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Electronic Arts IncEACOMMENTSep 16, 2015Stock price when the opinion was issued
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The videogame space is exciting and it's changing rapidly. ATVI and Take Two are also good. These names can be lumpy because of release dates, but he prefers ATVI because of their titles like Call of Duty and for their eco-system. The next generation won't slow down on videogames (he has a 9-year-old who's good at games).
He owns Activision instead because it has a longer runway of growth due to its forthcoming games. It's traditionally been a toss-up between this and EA. It comes down to runway.
He follows the gaming and e-sports space. He owns Take-Two instead of EA, thanks to the longer runway on the publishing side.
This would mirror the consumer discretionary sort of, particularly the retail sector. Without having done a seasonal analysis on this, his guess would be that this would actually mirror something to do with retail coming into the 4th quarter. Retail has a specific seasonality, which goes from Oct 28 to Nov 29, Black Friday. A good time to be getting into this would be October 28. A caution is that the retail sector has a strong trend of pulling off just after Black Friday.