Activision Blizzard - ATVI Stock Forecast, Price & News

17 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Activision Blizzard in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 12 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" ATVI shares.
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17 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for Activision Blizzard's stock. Their ATVI share price forecasts range from $81.00 to $100.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $93.11 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 25.2% from the stock's current price.
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Activision Blizzard's stock was trading at $66.53 at the start of the year. Since then, ATVI stock has increased by 11.7% and is now trading at $74.34.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 2nd 2023.
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Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November, 2nd. The company reported $0.72 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.70 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $1.88 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.88 billion. Activision Blizzard had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.64% and a net margin of 22.75%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.66 EPS.
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Activision Blizzard announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 3rd. Investors of record on Friday, April 15th will be given a dividend of $0.47 per share on Friday, May 6th. This represents a $1.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.53%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, April 13th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.34.
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Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) pays an annual dividend of $0.47 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.63%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 12 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 22.07%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, ATVI will have a dividend payout ratio of 13.70% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Activision Blizzard issued an update on its fourth quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 17th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.06B-, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.21 billion.

128 employees have rated Activision Blizzard Chief Executive Officer Robert A. Kotick on Glassdoor.com. Robert A. Kotick has an approval rating of 50% among the company's employees. This puts Robert A. Kotick in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 59.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Activision Blizzard to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Activision Blizzard investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), PayPal (PYPL), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Micron Technology (MU), Tesla (TSLA), Salesforce (CRM) and Adobe (ADBE).

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

Activision Blizzard's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (7.79%), BlackRock Inc. (7.52%), State Street Corp (3.86%), Pentwater Capital Management LP (0.00%), Bluefin Capital Management LLC (0.00%) and UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. (0.83%). Insiders that own company stock include Armin Zerza, Brian G Kelly, Casey Wasserman, Christopher B Walther, Claudine Macartney, Collister Johnson, Daniel Alegre, Dennis M Durkin, Hendrik Hartong III, Jesse Yang, Peter J Nolan, Peter J Nolan and Robert J Morgado.
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One share of ATVI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $74.34.

Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) has a market capitalization of $58.18 billion and generates $8.80 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $2.70 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.13 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 9,800 workers across the globe.

Activision Blizzard's mailing address is 3100 OCEAN PARK BOULEVARD, SANTA MONICA CA, 90405. The official website for the company is www.activisionblizzard.com. The company can be reached via phone at (310) 255-2000, via email at ir@activision.com, or via fax at 310-255-2100.