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 given 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 (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.19 by $0.04. The firm earned $2.71 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.68 billion. Activision Blizzard had a return on equity of 13.16% and a net margin of 23.18%. Activision Blizzard's quarterly revenue was down 4.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.84 earnings per share. 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 estimate of $1.81. The company issued revenue guidance of $6.725 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.92 billion.

26 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Activision Blizzard's shares. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $76.00. On average, they expect Activision Blizzard's stock price to reach $64.58 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.8% 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 stories about ATVI stock have trended negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research group identifies negative and positive media 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 negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Activision Blizzard earned a news sentiment score of -2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely 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 decrease in short interest during the month of February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 18,030,000 shares, a decrease of 28.9% from the January 30th total of 25,360,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 6,030,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.0 days. Approximately 4.3% of the shares of the stock 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), 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%), Capital International Investors (7.43%), Capital World Investors (6.96%), State Street Corp (4.34%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.47%) and Capital Research Global Investors (1.14%). Company insiders that own Activision Blizzard stock include 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., 1832 Asset Management L.P., Capital Research Global Investors, Capital World Investors and Panagora Asset Management Inc.. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Capital International Investors, Aspex Management HK Ltd, AO Asset Management LP, Boston Partners, AJO LP, Janus Henderson Group PLC and State Street Corp. 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 $59.37.

Activision Blizzard has a market capitalization of $45.61 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.

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]