EA Tees Up Battlefield Ea Sports for Strong Fiscal Q4

Electronic arts have announced strong preliminary results for the fourth fiscal quarter and the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025.

The CEO of EA, Andrew Wilson, said in a statement that EA SPORTS College Football and EA SPORTS FC led good results, with “historical Q4” for SIMS. EA is also preparing to reveal the new battlefield This summer game.

EA reported 7.355 billion dollars in clear reservations, while EA SPORTS has achieved another year in net reservations in the fiscal year 2025. The US football concession, MADDEN, exceeded one billion dollars in the net reservations in the 2015 fiscal year.

Analysts expected 91 cents per share in profits per share at revenues of $ 1.55 billion. For the fiscal year, analysts estimated profits of $ 4.17 per share at revenues of $ 7.15 billion. For the next quarter, analysts expect 33 cents of net income on $ 1.27 billion in revenues. For the next fiscal year, analysts expect a net income of $ 4.49 per share in revenues of $ 7.6 billion.

At EA SPORTS FC, the player liquefied dual numbers, starting with the game update in mid -January. This is important, as in the previous quarter, the results of the football game were not good (growth in the middle of the numbers), which led to the sale of arrows. Dragon era: The Veilguard He was also absent from the goals in the last quarter, with only 1.5 million copies for much higher expectations.

Another luminous point was Split Fitch, which is the EA Partners game from Josef Wases’ Hazelight with a smart cooperative approach from a screen from a screen, which has sold nearly four million units since its very successful launch in March. The former EA Partners won the Hazelight, and it takes two, in the game in 2021, and more than 20 million copies were sold. Fantasy It is like that it is very fun with a good story.

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“The amazing success of university football and the permanent power of FC led to another record year for EA SPORTS, while SIMS has crowned fiscal year 25 with a historic Q4,” Wilson said in a statement. “While we look forward to the future, we are confident of our ability to implement through a deep pipeline – starting this summer with the very expected disclosure of the battlefield, which is a pivotal step in fulfilling the coming generation of scent entertainment.”

“The Q4 is a strong termination of FY25, with widespread momentum across the wallet that defines the business of rapid growth,” Stewart Canfield, EA’s financial manager, said in a statement. “With our entry into the fiscal year 26, we continue to focus on the disciplined implementation and we are building towards a list of the leading upcoming versions.”

For her twenty -fifth birthday, SIMS concession continues its strong momentum with double numbers in a quarter.

The most prominent events and standards

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The net revenue for the fiscal year amounted to $ 25.463 billion. The net cash provided by operational activities reached $ 549 million per quarter and 2.079 billion dollars for the fiscal year.

EA reconfigured 9.8 million shares for $ 1.375 billion during this quarter, which led to the total fiscal year to 17.6 million shares for $ 2.500 billion. EA has announced quarterly cash profits of the company’s joint share. The profits distributions are pushed on June 18, 2025 to the shareholders from the registry from the end of the work on May 28, 2025.

Business expectations

Fiscal year 2026 forecasts

As of May 6 for the company, for the fiscal year 2026, EA expects about $ 7.600 billion to $ 8,000
one billion.

The growth of net reservations on an annual basis in the fiscal year 2026 is expected to be driven by the EA SPORTS, SIMS, and the launch of the battlefield and ski yard, and it is partially met by about 5 points of weakness in the legends of the catalog and APEX. EA does the largest test ever for players Battlefield gameWith a lot of official leaks and extracts that show some amazing work scenes and destruction in the game.

EA expects continuous growth in live services, in addition to launching new annual nicknames in the fiscal year 2027.

In terms of financial standards, EA said that net revenue is expected to reach 7,100 billion dollars to 7,500 billion dollars. The change in the net revenue (online enabled games) is expected to be $ 500 million.

EA said that GAAP operating expenses are expected to range about $ 4.470 billion to $ 4.570 billion. The increases in expenditures are due to a largely extent to the costs of marketing the battlefield.

The net income is expected to be about 795 million dollars to 974 million dollars. It is expected that the reduced profits of the share are about $ 3.09 to $ 3.79.

The operating cash flow is expected to be about $ 2.200 billion to $ 2,400 billion. The company estimates the number of shares of 257 million for the purposes of calculating reduced profits per share.

The company intends to return at least 80 % of the free cash flow, with shares redistribution and profit distributions during the fiscal year 2027. EA repeated the financial margin frame during the 2027 fiscal year.
On the investor day in September 2024.

Q1 Fiscal Year 2026 forecasts – for the quarter ending on June 30, 2025

The net reservations are expected to range about $ 1.175 billion to $ 1.275 billion. The growth of direct services, with the exception of APEX legends, is expected to rise from low on an annual basis led by the EA SPORTS portfolio, corresponding to about 5 points of the opposite winds of Apex Legends and two points of the opposite wind of the catalog.

On the financial side, net revenue is expected to reach $ 1.550 billion to $ 1.650 billion. The change in net revenue (online supports games) is expected to be about ($ 375) million dollars.

GAAP operating expenses are expected to range about $ 1.110 billion to $ 1.120 billion. Expenditures are affected in the first quarter through continuous investments in line with the Q4 FY25, as well as the costs associated with resource reintegration.

The net income is expected to range from $ 125 million to 169 million dollars. It is expected that the reduced profits of the share are about 49 cents to 66 cents. The company estimates the number of shares of 255 million for the purposes of calculating reduced profits per share.

The quarterly/annual financial points

The total EA revenue for the quarter ended on March 31, 2025, 1.895 billion dollars, including $ 437 million of the full game revenue and $ 1.458 billion in live service and other revenues. A year ago, net revenues amounted to $ 1.779 billion, including $ 333 million in full games revenue and $ 1.446 billion in live service and other revenues.

The net income reached $ 254 million, or 98 cents per share, compared to $ 182 million, or 67 cents per share for the same quarter in the previous year.

For the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025, net revenues amounted to 7.463 billion dollars, including $ 2.002 billion in game full revenues, $ 5.461 billion in live services and other revenues. A year ago, net revenues amounted to 7.562 billion dollars, including $ 2.015 billion in full game revenues, $ 5.547 billion of live services and other revenues.