If you’re new to free casino slots, some of these may sound complicated. The company will pay a 26¢ interim dividend on July 1.Whether its Megaways or Infinity Reels, the best online pokies have tons of exciting features. There had been market jitters about the performance of its mobile video game division after industry data suggested downloads of its most popular game, Raid: Shadow Legends, slowed dramatically in March.īut Tsao said Thursday’s disclosures confirmed players were actually shifting to its PC-based platform, which was not picked up in the download data.Īristocrat’s shares jumped on the strong result and buyback announcement, and closed the session up 6.7 per cent at $33.73. Goldman Sachs analyst Desmond Tsao said there was “better-than-expected performances across the board”, particularly in the North American slot machine business, which drove a 23 per cent jump in revenue to $2.74 billion. Net profit after tax grew 46 per cent to $530 million.

That was a jump of 41 per cent from the same half a year earlier, when COVID-19 closed many casinos and 12 per cent ahead of market consensus forecasts. “What we’ve seen today in the markets that have established those three verticals already is that there is incremental opportunity.”Ĭroker said that Aristocrat would “obviously participate” if Australia allowed casino gambling but said legalisation was “a government conversation”.Īristocrat on Thursday reported a half-year net profit after tax and amortisation - its most closely watched figure - of $580 million for the six months to March 31. “There’s people that play across all different verticals, whether it’s retail, whether it’s social and whether it’s real money,” he said. RMG will become a third channel as so-called iGaming is gradually legalised across the US, where it is so far permitted in six states.Ĭroker said Aristocrat’s initial focus was to provide an online platform to its existing poker machine customers but he left the door open to launching its own direct-to-customer online gambling products too. “It’s going to allow our customers to provide our slots to their customers through an online application where they’ll be able to play our world-leading games on their websites,” Croker said.Īristocrat already markets its slot games in both physical poker machines and as smartphone games, which customers can play but not gamble money on.

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