Take-Two Stock Up Despite Mixed Results

Take-Two Stock Up Despite Mixed Results

Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO) reported revenue of $5.35 billion for the fiscal year ending 3/31/23.  This beat the guidance of $5.24 to 5.29 billion.  However, the company reported a net loss of $1.13 billion versus guidance that the loss would be in the $700 million range. For fiscal 2024, ending 3/31/24, Take-Two is forecasting revenue to remain relatively flat at $5.37 to $5.47 billion.  Net loss is anticipated in the $500 million range. Despite the earni.....
Take-Two Sees Soaring Revenue and Bookings

Take-Two Sees Soaring Revenue and Bookings

Compared to the previous year period, Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO) saw revenue grow 56% in its third fiscal quarter ending 12/31/22.  Bookings for the quarter grew 60% over the previous year to $1.38 billion.  However, the company also reported a net loss for the quarter of $153 million versus net income of $145 million in the third quarter ending 12/31/21. Analysis Making a year-over-year comparison for Take-Two results is difficult a.....
Take-Two Could Have Make or Break 2023

Take-Two Could Have Make or Break 2023

In January 2022, Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO) announced one of the biggest game industry acquisitions ever with a $12+ billion purchase of mobile game provide Zynga.  That news lasted for a week until it was overshadowed by Microsoft’s planned purchase of Activision Blizzard for $68 billion. While the Microsoft/ATVI deal is struggling to get approval, the Take-Two/Zynga deal was easily completed in May.  Now Take-Two is struggling with the difficult process of combin.....
Take-Two Results Reflect Zynga Acquisition

Take-Two Results Reflect Zynga Acquisition

Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO) reported a substantial revenue increase for the first six months of fiscal 2023 ending 9/30/22.  Revenue for the six-month period was up 54% to $3.9 billion.  However, the company reported a loss of $361 million. Analysis In late May, Take-Two completed its $12 billion acquisition of Zynga and that is responsible for both the revenue gain and .....
Take-Two Completes Zynga Acquisition

Take-Two Completes Zynga Acquisition

Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO) announced it has completed its acquisition of mobile game developer Zynga.  The deal was announced in January 2022 and valued Zynga at over $12 billion. Analysis Zynga was an original pioneer of social games on Facebook.  The 2011 Zynga IPO was highly hyped.  At the time, DFC Intelligence was a critic of the high valuation.  Howeve.....
Take-Two Acquires Zynga in Major Move Into Mobile Games

Take-Two Acquires Zynga in Major Move Into Mobile Games

One week into 2022 we have our first major video game acquisition as Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO) intends to acquire mobile game publisher Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA). The acquisition will be another attempt by a console game publisher to enter the mobile game space. The big three North America console video game publishers, Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA), Activision Blizzard (NA.....
Ubisoft Versus Take-Two Interactive: When Less is More

Ubisoft Versus Take-Two Interactive: When Less is More

In the recent DFC Intelligence report The Business of Video Games, we classified Take-Two Interactive and Ubisoft as medium-sized traditional publishers.  In fact, they are two of the few remaining notable mid-size publishers focused on AAA-console games.  The companies have a similar revenue base so we thought it would be interesting to compare Ubisoft versus Take-Two Interactive. In terms of revenue, both Take-Tw.....

Grand Theft Auto V Boosts Take-Two Financials

FEB. 4, 2014 • Holiday releases led by Grand Theft Auto V led Take-Two Interactive financials to non-GAPP revenue of $767.7 million for the fiscal third quarter ending December 31. That total beat Take-Two’s forecast of $650 million to $700 million, and was a significant increase over the $405 million in revenue tallied for the same quarter the previous year. Take-Two attributed the strong performance to the continued success of Grand Theft Auto V, a recor.....