Electronic Arts (EA) Stock Forecast, Price & News

23 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Electronic Arts in the last twelve months. There are currently 12 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" EA shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in EA, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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23 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Electronic Arts' stock. Their EA share price forecasts range from $112.00 to $152.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $136.88 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 6.9% from the stock's current price.
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Electronic Arts' stock was trading at $122.18 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, EA stock has increased by 4.8% and is now trading at $128.00.
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Electronic Arts saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 5,800,000 shares, an increase of 34.3% from the April 30th total of 4,320,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,180,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.7 days. Currently, 2.3% 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, August 1st 2023.
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Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May, 9th. The game software company reported ($0.04) earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.31 by $1.35. The game software company had revenue of $1.95 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.73 billion. Electronic Arts had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 16.42% and a net margin of 10.80%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 11.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.82 EPS.
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Electronic Arts announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, May 8th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, May 31st will be given a dividend of $0.19 per share on Wednesday, June 21st. This represents a $0.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.59%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, May 30th.
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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), iShares Future Metaverse Tech and Communications ETF (IVRS), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Communication Services ETF (EWCO), VanEck Video Gaming and eSports ETF (ESPO), First Trust S-Network Streaming and Gaming ETF (BNGE) and WBI BullBear Quality 3000 ETF (WBIL).

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.60%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 26.48%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EA will have a dividend payout ratio of 13.26% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Electronic Arts issued an update on its FY24 earnings guidance on Tuesday, May, 9th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.30-3.81 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.31. The company issued revenue guidance of $7.3-7.7 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $7.54 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 many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (8.78%), State Street Corp (4.71%), Wellington Management Group LLP (3.35%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.12%), Ameriprise Financial Inc. (1.97%) and Independent Franchise Partners LLP (1.65%). 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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Shares of EA stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of EA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $128.00.

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) has a market capitalization of $35.10 billion and generates $7.43 billion in revenue each year. The game software company earns $802 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.87 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 13,400 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.