Guests play the EA Sports activities FC 25 recreation 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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Digital Arts shares rose greater than 5% after the corporate topped fiscal fourth-quarter bookings estimates and issued upbeat steering.
Here is how the corporate did versus LSEG consensus estimates:
- Earnings per share: 98 cents. This determine isn’t akin to analysts’ estimates.
- Income (bookings): $1.80 billion vs. $1.56 billion anticipated
The online game maker stated it expects bookings to vary between $7.60 billion and $8 billion for fiscal 2026, forward of a StreetAccount estimate of $7.62 billion. Internet bookings for fiscal 2025 totaled $7.355 billion.
First-quarter bookings steering got here up wanting analysts’ 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 stated the corporate’s FC and School Soccer video games contributed to a powerful 12 months of bookings.
“As we glance to the long run, we’re assured in our potential 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.
Internet earnings for the fourth-quarter of 2025 grew almost 40% to $254 million, or 98 cents per share, from $182 million, or 67 cents per share, within the fourth quarter of 2024. For the 12 months, internet earnings totaled $1.12 billion, or $4.25 per share, down from $1.27 billion, or $4.68 per share, final 12 months.
The corporate additionally introduced a dividend of 19 cents per share.
