Zynga Inc (ZNGA)

[Trevor11]

ZNGA: RANGOLI REKHA, TOP HOLDERS, & (AR) TECHNOLOGY








THE STOCK GRABBED 54 NEW INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENTS TOTALING 52,317,445 SHARES


BENEFIT FROM NEW FORMATS LIKE AR COULD BE A SOURCE OF SIGNIFICANT MOMENTUM


"AS A TEAM, WE’RE BEING DELIBERATE ABOUT OUR NEW STARTS AND GOING AFTER THE CATEGORIES

WHERE WE BELIEVE WE CAN WIN,"





5 THINGS ZYNGA MANAGEMENT WANTS YOU TO KNOW


ZYNGA'S SECOND-QUARTER EARNINGS CALL PROVIDED SOME VALUABLE INSIGHT INTO THE COMPANY'S TURNAROUND EFFORT.

KEITH NOONAN
(TMFNOONS)
AUG 5, 2017 AT 8:06AM


ZYGNA'S (NASDAQ:ZNGA) RECENTLY REPORTED SECOND-QUARTER EARNINGS SUGGEST THAT ITS TURNAROUND EFFORT IS FINDING SUCCESS, WITH THE COMPANY DELIVERING ITS FIRST PROFITABLE QUARTER SINCE Q4 2012…


ZYNGA SEES POTENTIAL IN AUGMENTED REALITY

Augmented reality (AR) has already broken into the mainstream with hit products including Nintendo's Pokemon Go and video filters on platforms owned by Facebook and Snap, and IT LOOKS LIKE ZYNGA MIGHT HAVE SOME BIG OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY. GIBEAU STATED THAT THERE COULD SOON BE SOME EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM HARDWARE COMPANIES IN THE SPACE AND MADE CLEAR THAT ZYNGA IS EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES IN AR:
We are absolutely watching those developments and thinking of ways to make sure that they can integrate in our games. The trick is to make sure that they're not gimmicks, that they actually have creative integrity and they lead to engagement. And so I think we need to really understand how that's going to work before you can understand how the monetization might happen. Obviously, AR IN ADVERTISING AND IN OTHER TYPES OF APPLICATIONS CREATES MONETIZATION OPPORTUNITIES THAT WOULD BE NEW AND INTERESTING TO GAMING.

WITH THE CHALLENGING COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE FOR IN-GAME MOBILE ADVERTISING ALREADY WEIGHING ON ZYNGA'S AD BUSINESS, FINDING WAYS TO BENEFIT FROM NEW FORMATS LIKE AR COULD BE A SOURCE OF SIGNIFICANT MOMENTUM, and IT'S ENCOURAGING TO HEAR THAT THE COMPANY IS WORKING ON A STRATEGIES FOR A TECHNOLOGY THAT LOOKS TO HAVE SERIOUS BREAKOUT POTENTIAL.

Source

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/08/05/things-zynga-management-wants-you-to-know.aspx





News
ZYNGA MAKES PUSH FOR INDIA WITH LOCALISED MATCH-3 GAME RANGOLI REKHA: COLOR MATCH

View more
• News
COMPANIES
• ZYNGA
• ZYNGA INDIA


AUGUST 9TH, 2017 - 02:25PM
BY RIC COWLEY, NEWS EDITOR

ZYNGA APPEARS TO BE MAKING A MOVE INTO THE INDIA MARKET WITH A SPECIFICALLY INDIA-FOCUSED MATCH-3 GAME CALLED RANGOLI REKHA: COLOR MATCH.
THE GAME WAS ORIGINALLY SOFT-LAUNCHED ON ANDROID ON AUGUST 3RD. ZYNGA'S SUPPORT PAGE FOR THE GAME STATES THAT IT IS BETA TESTING AND CURRENTLY ONLY AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD IN INDIA.
RANGOLI REKHA: COLOR MATCH HAS PLAYERS MATCHING THREE OR MORE COLOURED SYMBOLS TO MAKE RANGOLI, WITH THE ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE OF DEFEATING THE MAHARAJA. IT ALSO CONTAINS REFERENCES TO DIWALI, CHAKRAS, AND OTHER CULTURALLY-SPECIFIC ITEMS.
Focusing in
"Our Zynga India team is beta testing a new Match-3 mobile game – Rangoli Rekha – for players in India. The game is in the early stages of development and we look forward to hearing from local players during this initial testing period,” Zynga said in a statement.
Development for the game is being handled by Zynga's own Bangalore studio. The Bangalore team is also handling most of Zynga's web operations and some of its legacy games.
MAKING A PUSH FOR INDIA IS AN INTERESTING MOVE FOR ZYNGA, WHICH IN RECENT MONTHS HAS TURNED ITS FOCUS TO LIVE OPERATIONS AND ENSURING ITS GAMES WILL BE SUCCESSES. IT ALREADY CANNED A MAFIA WARS MOBILE REBOOT DUE TO CONCERNS THAT IT WASN'T PERFORMING WELL ENOUGH.
"AS A TEAM, WE’RE BEING DELIBERATE ABOUT OUR NEW STARTS AND GOING AFTER THE CATEGORIES WHERE WE BELIEVE WE CAN WIN," said the company in a statement on the game's cancellation.



Source:

www.pocketgamer.biz/asia/news/66380/zynga-makes-push-for-india-with-rangoli-rekha-color-match/





VANGUARD GROUP INC IS THE BIGGEST HOLDER OF ZYNGA INC. (ZNGA)
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017


Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) Top Holders
Institutional investors currently hold around $2.24 billion or 79.7% in ZNGA stock. Look at its top three institutional owners. VANGUARD GROUP INC OWNS $227.4 MILLION IN ZYNGA INC., which represents roughly 7.04% of the company’s market cap and approximately 10.16% of the institutional ownership. Similar statistics are true for the second largest owner, DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP, WHICH OWNS 52,395,197 SHARES OF THE STOCK are valued at $195.96 million. The third largest holder IS EMINENCE CAPITAL, LP, WHICH CURRENTLY HOLDS $180.78 MILLION worth of this stock and that ownership represents nearly 5.6% of its market capitalization.
Zynga Inc. 13F Filings
At the end of 6/30/2017 reporting period, 129 institutional holders increased their position in Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ:ZNGA) by some 127,212,264 shares, 85 decreased positions by 111,452,881 and 35 held positions by 360,065,508. That puts total institutional holdings at 598,730,653 shares, according to SEC filings. THE STOCK GRABBED 54 NEW INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENTS TOTALING 52,317,445 SHARES while 24 institutional investors sold out their entire positions totaling 14,607,616 shares.



Source:

https://www.postanalyst.com/2017/09/05/vanguard-group-inc-is-the-biggest-holder-of-zynga-inc-znga/