{"id":76975,"date":"2018-05-05T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=76975"},"modified":"2018-05-04T19:18:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T02:18:15","slug":"scientific-games-posts-200-million-q1-loss-as-it-gambles-big-on-sports-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/scientific-games-posts-200-million-q1-loss-as-it-gambles-big-on-sports-betting\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Games Posts $200 Million Q1 Loss as It Gambles Big on Sports Betting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Las Vegas-based Scientific Games will be praying that the United States Supreme Court strikes down PASPA when it finally delivers its ruling on Murphy\u00a0vs<\/em>. NCAA, the case that will decide whether individual states can legally regulate sports betting.<\/p>\n

\"Scientific
Scientific Games CEO Kevin Sheehan said the NYX acquisition was not just about the opportunities of a legal US sports betting market. The company already has more business than it can handle without the SCOTUS ruling, he added. (Image: Zimbio)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Thursday, the casino equipment supplier and lottery provider \u2013 and now sports betting giant \u2013 reported a $201.8 million net loss, most of which was attributable to costs and interest payments related to the acquisition last year of the NYX Gaming Group.<\/a><\/p>\n

NYX is the developer of the OpenBet sports-betting platform, which is responsible for 80 percent of sports-betting transactions in the UK, the largest and most mature regulated online sports betting market in the world.<\/p>\n

Transformative Deal<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Scientific Games completed its acquisition of NYX in January this year, a transaction it said had created a \u201cglobal digital gaming and lottery powerhouse\u201d which it hopes will dominate a future US sports betting market, if SCOTUS obliges.<\/p>\n

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The court is widely expected to strike down PASPA, the federal law that prohibits state-sanctioned sports betting in all but a small handful of states. New Jersey, whose residents have voted to approve sports betting at its racetracks and casinos, has argued that PASPA is a unconstitutional violation of its Tenth Amendment rights and SCOTUS is widely tipped to agree \u2013 although nothing is certain.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But the company\u2019s CEO Kevin Sheehan said during Thursday\u2019s earning call that it\u2019s not all about the US market and that the NYX acquisition has extended Scientific\u2019s footprint across the world.<\/p>\n

It’s All Gravy<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cWe have so much business, we can\u2019t even handle it at this point,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s really exciting. We\u2019re looking for more mathematicians and technology scientists and engineers from other parts of the planet so that we can get more of this business up and running. That\u2019s all without the Supreme Court ruling.<\/p>\n

“As we\u2019ve said from the beginning, we bought this wonderful business based on the metrics that it had in place on the day we bought it. This is all gravy and it could be very exciting,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite the optimism and the 11.9 percent increase in revenue that Scientific reported for the quarter, investors recoiled from the $200 million loss. Shares prices had fallen by 3.4 percent at the close of trading in Thursday.<\/p>\n

With a positive ruling from SCOTUS expected within the next few weeks, you can expect that stock to go through the roof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Las Vegas-based Scientific Games will be praying that the United States Supreme Court strikes down PASPA when it finally delivers its ruling on Murphy\u00a0vs. NCAA, the case that will decide whether individual states can legally regulate sports betting. On Thursday, the casino equipment supplier and lottery provider \u2013 and now sports betting giant \u2013 reported […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":76977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nScientific Games Posts $200 Million Q1 Loss as It Gambles Big on Sports Betting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scientific Games losses are attributed to costs associated with the acquisition of NYX Games and its OpenBet platform. 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