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Brightstar Lottery PLC BRSL

13 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$2.5B
▼ 0.0% YoY
$147.0M
▼ 57.8% YoY
$-415.0M
▼ 146.1% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

The Company operates and provides a portfolio of lottery solutions, including lottery management services and instant lottery systems, and operates a worldwide land-based lottery and iLottery business, including sales, operations, product development, technology, and support. The Company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with principal operating facilities located in Providence, Rhode Island and Rome, Italy. The Company had approximately 5,815 employees at December 31, 2025. The Company provides B2C and B2B products and services to customers across six continents, supplying lottery solutions to nearly 90 customers worldwide, including to 37 of the 48 U.S. lotteries, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Company deploys more than 350,000 point-of-sale devices to lottery customers and lotteries worldwide. The Company incurred $47 million, $43 million, and $36 million of research and development expenses, excluding amortization of capitalized software, in 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.

Written from the business description in BRIGHTSTAR LOTTERY PLC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 24 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 2.5B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 13-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 2.5 · Net income 0.1
2.0B4.0B-0.5B-1.0B
20132016201920222025
Compound annual growth
−1.1%
−4.2%
−6.1%
−18.8%
−18.2%
+0.0%
−16.5%
+55.7%
+91.0%
+17.4%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −4.2% a year over the five years to FY2025.

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

11 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 11.9% · Net 11.4%
10%20%-10%-20%
201320192025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 11.6%
20%40%-20%-40%-60%
201320192025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on capital employedNot available: we don't have a clean operating profit figure for this period.
Gross margin·
Operating margin11.9%
Net margin11.4%
EBITDAUSD 520.0M

Each USD of equity produced 12 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 1.0B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF -415.0
400M800M-200M-400M
201320192025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 770.0 · Net buybacks 271.0
500M1000MDividendsNet buybacks
2013201520172019202120232025
Dividends paidUSD 770.0M
Net buybacksUSD 271.0M
Share of profit708.2%
Consecutive raises·

USD 770.0M in dividends and USD 271.0M in buybacks — 708% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 9.2B
EquityUSD 875.0M
CashUSD 1.4B
Gross debtUSD 4.2B
Net debtUSD 2.7B
Current ratio0.76×

Net debt stands at 312% of equity.

The 13-year record

13 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
BRSL, 13-year financial record
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013
Revenue $B2.52.52.52.64.13.14.04.04.95.24.73.83.8
Operating income $B0.30.50.50.70.9−0.10.50.5−0.10.70.50.70.7
EBITDA $B0.50.70.70.91.40.51.11.10.81.51.31.21.0
Income tax $B0.20.20.20.20.30.00.10.1−0.00.10.00.20.2
Net income $B0.10.30.20.30.5−0.9−0.0−0.0−1.10.2−0.10.10.2
Free cash flow $B−0.40.90.90.70.70.60.7−0.4−0.0−0.20.40.70.3
EPS, diluted $0.741.710.771.352.33−4.39−0.09−0.10−5.261.05−0.390.491.16
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌0.800.800.800.800.401.970.95
Payout %52446103599−5−863−765−1576−27720681
ROE %11.622.510.920.346.8−73.7−1.1−1.1−42.16.9−2.73.4◌
Shares out B0.190.200.200.200.200.200.200.200.200.200.200.170.17

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 50 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 13 of the 13 fiscal years we could check. 14 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2014. Six checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2013. Six checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2013.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityServices-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code X0
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2013

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