Earnings To Watch: Electronic Arts (EA) Reports Q4 Results Tomorrow

Video game publisher Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday after market close. Here’s what investors should know.

Electronic Arts beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.84 billion, down 9.2% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Electronic Arts’s revenue to grow 25% year on year to $2.35 billion, a reversal from the 3.2% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $4.80 per share.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Electronic Arts has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.

Looking at Electronic Arts’s peers in the consumer internet segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Meta delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 23.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.5%, and Netflix reported revenues up 17.6%, topping estimates by 0.7%. Meta traded up 10.6% following the results while Netflix was down 2.2%.

Read our full analysis of Meta’s results here and Netflix’s results here.

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