Scientific Games Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:SGMS)

Scientific Games trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "SGMS."

Scientific Games Corp (NASDAQ:SGMS) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August, 1st. The technology company reported ($0.09) EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.02 by $0.11. The technology company earned $845 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $859.67 million. Scientific Games had a negative return on equity of 0.52% and a negative net margin of 7.25%. View Scientific Games' Earnings History.

Scientific Games is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 14th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Scientific Games.

5 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Scientific Games' shares. Their predictions range from $21.00 to $31.00. On average, they expect Scientific Games' stock price to reach $24.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Scientific Games.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Scientific Games in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Scientific Games.

News articles about SGMS stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Scientific Games earned a media sentiment score of -1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the technology company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Scientific Games.

Scientific Games saw a decline in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 9,890,000 shares, a decline of 5.4% from the August 15th total of 10,450,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,210,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 8.2 days. Currently, 18.1% of the company's shares are short sold. View Scientific Games' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Scientific Games include Caci International (CACI), Science Applications International (SAIC), Parsons (PSN), Verint Systems (VRNT), Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (MDRX), NetScout Systems (NTCT), Sykes Enterprises (SYKE), Ebix (EBIX), Nextgen Healthcare (NXGN), Agilysys (AGYS), Ribbon Communications (RBBN), Simulations Plus (SLP), Onespan (OSPN), Tufin Software Technologies (TUFN) and Digimarc (DMRC).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Scientific Games investors own include Bitauto (BITA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Organovo (ONVO), General Electric (GE), Square (SQ), Canopy Growth (CGC), International Game Technology (IGT), Verizon Communications (VZ) and Walt Disney (DIS).

Scientific Games' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC (0.04%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.02%), Exane Derivatives (0.01%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.01%) and Atwater Malick LLC (0.00%). Company insiders that own Scientific Games stock include Barry F Schwartz, Barry L Cottle, David L Kennedy, Derik Mooberry, Gabrielle K Mcdonald, James C Kennedy, Michael Gavin Isaacs, Michael J Regan, Michael Winterscheidt, Peter A Cohen, Richard M Haddrill and Ronald O Perelman. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Scientific Games.

SGMS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Exane Derivatives and Pacer Advisors Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Scientific Games.

SGMS stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Atwater Malick LLC. Company insiders that have bought Scientific Games stock in the last two years include Barry F Schwartz, Barry L Cottle and Ronald O Perelman. View Insider Buying and Selling for Scientific Games.

Shares of SGMS can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SGMS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $23.43.

Scientific Games has a market capitalization of $2.18 billion and generates $3.36 billion in revenue each year. The technology company earns $-352,400,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.54) on an earnings per share basis. Scientific Games employs 9,700 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Scientific Games.

The official website for Scientific Games is http://www.scientificgames.com/.

Scientific Games' mailing address is 6601 BERMUDA ROAD, LAS VEGAS NV, 89119. The technology company can be reached via phone at 702-897-7150 or via email at [email protected]