Company Analysis

Brightstar Lottery PLC (BRSL)

NYSE: BRSL · Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation · London · filing with the SEC since 2014
Grade5.5
◀ Past 5.7● Present 5.4▶ Future 5.4
1 est.

The grade of Brightstar Lottery PLC

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.5/10
◀ Past5.730% of the headline
● Present5.440% of the headline
▶ Future5.430% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.7/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
8.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 82nd percentile among 22 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Brightstar Lottery PLC's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
2.4/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-7.7% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 6 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 24th percentile among 20 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Brightstar Lottery PLC's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5.2 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.5 billion in fiscal 2025, down 7.7% a year; it rose in 2 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 51% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 6 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-7.7%bottom 13% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 3% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 45% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak51.3%bottom 28% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
8.6/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.0% a year. 69% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 86th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Brightstar Lottery PLC's diluted share count shrank about 1.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 69% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 19% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.4/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
6.0/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 9%: 9¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 83%: owes 83¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 60th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Brightstar Lottery PLC earned about 9 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 83 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.4% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 40% of its family
  • return on equitytop 47% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
5.8/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 42% of 20 in its family; net margin 5.9%.

weight 45% of this tense · 58th percentile among 20 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Brightstar Lottery PLC's standing among 20 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.5 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 21% by size; a net margin of 5.9% ranks in the top 27%; revenue growth of -1.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 23% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$2.51Btop 21% of its family
  • net margin5.9%top 27% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-1.1%bottom 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
3.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 3.8/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-13 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 13 members with one.
What the record cannot read
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-13 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
family median, 13 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Brightstar Lottery PLC's leadership is put at 3.8 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because it files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-13 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 13 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.4/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 32% of 20 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 20 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Brightstar Lottery PLC's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.4 billion against debt of $4.1 billion leaves -28.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 21% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -16.5% of revenue (bottom 24%); research spending of 1.9% of revenue (top 50%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-28.5%bottom 21% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-16.5%bottom 24% of its family
  • research spending against revenue1.9%top 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
7.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 27% of 20 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 73rd percentile among 20 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Brightstar Lottery PLC's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -1.1% a year over the last three filed years against -7.7% over all 10, speeding up (top 12% of its family); the newest year grew -0% (bottom 38%); research spending grew 1.5% a year (top 12%); capital spending grew 24.9% a year (top 19%) (its annual reports). Brightstar Lottery PLC reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Operating and Facilities Management Contracts Net at $2.3 billion (92%), Product at $151 million (6%), Service Other at $54 million (2%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+6.6 points a yeartop 12% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth0.0%bottom 38% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending1.5%top 12% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending24.9%top 19% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
4.3/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 44% of 18 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 44th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Brightstar Lottery PLC's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.5 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.6% above the $2.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 42% of its family); net income of $147 million against a prior three-year average of $260 million (bottom 36%); a net margin of 5.9% against 10.2% before (bottom 36%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace1.6%top 42% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-43%bottom 36% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-4.3 pointsbottom 36% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton BRSL · research, not advice