During the last session, Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc (NASDAQ:PLAY)’s traded shares were 0.69 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 2.15. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $32.28, reflecting an intraday loss of -0.80% or -$0.26. The 52-week high for the PLAY share is $43.73, that puts it down -35.47 from that peak though still a striking 53.28% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $15.08. The company’s market capitalization is $1.12B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 1.05 million shares, and the average trade volume was 1.22 million shares over the past three months.
Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc (PLAY) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.27. PLAY has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 5 analysts who have looked at this stock. 2 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 3 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 0.92.
Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc (NASDAQ:PLAY) trade information
Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc (PLAY) registered a -0.80% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -0.80% in intraday trading to $32.28, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -6.57%, and it has moved by 24.78% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 10.59%. The short interest in Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc (NASDAQ:PLAY) is 8.26 million shares and it means that shorts have 6.1 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $21, which implies a decrease of -53.71% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $21 and $21 respectively. As a result, PLAY is trading at a premium of 34.94% off the target high and 34.94% off the low.
Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc (PLAY) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 1.89% compared to the previous financial year.
As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 565.37M as predicted by 9 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 9 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 470.41M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 557.1M and 453M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 1.48% and then jump by 3.84% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -13.10%. While earnings are projected to return 9.24% in 2025, the next five years will return 24.54% per annum.
PLAY Dividends
Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Jun-10. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc (NASDAQ:PLAY)’s Major holders
Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc insiders own 2.07% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 132.95%, with the float percentage being 135.77%. HILL PATH CAPITAL LP is the largest shareholder of the company, while 265.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 7.12 million shares (or 17.9462% of all shares), a total value of $283.42 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 5.21 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 13.1431% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $207.56 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc (PLAY) shares are iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and Advisor Managed Portfolios-Patient Opportunity Trust . Data provided on May 31, 2025 indicates that iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF owns about 1.84 shares. This amounts to just over 5.33 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $59.54 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 1.7, or about 4.92% of the stock, which is worth about $54.88 million.
