Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (PLAY)

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Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.'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).

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Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.0 billion in fiscal 2017 to $2.1 billion in fiscal 2026, up 8.5% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 68% from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-02-03, Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 10.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 51% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 4 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09, buying about $203 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-02-03, Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. lost about 53 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 44 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 98 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 13.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.'s standing among 43 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.1 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 33% by size; a net margin of -2.3% ranks in the bottom 29%; revenue growth of 2.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 29% (its annual reports).

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Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Harper, Darin (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-08-13, 3 months (bottom 8% of its family); the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 1.4 years (bottom 5%); 12 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (top 50%; 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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Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $17 million against debt of $1.5 billion leaves -36.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 23% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -4.8% of revenue (bottom 18%); a gross margin of 85.7% (top 23%) (its annual report).

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Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 2.3% a year over the last three filed years against 8.5% over all 10, slowing (bottom 11% of its family); the newest year grew -1.4% (bottom 20%); capital spending grew 18.6% a year (top 23%) (its annual reports). Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. reported 4 product lines in fiscal 2026: Game Play Credit Usage at $1.3 billion (62%), Food and Nonalcoholic Beverages at $536 million (26%), Alcoholic Beverage at $243 million (12%), and 1 more; 3 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.1 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 5.3% below the $2.2 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 47% of its family); net income of $49 million against a prior three-year average of $107 million (bottom 22%); a net margin of -2.3% against 5.2% before (bottom 22%) (its annual reports).