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post #1 of 1197
11/2/07 at 10:53am
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Activision Inc.
3100 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
United States - Map
Phone: 310-255-2000
Fax: 310-479-4005
Web Site: http://www.activision.com

Activision, Inc. engages in the development, publishing, and distribution of interactive entertainment software and peripheral products. It offers a portfolio of products that spans various categories and markets, and is used on various game hardware platforms and operating systems. The company's products include game categories, such as action/adventure, action sports, racing, role-playing, simulation, first-person action, music-based gaming, and strategy. It offers its products primarily in versions that operate on the Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 console systems, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Sony PlayStation Portable, and Nintendo Dual Screen hand-held devices, and personal computers. The company develops, markets, and sells products directly, by license, or through its affiliate label program with certain third-party publishers. It provides logistical and sales services to third-party publishers of interactive entertainment software and manufacturers of interactive entertainment hardware. The company operates in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Australia, Sweden, South Korea, and the Netherlands. Activision, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is based in Santa Monica, California.
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post #2 of 1197
11/2/07 at 11:06am
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Activision reports earnings on monday. I am looking to get into some Dec calls on this before hand.

A couple of their popular game franchises.


Call of Duty
Transformers the Movie.
Spiderman
Tony Hawk
Guitar Hero
Quake
X-Men
Marvel Alliance
Soldier of Fortune
Star Wars Battlefront
True Crime
The Movies
Bee Movie
Shrek
Doom
GUN


I think they can beat earnings and even guide up as all 3 next gen consoles are now on the market for this holiday season.

Best,

Spec
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post #3 of 1197
11/2/07 at 2:48pm
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In Dec 27.50 calls.

Best,

-Spec
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post #4 of 1197
11/2/07 at 3:06pm
I made money off them last time around. Guitar Hero is huge right now going into the Christmas season. They will benefit from some delays from some of their competition. Might buy a few calls myself.
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post #5 of 1197
11/3/07 at 12:59pm
I frequent a lot of gaming boards and the word around them has been that Call of Duty 4 will be even bigger than Guitar Hero 3 for them. A lot of gamers have been saying that CoD 4 is better than Halo 3 even.

My question/concern is this: since these games are both being released in time for the holiday season, wouldn't it stand to reason that the earnings for them won't show up until They report the last quarter of this year sometime in '08?

...or is it more that you were thinking of playing the possible raise in guidance?
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post #6 of 1197
11/3/07 at 1:38pm
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Originally Posted by hempick View Post
My question/concern is this: since these games are both being released in time for the holiday season, wouldn't it stand to reason that the earnings for them won't show up until They report the last quarter of this year sometime in '08?

...or is it more that you were thinking of playing the possible raise in guidance?
It could show up in guidance, but usually companies like to play it conservative, so I doubt they will guide very high. The real numbers won't show up until next report, so that will probably be the bigger pop. ATVI is probably one you can hold through the Christmas season and get nice gains as their products get buzz and hold through earnings as analysis usually underestimate performance of hot products. Then they should be good for another 5-10% pop.
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post #7 of 1197
11/3/07 at 7:29pm
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I would think pre-orders for CoD 4 and GH 3 might be in this qtr earnings. Not sure.

-Spec
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post #8 of 1197
11/3/07 at 8:35pm
I bought in at around 20.00$ back in September. Looking forwards to the holiday season!
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post #9 of 1197
11/4/07 at 1:34pm
i bought Dec calls too, people go nuts over holiday shopping, they buy all kinds of crap.
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post #10 of 1197
11/4/07 at 4:42pm
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Originally Posted by Spectre View Post
I would think pre-orders for CoD 4 and GH 3 might be in this qtr earnings. Not sure.

-Spec
I didn't think of that. You may be right.
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post #11 of 1197
11/4/07 at 7:09pm
earnings report tomorrow

hopefully earnings will be high even before the holiday season has really hit
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post #12 of 1197
11/4/07 at 7:10pm
Even if earnings for this quarter aren't that great, stock should continue to rise due to season sales, which will be recorded next quarter
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post #13 of 1197
11/5/07 at 1:10am
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Avg Estimates for this QTR are -.01 per share. And +.50 eps for next qtr.

High eps estimates for this qtr are +.03. If they can report in the +.01 to +.03 range and guide up, which some seem to think they will such as thestreet.com and what not, i would thing this could see a nice move Mon/Tues to the $24 to $26 range. Just guessing there though.

-Spec
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post #14 of 1197
11/5/07 at 1:15am
Agreed.

If they come in at $.02 with revenues increasing 5% and Net Income 3% sequentially and guide up(key) then we could see a boost of about 4%-6%.

Best of Luck to you Spec and all in.
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post #15 of 1197
11/5/07 at 1:23am
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Originally Posted by Spectre View Post
Avg Estimates for this QTR are -.01 per share. And +.50 eps for next qtr.

High eps estimates for this qtr are +.03. If they can report in the +.01 to +.03 range and guide up, which some seem to think they will such as thestreet.com and what not, i would thing this could see a nice move Mon/Tues to the $24 to $26 range. Just guessing there though.

-Spec
Thanks for the post Spec! I believe earnings get announced 4:30 EST, but have to double check.
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post #16 of 1197
11/5/07 at 8:58am
haha I am so excited about tommorrow that I can't sleep! I am contemplating staying up until opening bell, and then just do homework or something all day haha!

ATVI = Company that satisfies ones gaming needs! Call of Duty, guitar hero baby!!

Go holiday season
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post #17 of 1197
11/5/07 at 7:10pm
Anticipation is mounting. We are hovering around $23 for a while now.
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post #18 of 1197
11/5/07 at 9:05pm
Well, it appears they broke even for the quarter.
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post #19 of 1197
11/5/07 at 9:06pm
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071105/20071105006613.html?.v=1
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post #20 of 1197
11/5/07 at 9:09pm
Guidance is up.
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