Earnings+More - FanDuel: ‘On top for a reason’
FanDuel: ‘On top for a reason’FanDuel presents in New York, MaximBet quits the US, DoTrust fundraise, Better Collective, Catena Media earnings +MoreGood morning. On today’s agenda:
FanDuel flaunts its scaleFanDuel made much of its market domination during an investor presentation in New York. Leader of the pack: Scale advantage was the major theme as FanDuel CEO Amy Howe and Flutter CEO Peter Jackson took the opportunity of a Capital Markets Day to impress upon analysts what Howe termed as FanDuel’s “dominant market position”.
A Flutter flier: The recent FOX arbitration tribunal decision was seen as clearing the way for an IPO of FanDuel but, asked whether a direct listing for Flutter in the US was also a possibility, Jackson said it was “clearly one of the things we have to ask ourselves”. A major advantage: FanDuel CFO David Jennings noted that the company’s cost of sales as a percentage of NGR was 47.5%-52.5% and pointed out that the tax burden was worth around 2/3rds of the total.
Any given Sunday: Howe pointed out the speed with which the FanDuel business has grown from NFL season to season. “It wasn't all that long ago that we were talking about how the Super Bowl would be the single biggest sports-betting event at that point and now we do 20% more business every NFL Sunday.”
I hear Laurel Canyon is full of famous stars: Christian Genetski, president in charge of government affairs at FanDuel, was unapologetic about the recent failed Prop. 27 effort in California. Achieving mobile in this year’s vote would have been “audaciously ahead of schedule,” he said.
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Follow the loser: MaximBet joins Fubo in pulling the plug on its US operations this NFL season, after FuboTV axed its gaming operation last month. Since then, Kindred said its Unibet brand would be exiting the Iowa market, while Esports Entertainment has closed its Vie.gg operation in New Jersey.
Stock watchFlying high: Sportradar saw its shares rise over 15% after it released positive earnings yesterday. Recall, it said revenues rose 31% to $178.8m, while it also reported a first-time profit in the US. 🚀Sportradar gets a 15% bump after yesterday’s earnings Dept. of Trust fundraisingThe financial KYC specialist has secured $3m of Seed funding led by Tekkorp Capital. Know your investors: The provider of a KYC platform designed for scalable and compliant affordability, AML, fraud and vulnerability checks has received backing from investors including Tekkorp, former PartyGmaing CEO Jim Ryan, Jaymin Patel and Jonathan Rosham, co-founder of Cygnet Capital.
BC’s rev-share impactQ3 revenues rose 32% to €60m, EBITDA was up 7% to €15m, but a move to revenue share in the US will cause €10m hit to FY EBITDA. Moving costs: CEO Jesper Sogaard said the move to revenue share was in the “dampening part” of the US business, which otherwise saw revenues grow 17% to €15m and EBITDA €700k versus a €1.8m loss in Q2.
Catena’s struggles continueThe affiliate said Q3 revenues dropped 2% to €32.3m, while adj. EBITDA slumped by 29% despite an 11% rise in North American revenues. Sold a pup: Ahead of the completion of the strategic review expected in Q4, where the company is expected to offload its AskGamblers and financial trading businesses, CEO Michael Daly said the paid media assets sold to Acroud for €5.1m were the “lowest margin business within the company”.
Earnings in briefElys Game Technology: NGR rose in Q3 to €8.9m, up 33% YoY. The company recently signed up 100 locations in Ohio for its sports-betting kiosks and commenced operations at its second location in Washington DC. Allied Esports: Revenues fell 7% in Q3, with the company falling to a net loss of $1.6m compared to a net profit of $74.3m, boosted by the $80.4m it received from the sale of World Poker Tour. Ex-WPT proceeds, net losses in the prior-year period amounted to $3.2m. NewslinesCaesars said its sports-betting app is now live in Maryland and taking in customers, offering $100 sign-ups. Maryland is reported to have approved its first 10 operators and could go live by the end of the month. Micro-betting startup betr has announced it has received its first license to operate in Ohio. Rivalry announced the expansion of its casino offering with the launch of iGaming platform Casino.exe, featuring four new games. Spotlight Sports Group promoted Mark Renshaw to CEO from COO, succeeding Alan Byrne who is stepping down to serve as an advisor. What we’re readingIvan the terrible: Toney charged with 232 breaches of betting rules. Calendar
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