Gaming stocks

Electronic Arts is an American company whose video games essentially cover all genres, including sports, action, strategy, simulation, arcade, role-playing and adventure. The EA portfolio includes worldwide sports-themed hits, such as FIFA Soccer, Madden NFL and NBA Live series. The EA brand includes totally proprietary titles, such as Mass Effect and Dragon Age, as well as games based on famous movie licenses, such as Harry Potter, James Bond, The Godfather, Lord of the Rings and many more. It is a prominent football stock​ for its involvement in the FIFA series, in particular.

IGG Inc. is a Chinese company with headquarters in Singapore and branches in the United States, China, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Belarus, Thailand, Philippines and Hong Kong. IGG primarily focuses on the development of video games for mobile devices, which in fact represents its biggest product share. IGG’s most popular games are Lords Mobile, Deck Heroes, and GodsWar Online. In 2019, IGG had over 100 million monthly active users.

Zynga is a video game development company based in San Francisco, California. It develops video games for internet browsers and social media platforms, such as Facebook. Zynga launched its most famous game, FarmVille, on Facebook in 2009, reaching 10 million daily active users within two months. In 2019, Zynga had 95 million monthly active users and 30 million daily active users.

Huya Live is a Chinese company that offers live video streaming services. Its website is one of the largest in China, whereas outside of China, it operates as Nimo TV. Similar to other streaming services, this site primarily focuses on live video game streaming and broadcasts a variety of activities, such as sport competitions, cooking sessions, and “real life” streams.

Take Two Interactive Software is a New York- based company that manufactures and distributes video games and computer accessories. The company also includes subsidiaries, namely 2K Games, K Sports and Grand Theft V, which is also the best-selling game in the history of the company in the shortest time possible, with $800 million collected on the first day.

Bilibi is a Chinese video-sharing website centred on animation, comics and games (ACG). In June 2019, it registered 28 million daily active users only in the People’s Republic of China, thus capturing the attention of Sony Corporation. As a result, in April 2020, Sony invested $400 million to secure a 4.98% stake in this Chinese entertainment company. Sony is not the only company to have invested in Bilibili; in fact, even giants such as Tencent and Alibaba have previously invested in the company.

Glu Mobile Inc. is an American company that develops mobile video games for smartphones and tablet devices. The company offers products for multiple platforms such as Amazon, iOS, Android, Google Chrome, and Windows Phone.

Nexon is a South Korean/Japanese video game publisher with offices in the United States, Taiwan and Thailand. Nexon specialises in video games for both PCs and mobile devices. At present, the company maintains over 80 titles. Maple History is one of their most successful games and was in fact localised for many different languages and countries, such as Japan, Taiwan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada, United States, Europe, and Brazil.

Cheetah Mobile Inc. is a Chinese mobile application development company based in Beijing, China. It has developed some of the most popular apps worldwide and has more than 634 million active users per month. Some of its most popular games are Piano Titles, Piano Titles 2, and Dancing Line.

Tencent is a Chinese multinational technology company that owns a number of well-known subsidiaries within the technology and entertainment industries. The company owns a number of gaming subsidiaries, including Tencent Games and WeGame, which offer some of the highest-grossing video games of all time, in terms of revenue. Read more about our Tencent stock​ forecast.