Dave & Buster’s Entertainment, Inc. (PLAY)

9.40 +2.40% (+0.22)

Over 1M: -13.3%

2026-08-28
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Financials Quarterly

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Revenue Gross Profit Operating Income Cost of Revenue Operating Cash Flow Free Cash Flow Net Income

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Q2 '26 — Revenue: 557.4M Q2 '26 — Operating Cash Flow: 34M Q2 '26 — Free Cash Flow: -55.2M Q2 '26 — Net Income: 11.4M Q3 '26 — Revenue: 448.2M Q3 '26 — Operating Cash Flow: 58M Q3 '26 — Free Cash Flow: -20.6M Q3 '26 — Net Income: -42.1M Q4 '26 — Revenue: 529.6M Q4 '26 — Operating Cash Flow: 103M Q4 '26 — Free Cash Flow: 34M Q4 '26 — Net Income: -39.7M Q1 '27 — Revenue: 559.2M Q1 '27 — Operating Cash Flow: 113.8M Q1 '27 — Free Cash Flow: 8.5M Q1 '27 — Net Income: 5.7M 0 150M 300M 450M 600M
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Figures as at 2026-05-05, reported in USD. The newest fact in the filings is dated 2026-05-05, 117 days ago. Nothing on this page is advice.

How it scores

Five questions, each answered by the measures under it. Every figure is the company's own; the bar beside it is where that figure sits among the companies read here — the top fifth, the bottom fifth, or somewhere between. Not among all listed companies, and for a valuation multiple the low end is the good end.

Quality

How much of the revenue is really kept — and what did it take to earn it?

3.2
SBC / sales 0.91%
ROIC 3.3%
OE margin -2.5%
Accruals -9.0%
Gross margin 85.8%
OCF / EBIT 4.4×
OCF margin 14.7%
FCF margin -1.6%
ROA -1.6%
ROCE 1.9%
ROE -65.0%

5 of 17 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Valuation

What does the price ask for what the company earns, owns and pays out?

0.5
Div. yield —
EV/EBIT —
EV/GP —
EV/OE —
EV/Sales —
FCF yield —
Fwd P/E —
P/B —
P/C —
P/E —
PEG —

0 of 12 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Durability

How predictable is the revenue, and how much of it is already committed?

3.9
RPO / sales 0.0082×
RPO growth —
Segment HHI —

4 of 7 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Resilience

Can the balance sheet absorb a bad year?

1.5
ND/EBITDA —
F-score 6.0 pts
Cash / Debt 0.012×
Debt / Eq 15.8×
Net debt / Eq 15.6×
Quick ratio 0.2×
Cash runway —
Debt payback —
Payout —

3 of 12 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Growth

Is the business getting bigger, and is it getting more profitable?

2.1
Sales/sh Y/Y +14.5%
Sales CAGR 4Y +12.7%
Shares change -13.4%
EBIT CAGR -33.4%
EBIT Y/Y -64.8%
EPS Y/Y -293.5%
Sales Q/Q -1.5%
Div. growth —
EPS CAGR 4Y —
EPS next Y —

4 of 13 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

A measure absent from a block could not be computed from this company's filings. It is left out rather than scored as though it were bad, and the dimension is averaged over what remains. A score is measured against a fixed scale this model states; the bar is measured against the other companies, so the two can disagree — and where they do, that disagreement is the more interesting figure.