Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call November 1, 2023 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Katie Burke - Director of Investor Relations

Andrew Wilson - Chief Executive Officer

Stuart Canfield - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Matthew Cost - Morgan Stanley

Benjamin Soff - Deutsche Bank AG

Eric Handler - ROTH MKM Partners, LLC

David Karnovsky - JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Brian Fitzgerald - Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Eric Sheridan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Operator

Good afternoon. My name is Lisa, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Electronic Arts Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Earnings Conference Call.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Ms. Katie Burke, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Katie Burke

Thank you. Welcome to EA’s second quarter fiscal year 2024 earnings call. With me today are Andrew Wilson, our CEO and Stuart Canfield, our CFO.

Please note that our SEC filings and our earnings release are available at ir.ea.com. In addition, we have posted detailed earnings slides to accompany our prepared remarks. Lastly, after the call, we will post our prepared remarks, an audio replay of this call, and a transcript.

With regards to our calendar: our third quarter fiscal year 2024 earnings call is scheduled for Tuesday, January 30th. As a reminder, we post the schedule of upcoming earnings calls for the fiscal year on our IR website.

This presentation and our comments include forward-looking statements regarding future events and the future financial performance of the Company. Actual events and results may differ materially from our expectations. We refer you to our most recent Form 10-Q for a discussion of risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed today. Electronic Arts makes these statements as of today, November 1st, 2023, and disclaims any duty to update them.

During this call, the financial metrics, with the exception of free cash flow, will be presented on a GAAP basis. Please see our earnings slides for further information. All comparisons made in the course of this call are against the same period in the prior year unless otherwise stated.

Now, I’ll turn the call over to Andrew.

Andrew Wilson

Thanks, Katie. It’s great to be here with all of you. It was a strong Q2 for EA as we delivered results above our expectations.