CIKShock Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 (edited) Well, i guess Activison is still down less than EA (% wise). But that is still likely due to good news for Activison and poor news for EA (CFO leaving). Edited February 10, 2012 by CIKShock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typeslice Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Activision might be stable atm... Wow was only down 100k subs when industry expected 700k. But mostly down on any bad news from Europe. (Also good days to buy imo ) Last i checked, Activision had traded down about 1.5% today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obiwansghost Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I never played WOW but why are you picking on them? Why? Because, according you to, if a companies stock drops below the 52 week low, the company is failing. Which is false. Activision's I year target is $15, the market value is 14 BILLION dollars. Electronic Arts 1 year target is $26 and the market value is 5 BILLION dollars. So, tell me which company is more successful? Oh and I'm not picking on WoW, I'm pointing out that a similar post on the WoW forums would have you running away and crying to your mommy. WoW players have heard the same thing for many years. OH NO! A new MMO is coming out and is going to be the WoW-killer. I don't play WoW either, but let me tell you, I have respect for the game. It has become very successful and retains its insanely large sub base and there hasn't been a WoW killer since launch. I will admit that I have no knowledge of the stock market, but I also do not make very uneducated guesses about such things either. I honestly believe the devs are not all sitting around a computer biting their nails hoping the stock price will jump another 25 cents. Perhaps if any of them own any stock, but still not likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakain Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Madcuzbad's trolling could use some work, he's going to get banned quickly at this rate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typeslice Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 One of the hedge funds that I work with ($15B AUM) has short positions in both EA and Activision. Guess which one made money lately. Doesn't matter though...there's enough smart ppl out there who can see through the hype and marketing and understand a business's ability to generate true value and in turn profit and whether that ability is trending up or down. Also see, Groupon. They probably both made money today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MackumDog Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Oh come on look at the bigger picture. 1. Europe Is about to go bust 2. War in the middle east is getting more likely 3. Everyone under 20 hasnt got a job ...or the news would have you think 4. The West is in depression 5. There is a bug on Alderan causing Jedi's to get stuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rouge Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 January videogame sales collapsed 34 % in US compared to those a year before, to 750 million USD from 1140 million USD. Of course EA's stock was influenced by that. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/02/video-game-sales-january-2012.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eklipzze Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Wow!! The stock crept below its 52 week low today. This is not what investors had hoped to see on the heels of the biggest game release of the year. Not good, hope things change here. http://investor.ea.com/stockquote.cfm Yet another "end of the world" and "this game is failing" post. You guys are boring me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeda Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Are people really this dumb? Stocks go up and down all the time for ALL companies for all sorts of reasons, I like how some of these Einsteins seem to think EA stock is tied exclusively to SWTOR lol.. Right now with the issues in Greece almost all stocks today are dropping... Please stop making posts like this, I'm embarrassed for you.. Stock goes up then its all because SWTOR is the greatest game in the world. Stock goes down its because of greece. Gotcha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaltom Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Stock goes up then its all because SWTOR is the greatest game in the world. Stock goes down its because of greece. Gotcha. Please link a thread where the poster claimed that EA's stock rose SOLELY because TOR is doing well in sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rouge Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 (edited) Stock goes up then its all because SWTOR is the greatest game in the world. Stock goes down its because of greece. Gotcha. No, it goes down because videogame sales - largely console game sales - overall "collapsed" in US of A. Edited February 10, 2012 by Rouge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleeha Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 http://research.tdameritrade.com/public/stocks/news/story.asp?docKey=4018-B330DAC253F711E1A6A2002128040CF6-5QQR5C4BHVPSR6GRL1OIQH7T8Q This is what you should be reading and it doesn't just effect EA. Moreover, when you look at the EA stock if you notice that the stock has a historical volatility of 43%, the current market volatility is within norms. There isn't a current P/E for this stock but the Beta is 1.2 which isn't bad. I'd say that this is a buy stock right now when you look at the market as a whole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balrizangor Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Crap, it went back up again, I should have bought 100k shares when it was at 16.80, I would have made $42,000 !!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink_Saber Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Stock goes up then its all because SWTOR is the greatest game in the world. Stock goes down its because of greece. Gotcha. Right. Because every time the stock goes up some troll posts here about how it's related to this game. Nope, sorry, but it's always the "SWTOR is fail" trolls who do this. The only time I've seen otherwise was last time there was a long thread just like this one implying that this game was the reason for a drop in the stock market, and the next day when it went back up a few people decided to rub it in that guy's face -- and I think he'd earned that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden_Dissent Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 how much was this plummet exactly? was it like 15 dollars to 14 dollars or like 100 dollars down to 2 dollars? I'm not going to read any graphs or click links to things that are over my head because I have no interest in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typeslice Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Stock goes up then its all because SWTOR is the greatest game in the world. Stock goes down its because of greece. Gotcha. They day when EA traded up (to which you're referring) was directly related to the press release that morning on SWTOR numbers. That's not fanboyish, its just ovious. Today the whole industry is trading down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MackumDog Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 stock went up because Chuck Norris Logged in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeda Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Please link a thread where the poster claimed that EA's stock rose SOLELY because TOR is doing well in sales. here is one http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=264503&highlight=stocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantragk Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 here is one http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=264503&highlight=stocks I haven't seen such pwnage in a while D; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferroz Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Oh and, TOR IS the fastest growing MMO...ever. WoW did not have 1.7 million subs within a month of vanilla launch.Meh, wow has already done most of the work of growing the genre. When wow released, EQ was the #1 western MMORPG (lineage and lineage 2 were bigger but have a very different market). Wow eclipsed EQ in ~3-4 months. Tor is a long way from eclipsing wow in 3 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink_Saber Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 (edited) how much was this plummet exactly? The stock has "plummeted" a staggering 3.3%. Blizzard's, by comparison, has increased by a healthy -2.3% so far today. Edited February 10, 2012 by Pink_Saber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaltom Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 (edited) here is one http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=264503&highlight=stocks Thank you very much. That's all I was asking for. In this instance you are right. I don't personally think EA's stock, good or bad, it connected to TOR directly. Too many things cause stocks to raise and fall. I haven't seen such pwnage in a while D; I asked for a link then s/he provided it. How is that "pwnage"? Edited February 10, 2012 by Thaltom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTijger Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Uh...its up to 17.35 now....so is the TS goimg to make a topic how the price skyrocketed now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MackumDog Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Uh...its up to 17.35 now....so is the TS goimg to make a topic how the price skyrocketed now? Chuck Norris created a Trooper...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyraele Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Meh, wow has already done most of the work of growing the genre. When wow released, EQ was the #1 western MMORPG (lineage and lineage 2 were bigger but have a very different market). Wow eclipsed EQ in ~3-4 months. Tor is a long way from eclipsing wow in 3 months. I don't think TOR will ever eclipse WOW. I don't think any MMO in the near future will (next few years). However, I don't care as long as TOR stays alive and somewhat thriving so there are people on a server to play with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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