GBP 3.70+2.43%close on 4 November 2026
Playtech is a technology supplier to the gambling industry, providing platform, content and services to betting and gaming operators with a focus on regulated and regulating markets. Founded in 1999, it is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and describes itself as a B2B business. Its PAM+ player... Full profile
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Playtechis one of 25 listed gambling companies in the iGT 25, iGaming Times’ market-cap-weighted index of the sector, and carries 1.03% of it at the last rebalance in the platform bucket. Since the index base date of 19 September 2025 the shares are +3.46% in GBP. Sportsbook and casino platform technology licensed to operators. Weights are market capitalisation in US dollars, capped at 15%, and recomputed every trading day; read the methodology.
Playtech is number 19 of 25 in the iGT 25 by weight, with a market cap of $1.4bn. Its shares are +30.65% year to date, the 3rd best of the 25 constituents against a median of -14.18% for the index and +18.56% for its 2 platform stocks. At GBP 3.70 it trades 16.8% below its 52-week high of GBP 4.45 and 59.7% above its low of GBP 2.32.
The last 20 official closes on London Stock Exchange, in GBP, newest first.
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France's Autorité Nationale des Jeux has granted Betsson France a five-year online poker licence and conditional approval to join tables shared with Spain, Italy and Portugal. It takes a sports-betting-only business into a segment whose revenue grew 13.4% in the first half of 2026.
A consumer-advocate report collects what is publicly known about the national self-exclusion register: awareness at a quarter of adults and a third of bettors, fifteen operators caught breaching it, one of them more than 100,000 times, three financial penalties, and an Entain case the regulator investigated past its own 12-month limit.
Adjusted EBITDA of €162.5 million, a third guidance upgrade this year, and North American revenue up 161%. The driver is a motor-racing and slot hybrid running with Hard Rock Bet in Florida that settles on historical race results rather than a random number generator, and Playtech is telling investors not to annualise it.
Evolution commissioned it in 2022 to answer Black Cube, has called it exonerating, and spent months resisting its disclosure. Now that it is out, it clears Evolution of illegal practice and of operating in sanctioned countries, and separately finds significant compliance failings and games reachable from four prohibited markets. Playtech has moved first on the reading.
Leading operators implement machine learning to detect high-risk players in real-time, reducing affordability breaches by 40% while maintaining player retention. New compliance tools from DraftKings, FanDuel reshape operator margins.
Playtech has told the market its first-half performance landed significantly ahead of expectations, lifting its full-year adjusted EBITDA target to at least €270 million and sending the shares up as much as 18% on the day. The upgrade rests on US and Latin American momentum that the supplier will need to sustain against a sharply higher UK tax burden.
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