Electronic Arts F3Q08 (Qtr End 12/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript

Feb. 01, 2008 12:19 AM ETElectronic Arts Inc. (EA) StockEA
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Q3: 2008-01-31 Earnings Summary

EPS of $0.90 beats by $0.01
 | Revenue of $1.73B (35.36% Y/Y) beats by $3.08M

Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS) F3Q08 Earnings Call January 31, 2008 5:00 PM ET

Executives

Tricia Gugler - Director, Investor Relations
John S. Riccitiello - Chief Executive Officer, Director
Warren C. Jenson - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer

Analysts

Edward Urban - Bear Stearns
Shawn Milne - Oppenheimer
Doug Creutz - Cowen & Company
Bill Lennan - Broadpoint
Mike Hickey - Janco Partners
Brent Thill - Citigroup
Jeetil Patel - Deutsche Bank
Justin Post - Merrill Lynch
Edward Williams - BMO Capital Markets
Benjamin Schachter - UBS
Colin Sebastian - Lazard Capital
Evan Wilson - Pacific Crest
Heath Terry - Credit Suisse
Arvind Bhatia - Stern Agee Leach

Operator

Good day, everyone and welcome to the Electronic Arts third quarter fiscal year 2008 earnings conference. Today’s call is being recorded. For opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn the call over to Ms. Tricia Gugler, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Tricia Gugler

Welcome to our third quarter fiscal 2008 earnings call. Today on the call we have John Riccitiello, our Chief Executive Officer and Warren Jenson, our Chief Financial and Administrative Officer.

Before we begin, I’d like to remind you that you may find copies of our SEC filings, our earnings release, and a replay of the webcast on our web site at investor.ea.com. Shortly after the call, we will post a copy of our prepared remarks on our website.

Throughout this call we will present both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. Non-GAAP measures exclude charges and related income tax effects associated with acquired in-process technology, amortization of intangibles, certain litigation expenses, losses on strategic investments, restructuring charges, stock-based compensation and the impact of the change in deferred net revenue related to packaged goods and digital content.

In addition, the Company’s non-GAAP results exclude

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