Electronic Arts Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:EA)

24 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Electronic Arts in the last year. There are currently 10 hold ratings and 14 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" EA shares.
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24 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for Electronic Arts' shares. Their EA share price targets range from $112.00 to $162.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $141.75 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.4% from the stock's current price.
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Electronic Arts' stock was trading at $122.18 at the beginning of the year. Since then, EA shares have increased by 12.2% and is now trading at $137.14.
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Electronic Arts saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,870,000 shares, an increase of 36.3% from the October 31st total of 2,840,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,040,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.9 days. Approximately 1.6% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 30th 2024.
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Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 1st. The game software company reported $1.00 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.82 by $0.18. The game software company had revenue of $1.82 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.77 billion. Electronic Arts had a net margin of 13.08% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.02%.

Electronic Arts declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 31st. Investors of record on Wednesday, November 29th will be paid a dividend of $0.19 per share on Wednesday, December 20th. This represents a $0.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.55%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, November 28th.
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Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.56%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 20.94%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EA will have a dividend payout ratio of 13.06% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) stock in their portfolio include Roundhill Video Games ETF (NERD), Global X Video Games & Esports ETF (HERO), Invesco Dynamic Software ETF (PSJ), VanEck Video Gaming and eSports ETF (ESPO), iShares Future Metaverse Tech and Communications ETF (IVRS), ProShares On-Demand ETF (OND), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Communication Services ETF (EWCO) and Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Communication Services ETF (RSPC).

Electronic Arts issued an update on its FY24 earnings guidance on Wednesday, November, 1st. The company provided EPS guidance of $4.10 to $4.66. for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.89. The company issued revenue guidance of $7.3-7.7 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $7.57 billion.

1,102 employees have rated Electronic Arts Chief Executive Officer Andrew Wilson on Glassdoor.com. Andrew Wilson has an approval rating of 88% among the company's employees. 85.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Electronic Arts to a friend.

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

Electronic Arts' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.68%), Invesco Ltd. (1.55%), Ninety One UK Ltd (1.51%), Morgan Stanley (1.26%), Wellington Management Group LLP (1.25%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.18%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew Wilson, Blake J Jorgensen, Chris Bruzzo, Eric Charles Kelly, Jacob J Schatz, Jacob J Schatz, Jay C Hoag, Jay C Hoag, Kenneth A Moss, Laura Miele, Luis A Ubinas, Luis A Ubinas, Matthew Bilbey, Richard A Simonson, Stuart Canfield and Vijayanthimala Singh.
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