Earnings+More - Apr 29: Weekend Edition #44
Apr 29: Weekend Edition #44Pointsbet Q3, Las Vegas Sands analyst reaction Churchill Downs analyst call, GAN debt raise, sector watch - streaming +MoreWelcome to the latest weekend edition. Self-regarding nonsense, maybe, but this week marks our one-year anniversary since Earnings+More launched. We want to thank all our subscribers and are particularly grateful for all the feedback we have received. Most of all, producing the newsletter has been a blast and we hope to continue to inform and even, dare we say it, entertain as we carry on into our second year. PointsBet Q3
Little voice: PointsBet’s market share across eight states (i.e. excluding recent launches in New York and Pennsylvania) stood at a blended 3.6%, compared to internal targets of 10%. Only in Illinois was it anywhere close to the target with 8.9% while in the seven others the blended market share stood at 2.4%. Local heroes: CEO Sam Swanell said the company’s sponsorship deals with NBC’s regional sports network in Illinois played a big part in the group reaching that level of market share and he expected similar impacts from NBC’s DC-Virginia and Maryland networks.
Launchpad: Recent launches include igaming - which made a debit contribution of A$5.5m during the period - in West Virginia and Pennsylvania as well as sports-betting and igaming in Ontario. Startline: Swanell said being able to launch with both OSB and icasino from day 1 in Ontario was a major positive and even if the province is not a new market per se, it was showing strong metrics.
Winning battles: PointsBet said in-play was up 22% as a percentage of US handle was up 22% on the prior year with NBA in-play up 26%. For March Madness, in-play rose 116% and PointsBet said in-play represented 49% of total tournament handle, up from 35% last year.
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Weighed down: The optimism in Singapore is in contrast to the continued worries over prospects in Macau. Jefferies said the “waiting game continues''. Wells Fargo said the future prospects “remain highly uncertain” given the Covid lockdowns in large parts of China. CBRE said “the fatigue from waiting for a sustainable recovery in Macau is real”.
Running on fumes: The team at Macquarie suggested that this quarter, as with previous quarters, was a “sentiment” quarter where they “put little value in the financials”. But they favor LVS over other Asian-focused operators.
GAN debt raiseGiving with one hand: The PAM platform provider and owner of the B2C Coolbet operation has taken out a $30m loan with Beach Point Capital and says it is poised for a "near-term opportunistic implementation" of a $5m share buyback.
Home improvement: GAN added it had recently begun the "implementation of cost controls" along with other strategic initiatives that are expected to accelerate adjusted EBITDA generation and improve profitability. Alongside the share buyback, GAN said the new money would be "focused on funding existing high-return B2B investments and future opportunistic investments". Deutsche Bank Mar22 OSB estimateOn the March: With the data from most states in, the DB team suggest Mar22 sports-betting GGR to come in at ~$590m, up 62% on Feb22 (excluding Arizona) and up 68% YoY on new markets expansion (mainly New York).
FanDuel dominance: DB compared the markets shares across a subset of seven states (PA, NJ, NJ, NY, IN, IL, IA, MI), which shows FanDuel’s leadership bouncing back to 42.5% market share, followed by DraftKings (16.2%), BetMGM (10.8%), Caesars (9.5%), Barstool (1.7%) and others (19.3%). Eilers & Krejcik Online Casino Tracker Q1Easy does it: Online casino GGR was up 51% YoY to $1.2bn in Q122, according to the EKG Online Casino Tracker. Michigan benefited from “easy year-over-year comps”, having regulated in Jan21, while Connecticut’s Oct22 opening also contributed to the total.
National leader: BetMGM continues to lead in national market share with 27.9%, up from 24.5% in Q121. DraftKings is second with 19.7%, up from 17.2% a year prior. EKG added that DraftKings has been regularly outperforming FanDuel in NJ, PA and MI when it comes to share of GGR in part thanks to its better performing app. Number to notice: EKG estimates that Boyd Gaming’s Stardust online casino brand would provide access to 33.1% of the US adult population via retail casino licensure and market access partnerships. New Year spike: BetMGM hits more than 50K app downloads in Jan22. Sector watch - streamingBrutalism: “If you miss a number, if you miss a sales expectation, it’s a brutal reckoning,” Joseph Amato, chief investment officer at Neuberger Berman, told the FT in the wake of Netflix’s poorly received first-quarter earnings statement. Minus marks: For the streaming sector, the news got worse when Warner Bros Discovery brought a swift end to CNN+, the news channel’s attempt at a subscription service that was killed barely a month after launch.
Sounds familiar? Analysts at Lightshed noted that post-Netflix, it was clear that while long-term TAM for subscription video on demand remained the same (between 500m to 1bn subscribers worldwide) “it will take far longer to get there”.
Sporting chance: Two streaming companies have their eyes on another juicy TAM, of course. FuboTV and now DAZN have aspirations to match sports streaming with sports betting. But in the case of both, establishing first whether sports streaming can be profitable is a work in progress. Dare to dream: FuboTV’s David Gandler told CNBC last November that he believed that sports consumers are willing to pay higher prices for live sport. “We’re aggregating all of the most expensive sports content in the world,” Gandler said. DAZN remains highly loss-making, recording a loss of $1.3bn in the year to December 2020. Enthusiasm for being called the Netflix of sports might be in the wane but it remains a strong player in European markets with rights to the Italian Serie A and the Bundesliga in Germany where it shares the rights with Sky Deutchland. Further reading: Lightshed: Is it time for #GoodLuckStreaming? And Time to Sound the SVOD alarm. What we’re writingScott Longley looks at the issues for gambling with the UK’s cost-of-living crisis. For EGR (paywall). For Wagers.com, Jake Pollard looks at how Kambi is looking to offer operators ‘lighter’ B2B options. What we’re readingPin the tail on the donkey: The latest Pinchpoint newsletter from the Department of Trust takes a look at the latest rumors around the likely affordability limit in the UK and suggests the government will set it at £500. From pitch to reality: Socios describes itself as a “blockchain-powered fan transactional app” and just 47% of token holders have ever voted in a poll. “This is very different to the “fan engagement” device being extolled by clubs’ in-house media and on social media channels,” says The Athletic. DatalinesNevada Mar22: Statewide GGR rose 26.8% YoY and +24.6% MoM to $1.35bn, with Strip GGR up 48.8% to $746m, Locals GGR was up 7.4% to $278m. March Madness helped push sports betting handle up nearly 35% to $862.8m but GGR was down 6% to $36.9m. Of the total GGR, $19.1m came via mobile and $17.8m from retail for a win rate of 4.3%.
Colorado Mar22: Betting handle was up 68% YoY and 14.8% MoM to $505.6m, online and mobile betting recorded $500.2m of the amount, $5.4m was wagered in retail outlets. GGR was up 38.2% YoY and 43.95 MoM to $28.2m. saw was by far the most popular sport to wager on in Colorado in March, with A total of $218.4m was bet on basketball, NCAA basketball saw $96.9m in wagers, while parlay totalled $99.7m. Players won $477.4m during the month, the state recorded $1.3m in tax revenues. France FY21: The French gambling sector generated GGR of €10.7bn in 2021, a rise of 7% compared to Covid-hit 2020 but just below the €11.1bn total of 2019, according to the latest data from national regulator ANJ. Online sports betting and poker sites generated €2.2bn of GGR. GGR from national lottery Francaise des jeux, land-based horse racing tote operator Pari Mutuel Urbain and the country’s land-based casinos accounted for €8.6bn of the total, a rise of 3.6% on 2020. NewslinesOne nation brag: Bragg Gaming will provide its Player Account Management (PAM) platform and gaming content through its Oryx igaming solution to Betnation.nl, a new operator set to go live in the Netherlands later this year. World of wonder: Light & Wonder and Konami Gaming have signed a partnership that will see Konami add its gaming content to LNW’s online casino platforms in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. LNW supplies brands such as Barstool Sports and Golden Nugget. By the by: Betting solutions provider Betby will provide its sportsbook platform to the crypto-focused betting brand BC GAME. It will also supply its gaming content and esports titles to the new operator. On socialFrom Rush Street regarding compliance in Ontario (direct from AGCO):
I still read this as bad for consumers. One of the roles affiliates excel at is evaluating the value of promotions - now affiliates cannot use their voice/reach to warn about predatory offers, seemingly. Calendar
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