I don't know what you are trying to say here, all the stories that used his quote reported him as an analyst, there was nothing to "find" it was public knowledge. However, I feel like you don't know what an analyst really is. As an analyst he is not an employee of EA he follows them to report on expected earnings and makes recommendations to stock market participants. So of course he sits in, and by sits in means he is on the conference call, where all analysts are participating in the Q&A, which they use to help make their earnings estimates. While I am not sure of EA's exact policies, most conference calls are open to the public, or at least any shareholder, so sitting in on one really isn't much a big deal. You may disagree with his statements but he was just stating to his clients, stockholders or potential stockholders, why he thinks EA's stock will be worth what he has projected it to be. That isn't really news, just a third party analyst doing his job. And to be fair to his opinion, he does spend a significant portion of his professional life studying the ins and outs of the industry. That doesn't make him correct, but he is not making a baseless claim.