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Electronic Arts (WBO:EA) Dividend Yield %

: 0.59% (As of Today)
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As of today (2024-04-23), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of Electronic Arts is 0.59%.

The historical rank and industry rank for Electronic Arts's Dividend Yield % or its related term are showing as below:

WBO:EA' s Dividend Yield % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.12   Med: 0.55   Max: 0.68
Current: 0.59

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Electronic Arts was 0.68%. The lowest was 0.12%. And the median was 0.55%.

WBO:EA's Dividend Yield % is ranked worse than
87.88% of 165 companies
in the Interactive Media industry
Industry Median: 2.22 vs WBO:EA: 0.59

Electronic Arts's Dividend Payout Ratio for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.18.

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Electronic Arts was 0.25. The lowest was 0.12. And the median was 0.24.

As of today (2024-04-23), the Forward Dividend Yield % of Electronic Arts is 0.59%.

Electronic Arts's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was €0.17.

During the past 12 months, Electronic Arts's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 2.70% per year.

The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.

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Electronic Arts Dividend Yield % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Electronic Arts's Dividend Yield % can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Electronic Arts Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Dividend Yield %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - - 0.24 0.51 0.66

Electronic Arts Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Dividend Yield % Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.61 0.66 0.60 0.62 0.57

Competitive Comparison

For the Electronic Gaming & Multimedia subindustry, Electronic Arts's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Electronic Arts Dividend Yield % Distribution

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, Electronic Arts's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Electronic Arts's Dividend Yield % falls into.



Electronic Arts Dividend Yield % Calculation

Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

Electronic Arts Recent Full-Year* Dividend History

Amount Ex-date Record Date Pay Date Type Frequency Forex Rate
USD 0.1902024-02-272024-02-282024-03-20Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:EUR 0.927000
USD 0.1902023-11-282023-11-292023-12-20Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:EUR 0.924000
USD 0.1902023-08-292023-08-302023-09-20Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:EUR 0.917000
USD 0.1902023-05-302023-05-312023-06-21Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:EUR 0.920000

* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.

Electronic Arts's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Trailing Annual Dividend Yield=Most Recent Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=0.70072/119.72
=0.59 %

Current Share Price is €119.72.
Electronic Arts's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is €0.70072.

Electronic Arts's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Forward Annual Dividend Yield=Forward Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=0.70452/119.72
=0.59 %

Current Share Price is €119.72.
Electronic Arts's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as €0.17613 * 4 = €0.70452.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Electronic Arts  (WBO:EA) Dividend Yield % Explanation

Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.

Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.

In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.

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Electronic Arts (WBO:EA) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood City, CA, USA, 94065
EA is one of the world's largest third-party video game publishers and has transitioned from a console-based video game publisher to the one of the largest publishers on consoles, PC, and mobile. The firm owns number of large franchises, including Madden, EA Sports FC, Battlefield, Apex Legends, Mass Effect, Dragon's Age, and Need for Speed.

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