French video game giant Ubisoft postpones the publication of its half-year results and requests the suspension of its stock market listing

The French publisher has not provided a public explanation. Ubisoft has had a succession of disappointments in recent years, after several lackluster game launches.

A new episode of the difficulties hitting the French video game giant? The publisher Ubisoft has postponed the publication of its financial results for the first half, scheduled for Thursday, November 13, and requested the suspension of its listing on the Paris Stock Exchange, without providing any explanations at this stage.

“Ubisoft has asked Euronext to suspend the trading of its shares and bonds from the opening of markets on November 14, 2025” and this until the dissemination of its results “in the coming days”indicated in a press release the publisher, whose stock has plunged by almost 50% since the start of the year. Contacted by AFP, Ubisoft did not immediately give a specific reason for this postponement.

In an internal email sent to employees on Thursday and consulted by AFP, the group’s financial director Frédérick Duguet indicated without further details that Ubisoft needed a “additional time to finalize the closing of the semester” and that the request for suspension of its listing was aimed at “limit unnecessary speculation and market volatility during this short period”. “This could involve a major company-related announcement”commented Daniel Ahmad, from the analyst firm Niko Partners, on the Bluesky social network.

Ubisoft has suffered a succession of disappointments in recent years after several lackluster game launches and the early termination of its online shooter XDefiant. Since 2023, the French publisher has been pursuing a cost reduction plan which has already led to the closure of several studios abroad and the departure of more than 2,000 employees.

In October, he notably announced a plan for voluntary departures from his studios in Stockholm and Malmö, Sweden, who had notably worked on Star Wars Outlaws. At the same time, the group has embarked on an internal reorganization which must group its various video game brands into separate entities which remain under its control. Its first subsidiary was set up at the beginning of October and brings together more than 2,300 of the group’s approximately 17,000 employees worldwide around its three biggest sagas: Assassin’s Creed, Far from it And Rainbow six.