Accel Entertainment, Inc. (ACEL)

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Accel Entertainment, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 6 warning events of 3 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 3 times, the latest 2020-07-23); a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, 2 times, the latest 2021-05-10); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2025-12-23) (its current reports).

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Accel Entertainment, Inc.'s 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $248 million in fiscal 2017 to $1.3 billion in fiscal 2025, up 23.3% a year; it rose in 7 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 26% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 7 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Accel Entertainment, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 24% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 43 sales (22 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-06, buying about $578 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Accel Entertainment, Inc. earned about 19 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 76 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Accel Entertainment, Inc.'s standing among 24 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.3 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 21% by size; a net margin of 3.9% ranks in the top 23%; revenue growth of 11.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 35% (its annual reports).

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Accel Entertainment, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Phelan, Mark T. (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-08-11, 3 months (bottom 6% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.7 years (top 25%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (bottom 44%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Accel Entertainment, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $297 million against debt of $607 million leaves -28.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 43% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 4.7% of revenue (top 19%) (its annual report).

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Accel Entertainment, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 11.1% a year over the last three filed years against 23.3% over all 9, slowing (bottom 7% of its family); the newest year grew 8.1% (bottom 45%); capital spending grew 23.3% a year (bottom 38%) (its annual reports). Accel Entertainment, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Reportable Segment at $1.3 billion (97%), All Other at $36 million (3%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Accel Entertainment, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.3 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 4% below the $1.4 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 47% of its family); net income of $51 million against a prior three-year average of $52 million (top 36%); a net margin of 3.9% against 4.8% before (bottom 47%) (its annual reports).