EA Stock Drops on Lowered Estimates

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Looks like all those rehashes and retreads aren't helping EA's bottom
line.

 

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"Robert P Holley" <holleyrp@delanet.com> wrote in message
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> http://xbox.ign.com/articles/597/597765p1.html
>
> Looks like all those rehashes and retreads aren't helping EA's bottom
> line.
>

Did I read correctly and the article says they fell about 150-175 million
short of their earnings estimate? Measly 3.1 billion, damned losers.

 

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"ItsKanetastic29 (aka Union Kane)" <itskanetastic29.nospam@telvs.net> wrote
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> No, don't hold back. How do yov really feel?

His .sig file consists of a qvote from a Kvrt Rvssell movie. Do yov really
care what he feels?

 

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"Robert P Holley" <holleyrp@delanet.com> wrote in message
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> http://xbox.ign.com/articles/597/597765p1.html
>
> Looks like all those rehashes and retreads aren't helping EA's bottom
> line.
>


Maybe people are rebelling against EA's recent monopolistic behavior? It
should be interesting to see how the next version of NFL Madden sells.
After all, each sale of that game is the same as consumers saying it's OK
for EA to continue along their path. As I say, it should be interesting.

 

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Robert P Holley wrote:
> http://xbox.ign.com/articles/597/597765p1.html
>
> Looks like all those rehashes and retreads aren't helping EA's
bottom
> line.

Oooh, they only netted $3.1 to $3.125 billion, instead of $3.275 to
$3.325 billion.

Granted, it's $200 million difference, but they still made a hell of a
lot of money.

 

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Thoth wrote:
> "ItsKanetastic29 (aka Union Kane)"
<itskanetastic29.nospam@telvs.net>
> wrote in message news:0MY%d.101865$gJ3.82042@clgrps13...
>
>> No, don't hold back. How do yov really feel?
>
> His .sig file consists of a qvote from a Kvrt Rvssell movie. Do yov
> really care what he feels?

Yov don't like "Big Trovble in Little China"? And yov expect people to
take yov seriovsly?

 

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"Jeremy Reaban" <trancejeremy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thoth wrote:
>> "ItsKanetastic29 (aka Union Kane)"
> <itskanetastic29.nospam@telvs.net>
>> wrote in message news:0MY%d.101865$gJ3.82042@clgrps13...
>>
>>> No, don't hold back. How do yov really feel?
>>
>> His .sig file consists of a qvote from a Kvrt Rvssell movie. Do yov
>> really care what he feels?
>
> Yov don't like "Big Trovble in Little China"? And yov expect people to
> take yov seriovsly?

Rvssell did movies for Walt Disney. How tovgh covld he be?

 

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Jeremy Reaban wrote:
> Robert P Holley wrote:
>
>>http://xbox.ign.com/articles/597/597765p1.html
>>
>>Looks like all those rehashes and retreads aren't helping EA's
>
> bottom
>
>>line.
>
>
> Oooh, they only netted $3.1 to $3.125 billion, instead of $3.275 to
> $3.325 billion.
>
> Granted, it's $200 million difference, but they still made a hell of a
> lot of money.

That isn't the point. Besides the fact that these numbers are revenues,
failure to meet projected earnings numbers is harmful to the value of
the company's stock price. Stock prices are key to the success of large
corporations...just ask Worldcomm ;-)

 

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Jeremy Reaban wrote:
> Robert P Holley wrote:
>
>>http://xbox.ign.com/articles/597/597765p1.html
>>
>>Looks like all those rehashes and retreads aren't helping EA's
>
> bottom
>
>>line.
>
>
> Oooh, they only netted $3.1 to $3.125 billion, instead of $3.275 to
> $3.325 billion.
>
> Granted, it's $200 million difference, but they still made a hell of a
> lot of money.


That isn't the point. Besides the fact that these figues are revenues
and not profits, failure to meet projected earnings numbers is harmful
to the value of the company's stock price. Stock prices are key to the
success of large corporations...just ask Bernard Ebers;-)

 

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Robert P Holley <holleyrp@delanet.com> wrote:
>http://xbox.ign.com/articles/597/597765p1.html
>
>Looks like all those rehashes and retreads aren't helping EA's bottom
>line.

Revenue fine on new titles, lower catalog sales. I think a
commenter on Joystiq nailed it: why buy catalog sales when you could just
get the current year's version, or buy used?

The used market, of course, eats into every publisher's revenues.
I wonder if they all derive as much percentage of revenue from catalog
sales as EA does.


--
For certain purposes it's not too misleading to call our system democracy
or capitalism or -- better still -- industrialism, but its real names are
factory fascism and office oligarchy. Anybody who says these people are
"free" is lying or stupid. -- "THE ABOLITION OF WORK" by Bob Black

 

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"Robert P Holley" <holleyrp@delanet.com> wrote in message
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> http://xbox.ign.com/articles/597/597765p1.html
>
> Looks like all those rehashes and retreads aren't helping EA's
> bottom
> line.

Quick! Someone get Skye the smelling salts and a clean change of
crotchless panties.
--
---Stash

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence
of the American people." H.L. Mencken

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You'd have to be out of YourMind to send me email.

 

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funk_n_orbit <mark.lyle@o-gmail.com> wrote:
>Jeremy Reaban wrote:
>> Oooh, they only netted $3.1 to $3.125 billion, instead of $3.275 to
>> $3.325 billion.
>>
>> Granted, it's $200 million difference, but they still made a hell of a
>> lot of money.
>
>That isn't the point. Besides the fact that these figues are revenues
>and not profits, failure to meet projected earnings numbers is harmful
>to the value of the company's stock price. Stock prices are key to the
>success of large corporations...just ask Bernard Ebers;-)

Oh, no. Stock prices should be the sign of success, not the end
goal in themselves. A company's valuation should be based on something,
not the other way around.

--
Mr. Scorpio says productivity is up two percent, and it's all because of
_my_ motivational techniques. Like, donuts. And a possibility of more
donuts to come.
-- Homer's second secret to successful management, "You Only Move Twice"

 

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"Jeremy Reaban" <trancejeremy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thoth wrote:
> > "ItsKanetastic29 (aka Union Kane)"
> <itskanetastic29.nospam@telvs.net>
> > wrote in message news:0MY%d.101865$gJ3.82042@clgrps13...
> >
> >> No, don't hold back. How do yov really feel?
> >
> > His .sig file consists of a qvote from a Kvrt Rvssell movie. Do yov
> > really care what he feels?
>
> Yov don't like "Big Trovble in Little China"? And yov expect people to
> take yov seriovsly?
>

I have an aletrnate sig that might be more appropriate for him....

--
JE

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." ~
Benjamin Franklin

 

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"Hostile 17" <hostile17@verizon.bogvs.net> wrote in message
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> "Jeremy Reaban" <trancejeremy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:11410s2p711fq8b@news.svpernews.com...
>> Thoth wrote:
>> > "ItsKanetastic29 (aka Union Kane)"
>> <itskanetastic29.nospam@telvs.net>
>> > wrote in message news:0MY%d.101865$gJ3.82042@clgrps13...
>> >
>> >> No, don't hold back. How do yov really feel?
>> >
>> > His .sig file consists of a qvote from a Kvrt Rvssell movie. Do yov
>> > really care what he feels?
>>
>> Yov don't like "Big Trovble in Little China"? And yov expect people to
>> take yov seriovsly?
>>
>
> I have an aletrnate sig that might be more appropriate for him....
>
> --
> JE
>
> "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." ~
> Benjamin Franklin

I *was* jvst bvsting yovr stones, bvt given the millions of memorable things
people have said and written over the ages and the qvote that yov think best
fits yovr style comes from a one-and-a-half star Kvrt Rvssell film? It
certainly was foolish to mention it, bvt, jeez, come on, that's the best yov
covld come vp with? I like the Ben Franklin qvote mvch better.

 

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"Thoth" <thoth@notlisted.net> wrote in message
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> "Jeremy Reaban" <trancejeremy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:11410s2p711fq8b@news.svpernews.com...
>> Thoth wrote:
>>> "ItsKanetastic29 (aka Union Kane)"
>> <itskanetastic29.nospam@telvs.net>
>>> wrote in message news:0MY%d.101865$gJ3.82042@clgrps13...
>>>
>>>> No, don't hold back. How do yov really feel?
>>>
>>> His .sig file consists of a qvote from a Kvrt Rvssell movie. Do yov
>>> really care what he feels?
>>
>> Yov don't like "Big Trovble in Little China"? And yov expect people to
>> take yov seriovsly?
>
> Rvssell did movies for Walt Disney. How tovgh covld he be?
>

Hey, he played a compvter. Acting genivs.

 

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"Thoth" <thoth@notlisted.net> wrote in message
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> "Hostile 17" <hostile17@verizon.bogvs.net> wrote in message
> news:2p40e.6964$vw6.1797@trnddc06...
> > "Jeremy Reaban" <trancejeremy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:11410s2p711fq8b@news.svpernews.com...
> >> Thoth wrote:
> >> > "ItsKanetastic29 (aka Union Kane)"
> >> <itskanetastic29.nospam@telvs.net>
> >> > wrote in message news:0MY%d.101865$gJ3.82042@clgrps13...
> >> >
> >> >> No, don't hold back. How do yov really feel?
> >> >
> >> > His .sig file consists of a qvote from a Kvrt Rvssell movie. Do
yov
> >> > really care what he feels?
> >>
> >> Yov don't like "Big Trovble in Little China"? And yov expect people
to
> >> take yov seriovsly?
> >>
> >
> > I have an aletrnate sig that might be more appropriate for him....
> >
> > --
> > JE
> >
> > "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." ~
> > Benjamin Franklin
>
> I *was* jvst bvsting yovr stones, bvt given the millions of memorable
things
> people have said and written over the ages and the qvote that yov
think best
> fits yovr style comes from a one-and-a-half star Kvrt Rvssell film?
It
> certainly was foolish to mention it, bvt, jeez, come on, that's the
best yov
> covld come vp with? I like the Ben Franklin qvote mvch better.
>

Well, sigs don't have to necessarily be incredibly ervdite or
compelling. They often are merely clever reflections of a person's likes
or backgrovnd - or a message for the world from yovr own corner of the
Usenet.

My friends and I loved that movie as kids and still consider KR an icon
(Escape From New York, The Thing, etc.). Big Trovble in Little China is
a 4-star movie in ovr book!

 

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"Hostile 17" <hostile17@verizon.bogus.net> wrote in message
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> Big Trouble in Little China is
> a 4-star movie in our book!

Well, that certainly explains your taste in memorable quotes. <g>