Electronic Arts - EA Stock Forecast, Price & News

22 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Electronic Arts in the last twelve months. There are currently 10 hold ratings and 12 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" EA shares.
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22 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Electronic Arts' stock. Their EA share price forecasts range from $112.00 to $158.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $135.54 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 19.4% from the stock's current price.
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Electronic Arts' stock was trading at $122.18 at the start of the year. Since then, EA stock has decreased by 7.1% and is now trading at $113.50.
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Electronic Arts saw a increase in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 4,380,000 shares, an increase of 9.0% from the February 13th total of 4,020,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,330,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.9 days. Approximately 1.7% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 9th 2023.
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Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January, 31st. The game software company reported $0.73 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $2.62 by $1.89. The game software company earned $2.34 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.50 billion. Electronic Arts had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 14.38% and a net margin of 14.08%. Electronic Arts's quarterly revenue was down 9.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $2.80 earnings per share.
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Electronic Arts announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 31st. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.19 per share on Wednesday, March 22nd. This represents a $0.76 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.67%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, February 28th.
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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), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Communication Services ETF (EWCO), First Trust S-Network Streaming and Gaming ETF (BNGE), ProShares On-Demand ETF (OND) and iShares Future Metaverse Tech and Communications ETF (IVRS).

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.67%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 20.49%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EA will have a dividend payout ratio of 15.90% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Electronic Arts updated its fourth quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Tuesday, January, 31st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.20-$1.40 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $2.22. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.68 billion-$1.77 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.22 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 trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "EA."

Electronic Arts' stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Amundi (2.38%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.08%), Ninety One UK Ltd (1.62%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (1.45%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (1.27%) and Morgan Stanley (1.16%). 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, Joel Linzner, Kenneth A Barker, Kenneth A Moss, Laura Miele, Lawrence F Probst III, Leonard S Coleman Jr, Luis A Ubinas, Luis A Ubinas, Matthew Bilbey, Richard A Simonson and Vijayanthimala Singh.
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One share of EA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $113.50.

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) has a market capitalization of $31.34 billion and generates $6.99 billion in revenue each year. The game software company earns $789 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.71 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 12,900 workers across the globe.

Electronic Arts' mailing address is 209 REDWOOD SHORES PARKWAY, REDWOOD CITY CA, 94065. The official website for the company is www.ea.com. The game software company can be reached via phone at (650) 628-1500, via email at ir@ea.com, or via fax at 650-628-1422.