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 Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, PLAY stock has decreased by 26.6% and is now trading at $13.13. 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) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, June, 11th. The restaurant operator reported ($1.37) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.85) by $0.52. The restaurant operator had revenue of $159.80 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $167.83 million. Dave & Buster's Entertainment had a net margin of 1.24% and a return on equity of 8.89%. Dave & Buster's Entertainment's revenue was down 56.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $1.13 earnings per share. View Dave & Buster's Entertainment's earnings history.

Dave & Buster's Entertainment announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 19th. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 10th will be given a dividend of $0.16 per share on Monday, February 10th. This represents a $0.64 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.87%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, January 9th. This is an increase from Dave & Buster's Entertainment's previous quarterly dividend of $0.15. View Dave & Buster's Entertainment's dividend history.

13 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Dave & Buster's Entertainment's shares. Their forecasts range from $7.00 to $55.00. On average, they anticipate Dave & Buster's Entertainment's share price to reach $28.41 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 116.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Dave & Buster's Entertainment.

News stories about PLAY stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Dave & Buster's Entertainment earned a news impact score of -1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. 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 trading volume of 8,500,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.8 days. Approximately 23.9% of the company's stock 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 number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Exchange Traded Concepts LLC (0.03%), AdvisorShares Investments LLC (0.03%) and 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Exchange Traded Concepts LLC, AdvisorShares Investments LLC, and 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 $13.13.

Dave & Buster's Entertainment has a market capitalization of $623.02 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]