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Tech: Video Game Stocks Set New High Scores

Industry Focus

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4.6854 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Game publishers Activision, Take-Two, and Electronic Arts have all soared so far in 2017. With all three up over 40% year-to-date, is it too late for investors to hop in and play?

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Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector to the stock

0:20.4

market every day.

0:21.4

It's Friday, May 26, and we're grabbing our controllers

0:24.6

to navigate the red-hot world of video game stocks.

0:27.7

I am your host, Dylan Lewis, and that is David Kretsman

0:30.8

naming over on the side.

0:32.5

Man, this is why we pay the big bucks, Dylan.

0:35.6

I thought you might like that intro.

0:37.1

Sometimes I try to not give you a heads up

0:39.4

about what I'm gonna come in with

0:40.7

and just see if I can catch on surprise like that. Hey I was

0:42.9

impressed nicely done. So David I had you on last week we talked about two

0:48.0

tech names that were not doing so hot Twillio and Yelp. Today we're kind of

0:52.1

flipping it over you're back with me this week to talk about

0:55.2

a sector and a couple companies that have just been on fire so far in 2017.

0:59.7

Yeah, some of the best performing stocks of the year, including Activision and Electronic Arts, essentially that video game space, which as you mentioned over the past year and certainly year to date, they've been some of the best performers so far.

1:13.0

And I know that this is a category that I think some investors kind of dismiss.

1:17.0

You know, it's either something that they can't really wrap their head around because it is in a way new media.

1:22.0

But like you said, I mean,

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