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NYSE · SERVICES-AMUSEMENT & RECREATION SERVICES · MID CAP

Accel Entertainment, Inc. ACEL

9 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.3B
▲ 8.1% YoY
$51.5M
▲ 46.0% YoY
$62.0M
▲ 13.4% YoY
In brief

What this company does

The company operates as a distributed gaming operator in the United States and, as well, develops brick-and-mortar casinos that serve local gaming markets and horse racing venues. As of December 31, 2025, the company employed over 1,600 people nationwide. It installs, maintains, operates and services games of chance and games of skill, which it refers to as gaming terminals, and related equipment for its location partners, as well as redemption devices with automated teller machine functionality and stand-alone ATMs. It also offers amusement devices, including jukeboxes, dartboards, pool tables, and other entertainment related equipment. The company also designs and manufactures gaming terminals and related equipment. In 2025, it opened a racino at Fairmount in the greater St. Louis/southern Illinois market, and the casino property and associated racetrack generates revenues and expenses from slot machines, video table games, a sports book, ancillary food and beverage services, commission on pari-mutuel wagering, racing event-related services, and other miscellaneous operations.

Written from the business description in Accel Entertainment, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 3 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 1.3B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 9-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.3 · Net income 0.1
0.5B1.0B201720182019202020212022202320242025
Compound annual growth
+11.1%
+33.3%
−11.4%
−9.5%
−20.3%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +33.3% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
4 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 8.1% · Net 3.9%
5%-5%201720182019202020212022202320242025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 19.6%
-200%-400%201720182019202020212022202320242025

Each USD of equity produced 20 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 39.9M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 62.0
40M80M-10M-20M201720182019202020212022202320242025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 39.9
40M-40M-80M201720182019202020212022202320242025

USD 39.9M in buybacks — 77% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 1.1B
EquityUSD 269.7M
CashUSD 296.6M
Gross debtUSD 607.4M
Net debtUSD 310.9M
Current ratio2.61×

Net debt stands at 115% of equity.

The 9-year record
9 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017
Revenue $B1.31.21.21.00.70.30.40.30.2
Operating income $B0.10.10.10.10.1−0.00.00.00.0
EBITDA $B0.20.10.10.10.1−0.00.00.00.0
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.10.00.00.10.0−0.0−0.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.10.10.10.10.1−0.00.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $0.600.410.530.810.33−0.02−0.590.170.14
Dividend / sh $·········
Payout %·········
ROE %19.615.524.244.022.0−1.0−521.221.318.7
Shares out B·0.090.080.090.090.090.08··

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 36 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 9 of 19 fiscal years. 50 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityServices-Amusement & Recreation Services
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2017

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