Earnings+More - Weekend Edition #73
Weekend Edition #73Gambling.com revenues double, Lottomatica makes BetFlag offer, analysts warm to FanDuel, Allwyn debt raise +MoreGood morning. On today’s agenda:
Gambling.com at the doubleThe affiliate provider sees revenues climb 94% to $19.6m while adj. EBITDA rose 32% to $6.4m, helped by a 300% rise in North American revenue to $9.1m. Swimming with sharks: On the North American situation, CEO Charles Gillespie was adamant that the focus on reaching profitability and the increased focus on the ROI of marketing was “great” for Gambling.com.
Supersonic: Over the period, Gambling.com completed the acquisition of what Gillespie termed a “superstar domain” with Casinos.com, which he said the company would hope to replicate its success with its Gambling.com site but “do it faster and with more lazer-focus”.
Allwyn debt raiseThe lottery operator has pulled together €1.6bn of new credit facilities via a combination of term loans and cash revolvers. The payback: Allwyn said the new debt would cover off previous loans as well as provide funds for the upfront costs of preparing for its UK National Lottery takeover in April 2024. The terms of the debt, including interest rates, were not divulged. **Sponsor's message: Spotlight Sports Group is a leading technology, content and media business specialising in sports betting. Working with the largest media companies in the world, including AS.com and Advance Local, Spotlight Sports Group offers fully managed solutions that allow publishers to maximize revenue across their highly valuable sports betting audiences. For more information visit: spotlightsportsgroup.com Lottomatica acquires BetFlagLottomatica intends to acquire 100% of Italian-facing sports-betting and iCasino operator BetFlag for €310m. Salute! The deal comes at a multiple of just under 10x LTM EBITDA of €36m, with Lottomatica saying BetFlag will remain as a separate autonomous brand. Lottomatica runs the GoldBet operation as well as its eponymous land-based and retail betting operation.
Stock watchAsk a stupid question: Catena Media saw its shares lose over 24% yesterday as investors digested its disappointing quarterly numbers and the lack of news on the sale of its AskGamblers and financial trading businesses. The shares are down over 60% this year. 🚑Catena Media shares slump in Stockholm Flutter analyst takesFlutter and FanDuel can count their investor day on Wednesday as a success, as analysts came away with an “increased appreciation” of its success. Trifecta: Wells Fargo suggested they came away from the Capital Markets Day with the teams from Flutter and FanDuel with a better understanding of the drivers of the business, namely customer acquisition efficiency, longer client retention and the growth of customer values over time.
Further reading: The EKG Line suggests BetMGM is FanDuel’s biggest threat. Analyst takes 2Chicagoland: The team at CBRE pointed out the Chicagoland market is “already one of the largest gaming markets” in the US and it is “poised” to get even bigger with the addition of Full House’s The Temporary at Waukegan in Q123, the Wind Creek Chicago Southland at the end of 2023 and Bally’s temporary downtown Chicago property mid-2023.
Kero Gaming raises $2mMicro-betting specialist secures $2m Seed 2 fundraise led by Happyhour.io. Happy days: Founder and CEO Tomash Devenishek said the new funds will enable Kero Gaming to continue developing RMG micro-betting products for sportsbooks. Kero previously raised $1m from a pre-Seed round involving Acies Investments, Sharp Alpha Fund, iGaming Ideas, Avenue H Capital and Cardinal Sports Capital.
Sector watch – paymentsFTX WTF: With the FTX bankruptcy dominating headlines, Paysafe CEO Bruce Lowthers was asked about Paysafe’s partnership with Binance that was launched in 2012. “Binance is a great customer (and) we don't really see a lot of exposure from that relationship,” he said.
Line of sight: Having agreed a $300m investment project with Acres Manufacturing to implement cashless gaming across 250k slot machines in the US and brought in JP Morgan Payments as a strategic investor in late October, Sightline Payments launched its loyalty platform at the Talking Stick Resort and Casino in Arizona last week.
Nu deal: Payments platform provider Nuvei, which has signed Lottomatica and Kindred in recent months, has launched a payment-platform-as-a-service (PPaaS) solution that allows merchants to embed its payment options as a third-party provider or white label. Earnings in briefScout Gaming: The free-to-play games provider saw revenues in Q3 come in at SEK6.6m, flat YoY, although within that B2B revenues rose 113% to SEK4.7m. EBITDA losses climbed 61% to SEK10.2m. DatalinesNew Jersey: Sports-betting GGR of $78m in October was up 7% YoY and handle of $1.07bn, down 18% YoY. Wells Fargo noted this was the sixth straight month of mid-teens handle YoY declines in New Jersey, which they attributed to cannibalization from New York.
Michigan: Land-based gaming was up 2.4% to $1.16bn YoY, while sports betting was up 24% to $191.3m and iGaming rose 21.5% to $412.6m.
Pennsylvania: Land-based GGR rose 5.7% YoY to $471m. Sports-betting GGR rose 45.5% to $61.5m, while iGaming was up 21% to $124.5m. NewslinesBarstool Sportsbook has been granted an online sports-betting license in Maryland and could start taking bets in the state as early as next week. Colorcast, the Austin-based fan engagement company, has launched a sports-betting platform and has officially rebranded as Outlier. Not so lucky now: The Swedish regulator has ordered unlicensed crypto casino LuckyCrypto to exit the market. Française des Jeux has completed the €175m acquisition of French online-betting operator ZEturf. What we’re readingSecrets and lies: SBF tries to explain himself. On socialContact
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