Electronic Arts announced strong preliminary results for its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2025.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson said in a statement said that EA Sports College Football and EA Sports FC drove good results, with a “historic Q4” for The Sims. EA is also gearing up for the reveal of its new Battlefield game this summer.
In an analyst call, Wilson said, “EA is on track to reveal Battlefield at a major summer event.” This is a lot easier for him to say after GTA VI’s delay.
EA reported net bookings of $7.355 billion, while EA Sports delivered another record net bookings year in fiscal 2025. EA’s American football franchise, Madden, exceeded $1 billion in net bookings in FY2025.
Analysts were expecting 91 cents a share in earnings per share on revenue of $1.55 billion. For the fiscal year, analysts had estimated earnings of $4.17 a share on revenues of $7.15 billion. For the next quarter, analysts expect 33 cents a share of net income on revenue of $1.27 billion. For the next fiscal year, analysts expect net income of $4.49 a share on revenue of $7.6 billion.
In EA Sports FC, player monetization was up double digits, starting with the mid-January gameplay update. That’s important, as in the previous quarter, the soccer game’s results were not as good (mid-single-digit growth), leading to a stock selloff. Dragon Age: The Veilguard also missed targets last quarter, selling just 1.5 million copies against much higher expectations.
Another bright spot was Split Fiction, an EA Partners game from Josef Fares’ Hazelight with a clever two-person split-screen co-op approach, has sold nearly four million units since its hugely successful launch in March. Hazelight’s previous EA Partners title, It Takes Two, won game of the year in 2021 and it generated more than 20 million copies sold. Split Fiction is similar in that it’ …