PIF is on course to own 93% of the videogame maker, implying it needs to stump about $29 billion in addition to rolling over its existing stake.
Electronic Arts (EA) reported earnings 30 days ago. What's next for the stock?
The fund underperformed its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Index, during the third quarter. Videogame producer Electronic Art's was the top contributor during the period. Elevance Health was the top underperformer over the period.
Electronic Arts' shares outperformed the broader market during the period, driven by renewed investor confidence and momentum surrounding several high-profile product announcements. eBay's shares surged after reporting a strong second-quarter earnings report, bolstering confidence in the company's position in the marketplace. Elevance Health was the top underperformer over the period. Much of the decline through the period was in response to the company's second-quarter earnings announcement.
EA's Q2 earnings tumble 43.7% with $1.84B in revenues, as live services drop and margins contract.
Despite missing expectations for its second quarter, Wedbush analysts believe the focus remains on Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ:EA, ETR:ERT)'s (EA) pending, go-private transaction with an investor consortium led Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF). “We expect the transaction to go through with few regulatory hurdles," the analysts wrote in a note to clients on Wednesday.
While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Electronic Arts (EA) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended September 2025, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.
Electronic Arts (EA) came out with quarterly earnings of $1.21 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.27 per share. This compares to earnings of $2.15 per share a year ago.
Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ:EA, ETR:ERT) reported better-than-expected earnings for the fiscal second quarter, though net bookings and revenue were lower year-over-year. For the quarter ended September 30, net bookings were down 13% year-over-year at $1.818 billion, attributed by EA to the strength of the College Football 25 release in the year-ago period.
Electronic Arts missed Wall Street expectations for second-quarter bookings on Tuesday, weighed down by uncertain spending on its core sports portfolio, while the videogame publisher bets big on the new "Battlefield 6" title.
Get a deeper insight into the potential performance of Electronic Arts (EA) for the quarter ended September 2025 by going beyond Wall Street's top-and-bottom-line estimates and examining the estimates for some of its key metrics.
EA said its partnership with the NFL is expanding in an effort to boost the video-game maker's Madden NFL franchise and college-football offerings.