{"id":29106,"date":"2023-05-16T14:41:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T13:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/saudi-arabias-public-investment-fund-increases-stake-in-ea\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T14:41:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T13:41:59","slug":"saudi-arabias-public-investment-fund-increases-stake-in-ea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/saudi-arabias-public-investment-fund-increases-stake-in-ea\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund increases stake in EA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nSaudi Arabia&#8217;s controversial Public Investment Fund (PIF) has increased its stake in FIFA publisher EA.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to <a href=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/news\/3971827-saudi-arabia-sovereign-fund-takes-stake-in-bloom-energy-ups-positions-in-ea-sea\">Seeking Alpha<\/a> (via Eurogamer&#8217;s sister site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/saudi-arabia-increases-stake-in-electronic-arts\">GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>), a new filing regarding the fund was published yesterday (15th May). This filing was for the three months that ended on 31st March, and reveals the PIF purchased more shares in EA during Q4 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPrior to this quarter, the PIF held 16.01m shares in EA. It has since increased this stake by 55 percent, and now holds 24.81m shares as of the end of Q1 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/saudi-arabias-public-investment-fund-increases-stake-in-ea-by-55\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s controversial Public Investment Fund (PIF) has increased its stake in FIFA publisher EA. According to Seeking Alpha (via Eurogamer&#8217;s sister site GamesIndustry.biz), a new filing regarding the fund was published yesterday (15th May). This filing was for the three months that ended on 31st March, and reveals the PIF purchased more shares in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3915,1615,3914],"class_list":["post-29106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-xbox","tag-arabias","tag-controversial","tag-saudi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saudi Arabia&#039;s Public Investment Fund increases stake in EA | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View Saudi Arabia&#039;s Public Investment Fund increases stake in EA for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. 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