Guests play the EA Sports activities FC 25 sport in entrance of a placard with England’s midfielder Jude Bellingham on the Digital Arts sales space through the media day on the Gamescom video video games commerce truthful in Cologne, western Germany, on Aug. 21, 2024.
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Electronic Arts topped fiscal fourth-quarter bookings estimates Tuesday.
Shares rose about 7%.
Here is how the corporate did versus LSEG consensus estimates:
- Earnings: 98 cents per share. The determine is just not corresponding to analyst estimates
- Income (bookings): $1.80 billion vs. $1.56 billion anticipated
The online game maker mentioned it expects bookings to vary between $7.60 billion and $8 billion for the fiscal 2026 yr, forward of a StreetAccount estimate of $7.62 billion. Web bookings for the 2025 fiscal yr totaled $7.355 billion.
First-quarter bookings steering got here up in need of analyst expectations. EA expects the determine to vary between $1.175 billion and $1.275 billion, versus a $1.275 billion projection from analysts.
CEO Andrew Wilson mentioned that the corporate’s FC and Faculty Soccer video games contributed to a robust yr of bookings.
“As we glance to the longer term, we’re assured in our capability to execute throughout a deep pipeline — starting this summer season with the extremely anticipated reveal of ‘Battlefield,’ a pivotal step in delivering on our subsequent era of blockbuster leisure,” he wrote.
Web earnings for This autumn 2025 grew almost 40% to $254 million, or 98 cents a share, from 182 million, or 67 cents within the fourth quarter of This autumn 2024. For the yr, internet earnings totaled 1.12 billion, or $4.25 per share, down from $1.27 billion, or $4.68 per share final yr.
The corporate additionally introduced a 19-cent per share dividend.