NASDAQ:EA - Electronic Arts Stock Price, Price Target & More

Electronic Arts trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "EA."

Electronic Arts announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Sunday, June 4th 2017, which allows the company to repurchase $1,200,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 45% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are usually a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August, 2nd. The game software company reported $0.07 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.02) by $0.09. The game software company earned $682 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $652.64 million. Electronic Arts had a net margin of 20.25% and a return on equity of 28.51%. Electronic Arts's revenue for the quarter was down 1.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.15 earnings per share. View Electronic Arts' Earnings History.

Electronic Arts is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July, 26th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Electronic Arts.

Electronic Arts updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, May, 8th. The company provided EPS guidance of ~$3.55 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $4.11. The company issued revenue guidance of ~$5.55 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $5.61 billion.Electronic Arts also updated its Q1 guidance to ~$0.64 EPS.

24 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Electronic Arts' stock. Their forecasts range from $104.00 to $158.00. On average, they expect Electronic Arts' share price to reach $140.2727 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Electronic Arts.

Electronic Arts saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 7,053,293 shares, an increase of 34.2% from the April 30th total of 5,254,886 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,425,027 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.6 days. Currently, 2.3% of the shares of the company are short sold.

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Press coverage about EA stock has trended somewhat positive on Sunday, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Electronic Arts earned a news impact score of 0.10 on Accern's scale. They also gave news stories about the game software company an impact score of 46.63 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.

Electronic Arts' stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (7.41%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (2.52%), Northern Trust Corp (1.12%), American Century Companies Inc. (1.09%), Winslow Capital Management LLC (0.79%) and Carmignac Gestion (0.78%). Company insiders that own Electronic Arts stock include Andrew Wilson, Blake J Jorgensen, Chris Bruzzo, Denise Warren, Gabrielle B Toledano, Jacob J Schatz, Jay C Hoag, Joel Linzner, Kenneth A Barker, Kenneth A Moss, Laura Miele, Lawrence F Probst III, Leonard S Coleman Jr, Matthew Bilbey, Patrick Soderlund, Peter R Moore, Richard A Simonson, Samantha S Smith and Vijayanthimala Singh. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Electronic Arts.

EA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Maplelane Capital LLC, Scopus Asset Management L.P., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Interval Partners LP, Newbrook Capital Advisors LP, Boston Partners, Prudential Financial Inc. and The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company . Company insiders that have sold Electronic Arts company stock in the last year include Andrew Wilson, Blake J Jorgensen, Chris Bruzzo, Jacob J Schatz, Jay C Hoag, Joel Linzner, Kenneth A Barker, Kenneth A Moss, Lawrence F Probst III, Leonard S Coleman Jr, Matthew Bilbey, Patrick Soderlund and Vijayanthimala Singh. View Insider Buying and Selling for Electronic Arts.

EA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Carmignac Gestion, BlackRock Inc., Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Millennium Management LLC, Winslow Capital Management LLC, American Century Companies Inc., Franklin Resources Inc. and Park West Asset Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Electronic Arts.

Shares of EA 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of EA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $131.85.

Electronic Arts has a market capitalization of $40.46 billion and generates $5.15 billion in revenue each year. The game software company earns $1.04 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.44 on an earnings per share basis. Electronic Arts employs 8,800 workers across the globe.

Electronic Arts' mailing address is 209 REDWOOD SHORES PARKWAY, REDWOOD CITY CA, 94065. The game software company can be reached via phone at 650-628-1500 or via email at [email protected]