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Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLAY)
US · Delayed Price · Currency is USD
Consumer Cyclical · Leisure
7.07+0.11 (+1.58%)
Market cap
$246M
Insider Score
Health Score
Analyst consensus
Listed since
Oct 10, 2014
Website
Insider Score
/ 100
PLAY Insider Score
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. has a live Insider Score.
Scored on 2 qualifying trades from 2 insiders in the last 90 days.
Financial Health Score
Weak
From PLAY’s reported statements · Q3 2026 (trailing 12 months)
Profitability8 / 20
Loses money on what it sells.
- Revenue
- $2.08B
- Net income
- -$88.6M
- Net margin
- -4.3%
Leverage0 / 20
Heavily indebted for what it earns.
- Total debt
- $3.59B
- Cash
- $16.0M
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 10.43x
Liquidity0 / 20
Owes more within a year than it holds to pay it.
- Current assets
- $127.8M
- Current liabilities
- $430.7M
- Current ratio
- 0.30
Cash generation11 / 20
Roughly cash-neutral.
- Operating cash flow
- $321.6M
- Free cash flow
- -$16.0M
- FCF margin
- -0.8%
Dilution & runway19 / 20
Not funding itself by issuing shares.
- Shares outstanding
- 34.8M
- Share growth (1y)
- 0.8%
Five pillars — profitability, leverage, liquidity, cash generation, dilution & runway — each scored 0–20 from the company’s own income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow statement, then scaled to 100. A pillar the statements cannot answer is left out rather than guessed; fewer than three and no score is shown.
PLAY Income Statement
| Fiscal Period | Q3 2026 | Q2 2026 | Q1 2026 | Q4 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q2 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period Ending | Aug 4, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | Feb 3, 2026 | Nov 4, 2025 | Aug 5, 2025 | May 6, 2025 |
| Revenue | 544.10 M | 559.20 M | 529.60 M | 448.20 M | 557.40 M | 567.70 M |
| Revenue Growth (YoY) | -2.39 % | -1.50 % | -0.92 % | -1.06 % | 0.05 % | -3.47 % |
| Cost of Revenue | 490.00 M | 477.50 M | 78.20 M | 63.50 M | 76.40 M | 82.10 M |
| Gross Profit | 54.10 M | 81.70 M | 451.40 M | 384.70 M | 481.00 M | 485.60 M |
| SG&A Expense | 27.10 M | 27.50 M | 165.00 M | 157.80 M | 170.70 M | 159.40 M |
| R&D Expense | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Operating Expenses | 27.10 M | 27.50 M | 461.10 M | 396.20 M | 423.90 M | 416.30 M |
| Operating Income | 27.00 M | 54.20 M | -9.70 M | -11.50 M | 57.10 M | 69.30 M |
| Pretax Income | -18.60 M | 10.00 M | -52.20 M | -56.40 M | 14.30 M | 26.40 M |
| Tax Provision | -6.10 M | 4.30 M | -12.50 M | -14.30 M | 2.90 M | 4.70 M |
| Net Income | -12.50 M | 5.70 M | -39.70 M | -42.10 M | 11.40 M | 21.70 M |
| EPS (Basic) | -0.36 | 0.16 | -1.14 | -1.22 | 0.33 | 0.63 |
| EPS (Diluted) | -0.36 | 0.16 | -1.14 | -1.22 | 0.32 | 0.62 |
| Shares Outstanding | 34.81 M | 34.66 M | 34.68 M | 34.53 M | 34.52 M | 34.72 M |
Quarterly figures; YoY compares the same fiscal quarter a year earlier. Source: public market data.
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