Electronic Arts Reports Strong Q2 FY21 Financial Results

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[{"type":"text","content":" REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nElectronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) today announced preliminary financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2020.\n\n“Thanks to the incredible work of our teams and everything they continue to do for players while working from home, we’re delivering more fan-favorite games, growing our leading live services, and engaging more players across more platforms than ever before,” said CEO Andrew Wilson. “Our business has grown significantly this year, and we are projecting continued expansion into FY22 and beyond.”\n\n“We delivered a quarter well above our guidance, driven by our live services, particularly Madden and FIFA. This resulted in a new record trailing twelve-month cash flow of $2.04 billion. We are pleased to announce a new share repurchase program and also to initiate a dividend for the first time in EA history,” said COO and CFO Blake Jorgensen. “We are on track to deliver strong growth this year and expect continued growth in fiscal 2022 and in the years to come. Apex Legends is on track to become our latest billion-dollar franchise by the end of the fiscal year. All of our studios continue to execute amazingly well and have enabled us to launch an industry-leading eight games since the beginning of the fiscal year, while continuing to deliver live services content and expand onto new platforms.”\n\nEA has posted a refreshed slide presentation and a financial model of EA’s historical results and guidance on EA’s IR website at www.ir.ea.com. EA will also post the prepared remarks and a transcript from the conference call on EA’s IR website. News and ongoing updates regarding EA and its games are available on EA’s blog at www.ea.com/news.\n\nSelected Operating Highlights and Metrics\n\n\nNet bookings* for the trailing twelve months was $5.577 billion, up 8% year-over-year.\n\n\nLaunched EA SPORTS™ UFC® 4, Madden NFL 21, Rocket Arena, and Star Wars™: Squadrons during the quarter.\n\n\nMadden NFL 21 has nearly 30% more players year-over-year.\n\n\nLife to date, FIFA 20 has reached nearly 35 million players on console and PC.\n\n\nEA Play now has more than 6.5 million paid subscribers.\n\n\nDuring the fiscal year, EA launched more than 125 games and content packs on the Steam platform.\n\n\n* Net bookings is defined as the net amount of products and services sold...

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