of $48.80 billion and generates $6.49 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $1.50 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.08 on an earnings per share basis. Activision Blizzard employs 9,900 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Activision Blizzard.