Dave & Buster's Entertainment PLAY

Restaurants, Consumer Cyclical

$6.96

−6.70%

Market cap: $242.4M
PE: n/m; a loss over the last year
Forward PE: n/m; not a meaningful number
Price to sales: 0.1×
EV/EBIT: 32.1×
Revenue, 12 months: $2.1B; −1% on a year ago
Net margin: −4.3%
Free cash flow yield: −6.6%

Dave & Buster's Entertainment trades at 0.1× sales. Its trailing earnings are negative, so it has no PE. Revenue was $2.1B over the last twelve months, down 1% on a year earlier with a −4% net margin.

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Financials

Income statement for PLAY, by quarter
Income statement	Q3 FY23	Q4 FY23	Q1 FY24	Q2 FY24	Q3 FY24	Q4 FY24	Q1 FY25	Q2 FY25	Q3 FY25	Q4 FY25	Q1 FY26	Q2 FY26
	$466.9M−3%	$599M+6%	$588.1M−2%	$557.1M+3%	$453M−3%	$534.5M−11%	$567.7M−4%	$557.4M+0%	$448.2M−1%	$529.6M−1%	$559.2M−2%	$544.1M−2%
Cost of revenue	$76.4M+0%	$95.2M+9%	$87.3M−7%	$81.8M−6%	$67.8M−11%	$77.5M−19%	$82.1M−6%	$76.4M−7%	$63.5M−6%	$78.2M+1%	$79.8M−3%	$83.2M+9%
Gross profit	$390.5M−4%	$503.8M+6%	$500.8M−0%	$475.3M+5%	$385.2M−1%	$457M−9%	$485.6M−3%	$481M+1%	$384.7M−0%	$451.4M−1%	$479.4M−1%	$460.9M−4%
SG&A	$28.4M−13%	$30.6M−22%	$28M−11%	$28M−13%	$24.6M−13%	$18.9M−38%	$24.4M−13%	$32M+14%	$32.9M+34%	$27.8M+47%	$27.5M+13%	$27.1M−15%
	$18.6M−38%	$89.5M+16%	$85.5M−30%	$84.5M+10%	$6.3M−66%	$44.1M−51%	$63.2M−26%	$53M−37%	−$16.2M	−$13.9M	$46.9M−26%	$19.4M−63%
Interest expense	$28.9M+2%	$34.9M+15%	$33.1M+8%	$33.9M+3%	$32.9M+14%	$35.4M+1%	$36.8M+11%	$38.7M+14%	$40.2M+22%	$38.3M+8%	$36.9M+0%	$38M−2%
Pre-tax income	−$10.3M	$49.7M+7%	$52.4M−42%	$50.6M+53%	−$41.8M+306%	$8.7M−83%	$26.4M−50%	$14.3M−72%	−$56.4M+35%	−$52.2M	$10M−62%	−$18.6M
	−$5.1M+2672%	$13.6M+79%	$11M−47%	$10.3M+45%	−$9.1M+78%	−$600K	$4.7M−57%	$2.9M−72%	−$14.3M+57%	−$12.5M+1983%	$4.3M−9%	−$6.1M
Net income	−$5.2M	$36.1M−8%	$41.4M−41%	$40.3M+56%	−$32.7M+529%	$9.3M−74%	$21.7M−48%	$11.4M−72%	−$42.1M+29%	−$39.7M	$5.7M−74%	−$12.5M
	−$0.12	$0.88+10%	$0.99−32%	$0.99+65%	−$0.84+600%	$0.24−73%	$0.62−37%	$0.32−68%	−$1.22+45%	−$1.14	$0.16−74%	−$0.36
	41.8M−14%	41.2M−16%	41.6M−14%	40.8M−6%	39.1M−7%	38.2M−7%	35.2M−16%	35.1M−14%	34.5M−12%	34.9M−9%	34.9M−1%	34.8M−1%

Gross profit: 52 periods, Q3 FY13 to Q2 FY26: not printed by the filing, worked out from its own lines.

Net income: 47 periods, Q3 FY13 to Q1 FY25: not printed by the filing, worked out from its own lines.

EPS, diluted: 13 periods, Q4 FY13 to Q4 FY25: quarter's net income to common over its shares, to the cent.

Diluted shares: Q4 FY13 and Q4 FY14: the earlier year to date counted no dilution: the quarter's basic count plus the later year to date's dilution. 9 periods, Q4 FY15 to Q4 FY24: share-days: the 12-month average less the 9-month, weighted by days. Q4 FY20 and Q4 FY25: a loss quarter: its basic count, share-days: the 12-month average less the 9-month, weighted by days.

From each company's 10-Q and 10-K filings, the newest version of each figure. Quarters are as filed (a fourth quarter is the year less its first nine months), fiscal years as the 10-K prints them, restated where a later 10-K restated them, and balance sheet lines as of the period's end. A quarter whose 10-Q isn't filed yet is from the company's results release. Growth is on the same period a year earlier. A dash is a period with no figure for the line: the filing doesn't print it, or it hasn't been read yet.

Peers

Companies in Restaurants nearest Dave & Buster's Entertainment's size, closest first.

Company	Market cap	PE	Its 10y median PE	P/S	Revenue growth	Net margin
PLAYDave & Buster's Entertainment	$242.4M	n/m	16.9×	0.1×	−1%	−4.3%
JACKJack in the Box	$211.5M	6.4×	17.4×	0.2×	−5%	2.8%
PTLOPortillo's	$319.7M	23.4×	26.6×	0.4×	+3%	1.9%
NATHNathans Famous	$418.2M	21.1×	18.1×	2.5×	+12%	11.8%
LOCOEl Pollo Loco	$438.8M	12.3×	17.2×	0.9×	+4%	7.0%
BRCBBlack Rock Coffee Bar	$491.2M	164×	137×	2.2×	+25%	0.7%
PZZAPapa Johns International	$595.9M	22.9×	30.0×	0.3×	−6%	1.4%
FWRGFirst Watch Restaurant	$672M	37.6×	64.2×	0.5×	+19%	1.4%
BLMNBloomin' Brands	$787.7M	29.7×	21.2×	0.2×	+1%	0.7%
SGSweetgreen	$1.2B	98.2×	71.0×	1.7×	−1%	2.0%
WENWendy's	$1.2B	9.4×	22.6×	0.5×	−1%	5.7%
Peer median	$543.5M	23.2×	24.6×	0.5×	+2%	1.9%