Electronic Arts (EA) Competitors

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EA vs. APP, CRWD, INFY, TEAM, NTES, SNOW, TTD, NET, XYZ, and DDOG

Should you be buying Electronic Arts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Electronic Arts include AppLovin (APP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Infosys (INFY), Atlassian (TEAM), NetEase (NTES), Snowflake (SNOW), Trade Desk (TTD), Cloudflare (NET), Block (XYZ), and Datadog (DDOG). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Electronic Arts vs.

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) and AppLovin (NASDAQ:APP) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk, media sentiment and valuation.

Electronic Arts currently has a consensus price target of $155.24, indicating a potential upside of 16.41%. AppLovin has a consensus price target of $366.29, indicating a potential downside of 2.39%. Given Electronic Arts' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Electronic Arts is more favorable than AppLovin.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Electronic Arts
0 Sell rating(s)
12 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.43
AppLovin
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.84

Electronic Arts has higher revenue and earnings than AppLovin. Electronic Arts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AppLovin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Electronic Arts$7.56B4.60$1.27B$3.9333.93
AppLovin$2.63B47.79$356.71M$3.30113.71

Electronic Arts has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AppLovin has a beta of 2.3, suggesting that its share price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Electronic Arts received 1446 more outperform votes than AppLovin when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.26% of users gave Electronic Arts an outperform vote while only 57.00% of users gave AppLovin an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Electronic ArtsOutperform Votes
1564
74.26%
Underperform Votes
542
25.74%
AppLovinOutperform Votes
118
57.00%
Underperform Votes
89
43.00%

90.2% of Electronic Arts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.9% of AppLovin shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Electronic Arts shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.7% of AppLovin shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

AppLovin has a net margin of 26.85% compared to Electronic Arts' net margin of 14.28%. AppLovin's return on equity of 122.24% beat Electronic Arts' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Electronic Arts14.28% 17.80% 10.04%
AppLovin 26.85%122.24%21.60%

In the previous week, Electronic Arts had 21 more articles in the media than AppLovin. MarketBeat recorded 71 mentions for Electronic Arts and 50 mentions for AppLovin. AppLovin's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Electronic Arts' score of 0.26 indicating that AppLovin is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Electronic Arts
22 Very Positive mention(s)
8 Positive mention(s)
14 Neutral mention(s)
13 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
AppLovin
40 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

AppLovin beats Electronic Arts on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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EA vs. The Competition

MetricElectronic ArtsPrepackaged software IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$34.75B$25.89B$8.57B$9.03B
Dividend Yield0.58%1.92%2.83%4.00%
P/E Ratio33.93102.7615.3619.39
Price / Sales4.6013.506.8577.42
Price / Cash19.4794.7428.7138.87
Price / Book4.6913.115.774.99
Net Income$1.27B$424.21M$272.66M$222.61M
7 Day Performance9.98%2.42%0.29%-0.06%
1 Month Performance-5.32%9.86%7.60%3.07%
1 Year Performance-5.16%30.89%10.51%19.51%

Electronic Arts Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EA
Electronic Arts
4.8054 of 5 stars
$133.35
+1.0%
$155.24
+16.4%
-6.1%$34.75B$7.56B33.9313,700Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
APP
AppLovin
3.4291 of 5 stars
$386.39
+2.8%
$366.29
-5.2%
+729.3%$130.06B$2.63B117.441,745Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
CRWD
CrowdStrike
4.3428 of 5 stars
$427.99
+1.5%
$370.00
-13.5%
+30.2%$105.56B$3.06B840.387,925Analyst Forecast
Positive News
INFY
Infosys
1.9325 of 5 stars
$21.82
-0.1%
$20.22
-7.3%
+8.7%$90.31B$18.56B27.60317,240
TEAM
Atlassian
4.0658 of 5 stars
$321.95
+2.4%
$319.71
-0.7%
+47.6%$84.62B$4.79B-241.0212,157
NTES
NetEase
4.3246 of 5 stars
$105.35
+1.1%
$108.71
+3.2%
-1.6%$67.59B$14.57B17.7829,128Positive News
SNOW
Snowflake
3.9683 of 5 stars
$186.31
+1.2%
$187.06
+0.4%
-20.2%$61.59B$2.81B-55.047,004
TTD
Trade Desk
4.1644 of 5 stars
$123.21
+5.0%
$133.20
+8.1%
+71.8%$60.87B$2.31B202.193,115Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
NET
Cloudflare
3.9081 of 5 stars
$173.33
+4.0%
$133.28
-23.1%
+59.8%$59.57B$1.67B-789.053,682Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
XYZ
Block
N/A$85.25
-0.1%
N/AN/A$52.84B$21.92B47.8912,985News Coverage
DDOG
Datadog
4.2473 of 5 stars
$147.28
+3.2%
$158.10
+7.3%
+9.0%$50.09B$2.13B278.205,200Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:EA) was last updated on 2/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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