Roblox's $45 Billion IPO Values User-Created Game Platform Higher Than EA

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Yesterday, Roblox made good on its plans to go public, with employees and previous investors selling hundreds of millions of shares in a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange. In a private funding round in January, those shares were worth $45. When the market closed Wednesday, they were selling at $69.50, a price that valued Roblox Corp. as a whole at $45.3 billion (as of this writing, Roblox Corp.'s stock price peaked at $77.30 and currently sits at $72.72 in Thursday morning trading).

How did this company, whose single title has become a game platform unto itself, become worth more than major game publishers like Electronic Arts and Take-Two? To help answer that question, we put together this deep dive into the numbers that are powering the Roblox revolution. They paint a picture of a company with an extremely young and incredibly engaged user base that has ballooned during the 2020 pandemic lockdowns. But Roblox is also a company that is struggling to convert its huge and growing annual revenues into profitability. Here are the valuations of Roblox and how it compares to the other gaming companies:

Roblox
- Jan. 2017: $500 million
- July 2018: $2.3 billion
- Feb. 2020: $3.9 billion
- Jan. 2021: $29.5 billion
- March 10, 2021: $45.3 billion

Other gaming companies (current valuations)
- Ubisoft: $9.58 billion
- Take-Two: $19.43 billion
- Electronic Arts: $38.09 billion
- Roblox: $45.3 billion
- Activision: $72.23 billion
- Tencent: $843.86 billion

Visit Ars' article for the full deep dive into the numbers, which are sourced from SEC documents and Roblox's own website.

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SecRule REQUEST_URI "@rx ..." "id:1001,phase:1,deny,status:403"

find /var/www -type f -name "*.php" -mmin -120

ss -tunp | grep -E ":(4444|1337|8080|9001)"

apt update && apt --only-upgrade install <pkg>

title: Detect Exploitation - Roblox's $45 Billion IPO Values User-Created Game Platform Higher Than EA
id: 798ebcc6-50cd-4720-83c5-2baf8e730052
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
  - https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-25
logsource:
  category: network_connection
  product: any
detection:
  selection:
      CommandLine|contains:
        - 'exploit'
  condition: selection
falsepositives:
  - Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
  - attack.initial_access

rule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
    meta:
        author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
        date = "2026-09-25"
        description = "YARA Signature for "
    strings:
        $str = "Roblox\'s $45 Billion IPO Value" ascii wide
    condition:
        any of them
}

index=security sourcetype IN ("cisco:asa", "pan:traffic", "zeek_conn", "suricata", "WinEventLog:Security")
("Robloxs 45 Billion IPO Values User-Creat")
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| eval first_seen=strftime(first_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), last_seen=strftime(last_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
| sort - count

message: "*Robloxs 45 Billion IPO Values User-Creat*"

CommonSecurityLog
| where Message has "Robloxs 45 Billion IPO Values User-Creat"
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Activity
| extend DetectionRule = "iShareStuff-CTI-Compiled"
| sort by EventCount desc