LON:PTECPlaytech Share Price, Forecast & News

Playtech's stock was trading at GBX 208.60 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, PTEC stock has increased by 60.0% and is now trading at GBX 333.70. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Playtech in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Playtech.

Playtech is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 20th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Playtech.

Playtech announced a dividend on Thursday, February 27th. Investors of record on Thursday, April 30th will be paid a dividend of GBX 0.12 per share on Friday, May 29th. This represents a yield of 3.75%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 30th. This is a positive change from Playtech's previous dividend of GBX 0.06. The official announcement can be seen at this link. View Playtech's dividend history.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Playtech's stock. Their forecasts range from GBX 140 to GBX 485. On average, they anticipate Playtech's share price to reach GBX 318.43 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.6%. View analysts' price targets for Playtech.

News coverage about PTEC stock has trended somewhat positive on Friday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Playtech earned a media sentiment score of 0.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutPlaytech.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Playtech investors own include Centamin (CEY), Quilter (QLT), Glencore (GLEN), Petrofac (PFC), Best of the Best (BOTB), Victrex (VTXPF), Acacia Mining (ACA), British Land (BLND), Homeserve (HSV) and Lancashire (LRE).

Playtech trades on the London Stock Exchange (LON) under the ticker symbol "PTEC."

Shares of PTEC and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock.

One share of PTEC stock can currently be purchased for approximately GBX 333.70.

Playtech has a market capitalization of £998.86 million. Playtech employs 5,800 workers across the globe.

The official website for Playtech is www.playtech.com.

Playtech's mailing address is 2nd Floor St George's Court, Upper Church Street, DOUGLAS, IM1 1EE, Isle of Man. The company can be reached via phone at +44-1624-645999.