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Sep 20, 2021 4:54 PM - Davit Kirakosyan
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) announced today the completion of its acquisition of Playdemic, a Manchester-based mobile games studio best known for its hit title Golf Clash, for $1.4 billion in cash.
Playdemic marks the company’s third major acquisition in recent months, following Codemasters, acquired in an all-cash deal with an implied enterprise value of $1.2 billion, and Glu Mobile for $2.1 billion in enterprise value.
The acquisition of Playdemic is expected to yield considerable synergies for EA, including a more extensive mobile and sports-rich product portfolio, an increased gaming footprint within Europe, and enhanced live service capabilities.
Taking into account the above-mentioned benefits for the company, analysts at Wedbush raised their estimates for 2022 from $6,164 million to $6,264 million for net bookings and from $5.95 to $6.11 for EPS. For 2023 the brokerage expects net bookings of $7,900 million (vs. prior $7,700 million) and EPS of $7.45 (vs. prior $7.25).
The analysts at Wedbush increased their price target on the company’s shares to $200 from $194, reiterating their outperform rating.
Sep 11, 2023 1:38 PM - Rajnish Katharotiya
Price to Earnings is one of the key metrics use to value companies using multiples. The P/E ratio and other multiples are relative valuation metrics and they cannot be looked at in isolation. One of the problems with the P/E metric is the fact that if we are in the peak of a business cycle, earni...
Sep 11, 2023 1:49 PM - Rajnish Katharotiya
Price-to-Earnings ratio is a relative valuation tool. It is used by investors to find great companies at low prices. In this post, we will build a Python script to calculate Price Earnings Ratio for comparable companies. Photo by Skitterphoto on Pexels Price Earnings Ratio and Comparable Compa...
Oct 17, 2023 3:09 PM - Davit Kirakosyan
Shares of VMware (NYSE:VMW) witnessed a sharp drop of 12% intra-day today due to rising concerns about China's review of the company's significant sale deal to Broadcom. Consequently, Broadcom's shares also saw a dip of around 4%. Even though there aren’t any apparent problems with the proposed solu...