NASDAQ:PLAYDave & Buster's Entertainment Stock Price, Forecast & News

Dave & Buster's Entertainment's stock was trading at $17.90 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, PLAY stock has decreased by 32.5% and is now trading at $12.09. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Dave & Buster's Entertainment in the last year. There are currently 9 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Dave & Buster's Entertainment.

Dave & Buster's Entertainment is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, September 8th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Dave & Buster's Entertainment.

Dave & Buster's Entertainment Inc (NASDAQ:PLAY) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, June, 11th. The restaurant operator reported ($1.37) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.85) by $0.52. The restaurant operator earned $159.80 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $167.83 million. Dave & Buster's Entertainment had a return on equity of 8.89% and a net margin of 1.24%. The business's revenue was down 56.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.13 earnings per share. View Dave & Buster's Entertainment's earnings history.

Dave & Buster's Entertainment declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 19th. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.16 per share on Monday, February 10th. This represents a $0.64 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.29%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, January 9th. This is a boost from Dave & Buster's Entertainment's previous quarterly dividend of $0.15. View Dave & Buster's Entertainment's dividend history.

13 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Dave & Buster's Entertainment's stock. Their forecasts range from $7.00 to $55.00. On average, they expect Dave & Buster's Entertainment's stock price to reach $28.41 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 135.0% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Dave & Buster's Entertainment.

Press coverage about PLAY stock has been trending somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Dave & Buster's Entertainment earned a media sentiment score of -1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View the latest news about Dave & Buster's Entertainment.

Dave & Buster's Entertainment saw a increase in short interest in June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 7,210,000 shares, an increase of 11.6% from the June 15th total of 6,460,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 8,500,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.8 days. Approximately 23.9% of the company's shares are sold short. View Dave & Buster's Entertainment's Current Options Chain.

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Dave & Buster's Entertainment trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PLAY."

Dave & Buster's Entertainment's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Larson Financial Group LLC (0.00%). Company insiders that own Dave & Buster's Entertainment stock include Brian Jenkins, J Michael Plunkett, John Mulleady, John P Gleason, Margo Lynn Manning, Michael J Griffith and Stephen M King. View institutional ownership trends for Dave & Buster's Entertainment.

PLAY stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Larson Financial Group LLC. View insider buying and selling activity for Dave & Buster's Entertainment.

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One share of PLAY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $12.09.

Dave & Buster's Entertainment has a market capitalization of $573.67 million and generates $1.35 billion in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $100.26 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.02 on an earnings per share basis. Dave & Buster's Entertainment employs 15,908 workers across the globe.

The official website for Dave & Buster's Entertainment is www.daveandbusters.com.

Dave & Buster's Entertainment's mailing address is 2481 MANANA DRIVE, DALLAS TX, 75220. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at 214-357-9588 or via email at [email protected]